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To ask certain dog owners to actually answer this honestly

259 replies

ElenaCouch · 14/01/2022 13:49

If you don't pick up your dogs shit in the street:

A.) What is your excuse/excuses

B.) Do you worry about stepping in dog shit in your neighborhood, or you don't care if it happened.

C.) Does the thought of someone getting your dogs shit on their shoes/pram/wheelchair/ a small child falling in it make you feel GUILTY/INDIFFERENT/HAPPY.

you are anonymous, AIBU to want you to actually admit it and explain yourself

OP posts:
teatime9999 · 14/01/2022 14:36

@stillwaitingonaring and horse cops who leave horse shit in the middle of the street blow my mind

liveforsummer · 14/01/2022 14:36

@Knockon

My dog does typically 3/4 poos on a walk, shes an onlead dog so I always see it. Her solidly/slightly squishy poos are always picked up. Sometimes her 3rd or 4th are essentially mucous, so a valiant attempt will be made but unless its direct onto a leaf, the chances of a perfect clear up are so minimal that it has to be left. On the very odd occasion i have forgotten a bag or run out i will have to leave it too, and i feel terrible but it does happen
Make sure you carry a roll of bags and take a bottle of water - and consult your vet!
Staffy1 · 14/01/2022 14:36

Can we please ask point 3 to cat owners? Are they at all bothered about their cats pooing in other people’s gardens. Even worse than the public road as it’s your own private space.
I don’t think anyone who owns a roaming cat has the right to complain about dog poo.
(And I don’t own a dog but when I did I always had three poo bags on me and picked up after her).

Pootles34 · 14/01/2022 14:37

My sister and her ex husband used to let their little dog out of their flat to wander round by himself, obviously not cleaning up after him at all.

It used to give me the rage - she now gets really cross about other people not clearing up after their dogs Angry

I seem to remember she used to say something about it being 'natural' when challenged on it....

Zombiemum1946 · 14/01/2022 14:38

Someone i know told me she just flicks it into the bushes because it just biodegrades. I was speechless . Told me the kids should wear wellies and not wander off the path. This coming from someone who used to complain bitterly if the pram got dog dirt on the wheels, and then tracked into the house. I work in the hospital, and have twice had to walk through to the changing rooms with it on my shoes. The kids have to do the the dog shit slalom on the way to school. I doubt very much if anyone will come on here and admit to leaving it.

PurchaseInvoices · 14/01/2022 14:39

I always pick it up on streets and pavements. Or the grassy bits next to them.

We live rurally. I don't bother picking up poo in fields unless is was on a trodden path that others use but then I'll kick it into the hedge for example. Can't imagine leaving poo where people actually walk near houses etc.

Twinkleylight · 14/01/2022 14:39

Just come back from a walk at my local country park and there was so much dog poo on the paths. Lots of dog walkers about and children playing in the playground bit. I had to dodge so much to avoid it and unfortunately ds stepped in some. It's disgusting and dirty and the park should get more stricter about it.

sillysmiles · 14/01/2022 14:40

@stillwaitingonaring

See I've always wondered why don't horse riders pick up there horse shit! Massive chunks off it just left in the middle of the road on a regular basis. It's absolutely rank 😫
Herbivore poop is not a health risk. Horses aren't on footpaths.

And while I know you haven't ask - YABU

mumsiedarlingrevolta · 14/01/2022 14:40

I watched a couple in their 20's let their large dog poo on the pavement in front of shops.

A builder yelled after them to clean it up

The man didn't even turn around and yelled "I ain't stoppin" and carried on down the road

MalfunctioningRobot · 14/01/2022 14:41

The only time I haven’t picked it up was during autumn, the leaves on the ground make it hard to spot where the poo is and I’d stood there for 15mins trying to find it before I gave up.

I do always try the best I can to pick it up, would never leave it on the pavement. This was in a park and my dog always chooses a place that not many, if any, people would walk. She seems to like privacy so goes in the middle of a bunch of trees or in the long grass along the edge.

PinchOfVom · 14/01/2022 14:42

You’d be better asking this on pistonheads or digital spy 😂

twisti · 14/01/2022 14:42

I may have left dog poo this week. Felt awful. It was so foggy in the valley that you couldn't see more than 2 metres in front of you.
Was in the middle of 3 fields and it's more than likely she pooed somewhere without me spotting her.
She's also a spaniel and dives in and out of undergrowth and if she poos in hedges I don't have a chance of finding it.
But 99.9% of the time I pick up poo, whether on fields, woods, pavements etc.

