To be gobsmacked for being told off for picking up after my dog??

[WhatJustHappened321]

So this happened today. Out walking my dog, minding my own business. He decides he needs a poo so I stand next to him rifling in my pocket for a poo bag. A woman comes out of her house and walks towards her car. Stops dead in her tracks and glares at me. I say tentatively... hello? She says 'I would like to know what you're doing?' I reply.. well I'm just about to clean up after my dog. She replies'well I should think so!!' I was.. like.. well yep.. there you go! That's what I'm doing 🤷‍♀️She then says... don't even THINK about putting it in my bin!! I said I have absolutely no intention of putting it in your bin.. I have my own bin thanks!! Turning to pick up his poo.. she carries on. I can't believe you're just standing there, waiting for him to finish!! I snapped at this point and said what the hell is wrong with you?? What do you want me to do drag him down the street mid poo?? She then got in her car and shot off at about 60 mph! I mean come on! I've heard of dog owners being told off for leaving their dogs mess... but I still can't get my head around this!!! ( btw he is a very small dog and his poo is like raisins! I always pick up, even I think no one would even notice it.) AIBU to think the woman was absolutely crackers??

@arctica what have I missed?! Does she have form for this?!

@Soubriquet I've seen it all now! My dog would be so embarrassed.

She’s probably sick of inconsiderate dog owners who don’t pick up after their dogs.

Mine wouldn’t walk at all

Yeah. There was a bagged dog poo rotting on the pavement a few streets from us last year, with a note under it 'whoever put it in my bin, take it home with you' or something to that effect.... I wouldn't have believed someone can fish out the bagged up shit from
their bin and actually litter their own street.

Guide dogs are trained to poo in a certain location.

Think about it!!

I read somewhere that owners of guide dogs are taught how to train their dogs to go on command. I suppose to make it easier to pick it up after them? Sorry to be graphic, but after pondering how the owner would know where to aim to pick it up, I have decided that they are able to feel the heat from it?

Guide Dogs are trained to poo and wee in the gutter.

I am still not clear - was the unkempt bit of grass on her neighbour's land?

So rude and weird. She was obviously having an awful day but that doesn't make her reaction ok. Cheeky mare.

She was spoiling for a fight, I have been in her shoes, people only pick up dog shit from my patch of land when they see me, I have sat and watched them squirm because what they really want to do is a) leave the shit, b) bag it and hang it in my and my neighbours tree or c) shout abuse that I am an animal hating weirdo.

Guide dogs are intensively trained from a very young age and not every dog passes the test which means not every dog would have gone in the gutter.

Dog owners aren’t professional and most only just manage to teach them to sit

Sometimes you have to walk past pavements etc to get to woodlands!

@WindyHedges doesn't make it ok to have a go at me though does it?

I think she was dying to tell you off for not picking up after your dog, then was dismayed when you did the right thing, but decided to be arsey anyway.

A man once told me off for not picking up after my dog...but she had only done a wee. I then spent the next minute or so educating him on how bitches pee. Every day's a school day 😃

YABU for giving this woman any more of your headspace! She was clearly bonkers, spoiling for an argument and/or having a bad day.

Put it on her car bonnet next time @WhatJustHappened321! what a bizarre woman. I’d walk by her house all the time now and wave at her!

This reminds me of when I was bollocked for litter picking outside someone's house. Literally picking up crisp packets etc from a patch of grass outside a house. Angry man flew out, saying that he bets I won't be doing it next week. I explained that I wasn't required to do it at all thank you very much, I was just doing it as a community thing. He went on an absolute rant that he bets he won't see me again, while I just carried on picking litter from the verge. I have been back to that verge since and make a point of eyeballing him through his twitch-curtains. Some people are just natural contrarians.

Our passive-aggressive civic-minded neighbour draws circles around dog turds on the pavement with washable spray paint to highlight them. Sometimes he adds a note, eg 'This is disgusting'

😁

@Babdoc its a tad easier to steer a buggy around a Dog poo than it is to steer a dog to poo in a gutter.

yes @Blossomtoes
i imagine it is so they dont have to provide bins

however i also heard that dog poo is bad for the environment, but i guess like you say, wild animals poo in the woods including carnivores

Spoiling for a fight.

You took the bullet for something else OP.

Into oncoming traffic you mean?

Do you recommend the same for foxes, badgers, hedgehogs, passing birds?

Then there are spiders and that leave those nasty poo dots on windows. Maybe they could use teeny weeny flushing loos.

I suppose the countryside needs cleaning up too really. Imagine if a tractor came out of a field after spreading fertiliser and drove along a village road - someone from the village could drive along the same road to a Waitrose car park. Next thing you know, people are tracking all those germs into Waitrose itself, homes, offices. Nightmare.

@dumbstruckdumptruck 🤣

This is what they do with guide dogs.

Pop those raisins in a little cake to apologise to her for the inconvenience. 🤣