To ask why people hang poo on trees?

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This perplexes me. I can’t think of anything more disgusting than hanging a bag of shit on a tree. Yet they are everywhere.

Someone on here must know someone who does this. What is going through their heads when they do it? Is it a massive “fuck you” to society now expecting poo to be scooped up (I grew up in the 70s/80s when it was acceptable just to leave it on the pavement)?

Or do they think that somehow hanging it like a macabre bauble is what they are meant to do? Do they believe that the Faeces Fairy will come and clear the trees at night time?

Exactly this.

There’s similar near to where I live. I’ll never go again so creepy. In the middle of a small dog walking wood. With dog poo bins at the start and end of the walk. All the trees hung with bags of dog shit. The creepiness is from thinking about the people who might be nearby that were crazy enough to do such a weird antisocial act. Nothing to do with normal human laziness as tying the bags takes more effort than putting them in the bins. Seriously disturbing.

50% of Dog owners are unbelievably entitled and will somehow defend this.
I’d love a dog, and I have the time to have one now, but I couldn’t put up with some of the owners.

I’ve changed nappies and had to take them home countless times, but then I didn’t have a car when mine were tiny and we’d roam far and wide. Definitely didn’t hang them off a tree….

See also people who pile up their dog poo bags on top off/around a poo bin that’s clearly full so that there’s just a mountain of poo filled bags around a barely visible bin. Gross. Take it home with you if the bin is full.

I was considering this on my dog walk the other day and could see no reason why you go to the effort of picking up poo and then throwing in a Bush over a 6ft fence, but Badbadbunnies theory sounds the most likely. I have been guilty of picking it up and leaving it in a quiet corner and then picking it up on my way back, always do the same circuit and always pick it up at the end, and is a rare occurrence as dog normally does ablutions next to a bin handily!

I work for a charity which has dog bins. We spend £10,000 a year emptying them in a small locality.We need to double the collections but can’t afford to. The money has been donated for our cause, not dog poo. When the bins overflow,dog owners complain. If asked directly kindly not leave their bag on the overflow pile (as we are trying to tidy it ) people get abusive and throw bags on the same pile in front of us. This is a naice area. I love dogs, but the 50% anntisocial owners are taking over this country.

To collect on the way back rather than carrying it around on a walk that isn't circular?

Yes it is to collect them on the loop back. But I'd say many forget or end up going a different route. It's pretty grim. I have a dog and just carry the bag until I get to a proper bin or my home bin.

I have never had a dog so no skin in this game.

But - when I've been out with someone else's dog, the swinging weight of a turd in a bag is repulsive. Much grosser than picking it up in the first place.

Nappies are less gross because their weight isn't just a turd in a bag. And tbh you do see nappies in laybys etc.

I'd love to know who the disgusting fuckers are. My front garden is on the edge of a short path and I have a hedge of different shrubs along the edge of my garden. It's perfectly clear this is someone's home, yet the shit-danglers drape their offerings on my garden plants when there's a bin 1 minute away. It's absolutely disgusting, I can't understand the mentality, I assume they wouldn't throw a bag of rubbish in my garden, why do they think they have the right to put their vile dog shit there?

Wow that is vile. I’d get a CCTV camera and report to police when I had the evidence.

But surely the turd swinging from a tree in the wind is just as repulsive?

Yes fair point re nappies, I was out and about in the summer and someone had left a soiled nappy, and this morning on my dog walk my dog found someone's disgarded sanitary pad, I was not looking forward to trying to get that out of his mouth with my bare hands, luckily he dropped it! There are just some very grim entitled people around.

That’s interesting. When you say “the money is for your cause, not dog poo” can you clarify a bit? Your charity provides bins but that’s not its main purpose- so what does the charity/cause gain from putting the bins in place and managing the disposal, is it so you can put free publicity on them or something?

I thought most bins were provided by councils.

TBH I’m also a bit unclear of what is done with dog poo when it is taken home, does it just go in the general domestic bin, or with the food waste or what?

Some dog owners are just disgusting. There is absolutely no justification for this behavior. Personally I think the council should have more powers to remove dogs from people who act in antisocial ways with them.

That actually does happen, plus there is at least one nappy in a passing place not far from my house that was obviously thrown out of a car window - not bagged.
I don’t understand any of it, it’s utterly disgusting.

I'm tempted to do that. Is it a crime to leave dog shit hanging off my plants?

I sometimes do litter picking when walking the dog on the school run
The local high school have put a fence up on their field which is next to a busy footpath that leads to the primary school

One of the bungalows which backs onto said field must’ve been chucking shit filled bags over their fence onto the field as, I’m presuming, the maintenance grass cutting people had lined up over FOURTY turd filled sacks on the verge (must’ve chucked them over when mowing)

I’m fairly confident I know who left them on the field (same type of dog poo bags and the couple are rubbish dog owners)

I filled a bin bag full with aforementioned crap receptacles and, if I’d had evidence, I’d have dumped them in the owners’ garden

People who do shit like this are massive cunts

You can buy little neoprene pouches that clip to your belt or bag to put your poo bags in. They contain the odour too. If dog owners are grossed out by carrying plastic poo bags they just need to get the right kit.

Domestic bin outside. I also only buy biodegradable bags. The idea of all these non-biodegradable bags in landfill is horrid.

They're usually there for days though so they are clearly not collected on the way back.

Because it’s generally the irresponsible dog owners that are too lazy to clear up properly after their dog. 🤬

Those are for carrying treats and the poo bag roll. haha

I often take my friend’s dog out in a rural area, and find bags left on the grass verge by the side of the footpaths or tucked in the hedgerows . It’s minging. It’s not unusual for me to see a bag on the way back which wasn’t there on the way down the path. I might only have seen 1 or 2 dog owners on the walk. There are two bins easily accessible on the way. I pick up the ones on the verge but am not going to pick them out of the hedge.