Pick up after your damn dog, ffs!!

[QueenoftheDay]

Argh!! I need a rant.

I am just home from walking my five year old to school. Combination of paths and streets, lots of kids walking to and from school.

Every time it is a stressful game of dodge the poo. It is everywhere. On one particular path it is smeared horizontally across the width of path. It is even on the pavements just outside the school. I am not exaggerating, there is loads of it.

Who are these people? These absolute brass necked fuckers who can just walk away and leave a steaming pile of shite behind them??

We live in a “nice” area - mainly professionals, families and elderly people. There are plenty of red bins. Plenty of signs up reminding people to pick up after their dog but still this issue is awful.

I like dogs fine. Don’t have one because we both work long hours and have small children, but I bear them no grudge. It is the horrible, filthy owners.

There are plenty of dog owners on Mumsnet. What’s your reason for not picking up the poo? This is a common problem so there must be some of you out there.

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What did the council do?

I feel your pain op it drives my crazy!! There is always a small minority that ruin it unfortunately. We also live in a nice area but also have the same problem. I was playing with my 3 year old on a large grassed area out the front of our house that children regularly play on and it is known for kids playing there. She slipped over and I realised she had dog sh*t on her leggings, I was furious. These people are disgusting and have absolutely no care for other people, the area and most definitely should no own an animal. If I catch one of these tramps not picking up after there animal they'll be getting a gob full.

With five dogs i have bags in every bag, pocket, down the back of the seats on both my wheelchairs, in the car door pockets, I have even infested my sisters car with poobags and she has no dogs and dogs do not go in her car!

According to a facebook group post the other day, some people do not think they have a duty to carry a filled poobag further than a few feet (yeah, he really did admit this, the reason he doesn't pick up his dogs shit is that there isn't a bin nearby and he'd have to TAKE IT HOME... he was not recieved well!)...

I think some people are embarrassed - I can sort of understand that, as a teenager I had adults and teenagers yell at me when I was picking up, saying how disgusting it was and how could I touch it etc... A swift 'fuck off, how disgusting will it be when I lob it at your head' sorted that out..

Mostly, they give no shits at all (hahaha), they are inconsiderate fuckfaces and they are almost certainly walking their dog as a chore, dragging it round the streets whilst on their phones ignoring it..

They also all seem to feed their dog on the kind of cheap and nasty food that makes the dog produce bright orange, weather proof turds of huge size... the sort that is there for WEEKS through rain and snow and sleet and hurricane... (I never see the raw fed dog turd, those vanish in around 12 hours or less depending on weather!)

I like to hurtle up (you can hurtle v well in a power wheelchair) and sweetly offer a bag, loudly.. 'OH YOU SEEM TO HAVE RUN OUT OF BAGS HERE YOU GO'...which i haven't had fail yet...

I live in a terraced house and the front garden is a patch of grass that isn't seperated from next doors bit, so its sort of a shared patch. My next door neighbour has recently taken to allowing her dog to shit all over my side of the grass and not picking it up. My neighbour is a weirdo who will not speak to me or even look at me so I knew that asking her nicely to dispose of her animal shit would be a waste of time, my oh had been picking it up and disposing of it himself. Last time I came home from the school to find a big steaming turd on my grass I got a shovel and flicked it over right on the path in front of her front door. Funnily enough when it inconvenienced her it was picked up and I haven't had shit on my grass since.

I really struggle to understand this kind of revolting behaviour, we live in a really nice village, our whole street is full of families with small children - including the scuzzbucket neighbour. If you don't want to clean up after your dog don't fucking have a dog!!

Our area is the same OP makes me so mad! Another one is when we go to the woods and the poo is picked up and the bag is just left of the path, or thrown in a tree

It’s not too bad around here but I too don’t understand the mentality. It’s just lazy and revolting.
I was in my local park last week, huge country park type thing with a fenced off kids play park with no dogs allowed inside. My DH walked our dog round the park while I stayed with DD in the playpark and noticed there was a dog, toy breed type running wild around the play park with it’s owner standing chatting with a friend. Said dog then shits 3 times with owner just looking on, then she makes a big song and dance about it, shouting loudly at her friend “everyone is giving me dirty looks but I don’t have any poo bags!”. Well yes we are giving you dirty looks as you should have poo bags?! Who takes their dog out with a couple stuffed in a pocket?! Or even better, your dog shouldn’t be off lead in an area where dogs aren’t allowed and kids are playing?

Had endless problems with it at the old house.

Came home one night to a steaming turd at the side of the drive so went back through CCTV and found the culprit. The following day I was driving down the street when I saw the owner. Pulled up and asked him why he'd let his dog shit on my property. He was denying to the point I asked him if he realised I had CCTV.
When I got home turd was gone and footage showed him picking it up
I printed a sign that read 'CCTV In Operation, all dog fouling will be sent to the council' and it stopped it overnight.

Turd guy used to actively cross over when he reached our house.

Can I print those signs and post them all over the town? 🧐

There is someone who walks along our road, picks up with one of the little black bags and leaves it in the gutter or in the road, and sometimes also on the pavement in a 'blind spot' near the grit bin, a small bit of road that is the length of one house and garden. Someone also empties their dog in this little bit of street and leaves it there.

I have a bright coloured chalk spray and often walk around the block and spray the bags and poo so that people don't step in them, standing on a bag of poo has a similar result to standing on poo that is not bagged.

Been trying to see who it is for about 3 years, round about when it began. Dog walkers use our road to walk to the dog emptying area/footpath and most pick up, especially when they see me at the open door watching them.

I hate it when people don't pick up their dog's shit. Over the summer we went on a daytrip to an NT place and were having a great day until ds sat in some dog crap. It wasn't on the grass or out of the way; it was on a step right in front of one of the buildings.

