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

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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??

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Yeah this!

Mad lady, if you're reading this, we think you're 🦇 💩

Wouldn't fancy walking my dog in the woods at night.

People just seem so stressed with everything that’s going on atm, I wouldn’t take it personally OP.

And leave it there - and not just in the gutter.

Parisians in particular wouldn't be seen dead cleaning up after a dog.

And if a dog has diarrhoea you have as much chance of getting it into the gutter as you have from stopping a child from soiling in a similar situation. There is no control over this type of bowel movement.

Oh gawd

I couldn't have a dog. They crap anywhere they like. 😷

Hahaha! 😄

I've just said the same thing.

Place is filthy.

Sound slime he thought you were on "community service" you Criminal!!

He's probably of the "bring back hanging for poverty stricken shoplifters" brigade.

"Letting them poo" - how much choice do you think we have when they quickly drop and go??? You haven't a clue, have you

When I was growing up in the 1960s, my DF got me a little puppy which I would walk before and after school, and I was told to shuffle him into the side of the road as soon as he started to have a poo. I had no trouble doing this at all and it worked quite well. We didn't have plastic poo bags in those days.

I am NOT that woman, and not defending her, but....

someone does keep putting their dog's poo bags in our bin. I hate it: it reeks despite being in the bag, I just find it so revolting. We live down a long farm track that lots of people walk their dogs down. Our bin is very obviously a domestic bin. There are poo bins in the village, so yes they would have to carry it for a bit. If I could actually meet someone doing it, I would address it directly, but I never have. Once saw someone veer away from our bin when they saw me...

So she is batshit but might be partly driven mad by some other thoughtless dog walker.

In France people drag their dogs into the gutter to crap.

Course they do . 🙄

It is disgusting having animals open their bowels in built up areas, I include horses in that despite knowing how much people love having horse poo left for use in their garden or whatever.

However it is the reality that we as a society live in, and as long as dogs are acceptable pets it will always happen because we don't all live in the countryside.

Mine did that on a zebra crossing. First vehicle that had stopped for us to cross was a full college bus.

@lbnblbnb get a bin lock?

I didn't know they existed! Off to Google....

Sounds like this woman got out on the wrong side of bed and you were in her firing line.
I have copped a mouthful from someone else having a bad time too... also over dog poo. Not even my dog poo.... but she stood there and watched me pick it up anyway.

Oh my god. I had to read this one out I was laughing so much and the family wondered at what!!!! 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣

Before I had a dog I (no idea why) thought you could train a dog to go in a specific place and if I saw a dog in the street “randomly”pooing I probably would have done a very passive aggressive tut.

It is grim seeing a dog shit where people will walk. While most good dog owners pick up, plenty still leave smears and it makes me want to hurl

I walked a large dog once who had diarrhea and I couldn't do anything about it, it kept squirting along the pavement. Horrific.

How do you pick up a smear?
Are you seriously expecting dog owners to carry a bottle of bleach around with them? I have seen someone on MN actually suggest just that!

Pavements are not known for being a surface you can eat food from.

Someone clearly pissed on her cornflakes this morning;batshit people genuinely get offended when people let their dogs go toilet near their houses.You cleared it up;you're a decent person;I've had lazy people leave their dog turds on the pavement outside my house as they've just left it.

Yes, but the dog owners whose dog crapped diarrhoea on my steps could have knocked on my door and I would have hosed the steps down. The people
who walked it onto my carpets didn’t notice it. In Paris the gutters are regularly hosed down, I should know, I’ve lived there.

Calm down, there are people out there being wound up by the daily mail, don't rise to her taunts, you are better!

This thread just outlines how delusional and holier than thou some people are.

Dogs answering the call of nature is not repulsive. The dog was perfectly entitled to have a poo outside, and the owner was picking it up.

I bet half the posters on here complaining about dog poo are the same people who have snot nosed kids who run around touching everything in public places, change their babies nappies on picnic tables etc... Now that's repulsive