Soubriquet · 14/01/2022 14:42

I have had to leave it once when I realised I had run out of poo bags in my pocket.

Had loads when I started but for some reasons, my dogs turned into shitting machines that day.

Normally, there are other people about who happily offer one, but this time there was no one.

I managed to find something to shove it as far across the pathway as I could so prams wouldn’t go through it, but there was nothing else I could do.

Longcovid21 · 14/01/2022 14:42

Wrong demographic to ask.

LuckyAmy1986 · 14/01/2022 14:42

In a big country park near here people let their dogs off lead to roam free.

Fair enough, if dog is well behaved and will stay near owner.

Except they continue off on their walk chatting to their mate, knowing dog will eventually follow once it has sniffed around etc and their dogs does a shit and they aren't even looking. have pointed it out to people on more than one occasion. They act surprised.

FirewomanSam · 14/01/2022 14:43

Mostly it’s just down to people being inconsiderate shits (no pun intended) but on a few occasions I have seen dogs do a stealthy poo while the owner is stopped and talking to a neighbour in the street. Usually someone will let them know, though, and the owner is usually mortified and picks it up immediately.

And on two occasions I have genuinely forgotten poo bags (usually when I’ve just brought out a new coat in warmer/colder weather) and stood there panicking that I’m going to have to be One of Those People. But the first time I ended up finding a large leaf to pick it up with, and the second time I made my husband run home to get bags while I stood guard over it!

There was a thread a while ago about an elderly woman who said she couldn’t bend down to pick it up, I bet there are a few of those around too.

But mostly it’s the inconsiderate shits thing.

LuckyAmy1986 · 14/01/2022 14:44

You shouldn't let your dog off lead if you think there is any chance they are going to need a poo and you aren't closely watching them.

TheVolturi · 14/01/2022 14:45

@Malteser71

I think it’s unlikely they are on MN
This is a bold statement and I love it 🤣
EmpressSuiko · 14/01/2022 14:47

We were on holiday with family in a park and this one woman would walk her dog her past everyone’s chalets and just let her dog do it’s business and then she would just walk off, I was dumbfounded! I wanted to shout at her but as I don’t own the chalet and my family are permanent residents I felt it wasn’t my place but I did inform them of it and they we going to have words with the owner of the park over it.

liveforsummer · 14/01/2022 14:48

*There was a thread a while ago about an elderly woman who said she couldn’t bend down to pick it up, I bet there are a few of those around too.
*
I could forgive that and if I saw it I'd discreetly pick it up for them. Round here the elderly mostly have small dogs though which is obviously slightly less offensive, I also understand the struggle of finding tiny dog poo in fading light surrounded by autumn leaves but the left shits are normally giant shoe covering piles left by a husky, GSD or similar and impossible to miss

Hullabaloo31 · 14/01/2022 14:48

I've always picked up. Dog walkers are creatures of habit so it doesn't take many doing the same routes (maybe several times a day) for it to become a real mess, very quickly if they're not clearing up.

I always used to leave my bag and pick up on the way back though, I walked my dog on an old airfield. Took one route on, huge lap of the airfield and same path off. No point carrying it all the way round.

SparklingStars10 · 14/01/2022 14:48

I’ve seen a woman watch her dog take a shit and quickly pull it away, right in the middle of a public path, I kindly reminded her that she’s responsible to pick it up.

AlwaysLatte · 14/01/2022 14:49

I hate this SO much. I always end up picking up other people's. They shouldn't have dogs.

liveforsummer · 14/01/2022 14:50

@AlwaysLatte

I hate this SO much. I always end up picking up other people's. They shouldn't have dogs.
To be honest I don't think I could pick up a giant hand sized poo. I've got a 6kg dog for a reason
Wheresmywoolyjumpers · 14/01/2022 14:51

While most people near me are responsible, I see a few who do the striding off with their dog far behind or in front of them, or with the dog too far away for them to see what it is doing. There is a woman on a mobility scooter who drives around with her dogs running along near her but who does not do anything about the poo when they go. And a few young guys who seem to think they are above clearing up after their dogs.

I have once left a poo because I did not have a bag. I went home to get one and went back to clear it up. It made me so paranoid about it that I now have bags in every coat and jacket pocket, in the car, by the doors in my house and hanging from the lead in a special container. I once gave a really important presentation and pulled one out of my suit pocket when looking for a tissue.

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