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?

[Leflic]

@WitchesSpelleas

Humans are one amongst billions of animal species on this planet. We are the only species that insists on bodily waste being tidied away into a sewage system. That's fine, but we don't have the right to impose our regime on other species. We've already ruined the planet for many animals and driven millions to extinction. The least we can do is let the remaining animals piss where they want to.

This.

[Purpledaisychain]

@CarlottaValdez

No. I train mine to know the difference between inside and outside. The thing is though, training a dog that you can pee in this outdoor area but you can't pee in that outdoor area because the dog haters on mumsnet say not too is hard, not to mention ridiculous.

So done with this thread now. It has gotten beyond daft.

[LaMarschallin]

nicerbeing

Biology 🤷🏻‍♀️

Quite.

shove corks up their vaginas - huh?

[sandgrown]

My little dog cock his leg 100 times on a walk but most times nothing hardly comes out. He is just leaving his messages !

[SlatternIsMyMiddleName]

A water bottle to wash away pee? Errrrrr, does the rain not do that?

I live in NI, there is not too many days go by without a rain shower.

[LaMarschallin]

Sorry - should have attributed the "shove corks up their vaginas" to Purpledaisychain.

Didn't mean to imply nicerbeing had suggested that.

[LostFrog]

It has never occurred to me to be annoyed about this, and I am not a dog person. Depends on where you live, surely. What about the beach? Is that ok?

[FangsForTheMemory]

@AIMD Take a bow, love! I was betting on how long it would be before someone came along and said ‘Well, CATS . . .’

[buggeroffvirus]

Asking a dog not to wee is like asking a bird not to shot on your car.
The rain will wash the wee away and we have a lot more to worry about. I think the moaners should get a grip.

[buggeroffvirus]

sorry meant shit not shot

[ladybee28]

@Katypyee

And the suggestion(s) that we take a spray bottle of water with us to squirt every time our dogs take a wee outside is just ridiculous.

Except every dog owner in the country where I live does it.

It's the same as taking poo bags.

We don't put chemicals or detergents in there, but we do rinse and dilute it as much as we can.

The fact that you don't want to / can't be bothered to says more about you than the practice of cleaning up after your dog.

[Aneley]

We also don't let our dogs wee on the pavement... if they won't do it in the garden, we take them to the nearest park - swift walk so that they don't have an opportunity to stop until we get there.

[Brefugee]

the spray bottle and trying to get your dog to wee over a drain is a good idea.

The replies from pp that it's too much of a faff to do either of those shows the entitlement.

I have, in the past, chased after horse riders who have let their horses shit in our village road and made them come back and clean it up. Same with dog walkers who have let them poo or piss outside our house. They soon stop it.

[puellanovella]

I find the idea of spraying Zoflora all over the environment far more horrifying than that of a dog peeing against a lamp post.

[Dishwashersaurous]

Dogs shouldn’t wee on pavements. Parks and woods. Green spaces which can absorb the wee

[TheShapeJaper]

@WhatifIfeellikeacat

If guide dogs don't piss or shit wherever then other dogs can be trained as well.

I picked poo up after a guide dog the other day. A fair bit of it! It made me realise that some of the poo lying around is probably from the dogs of blind owners... we all poo.

[puellanovella]

@Dishwashersaurous

Dogs shouldn’t wee on pavements. Parks and woods. Green spaces which can absorb the wee

And if there is no green space on the way to the park?

[nomdeplume2019]

@LolaSkoda

I think it’s gross. If a human was pissing up a lamppost it would be unacceptable and they would be fined.

Yet a fluffy creature under control of a human can piss where it wants.

Maybe the woman has one of the many little kids who like to grab onto lampposts and swing round them?

It's natural for a dog to mark its territory and natural for the ignorant to complain is dog urine that bad, I would be fazed
Come to Nz where the majority of the tourists who visited liked to crap in our parks and gardens.. even worse when it's piled with loo paper🤮
Even our national airline added this issue to the inflight video 🤣

[DearTeddyRobinson]

The main thing I've got from this thread is that someone thinks dogs wee from their vaginas

[MrsBobDylan]

I'd never considered that re: guide dogs!

The rain will wash away the wee in urban areas. Nature generally is pretty gross, bird, rat, fox poo, dead animals etc. A bit of wee up a lamp post will be fine.

I do take issue with the men who pull over at the side of the road to take a pee though, little kids are understandable, but an adult ffs?!

[BitGutted]

Perhaps along with the poo bags you now need to take an antibacterial spray!!!!
😂

[nomdeplume2019]

@BadDucks

Garden or grassy verges on the way to the field. If we are on a pavement I just keep walking briskly until we get to a grassy area that’s suitable. Guess it depends where you live but i find there’s plenty of suitable spots on our walk that don’t involve peeing on the pavement.

This can kill the grass ya know

[nicky7654]

@Trizzlenbizzle Of course your dog is fine weeing up a lamp post. They have always done this and no one has ever got ill because of it. And even outside of a shop, this won't make any difference to the stupid idiots saying it's unhygienic lol wonder how.many of them go around licking lamp posts 😂

[nomdeplume2019]

[quote Purpledaisychain]@WhatifIfeellikeacat Guide dogs go through rigorous training, and they and other service dogs are not the same thing as your average house pet.

If you want to talk about disgusting, how about we talk about the ignorant arseholes who drop litter everywhere. That is a health hazard to humans, animals and the environment. Or the people who vomit, piss and shit in the streets after a night out. I don't see them picking up their mess in a poop bag afterwards. Have you ever known dog pee to hurt anyone? How is it going to really affect you unless you go around licking pavements/lamp posts? If you do, then dog pee really is the least of your problems.[/quote]
Exactly

[Macncheeseballs]

Well as long as you're fine with random dogs pissing up against your front door step/gate/wall/fence - it's just wee right?