To not pick up dog poo...

[Moonfishstar]

... when in a quiet forest, but to flick it with a stick into dense undergrowth instead?

I don't see any issue with this, but I've got a feeling lots will disagree with me, so I wanted to get some other opinions.

Yabu I would always pick it up

Walk into the field and pick it up. There could be crops, livestock or horses that use that field. If you cannot pick it up, keep your dog on a lead.

There are no excuses. Yes I’m a dog owner.

So you posted just to be goady then?

Given you knew everyone would disagree with you and you are completely unwilling to concede to any other point of view.

Most of my walking territory is in an AONB, in a National Park, within the local National Trust estate or in managed mixed woodlands. In these places, I flick the poo or, if we are on a NT path, I bag and bin it. If there are no bins provided, I flick with a stick.

Gross 🤮

Why don’t you pick it up and carry it with you? ANOB asks people to bag it and bin it. Why are you exempt from doing this purely because you can’t be bothered? Does the affect it is having on the environment that you enjoy walking in not matter to you?

The forestry lot advise you to stick and flick because poo decomposes faster than the plastic bags its placed in, and there are so many fuckers who bag it and then chuck the bag or hang it from a tree because they cant be arsed to walk it to a bin.

@Verv No they don’t. Not any more. For the love of fucking god!

They don’t anymore. Dog poo is damaging to the environment because it changes the soil quality and spread illness to wildlife and livestock.

Okay, weird attack but I’m not lowering myself to your behaviour.

Maybe you should read the thread and understand the damage that dog faeces does to the environment , as your comment is ignorant and incorrect.

It’s ALWAYS the right thing to do.

How infantile.

Fair enough.
This needs updating then - https://www.theukrules.co.uk/news/homes-and-lifestyle/dog-poop-stick-and-flick-method/

I've always suspected as much as you can see the effect it has on park grass etc so I cant see it suddenly being wonderful for rural woodlands.
Im a bagger regardless of location though. You can even get (full) bag holders that attach to leads now so theres actually no excuse for not doing it.

@Verv That is not really a credible website is it?

Our local forest has signs up telling people to do just that.

Credible or not it's the first hit when you search stick and flick countryside.
While I understand the importance of chastising people on mumsnet perhaps it might be worth you firing a quick email over to google about their SEO rankings.

@Verv Or you could employ some critical thinking and use search terms that get you credible results.

Are you going to pick your extremely bad for the environment dog’s shit up now???

4 posts above you, sweetie.
You could employ some critical reading.

"Im a bagger regardless of location though. You can even get (full) bag holders that attach to leads now so theres actually no excuse for not doing it."

I hate stick and flickers because they’re often not very good at it. So they end up flicking lumps of foetid dog shit onto the immediate area alongside the track. Then I come running down the track and there are a inevitably a bunch of dog walkers chatting with leads going criss-cross right across the path, so I have to go onto the side bit to pass them without crushing their furbabies, and voila it’s poo-dodging time. Dogs are a scourge.

The forestry commission are responsible for the woods where I live and are happy with it,
'In the countryside, and where there is no livestock it is acceptable to take a stick and flick it out of the way. The Forestry Commission actively promotes the use of the ‘stick and flick’ method'.

They'd rather that then have twats bag it and hang it from a tree

@Prunesqualler @Theminer Where do you get the idea that there are less walkers these days? Is that true?

Left to me I'd get every dog owner to pay to have their dog licence and DNA of their dog poo collected by the council. Then every day or two, a council worker goes out to reports of dog shit left outside schools, on/off people driving outside their homes, in parks and woood in the middle of the road and then fine these bunch of ignorant parasites 700 quid a time

Trust me, 99& of the clowns would soon get the message

Via work I knew several clients that were blind or severely partially sighted and these people had to put up these jesters that could not be arsed to pick up their dog shit.

https://www.forestryengland.uk/dog-code

https://assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/media/646f7507243157000c6f42cd/Countryside_Code_A5.pdf

No, the countryside code clearly says that dog poo should be taken home. The countryside code is written by the Forestry Commission and covers their woodlands in England and their (now Natural Resources) woodland in Wales.

I don’t think YABU OP. The thought of all the plastic bags used to pick up dog poo… it’s horrendous for the environment.
I don’t have a dog and my kids do occasionally step in dog poo when they’re in the undergrowth but whatever. I can clean their boots.
When I walk my friend’s dog I take it in a forest and bury the poo.