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To think this women was being ridiculous

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Trizzlenbizzle · 29/10/2020 23:29

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?

OP posts:
ImMoana · 30/10/2020 08:20

Letting a dog pee right outside a shop is pretty gross. Someone’s toddler is probably about to walk through it.

MoonJelly · 30/10/2020 08:21

@TheNewLook

As a non-dog-owner I think it’s disgusting how we have to accept dogs peeing and shitting everywhere. Even when the owner picks it up, it still turns my stomach to see animals defecating publicly.
How do you cope in the country where there are wild animals peeing and shitting all over the place?
justanotherneighinparadise · 30/10/2020 08:25

It is gross but I wouldn’t make a passive aggressive comment about it. If you let your dog shit and walked away then I’d probably get quite animated, but piss gets washed away with the rain.

JamminDoughnuts · 30/10/2020 08:26

ever walked through a field? the amount of sheeps poo? cow pats, anyone seen a horse poo?

Suzi888 · 30/10/2020 08:26

YANBU I’m shocked that people are under the impression pavements are cleanConfused. One of the reasons I don’t wear shoes in the house.

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.
This ^^ humans are way more disgusting than any animal.
We are a plague on the earth, like all all consuming cockroaches.

JamminDoughnuts · 30/10/2020 08:27

although i have looked after a pretty well trained dog who needed to poo and did so just off the kerb, good girl!

CuriousaboutSamphire · 30/10/2020 08:28

@SaltandPepperIt

My dog refuses to wee in the garden at home

I didnt think dog's made decisions like that. Genuinely, thought she just wee'd wherever

My dog won't use our garden to wee or poo in either. It's quite common. And yes, I did teach him to 'toilet' on command when he was a puppy. But he stopped responding in the garden... he will wait too, so it's no good saying leave him longe enough and he'll choose a spot, he hasn't. And I'm not risking him getting kidney or bladder issues.

I also chivvy him passed peoples front gardens, fences etc, but sometimes, he just won't be stopped! And those stopping their dogs weeing on corners, post boxes, lamp posts etc are doing their dogs a disservice. Dogs use such short wees as 'peemail' it's part of how they communicate, how they make their local areas safe! I hate seeing people walk dogs round at a rate of knots, stopping their dogs from sniffing peeing, generally exploring their territory. Many owners act like the walk is the thing, exercise being the be all and end all of a walk! Weird... and just a bit cruel.

justanotherneighinparadise · 30/10/2020 08:28

How do you cope in the country where there are wild animals peeing and shitting all over the place?

Oh come on. It doesn’t take a genius to work out those are two very different scenarios.

A wild indigenous animal choosing to relieve itself in the countryside is quite a different thing to a domesticated animal and it’s owner thinking a lamppost in a busy urban area is the right place for waste products.

MissLucyEyelesbarrow · 30/10/2020 08:31

Urine is effectively sterile - it normally contains no germs on normal laboratory tests (you can find traces of germs with special equipment but this would not make it an infection risk). Urine is therefore not an infection hazard.

The woman who spoke to you is millions at times more at risk from going into the shop, handling goods, the door handle, coins etc than from urine. There is effectively no risk at all from urine, other than it being a bit smelly. People are fucking loons.

nicerbeing · 30/10/2020 08:32

Urine is effectively sterile - it normally contains no germs on normal laboratory tests (you can find traces of germs with special equipment but this would not make it an infection risk). Urine is therefore not an infection hazard.

It's dog piss. It's not sterile.

NetflixWatcher · 30/10/2020 08:33

YANBU OP but reading through the comments did make me feel sick, it is pretty gross thinking about it.

justanotherneighinparadise · 30/10/2020 08:36

@MissLucyEyelesbarrow

Urine is effectively sterile - it normally contains no germs on normal laboratory tests (you can find traces of germs with special equipment but this would not make it an infection risk). Urine is therefore not an infection hazard.

The woman who spoke to you is millions at times more at risk from going into the shop, handling goods, the door handle, coins etc than from urine. There is effectively no risk at all from urine, other than it being a bit smelly. People are fucking loons.

Not true. Dog urine in particular has a vast array of bacteria present which is why they are so prone to UTIs
Mittens030869 · 30/10/2020 08:37

I would find it gross, but I wouldn’t say anything.

