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Randoms using my wheelie bin for their dog shit!

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dogpoobin · 17/03/2023 08:39

I'm fuming. Put my wheelie bin at the top of my driveway last night for collection today, it's fairly full so the top is slightly open. Just went out this morning (it hasn't been emptied yet) and noticed someone has placed two bags full of dog shit in my bin on top of my rubbish bags! AIBU or is this absolutely disgusting? I don't have a dog and I don't want dog shit in my bin.

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SerafinasGoose · 17/03/2023 11:16

TeaAndTwoSugars · 17/03/2023 11:12

Seeing as there is an allowance where I live and you can only put out so much rubbish a week yes YANBU.
I wouldn't expect random strangers to think they can just dump whatever they like in my private wheelie bin.
Odd attitudes in this thread.

Most of them are likely wind-ups.

There's a lot of it about these days.

HalliwellManor · 17/03/2023 11:17

OoooohMatron · 17/03/2023 10:56

People without dogs should not have to deal with dog shit, full stop. You have a different perspective as a dog owner who is used to dealing with it.

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As I say,personally I don't do it but id rather someone use my bin whether I had a dog or not,than leave it somewhere it could be stepped in.Just as if a dirty nappy or food wrapper was discarded,I'd much rather it went in my bin than left on the floor.

HistoryOrHistrionics · 17/03/2023 11:17

YABU

Wouldn't phase me in the slightest, especially as the bin was waiting to be emptied.

StEtienne93 · 17/03/2023 11:18

It wouldn't bother me. I'd rather someone picked it up and put it in my bin, rather than left it on the ground to be stepped in.
I do have a dog myself though and wouldn't put bagged dog mess in anyone else's bin, but that's purely because I know some people don't like it.

ZeldaWillTellYourFortune · 17/03/2023 11:18

sjxoxo · 17/03/2023 08:53

If I’m walking and have a dog poo bag, I’ll admit sometimes I will put it in a wheelie bin. Always a black one though not recycling etc and I’ll always make sure it’s properly shut! I think lots of people do this… sorry it bothers you. It is a bin though and I wouldn’t mind someone putting it in my bin as long as it was properly sealed etc.

Why don't you carry your dog's shit home to your own bin?

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DannyZukosSmile · 17/03/2023 11:20

It is absolutely an bloody cheek and I can't believe the amount of posters saying they wouldn't care about it if it happened to them. I think they actually really would if it did happen to them.

I would not be putting the wheelie bin out until I saw the bin wagon coming down the road personally. Is it only your bin they're doing it too? Seems very odd if it is. Also, how do you know they're doing it, do you watch out of the window? I'm confused.

Bridgeth29 · 17/03/2023 11:20

YABU

Whatthediddlyfeck · 17/03/2023 11:21

twoandcooplease · 17/03/2023 08:45

It would bother me. I pay £17.42 every 4 weeks for my bins to be cleaned so that'd really piss me off

It’s a BIN! If it’s bagged and not smeared all over it, what’s the issue? I’ve done it myself and am sure people have used my bin when it’s out for collection, I can’t get worked up about it

MonumentalLentil · 17/03/2023 11:23

We have a charmer around here who picks up and then dumps the bag of shit on the pavement, or in the shrubbery in my front garden. I have so far figured out who the dogs belong to but not where the charmer lives. I am watching her and she knows it.

I bring my bin in as soon as it is emptied so that I don't end up with a bag of shit in the bottom that will get squashed and leak and stick to the bin and stink to high heaven until I go and clean it out, which is a huge undertaking for me. I could get someone to give it a clean but I don't see why I should have to pay for it. There is a rubbish bin not far from the house.

Not so bad when it is about to be emptied and is dumped in the top. I watched a man the other day, picked up and dumped it in someone's newly emptied bin.

I have bin locks, they don't fit the bin. Need to revisit that.

Dogscanteatonions · 17/03/2023 11:23

Uurgh! Definitely not unreasonable. It's not a bloody public bin it's your private bin for your own rubbish. It's lazy bloody dog owners that do this - probably the same one kind who leave sheet bags hanging on a fence in the country. FFS take your dog shit with you until you can find a public bin to put it in!!

SerafinasGoose · 17/03/2023 11:27

Whatthediddlyfeck · 17/03/2023 11:21

It’s a BIN! If it’s bagged and not smeared all over it, what’s the issue? I’ve done it myself and am sure people have used my bin when it’s out for collection, I can’t get worked up about it

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And ... BINGO!

