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

[Member869894]

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

Lol at the idea that people come back for their dog poo. Simply not the case for the vast majority.

Dog owners are, in the main, selfish bastards. Certainly the ones around here. One guy has five dogs and has been called out several times for not picking up after them. Doesn’t stop him though.

Someone left their bagged up poo in our recycling bin the other day. Then it rained. So we had to clear up liquid dog poo sludge from our recycling bin that was nothing to do with us. Selfish minging bastards.

Member869894
Train your dog to shit in the garden

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Oh do get a grip dear
@BossAssBitch

Do you just allow your dogs to shit anywhere? In your house? That's disgusting. My dogs have always used the garden to shit. Exceptionally rarely they will go when we're out walking and so I always take bags, pick it up and take it home or carry it until I find a bin. I think you need to get a grip if you just allow your dogs to shit anywhere and everywhere.

There is no justification for it. It is just self centeredness and really disgusting for everyone else.

Providing a bin is easy.
It's the emptying of bins which is the problem, a nasty job someone needs to be paid to do.
And then there's the issue of where to put them - if they're somewhere that a van to put the garbage into can access, ie in the car park or on a road at the start of a path, few bag discarders will actually go back to use it.

Someone mentioned nappies... I normally do some conservation work in a local nature reserve which adjoins a city park. Clearing brambles etc, I quite often encounter dog shit - unwrapped generally isn't so bad, as it naturally degrades; bagged - vile, some sort of anaerobic process I suppose ... and the occasional nappy. Fortunately not many of those as they're the worst.

Outside the caravan park that we walk past someone- perhaps the park owners- have provided a bin bag lined dustbin. It's brilliant and they must empty it every day as it's never overflowing. Keeps the countryside clear nearby and is just a really kind thing to do.

There's a walk we regularly do starting from a small car park next to a cafe. There are bins, not sure whether they're provided by the council or the cafe.

About a hundred yards into the walk there is always a pile of dog bags, it's the worst place I've seen. People CBA to spend a few minutes going back to the bin (we do) and those are clearly never going to be retrieved on the way back.

I’m genuinely shocked at the people justifying this?

@Lockheart @BossAssBitch what’s your position on people changing nappies and leaving them bagged for collection? Or any other rubbish for that matter?

I can’t see it as anything other than horrendously selfish.

Yes gods! Some of you dog owners are gross!

I am a dog owner and have never left a poo bag anywhere other than in a bin.

Short walks get planned to pass a couple of bins. Longer walks I take my plastic widget, like those tea towel star shaped hole things, and put the poo bag in that, hanging off my rucksack/bumbag. It smells, but it is my dog and that's part and parcel of having one.

It's become really obvious that many poor dogs are getting dragged round on walks the poor things have been previously denied as piles of dog poo, unbagged, are becoming more obvious. I've offered bags to people who seem surprise their dog will poo twice on a walk!!! How can you not know your own dog's toilet habits, only carry one bag, let alone think it is OK to leave a full bag somewhere to pick up at your convenience?

Gross! And I mean the entitled behaviour, not the temporary nasal discomfort of lugging your own dog's poo bag for a while!

Uttoxeter Race Course has still maintained public access but is open with a skeleton staff. They have recently had remove 19 black bags of little dog shit bags from over flowing bins, piled up and generally abandoned

If you genuinely, without fail tuck the bag somewhere discreet and retrieve it, then it'a a temporary problem. One idiot on one of my regular rural routes though that it was OK to leave it in the middle of the stile step ready for squishing by the next person I hope she (I'm assuming it was the dog walker in the next field on) looked for it in the vincinty for where it landed after I spotted it and kicked it off.

There are clearly thousands of dog walkers who "forget" or just abandon it or decorate the trees with their grim parcels. If it is too gross to carry to the next bin with capacity or your home, either get a suitable container or don't replace your pet. If it's too gross for you, it is certainly too gross for everyone else who doesn't know if your pet is wormed etc, plus the very long term hazards of plastic pollution blowing around nature.

On a trip to the beach last year we sat among a plethora of used nappies, empty cans, discarded fag butts and used condoms. Not a dog shit in sight.

I am off to start a thread about irresponsible parents/nappy wearers, also can drinkers, smokers and shaggers.

@PegasusReturns since you ask, as long as it isn't left in a stupid place or on private land and is collected and binned at the end, then no, I don't see that there's a problem. Although I would be surprised if someone took a baby in nappies to somewhere so remote that there's no bins nearby and would think that's a pretty rare occurrence.

My dogs live with my parents in a very rural area, and we walk on single track back roads or in fields; no bins in most places (except one farmer who installed a bin which is very useful), they're not super family-friendly places to walk.

The irony of those leaving the shit on the floor because they want to enjoy their walk with it. No bother about everyone else who has to walk past it.

The selfishness is astounding.

@thymelord

Classic whataboutery from you there. All of those are horrible. Surely though bags of shit are worse than cigarette butts?

@pegasusreturns

Would you mind if I routinely left my shit next to a public path for an hour or so? It's horrible, and easily avoidable.

YANBU. I’ve never owned a dog but this is something that has always confused me. They’ve gone to the effort of picking it up but will either leave it in a bag on the floor or hang it from a fence . Why not just go the whole hog and leave it on the ground, probably better for the environment than the plastic bag tbh.

People who bag up their dog's droppings and then leave the bag, for any amount of time whatsoever, are behaving in a disgusting and self-centred manner. There are no two ways about this. I am speaking as a dog-owner. The path I walk my dog on is littered with dog-poo bags - grotesque.

Although I would be surprised if someone took a baby in nappies to somewhere so remote that there's no bins nearby and would think that's a pretty rare occurrence.

We are not talking about remote areas here, well I'm not, we are talking about places you can walk to from your front door or places where you park and walk a route/country park places. Obviously some will be talking more remote than others.

I can walk a route that's about 20 minutes circle from my front door on a suburban estate, takes me along a river walk that has a bin at the ends and one in the middle and yet I still see either dog shit on the path or bags of dog shit on the path or in bushes and trees. Lazy fuckers. It's worse at the moment presumably because owners are walking their dogs rather than walking services who generally take dogs further into the countryside or presumably bag it and deal with it properly?

I love dogs. Love playing with them, cuddling them, being around them. But dog poo grosses me out and I couldn’t bear picking up after my dog and carrying the bag around.

So I don’t have a dog. Taking poo with you is part of the deal, and if you don’t want the whole deal, don’t get a dog.

lockheart sorry but there are far more social and considerate options and for you to say you won’t take them basically because you don’t want to us really quite selfish.

I have something like this attached to poo bag carrier on the end of the lead. I just pick up the poo, hook the bag on and then drop it in a bin whenever we go past one. Don’t have to carry bags round as it’s all attached to the same place.

Didn’t realise how much I needed one until I got one

I can't get upset if they pick it up on the way back personally. I don't have dogs and mainly just get annoyed at people who don't clean up at all, especially in the middle of the pavement.

’I am a dog owner and have never left a poo bag anywhere other than in a bin.’

This ^

I am though @WaxOnFeckOff because that's where my dogs are (and where I used to live). I wouldn't leave something to pick up later if meant leaving it on a path or highly trafficked area. But if it's left in the grass by a roadsign pole or under the hedge up a 3ft bank then it's highly unlikely to get in anyone's way. Not that my parents village is exactly Oxford Circus at the best of times... When I'm there I'm out walking for several hours a day and if I see anyone it's either our neighbour or one of the farmers maybe. Even in the height of summer, it's not busy.

@Floatyboat yes of course I’d mind