20 soggy dog turds all in a row

[Ottika]

I know it's mumsnet but I am not exaggerating.
20 fucking sopping wet turds.

Walking through a small neighbourhood this afternoon, there was a good deal of shit about, but one little bungalow had a count of 20 large turds resting alongside it's garage wall (on the street), each one spaced about a foot away from the other, as if they'd been placed there.

I thought this was pretty remarkable, if we are going to consider each turd came form a different dog. That's like synchronised shitting.
I felt sorry for the people in the bungalow.

Is this kind of thing increasing in general? Is it area dependent? (this was a depressed place but not what I'd call rough).

This is so eerily similar to what I saw today, down to the bungalow! I definitely think it’s increasing, and it’s fucking disgusting. My neighbourhood is absolutely covered in dog shit and when summer hits it stinks of dog piss as well. It’s made me genuinely hate dogs and their owners honestly

I wonder if people are thinking it will wash away with heavy rain? Idiots.

I think fines should be minimum of £500! Also let's introduce genetic dog poo testing and tracing so the owners will always be fined.

And you counted them all 😆

that is not nice

Maybe they belong to the bungalow owners' dog and a neighbour is sick of them not being picked up.

Could be, I see lots of threats to deliver it through letterboxes on fb.

I have cleaned up every shit my dogs have ever done. Don’t blame all dog owners.
Someone in our street lets their dog shit every day on its walk. It’s foul. We live right next to a university so we have lots of people walking by day and night. I hate it. I have been out there with poo bags and a bucket of soapy water cleaning it up.

I've just counted 3 piles on my short street, absolutely disgusting, and has definitely got worse since dog ownership seems to have become obligatory

Dogs tend to poo next to the poo of other dogs. I pick up my dog's poo and think "What's the point?" because there's a big pile next to it :/. It's worse for dog owners because our dogs are more likely to tread in it.

Why the dogs? They don't know!

I see very little dog shit now when out and about. It’s like smoking cigarettes… used to be ubiquitous but stands out now because it’s so uncommon. I’ve never not picked up my dogs shit.

I don’t, by any stretch of the imagination, like in a naice part of the country, either, although I like it!.

Because it’s their shit I have to dodge with a pram and a child!

It is terrible where we live too. Always gets stepped in and walked along too so you end up having to dance between patches of poo. It used to be a problem for a few weeks every January, as if people had got puppies at Christmas time and hadn’t yet worked out that they needed to pick up after the dog. Or maybe different walking habits because of the winter. Since the pandemic every day is January!

how much council tax do you want to pay for dog poo checkers and lab technicians and letters sent out 😂

I'll trade you for the flytipping and used needles and endless litter in my area.

If the fines are £500, no excuses, I don't think paying for the technicians would be a problem...

https://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/shortcuts/2015/apr/28/dna-testing-dog-poo-have-to-be-barking-council

https://www.theguardian.com/business/2019/jan/27/dog-dna-test-pooprints

https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/newstopics/howaboutthat/12099492/Village-to-DNA-test-dog-poo-to-track-down-irresponsible-owners.html

Seems it's been tried in various places already!

Our neighbourhood is pretty clear of dog poop as we and a couple of other dog owners all take 3 or 4 extra bags and just pick up any we see.
People don't tend to leave poop where it is clean, so our walks have got longer before we come across any now.

Very similar to where I live recently. Especially when we had the snow, nobody seemed to pick up their dogs poo so when it thawed and melted the amount of crap everywhere was vile.

I recently went past a small block of flats (3 storeys only). The ground floor flat has a patio out the back. There were probably 40 shits (looked like from the same animal) on the patio. A burnt chair as well. All overlooked by CCTV on that particular flat. All surrounding properties in great/tidy condition.

On a serious note, I wonder if the sheer amount of it in some places is possibly a threat to public health.
In this particular area it literally lines the pavements, I suspect the ones doing it are local, but probably not dropping it on their own street.

And when I say 'sheer amount of it', I am talking a fuck ton. Everywhere you place your eyes walking from one end of the neighbourhood to the other, there are about 5 piles. It is piled outside of people's gates, around an elderly care facility and where kids play.

If you don't have it where you live, that doesn't mean it isn't happening!

There is very little where I live, but I think that is due to the council being more hands on due to local tourism.

I also think there are no incentives to stop it. I imagine the councils in many areas just let it slide, so essentially, the lowest common denominator asserts itself and floats to the top. Like shit...ahem. Very little authority in many places, sadly.

And no, you can hardly blame the bloody dogs.

If I paid council tax in an area like this I would want it removing. It's not only god awful ugly, it's unhygienic.

If the council can't be arsed to police and punish it, they ought to clean it up themselves.

We don't have street cleaners or dog wardens any more, its grim. I have neighbours who let their dog out the front door to shit on the pavement, and that pretty much the only time the dog leaves the house. Apparently its dirty to let it use their back garden.

Margate is the worst place for it! Went at Christmas to see family and my girlfriend actually wrote to the mp to complain (no reply yet!)