Ludo19 · 17/03/2023 11:32

My bins are at the side of my property, next to a path. I was standing painting my fence when a woman came round the corner walking her dog. She then lifts my bin lid and deposits two bags of dog shite in my bin and me less than 10ft away! There's also a public bin that she walked right passed! So I told her my bin was for my rubbish and please remove the shite at once. It never happened again as I have my bins locked now.

MumOf2workOptions · 17/03/2023 11:32

twoandcooplease · 17/03/2023 08:45

It would bother me. I pay £17.42 every 4 weeks for my bins to be cleaned so that'd really piss me off

£17.42 for your bins to be cleaned????

NKFell · 17/03/2023 11:41

@MumOf2workOptions I pay £8 a month and now feel very smug 😊

@dogpoobin It is annoying but to me it's the same annoyance as a postman walking across a lawn...let it go, it's really not worth it.

LookItsMeAgain · 17/03/2023 11:42

I don't know if it's been suggested so far but if your bin gets quite full (so the lid doesn't close) I'd recommend getting one of these:
Bin Compactor

Also get yourself a gravity bin lock that will allow your wheelie bin to empty by the bin men into the truck but will only unlock when you have the key otherwise.

OutlandishBird · 17/03/2023 11:44

I've used someone else's bin twice for putting bagged dog poo in. I try not to because, as evidenced here, people are freakishly weird about it!!
The route I walk my dog only has public bins spaced 45 minutes apart. If he poops at the start of the walk when I've already passed the first bin, I'm going to use someone's wheelie bin if it's on the kerb. If I don't pass a wheelie bin then whatever, I'll carry it to the next public bin.
I'd happily let people use my bin for bagged dog poo, pooey nappies etc rather than make someone carry it for ages. I'm just glad if someone actually cleans up after their dog/kid/whatever!
Bins are gross, properly bagged poo isn't going to make a difference.

maddy68 · 17/03/2023 11:45

They've picked poo up , put it in a bin about ti be collected ...

Not getting your anger sorry not at all

ZeldaWillTellYourFortune · 17/03/2023 11:45

OutlandishBird · 17/03/2023 11:44

I've used someone else's bin twice for putting bagged dog poo in. I try not to because, as evidenced here, people are freakishly weird about it!!
The route I walk my dog only has public bins spaced 45 minutes apart. If he poops at the start of the walk when I've already passed the first bin, I'm going to use someone's wheelie bin if it's on the kerb. If I don't pass a wheelie bin then whatever, I'll carry it to the next public bin.
I'd happily let people use my bin for bagged dog poo, pooey nappies etc rather than make someone carry it for ages. I'm just glad if someone actually cleans up after their dog/kid/whatever!
Bins are gross, properly bagged poo isn't going to make a difference.

Why can't you carry it, whatever the distance?

Get yourself a backpack or something.

Sofitella · 17/03/2023 11:46

But the wheelie bin is actually owned by the council? It’s not technically your bin. It is the bin the council have allocated to your property

I don’t know how anyone can even think this is an issue.

Neededanewuserhandle · 17/03/2023 11:46

OoooohMatron · 17/03/2023 10:56

People without dogs should not have to deal with dog shit, full stop. You have a different perspective as a dog owner who is used to dealing with it.

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Deal with it? As in become aware a bag of shit is in your shortly to be collected bin? What the exactual fuck ill-effects does that "dealing" have? Is is just the awful thought that some shit is in a bag in your bin? Some people really need to get a grip.

Neededanewuserhandle · 17/03/2023 11:48

MumOf2workOptions · 17/03/2023 11:32

£17.42 for your bins to be cleaned????

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Even less reason to annoyed I'd have thought.

Georgiepke · 17/03/2023 11:52

I also have this a lot too. I understand better than it being left on the pavement but still annoying. If I had a dog I definitely wouldn’t use somebody else’s bin to dispose of their poo. Somebody actually put a full child’s car seat in my black bin the other day

OutlandishBird · 17/03/2023 11:53

ZeldaWillTellYourFortune · 17/03/2023 11:45

Why can't you carry it, whatever the distance?

Get yourself a backpack or something.

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Because a bin is a bin. Why carry a bag of turd instead of putting it neatly in the first bin you come across?!

As someone else has said, the council owns ALL the bins in my area, so nobody actually owns their household bin in the first place. As long as the poo is picked up and disposed of in a bin (ANY general waste bin) I don't see the issue.

ZiriForEver · 17/03/2023 11:53

OP, it objectively is disgusting.
People just feel like heroes that they do the absolute minimum of picking up their dogs excrements, so they feel entitled to inconvenience everyone else with the smelly bag as well.