To wonder when the excess of dogs will die down

[OptimismvsRealism]

There's so much shit everywhere

There are so many feral horrible dogs pissing on front doors or prams or shop displays and barking terrifyingly at kids

I am sick of them!!!!! Is this it or will people learn their post COVID lesson and only get pets they can actually handle in the future?

I agree with you……if it was a post only about lazy people not picking up dog poo or random slobbery dogs approaching me in a cafe. Unfortunately, people on here immediately start making sweeping and spiteful comments about the all dog owners (humans). So, it automatically becomes about people like me even though I’m not one of those rude dog owners.

I would not enjoy a bottomless brunch, a ride on the train or a mooch around the shops with my own dog, so no skin off my nose if the thread is full of people slagging off dogs in those sort of public places. I’m with you on that. What sort of dog wants to buy a pair of jeans and get a coffee?!! 😂 so, as I say, there would be no offence, it doesn’t relate to me. But if people start saying “all dog owners are X” then yeah, expect someone to say something back. Don’t dish it out if you can’t take it.

Dogs are absolutely wonderful ❤️ my two bring me so much happiness.

These daily, repetitive dog hating posts are soooo tedious, as are the angry hate filled mob who pile on with ever more wrathful comments. You really all need to get a life and calm down. There are wars going on, people are dying, children are starving, and you’re frothing about dog pee on your garden wall 🙄

Before we moved my neighbour had 8 dogs in a flat. She couldn't control any of them. They pissed and shat inside and barked day and night. So glad we moved. She never ever walks them. Just let's them out in the garden where they yap at leaves constantly. So I totally get where you are coming from @OptimismvsRealism

Bastard dogs. Choosing to live in a confined space with 7 other dogs and not exercise themselves.

Good grief, where on earth do you live? I have never seen a stray dog for years.

but dogs were created by humans

People problem.

Just drove past local Greggs Cafe Part looking out to the street and horse dump (half way up window...how?). Wonder why they didn't poop scoop like decent dog owners do👀....only half kidding.

Crumbs. Where do you live? I have not noticed an increase in dogs. I have noticed that parks have poo-bins and that I rarely see dog shit in the street (it used to be ubiquitous when I was a child). I also do not see loose dogs running around, unless in company with an owner out in the nature reserve behind my house.

Amazed no-one has come by with a wheelbarrow. Horse manure! Wonderful and so rare!

Not unless humans are divine beings with supernatural powers. You mean that humans domesticated wolves, and the descendants have been bred to be the now familiar breeds we keep as pets/working animals.

The dog people who prefer dogs to humans, if dogs are so great why dont you go and live in the dog utopia where everything is organised created by dogs?
You dont because there is no such place, everything about human life has been made possible by humans. Including the ability to indulge yourself by keeping human modified canines as pets

Completely agree! Fecking hate them - far too many for urban areas.

I'm so sad and sorry to read this. A dog should be a pleasure, not an endurance. Maybe consider removing rather than enduring.
Give someone else the opportunity to receive the unconditional love only a dog can give.
I'm so sorry your experience isn't the best.

Mamayoabeautiful boy I find your comments extremely unpleasant, arrogant and ill-informed.
Dogs are not wonderful. Some are brilliant pets. Some are vicious. Some are noisy disturbing many other people.
Some people have marvellous well trained dogs. Others, well, everyone except you knows what I'm talking about.
So not particularly liking all dogs, no matter how badly behaved and antisocial they may be, makes one part of an angry, hate-filled ranting mob.
Take a moment to consider other people's needs please.

I’m sure that poster is talking about the dogs all over the place, not a dog she owns. Not much good moving away, they’re everywhere!

Come to the Lake District! Please! Sadly as it’s promoted as very dog friendly there is dog shit everywhere. Went for a wild swim at my favourite lake and stood in two heaps of dog poop. Bags of dog shit hung up on branches or thrown in hollow trees…it definitely has got a lot worse here. I say this as a dog friendly person, it’s the crappy owners obviously but it’s putting me off actually owning my own dog. Far too many and they are in all the cafes, our local one had dogs sat on the sofas! 😳

I feel sorry for a lot of the dogs out there. Their humans treat them like children, don’t exercise them, don’t look after their needs and take them places completely unsuitable for them. They also give the dog a bad name when all the dog is doing is existing.

I also feel sorry for some children being bought up by adults to be entitled, bratty, and ill behaved beings.

My dog and children go lots of places with me. If I was told they couldn’t go somewhere with me, no issue. If they can, both have been taught how to behave and will be considerate.

I think generally humans are incredibly inconsiderate of others whose opinions and preferences differ from their own, and that’s the main problem.

OP, YABU, I smell human piss on walls far more than dog piss around us, I’m not convinced what you smell is what you think it is!

That sounds bad. Perhaps some discreet poo-bins (I hate carrying round a bag of poo till I find a bin)? What's wild swimming?

So far this week I’ve had to clear away dog poo on my drive, immediately outside my gateway, and on the path in my front garden. Thoughtless dog owners let their dogs piss all over my garden wall, so I have to wear rubber gloves when weeding around it. I saw one pissing against my car a few weeks ago. It does smell rank on even a warm day. I think some dog owners don’t notice as they have gone nose-blind. And I think that some of them are so used to dog behaviour that they don’t realise that other people actually don’t want their walls being covered in dog piss.

its a national park by a lake so I’m not sure bins would add to the scenic views but unfortunately it’s not up to me to designate where the bins go. Surely dog owners don’t have to go far to find one though. I assume you are being ironic about the wild swimming and/or living under a rock!

I was a bit. Swimming in lakes and rivers and the sea was just swimming when I was young, and I have done all three at various times and in various countries. I find the term 'wild' swimming a little quaint, for something I consider entirely ordinary that everyone does. I feel the same about 'wild' camping. Tongue in cheek (and I hate camping, wild or not!). I don't know what to do about the poo, I am afraid - many will be thinking, well, the sheep poo and no-one cares....?

As @BingoMarieHeeler says. Not me or mine.

It is only 8 years to endure the people who bought a dog because it was then the in thing, discovered they couldn't be bothered to train their dog properly, didn't want to pick up their poo etc. They will be the ones that won't be getting another when this one pops its clogs, as they've discovered dogs can be hard work if you can't be bothered.

I live next to a beautiful rural nature reserve in the Cotswolds and there has been a definite increase in the last few years of dog owners bringing their pets to walk them. This has been encouraged by the Wildlife Trust who own the area (but are now complaining that off-lead dogs are terrorising the rare bird species there affecting their breeding). Most dogs I've seen or heard are off lead, badly behaved with no training, and the amount of bags of shit left in trees, on footpaths and in the road is incredible. We regularly end up with random dogs in our garden and I'm trying to dog proof our house line. I can't wait for the dog craze to die down a bit, seems everyone has a dog but too many people are ignorant of both the dogs needs and how to integrate them into living around other people.

To be clear, I don't hate dogs. I see this self centred behaviour among many dog owners as just an extension of our society that cares only for ourselves and sod everybody else.

because
1)sheep poo is in the field, with the sheep, ie not a problem
2) poo from herbivorous animals is much less offensive and dangerous than that from carnivores.

I think sheep poo is entirely different in its makeup and reserved for the farmers fields. Dog poo has a huge amount of toxins and bacteria in it that eventually run off in to our water sources or if left in a field of cows (which happens often here as no one picks up their dog poo) can cause the cow to get extremely ill or even die from eating it, so it’s a big problem rurally. I reserve the wild swimming conversation for a different thread so as not to derail this one.