Dog poo in my bin?

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My driveway is small, I can fit one car one and that’s it and the bins are at the side. I live on a tree lined street and have numerous leaves piled up mush over the pavement.

I constantly spot owners allowing their dogs to sit on the leaves on my driveway next to the bins. I don’t know if all dogs shit in the same place but it fucks me right off - I once banged on the window and the woman just shrugged at me.

Numerous times I’ve had dog poo bagged up thrown in my big which i think is absolutely disgusting tbh. I’m going to buy a lock for the bin.

Aibu as a dog owner do you put their shit in other peoples bins?

I don't currently have a dog, so I think it might piss me a tiny bit. If it was at the bottom of a freshly emptied bin. That's going to get squished down and fester for two weeks. But in the middle of the bin I don't think I would care.

I'd be pissed with people coming up my drive to do it though.

YANBU. Don't use other people's bins - they don't belong to you.

Yes, the bin is for rubbish, but not yours.

The driveway is for parking on, but you don't go and park your own car on it on that basis.

Take your shit home with you and dispose of it in your own bin, or in a public bin.

Try to reposition your bins? Are those “at the end of the driveway” or more “at the start of a pavement”?… If bins are out on the pavement during the night - people might assume those are out for collection anyway.

I'd never put it in someone else's bin (am a dog owner) but also don't care if it gets put in mine to be honest.

It's a bin, it's not clean in the first place. It's not anywhere near my house or inside it and I go to it once a week to put a bag inside, not scrutinise the other contents. We get ours cleaned quarterly anyway.

I'm sick of dog owners. It's out of control in this country. Dog owners let their dogs pee on my front garden, when they could easily go on the opposite side which is a wall. When else in life would it be all right to just urinate on someone's property? They think we should accept it. Well, I don't.

I have 2 v large dogs & wouldn't dream of putting poo bags in someone else's bin, take it home or put in council bin, we live by a railway bridge & I see poo bags strewn through the trees🤢 just hanging there like foul Xmas decs. I was so upset when we moved into this house, it had been empty for over 12 months with bins left at end of drive by the lane. All 3 bins, rubbish/recycling & garden waste were rammed full of bags of dog shit, so everyone going past with a dog had been using our bins for months. Plus grass & end of drive peppered with it. I had to ask the bin men very nicely & gave them a tip, to empty them for us, which they thankfully did & then I had the task of disinfecting them, was horrendous in height of summer. I also asked the various people who insisted on not picking up after their dogs when shitting on our drive if they needed poo bags. Or would they like my huge 2 to do the same on their her drives? Took a while but they all soon got the message. Plus now think I'm an absolute nutter & steer clear of me😂 Every cloud has a silver lining 😂😂

My bins are never out on the pavement at night apart from the day before bin day.

More annoying is the person who keeps sticking poo bags in our garden waste bin. At least a rubbish bin is the right bin if you are going to be a CF!

I wouldn't even put dog shit in my own bin unless it was due to be collected that day, never mind someone else's. I have a hedge alongside a long stretch of pavement, which some lazy fuckers see as the ideal spot to post a bag of shit. Thanks, mate, you are spoiling us.

I’ve never seen the fuss with this. A bin is a bin. I would rather owners clean up after their dog and put it in my bin rather than leave it on the floor.

as long as 30+ dog owners a day aren’t using your bin meaning you can’t fit your own rubbish in there, I don’t see the issue.

You spend 10 seconds in the presence of your bin once or twice a week when you put your own rubbish out, why the need to spend so much negative energy thinking about it?

Ha. I started a similar thread years ago and was told to suck it up.

My issue was me not realising some fuck had put dog poo in my bin, throwing a heavy bin bag in there and bursting the dog poo bag. Yuck.

Clear the leaves to make the area less desirable for dogs and lock your bin or make it otherwise less accessible.

YANBU, it is disgusting to put dog shit in someone else's bin. The bags can burst if rubbish is put on top, and the smell, even through a bag is horrible. As we have separate food waste, our rubbish is mostly things like soft plastics that don't smell.

I live on a tree lined street and have numerous leaves piled up mush over the pavement. I constantly spot owners allowing their dogs to sit on the leaves on my driveway next to the bins.

I mean...if you're not clearing up the leaves on your driveway and your driveway is small it might actually be hard to tell where the driveway begins and the pavement ends tbh. Maybe clear your driveway of leaves?

Leaves attract dogs - they like to wade through them and the leaves contain all manner of nasties in them.

But TBH, you can't stop a dog shitting once it has started and if they're only just on your driveway and not half way up it (and likely don't know because you've not cleared the leaves and there's no clear distinction between where one ends and the other begins)...then there's not much to be done.

The bin thing is annoying, but it's not a hill I would die on and short of padlocking them, you won't be able to stop people being ignorant.

Here you can put a sticker on your bin that says you're allowed to put dog poop there.

It doesn't bother me, a bin is a bin. I'd rather someone binned it than walked along swinging bags of shit all the way home.

Dog owners like that are absolute DIRTY TRAMPS.

I have no idea how they pick up dog shit with their hand in a bag either...bleurgh!

I don’t care about the contents of my bin. I used to occasionally put poo bags in other people’s bins because to be honest it did not occur to me that people spent time thinking about the contents of a bin. I imagined that they had had more interesting things to think about.

Then one day, a woman saw me do it and came racing out of her house, shouting abuse and she tipped her bin upside down leaving the poo bag on the pavement. I assumed she had very severe mental health issues and ran off.

There’s poo all over the pavements and I’m very bothered about that. I would rather people picked up their poo and put it in my bin.

I don’t no, but I don’t think I’d be too bothered tbh, as long as it was bagged.

My mam used to share a yard with someone who had a dog and they used to just shovel up the shit and scrape it in to the bin. Now that would have pissed me off!

@AmethystSparkles do you never clean your wheelie bin then?

I'd hit the roof too if someone put their dog shit in my bin. Take it home to your own bin!

You stick your hand inside the clean poo bag, you use that to make a fist around the poo and then you turn it inside out. The hand never actually touches dog shit.

You hardly need to be Miss Marple to figure it out.

I don't want other people's dog poo in my bin!

What if I put a heavy bag of rubbish on top and the poo bag splits!!!!

Besides that, it's disrespectful. I don't put anything in anyone else's bin. It's my rubbish and I dispose of it at home or in a public bin!

yes to bin locks (but check with the council ours didn't allow them for a while when they didn't use tipper trucks)

and chilli powder sprinkled where owners tend to let their dogs shit.

@Baffledandalarmed why thank you for explaining the mechanics of it.

It's the touching of the shit (through the bag) that's I can't get my head around!

You can't decide crate where a dad g dies its business, in occasion mine have sone it in awkward places - including crossing a busy street! I just collect it and dispose of it in a public bin or my own - I'd never put it in someone's private bin.

Full bin, out on the street - yes I might stick a full poo bag in there (as long as it doesn't prop the lid open as I know some places refuse to empty bins like that even if its the tinest crack!)

Empty bin/not out on the street - no, because someone then dropping in other bags may burst the poo bag, yuck.

Last time I asked our council about this (some time ago now) their official position was the council own the bins, they prefer rubbish put in bins over not, so its fine - but did say of course its not ok to walk onto someone elses property to access a bin to do this.