To ask certain dog owners to actually answer this honestly

[ElenaCouch]

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

@BettyfromBristol

I don't understand why all dogs are not DNA tested and licenced for a modest fee. Then any poo could be linked to the owner. If fines were high enough, maybe £500, the scheme would surely pay for itself?

Speaking as someone who has recently had to clean poo off my trainers 😠

Because a modest fee wouldn't cover the admin costs of running such a scheme, and the actual fee required would mean only responsible owners did it... and those who are causing the issue would not, along with all the people would couldn't afford it.. and it simply would not work.

I draw the line at that, why should I pick someone else's dogs shit?!

Because regardless of which dog’s bottom it emerges from, it’s equally likely to get onto a child’s shoes. There’s no point in picking up my dog’s turds if I leave another one right next to where it was.

Why do some posters feel that running out of poo bags is an acceptable excuse?

Could you not use leaves or rubbish or whatever is handy to move the poo to somewhere where people are less likely to stand in it?

Referring back to OP, do you not worry about standing in poo yourselves?

I draw the line at that, why should I pick someone else's dogs shit?!

I don't litter but I do pick up other people's rubbish from beauty spots and woods etc. I think if you're handling shit already then handling a bit more aunt the end of the world. Ideally everyone would do it, but they don't, so it's either complain about it or complain about it and do something about it

I could think of many reasons why one wouldn't want to pick it up even though they should:

It stinks
It's warm in their hand
It's too runny
No one saw
It's fine: it's in the bushes
They forgot their bag
One won't hurt

*ain't not aunt

I love this guys style she came back and picked it up.
It’s disgusting, so many piles of poop around on our recent walk that it’s too risky to go out for a walk in the dark.

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I didn't pick up after my dog if he'd done it in a middle of a huge field as I felt no one walks in those areas (I know the fields well) and using a plastic bag was worse than it just degrading naturally. On paths then I'd always pick up.

I used to know an old guy who would kick stuff over the poo. Leaves of mud. He thought that was a good thing. In reality he was peppering the paths with poo traps.

I don’t have a dog for lots of reasons but chief among those reasons is so I don’t have to pick up dog shit. I’m not about to pick up other people’s.
Especially as it would be a full-time job round here.

Can I also add:

Why do people pick up the poo, tie it into a bag and then hang it in a tree?? Not everyone can be "coming back for it later". Baffles me!

@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

I would question what you're feeding your dog. Speak to the vet

Two occasions I have had to leave a poo, on both, I ran out of bags due to unexpected pooing quantity.

Occasion one I found another dog walker within a minute or two and got a bag from them and went back.

Occasion two, I knocked on doors (not easy as most peoples doors I can't actually get to due to wheelchair), didn't see anyone, had to go all the way home and get a bottle of water and kitchen roll as some of it was runny.

I hate poo on the pavements, it gets in my wheelchair wheels, if I am using a manual, thats then on my hands. Boak.

My dogs also step in it and then its on the carpets, in my car, on my knee where they've put paws up to have collar/lead/etc on/off..

I really hate poo in gateways onto fields/footpaths, from the people who let their dog off at the gate and march off leaving doggo to empty out right by the gate. I can't negotiate the bloody gate AND avoid poo!

The worst thing though is this - broken glass half buried in mud, strewn across the street so there is no way round. Slices up dog feet, slashes tyres, sticks in tyre treads and slashes hands.

I have to negotiate broken glass, human spit, human litter, human food waste, fox shit, cat shit, dog shit, HUMAN SHIT, human vomit... most days when we walk the dogs round the pavements and public footpaths.

None of it is pleasant and most of it should not be there.

I always pick up ChenDog's poo, but was once with a fellow dog owner who challenged another who didn't pick up her dog's poo and got the following responses amongst her rant

A.) What is your excuse/excuses
Horse owners don't have to clean up their horse shit, so until they start clearing up their poo I'm not clearing up my dog's - which is also biodegradeable.

B.) Do you worry about stepping in dog shit in your neighborhood, or you don't care if it happened.
No, I watch where I'm going

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.
Doesn't bother me - they should watch where they're going

She then finished with a flourish by telling my friend to fuck off with her offer of a dog poo bag. Says it all about the kind of person who does this really.

@BettyfromBristol

I don't understand why all dogs are not DNA tested and licenced for a modest fee. Then any poo could be linked to the owner. If fines were high enough, maybe £500, the scheme would surely pay for itself?

Speaking as someone who has recently had to clean poo off my trainers 😠

This is batshit

People are lazy.

I always clear it up. Admittedly there have been a few occasions where I have forgotten a poop bag and while I always go back out with one after dropping the dog off, sometimes I haven't been able to find it again. This happens very rarely and I feel guilty every time.

I try to keep my dog on lead until they are done so I can get it.. the only time I’ve not picked it up is a couple of times in the woods they’ve gone somewhere that isn’t accessible to people.

It’s really frustrating. Locally there is a person who regularly doesn’t pick up after their dog, everyone knows and he’s been reported a few times but all that happens is they put more signs up saying they can be fined..

I'm a dog owner. I don't only pick up my own dog's poos, but also other dogs poos around my streets, as I don't want children to walk in them, and don't want my area to look like a dump.

The dna test and fines isn’t crazy. It’s already being done in Italy.

@RedCandyApple

Would love to know as well! There is so much around here and it’s not just runny ones either 🤢 I once saw a woman with her dog, dog pooed, she stood there fiddling in her bag pretending to look for a bag to put it in I’m guessing. She kept checking around to make sure no one was looking (didn’t spot me) then walked off.

Where do you live. I never see shit on the pavements here and every man, woman and child appears to have one.

@romdowa

Only time I've failed to pick it up is when it was too runny to scoop up. I did come back after wards with water to Try and wash it away.

Same.

Once I had run out of bags and knocked on someone's door and apologised and asked if they had one they could let me have. The woman was happy to supply one.

I even pick up when it's in grass etc - and yes, I AM a "goody-two-shoes", but even as a dog owner I don't like to see excrement left anywhere.

There's someone living near us who lets their dog crap on the corner of the street nearly every day - you can tell it's the same dog iynwim 🤢

It always shocks me as we live in a really "naice" clean, MC area where people just don't do that sort of thing!
I always assume it must be someone old and frail who struggles to bend over or something - it's probably just some lazy sod though. Our poor neighbour has to go and regularly pick it up as it's outside her house - I've told her if it was me I'd install a camera!

I live somewhere very rural. Tiny village. The country walks are full of poop. The big green always has a few hidden turds in the grass so no one ever uses it (except dog owners). It could be an amazing play park.

And the streets are always full of really big solid poos. Must be a yours every 3 metres lately.

I appreciate the honesty of the PP who said she was basically just a prick about it when she was 18. Sadly I don't think the people in my village are young enough to grow up

@pawpatrolneedaunion if it wasn’t your field then you should have picked it up. You may have felt that no one would walk there but it can be harmful to wildlife /livestock and you don’t know that someone throwing a ball would manage to avoid it.

Only time I've failed to pick it up is when it was too runny to scoop up. I did come back after wards with water to Try and wash it away.

Bleugh! This reminds me of one time on holiday - the family in front of us had a huge Great Dane type dog which suddenly started projectile shitting (if there's such a thing) all over the walkway - they looked at one another and shrugged and then just kind of walked off and left it whilst we muttered in disgust - except then unnoticed to us a group of teenagers came walking past in flip flops and all stood in it!! One of the poor girls was nearly crying.
I went and borrowed a bucket from someone on the beach and washed it away - but I was aghast at how this family didn't even bother to try to do that. They (literally) didn't give a shit!