I’m not a dog owner, but my DSis and other friends are and I therefore know that it’s possible to train dogs to wee and poo in appropriate places. Otherwise, how do you stop them doing their business inside the house?

lazyfecker · 30/10/2020 08:39

@BuntysTwinkle

It's not like the outdoors is hermetically sealed and it's being ruined by dogs. Bird shit? Cats? Fox shit if you live in my town...
Or in the case of this busybody - BATSHIT! 😂
WanderingMilly · 30/10/2020 08:42

Weeing in public is gross, especially dogs. Not on pavements which are public walkways...our streets are filthy with dog wee and often poo (not everyone picks it up) and cats which invade our gardens to do their business.

Animals are not town creatures; have a properly trained dog which wees in the garden or at least on a country verge, or a working dog on a farm. I am not a lover of pets in suburbia.

lazyfecker · 30/10/2020 08:43

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.

You are just lucky they oblige as there is no horse-fouling law as with dogs.

Mulhollandmagoo · 30/10/2020 08:43

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

DBML · 30/10/2020 08:45

Gross. My brother and his wife brought their dog to my home and it pissed on the wall of our house. I was so pissed off. They didn’t seem to think there was any issue, the lubbly wubbly pupper (🤮) can pee or poop wherever it needs to can’t it.

Some people adore dogs and I get it. But for those of us who don’t and for some people who do but are reasonable, their piss and shit is not something you want to have to walk through to go inside your house or the supermarket.

Thunderpunt · 30/10/2020 08:46

@user1497787065

Interestingly when I was in a town in Spain last year every dog walker carried a squirty water bottle and immediately sprayed water (assume it was just water) where there dog had peed.

BTW I have a dog myself and can't see what the issue is but just thought I would add this.

In Italy (well at least in the town my in-laws live) you can be fined for not carrying both dog poo bags and a bottle of water to wash down where your dog pees if in a pedestrian area/footpath
LunaNorth · 30/10/2020 08:46

The amount of rats and mice that frequent the areas around supermarkets will ensure there is plenty of piss there, whether or not you allow Rover to do his thing up a lamppost.

This thread is barking.

Livelovebehappy · 30/10/2020 08:49

TBH, I wouldn’t have let the dog wee against a post directly outside a supermarket. Can’t you plan a route which bypasses it? I probably wouldn’t have said something to you, but I would have thought maybe not appropriate.

Roussette · 30/10/2020 08:49

The amount of wee a mouse does compares to a dog is slightly different !

justanotherneighinparadise · 30/10/2020 08:50

In Italy (well at least in the town my in-laws live) you can be fined for not carrying both dog poo bags and a bottle of water to wash down where your dog pees if in a pedestrian area/footpath

Doesn’t that sound like a great idea! No wonder we don’t want to do it here 🤣

justanotherneighinparadise · 30/10/2020 08:50

@Roussette

The amount of wee a mouse does compares to a dog is slightly different !
Plus a mouse or rat doesn’t have a thick human hanging on the end of a leash that you can shout at.
unicornpower · 30/10/2020 08:51

[quote Purpledaisychain]@AIMD

Have you ever owned a dog before?

And yes, mine does usually pee on grass but that is because I take her on walks where there is grass available. If there isn't grass available, she can't help but do it in the street. It has got fuck all to do with not having control of them either. When a dog has got to go, they've got to go. They don't understand that they have to wait until they are standing on grass to piss so they don't upset a bunch of irrational dog haters.

And all the people saying that they have their dog trained to only pee on grass. Oft, as if. That is like parents claiming their four month old speaks five different languages. They are either lying, or they yank it along by the collar to stop it weeing where it likes. Dogs scent mark. It is in their nature.[/quote]
This^^

Mine will pee on grass where they can but my older dog doesn't have the same bladder control that he used to, so when he has to go he has to go, It would be cruel to yank him along if he needs a wee. I wouldn't let them pee up someones gate or anything like that, but they don't tend to seek those out.

A friend of mine took her dog for a walk and he stopped for a poo, she had the bag ready to pick it up and two women walked past and said 'That's disgusting!' Like WTF? what did they want her to do? put the bag under his arse? carry a potty round with her? dogs are dogs and if people pick up after them then whats the issue.

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