We had to wash his trousers in a tiny sink in the toilets that were really busy and I couldn't get them properly clean or dry and because he's 8 we stopped carrying spare clothes around years ago. We had to cut our day out short because some lazy owner couldn't clean up after their dog.

It's bad enough but even more annoying because we rarely go out to places like that due to ds struggling with crowds etc yet that day he was doing really well.

I live in a National Park, and we seem to get "poo fairy trees". The poo gets bagged up and left hanging in a tree. Which then attracts others - despite their being dog waste bins in ALL carparks.

I don't have a dog anymore but still carry bags with me, and have received a fair amount of verbal abuse over the years. I was once told I should keep my children under more control and they wouldn't step in the poo their dog had left in the middle of the path, and that nobody picks up after the ponies he didn't need to pick up after his dog. I picked it up, followed him back to his car and dumped the bag on his bonnet when he got in the car. As there were quite a few people about he did have the decency to put it in the waste bin.

At my DC's school parents have always been allowed to walk their dogs in the school grounds. School even provide dog waste bins and empty them. This has now been banned due to parents not picking up after their dogs where their own children play.

I'm the same with litter droppers too.... DH says that whilst he understands he does feel embarrassed by me.but I don't care.

My cat likes to poop on the common grass beside the house. As she's roaming outside alone I regularly walk over and pick up any poops I assume might be hers (she always does it in the same area)
If I can clean up cat shit of a cat who is not supervised outside then I cannot see why someone walking their dog can't do it too

I’m a dog owner & am so vigilant. I once forgot bags but thankfully another dog owner gave me one but I was mortified!!

One thing though I’ve a female dog & she squats to pee and I’ve been shouted at on numerous occasions to pick up the poo & they don’t seem to believe me it’s a pee?!

There's a road near my house that's got about 500 bags full of poo either in the ground or hanging from the fence or bushes. I'm baffled by this. If you're willing to pick it up, what's the big deal to carry it to a bin?

Not only do we pick up after our dog, we clear up any other dog mess we see too. I completely agree, it’s not difficult and there are even bags supplied free of charge in our local park. No idea what goes on in some people’s heads.

The road we take to school is terrible for this, and treelined, so if you have a buggy you have the choice of pushing it through it or in the road. Our council's terrible at cleaning it up too, it's often left for months.

Get a can of lawn spray paint and spray everyone you see, people don't step in it & the embarrassment seems to start people picking it up. A few of us did it where I live similar area to you described and it did help.

Not everyone but every poo!!

I think most people do pick up now but it in only takes one elderly person who "doesn't believe in it" and does the same walk everyday for a substantial mess to be made. Which is why councils should do more because, probably, there are only a handful of perpetrators to catch and if they did publicise fines, others would think twice too.

DH was out walking ours on Christmas Day, was chatting to a man with dog, his dog did a poo, DH pointed it out, he said 'aw I don't have a poo bag' DH offered him one and he still refused saying 'nah I won't bother'

DH did it but was pretty cross

I complained to our local authority about how bad our streets were getting for dog poo and they asked for evidence to help with detection and prosecution. I.e record evidence and send it to them. So definitely do the dash cam and send it to the council.

I was walking to a group yesterday and somebody had let their dog poo all up the pavement so I had to wheel the pram zigzagging through it all - unfortunately I don't carry nappy sacks otherwise I'd have dealt with it. I'm unsure of whether it was the same dog or not but there was then a pile of poo right outside a communal block of flats which house mainly elderly people. We have people constantly on the towns Facebook group taking pictures and moaning about it but nothing seems to actually deter these idiots.
Admittedly when I was younger I couldn't pick up poo without being sick so I used to take the dog just outside, let him poo, then get a family member to sort it but I'd never have just left it.
I can't understand the mentality of owning an animal you know needs to poo and you need to deal with it yet not dealing with it.

Councils usually have dog wardens - I know our authority does .They actually patrol the local park and if dogs are allowed off lead in certain areas it’s a fine . If they have no poo bags on them at all it’s a fine . If the dog fouls and the owner doesn’t pick up it’s a fine . Result - green flag park .
I pick up after lazy sods in the local beauty spots - cans, bottles, latex gloves and other proof of self abuse, broken glass etc . But to my mind poo bags stuck in dry stone walls and hung in trees are up there as the most selfish and infuriating- bins at either end of the woods too so no excuse . Our authority have confidential forms you can complete to inform on regular dog fouling . If they have a time they arrive, sit in an anonymous van and catch the so an so . Just one conviction - word gets round and people clean up their act .

Responsible dog owner here - mine happily goes to poo on the bit of grass right next to a dog poo bin so it's easy as anything for me. I appreciate her consideration! And I'm probably a decade late to the game, but because my most recent dog is a rescue she came with a lead with a poo bag dispenser on it. How handy are those things?!! I disproportionately love it!

I can't understand the bags of abandoned poo either, it makes me very cross. And yes, uncleared poo on paths or places people might step.

I have decided to stop going to one of our regular walks because whoever the site owner is (council or forestry commission) removed the dog poo bin and put signs up telling people to take their poo home. It's a drive to get there, and nobody wants a bag of dog poo in the car. The result is a HUGE increase in both piles of poo and bagged poo on the entrace track it's no longer a pleasant walk.

Oh, I meant to tell my one conciliation story! There was a rant about this happening near a school on our local Facebook page, and one vile man was totally goady and unapologetic about taking his dog there to poo. To the point where he photographed his dog pooping on said field song with a comment about not picking it up. Under his real name Facebook profile. The police knocked on his door the next day and fined him! Oh how we laughed! 🤣