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To think that leaving bags of dogshit on the floor when you go for a walk

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Member869894 · 15/04/2020 23:34

...ground, even if you intend to pick them up on your way back is selfish and inconsiderate of others

OP posts:
greathat · 16/04/2020 08:13

There's an alleyway by my full of bags of dog shit. People don't come back for it. Take it with you!

iano · 16/04/2020 08:14

I think a poster posted last year after her horse died because it ate a poo bag someone had hung on the fence....
Take it with you!

IgnoranceIsStrength · 16/04/2020 08:15

Agree with all others who say leaving and returning later is grim. We are on the edge of a footpath into the woods which as you can imagine is currently heaving with non regular dog walkers. Usually maybe 30 people a day and very little poo bags left. Now approx 400 people a day and in a half mile stretch we collected enough poo bags to fill a black bin liner. And yes we collected them as we were fed up going on our daily walk with dog and DC and seeing so many. If you leave it it encourages other lazy fuckers to leave it as it becomes "acceptable"

Lockheart · 16/04/2020 08:15

That's odd because I can tell if one of neighbours is out with their dog by if there's a (bright blue) bag by the side of the road. When I come back from my walk it's always gone.

No-one should be "forgetting" to take it home. In my experience, and I know a lot of dog owners, people generally don't.

I suspect many of the posts here are taking a turn for the dramatic and exaggerated. Yes, I have seen people not picking up after their dogs, or seen obviously old bags left in hedges or trees, and yes I think that's irresponsible.

rookiemere · 16/04/2020 08:15

I have owned a dog for almost 2 years and in that time I have never seen someone pick up a poo bag that has been left, so I'm guessing that those who say they do that may forget to do so on occasion- it soon mounts up.

I will keep the bag until we get to a bin or home, but my neighbour picks it up in a bag then empties the contents in a woody/bushy area where no one can walk. I wouldn't want to do that myself - the less contact I have with the poo bag contents when the bags are liable to splitting, the better - but environmentally I think it's ok.

Rosehip10 · 16/04/2020 08:17

The people on this thread saying they "stick and flick" their dogs shit as well. Vile. In any public place you are walking your dog it is not acceptable to be leaving shit.

ScarfLadysBag · 16/04/2020 08:18

If you're regularly going somewhere with limited poo bins, then take a Dicky Bag. Leaving plastic baggies full of poop around the place and dangling from trees (?!) is just gross. And with the amount that are left on trees and on the ground, people are clearly not collecting them again when they go past so I take anyone claiming they do that every time with a massive pinch of salt.

Ohtherewearethen · 16/04/2020 08:18

There are so many excuses as to why it's ok for people to leave bags of shit lying around. Everybody's special, their dogs are too big or too numerous to carry it, it doesn't effect me so it's not a problem, I only leave it there for an hour, I always remember to pick it up, etc. How would you feel if dog walkers decided to dump these bags in your tree, on your doorstep or front garden? Just for an hour.
The fact is that it is never acceptable to leave bags of shit lying around. It really isn't. If you can't manage to deal with your animal's mess because of x, y or z then you need to change something so that you can. Plan walks around bins. Carry a bag to carry to bags of shit, clip it to the lead, train your dog to shit in your own garden. Leaving bags of sweating turds, especially in the summer heat, is absolutely disgusting.

BossAssBitch · 16/04/2020 08:21

Don't be ridiculous Grin

I go on very long walks with my dogs, no way am I going to carry around bags of shit on an otherwise beautiful walk. I put the bag out of sight and collect it on my way back, it won't offend you, you won't even know it's there.

Find something else to be outraged about Hmm

YABVU

ASandwichNamedKevin · 16/04/2020 08:22

It is so gross to leave bags of poo around to be collected, keep a larger bag if you need to carry it a while but leaving bagged up poo sitting around is unfair on others. In the time it takes you to come back someone can step on it, or wheel their buggy over it and it bursts, or another dog bursts it. Really grim.

BossAssBitch · 16/04/2020 08:22

@Member869894
Train your dog to shit in the garden

Grin

Oh do get a grip dear

ErrolTheDragon · 16/04/2020 08:22

On another thread I came across a weird individual proudly saying that she picks dog shit bags off the ground and hangs them on fences etc. Apparently it's supposed to teach people who leave bags a lesson. Confused if there's one thing worse than a bag on the side of a path (from where it may, occasionally, actually be retrieved) , it's bags festooning trees and barbed wire from where no one can extract them.

