To think this women was being ridiculous

[Trizzlenbizzle]

I was walking my dog earlier and he stopped on the pavement to do a week against a lamp-post, standard dog behaviour.

A woman went past and made a passive aggressive comment about how it was disgusting that i'd let him wee there and that it was really unhygienic because we were outside a supermarket and 'near to food'.

This is ridiculous because in order to actually get into the supermarket and be near to the food, you'd have to go through the 2 sets of automatic doors!

I just gave her a look and walked on because I couldn't be arsed with an argument, but she was being ridiculous wasn't she?

@Gifgif

No wonder allergies are on the increase with all this madness. It'll be birds wearing nappies next.

😂😂😂😂😂this thread is comedy gold!!!!

@Mulhollandmagoo

You're fighting a loosing battle here OP, the only thing Mumsnet hates more than men, is dogs!

What about male dogs?

Dog piss is absolutely not sterile.

See comment about bacturia. They have a microbiome like pretty much everything you touch. It will not harm you. Reptiles have e.coli and salmonella but not dogs.

Want to keep an animal then make sure you have the private land needed to adequately care for it. Is that what you mean?

Is that you queenie?

I must stop eating my dinner off the pavement!

I must stop eating my dinner off the pavement!

Hark at her majesty!

Dogs wee to leave messages to other dogs so they all tend to pee in the same spots. “Weemails”.

They love a landmark like a post or a low bush or something.

Hate to break it to you but all wildlife is peeing everwhere all the time. Youbare suoeroundwd by pee. Your soil contains poo from myriad creatures. Your food grows in poo. Your meat used to poo and wee, and probably sleep in it given the state of farming practices now. You all have wee and poo inside you right this minute, oooh you are gross! The hysteria here in this thread needs a reality check.

@Mistymonday

Ah, so why not just let pets do what they do wherever they please? Why bother having laws like ‘pick up your dog shit’ when we’re all surrounded by poop anyway?

@Foxyloxxy7

Dog piss is absolutely not sterile.

See comment about bacturia. They have a microbiome like pretty much everything you touch. It will not harm you. Reptiles have e.coli and salmonella but not dogs.

I said effectively sterile, not sterile. It does not represent an infection risk to humans. A dog urinating on a pavement will remove millions more bacteria (by the action of washing them away) than it deposits.

You could take a bath in dog piss with next to no risk of infection.

I wish these birds would just stop pooping on my car

And squirrels in tree stop peeing on people's hair (yes it happened to a few people I know)

There’s a lot more to fret about on your average lamppost than dog’s piss 🙈

I live in Hong Kong. It's a concrete jungle. Loads of people have dogs. Loads and loads. There isn't much grass. Dogs piss on the streets and if people don't clean it up the stench on a hot and steamy day is unbearable. Most people tend to carry a water bottle with a hole in the top filled with water and some sort of detergent. They squeeze a stream of it over where their dog has pissed and it does help. Can't see it catching on in the UK though.

How refined! What about the females though?

@DBML

Well you’re dictating where everyone else should allow their dog to piss and shit, so maybe you should shit in your own garden and stop polluting the waters.

You do know that if cats and dogs were not domesticated and left to roam wild, you would have them shitting everywhere, don’t you?

@Hylyma1234

HTH

@DBML

Knew you wouldn’t have a response to that

Bitches occasionally cock their legs, dogs occasionally squat like bitches

You should put this on a car bumper sticker.

You should put this on a car bumper sticker.

It’s legs, bums and tums for the HIIT generation.

“Squat like Bitches” 💪

Bitches occasionally cock their legs, dogs occasionally squat like bitches

I've seen some small dogs doing handstands in order to pee. They look so funny.

Craziest thread I have read for a while!

As for the person who said a dog can be dragged while going to the toilet, yeah right! You try pulling a dog who digs their feet into the ground, cause believe me they are not moving for no shit (excuse the pun)

Y'all are mad

The reason for having to wash away the wee is not really about risk of infection, but because the pee is acidic and therefore corrosive. I have walked past a historical building built in limestone, where you can clearly see the damage to the stone from dogs repeatedly marking the same place (probably over quite a lot of years, but the damage is there).

Also, you can imagine that in places where it doesn’t rain often and it’s hot, the smell can be an issue too.

You're fighting a loosing[sic] battle here OP, the only thing Mumsnet hates more than men, is dogs!
What about fireworks?

What about a dog pissing on a firework?

A dog pissing on a firework would be difficult for mumsnet because it’s destroying a firework (hooray!) but it’s a dog pissing (boo). Could go either way.