Our dog usually shits not far from the start of a walk (this is obviously common from the pattern of bagged or unbagged shits) so on walks where there's no bins we bag it and I trot back and leave it just under our car boot. That way we never forget to take it home. (Putting it in the boot straight away, especially on a warm day, even double bagged it does stink the car out, we did that the first time.)
That's in normal times, of course - walking from home obviously I'd just run it back to the bin before carrying on, I'd hope everyone would do that.

OhClover · 16/04/2020 08:23

If you think it's so vile to carry poo around on your dog walk, don't have a dog. Simple

Exactly.

In what other circumstance is it okay to leave your rubbish lying around ‘so long as you collect it later

Very good point. This is no different.

Just shows some dog owners are very selfish and inconsiderate.

LaurieMarlow · 16/04/2020 08:24

I go on very long walks with my dogs, no way am I going to carry around bags of shit on an otherwise beautiful walk.

God how selfish. Aren’t you ashamed?

It’s a dick move. People shouldn’t be allowed to have a dog if they carry on like this.

Rosehip10 · 16/04/2020 08:25

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Insideimsprinting · 16/04/2020 08:25

This has happened more since lock down as has many things such as posts about people being inconsiderate in the countryside, runner and cycling bashing.

Many posts have been created by people who are doing pretty much what they normally would and those only doing it due to lock down swanning round as they please and then getting shirty when challenge about the exact thing op is unhappy about.
I wonder whether it's the same people who bought all the toilet rolls........

ScarfLadysBag · 16/04/2020 08:27

Oh well if you go on 'very long walks' it's fine! Hmm

As a dog-owner, I absolutely hate when other dog-owners behave like this. It really makes life more difficult for us all because of a few lazy idiots Sad Hanging turds from a tree is not only gross but verging on batshit. And no way does everyone claiming they always go back to pick it up do so. Not in a million years.

Buy. A. Dicky. Bag. Or some other container for keeping the bags in. It's not hard.

ErrolTheDragon · 16/04/2020 08:27

I suspect many of the posts here are taking a turn for the dramatic and exaggerated.

Unfortunately there are some walks even normally where there are many bags left , it sounds as though there's an upsurge in people doing country walks who are doing this. Leaving one bag to pick up, unless it's hidden, may encourage others to do so.m

SoupDragon · 16/04/2020 08:28

The people on this thread saying they "stick and flick" their dogs shit as well. Vile. In any public place you are walking your dog it is not acceptable to be leaving shit.

There are actually lots of spaces where they tell you to do just this.

Barbararara · 16/04/2020 08:28

I’ve always been of the opinion that children aren’t old enough to have a pet until they can take responsibility for cleaning up after them.

It’s clear that a lot of dog owners haven’t reached that level of maturity.

SoupDragon · 16/04/2020 08:29

Pick up dog shit, attach to dogs harness. Dog carries their own shit, job done.

Unless you have a dog that likes to rummage in brambles and bushes.

Rosehip10 · 16/04/2020 08:30

@SoupDragon Probably to try and avoid the selfish idiots hanging up bags of shit in trees.

ErrolTheDragon · 16/04/2020 08:30

Re stick&flick, there are signs on some areas of National Trust land advising people they should do this.

Lockheart · 16/04/2020 08:31

I can see this thread is going to go the usual way, so all I will say is that when I've done this, I've left them out of the way where no-one will walk into it (I'd be impressed if you could wheel your buggy through a roadsign) and have never forgotten to pick it up on my way back.

I don't care if you think I'm lying, or lazy or selfish. I know I'm being a responsible owner and cleaning up after my dog - my conscience is clear on that. What strangers on the internet think is not my problem.

I don't care if you think it means I shouldn't own a dog - that's not up to you and is none of your business.

As long as I clean up after my dog and take the poo home or to a bin, I'm happy with myself.

Cranb0rne · 16/04/2020 08:32

I fucking hate people who leave bags of dog poo on the ground or chuck them in bushes

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