To let dog poo in the street

[zeroherox]

AIBU to allow my dog to poo in the street?

We live near a field and DH usually takes our dog over there. He's going away for a few days so I will solely be walking the dog. My problem is I get very very anxious in the dark, can't see properly even with the torch and it really stresses me out. Like heart/head pounding. Previously I have walked the dog around the estate we live on and he poos on the pavement. Some houses have no front garden and I always feel very guilty as it's so close to their homes. I ALWAYS pick up but you know sometimes it's not perfect. I'm aware of lots of doorbell cameras to. My dog refuses to poo in our garden. So AIBU to allow my dog to poo in the street allowing me relax a little that I'm not offending anyone or do I need to wait until it's light. He is used to very early and late walks.

As soon as mutt takes shitting stance... start to meddle with dog, outcomes are:

• dog stops shitting and won't resume shitting until it's certain it won't be meddled with, by which time it won't be hanging its bum over the kerb
• dog shits all across the pavement until it gets to the kerb at which point all the shit is done.

Not only have you never trained a dog but I don't even think you've been near one.

Typically in training we would lure a dog to move using food that we then fade out into a hand cue - have you tried luring a dog with food whilst its shitting... it doesn't work. One will override the other so either there is no shitting, or there is no being lured.

I could train a dog to sit on the kerb, I could train a dog to shit on cue (if they need to shit). But training a dog to position itself over the kerb AND shit on cue.. no. And I say that as a trainer of 25+ years experience.

This is because dogs are sentient beings, not furry machines. They need to feel comfortable and secure in order to take a shit, and typically lack the proprioception required to shit on a target (funnily enough, you almost certainly meet the same criteria).

What's the issue. Dog poos. You whip out a bag. You pick up the poo. There you go - sorted.

Let's talk about cat nappies too then. And fox nappies. Bird nappies. Badger nappies. Mouse nappies. Sooooo many nappies!

I could train a dog to sit on the kerb, I could train a dog to shit on cue (if they need to shit) @WiddlinDiddlin

So therefore, every lazy dog owner should train their to shit on cue and make them do it on their own property and not public property. If my mother could do it everyone can. Why do dog owners make their shit a problem for others? Answer - because they're lazy and entitled.

Because if the dog needs to shit and there is no where for the dog to shit, you can't stop them.

Because they may not need a shit at the start of the walk but the mechanics of walking and being relaxed or sniffing certain scents may prompt the need to shit.

You can't make them shit if they do not need to, there is no function on a dog to make them try for a shit like you might a small child (And i think most know how ineffective that actually is!)

The ability to withhold shit and shit on cue is going to alter with very young dogs (under a year) and old dogs. You also have no way of knowing at the start of the walk, in some cases, if the dog is going to have an unexpected urgency due to eating something dodgy or feeling unwell.

So the 'shit on cue' thing is really only useful for places where dogs really can't shit, but may well need to - like airports and at dog shows. Where there are dog toilet areas that a dog can go in and they have a fenced in area they can freely move around in, to choose which few square inches they shit on.

If you could totally control where, when and how a dog shits... we'd all be doing it and the law would require us to do so. You can't, and that is why it doesn't.

What a ridiculous comment. Are you just looking for attention.

Not every dog can be trained shit for brains.

Yeah not with what some people feed their dogs on and the dreadful sloppy joes poop they have.

Dogs do catch D&V bugs you know, then what do you propose?

You should keep a sick dog at home, the same way adults or children stay home with sick bugs. You don't just go "oh well" and trapise it around fouling every pavement!

Here is an example of "cleaned up" sloppy poo. It's so prevalent that I saw it and took a pboto in the time between my last post and this one. See camera time. If that was in the gutter, nobody would walk in it. USE THE GUTTER.

Well you shouldn't have the responsibility of being in charge of a dog. Your duty as a decent citizen is to clean up after it empties its bowels on the public walkways. There is a reason why this is expected of you. Public health is everybody's responsibility.

OP said she does clear it up. She was just asking if she was BU to let her dog poo on the pavement (and pick it up).

Natural yoghurt every morning, a natural wormer if she ate anything funny in the woods. and an only meat diet, because dogs cannot digest carbs, they just come out as slop.

Correct, but unfortunately until the poop comes out, you generally don’t find out they have picked up a bug!

Thanks, i know this, but not what i was asking the poster.

If dogs are literally shitting when they need to, and you can't train them or stop it, why on earth are you taking them in to shops and cafes, where apparently they can't control their bowels? But telling us it's fine to take them everywhere?

I could explain about conditioning and habit building...

But you know what you can look it up yourself.

A house trained dog knows not to shit indoors. They ask to go out. They might pace, whine, and wait around the door to the garden.
There are signs, and their owners are attuned to them.
If you don't have a dog, then you will not understand this.

You are like a dog with a bone on here 😆

Tell me you’ve never trained a dog without telling me you’ve never trained a dog!

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IF it can be trained to not go in the house, it can be trained to not go on the pavement.

But I don’t want it to not go on the pavement, that’s where I want it to go and I pick it up!!

When will you give in and understand you’re not going to stop people letting their dogs shit on the pavement?

Save your breath!

if it becomes illegal, very unlikely as dogs are being welcomed today in far more places than ever before, shopping centres and shops etc. I’ll consider it then. But at the moment, it suits me just fine!

How?
If you are so certain, then please explain the process.

My dog thinks indoors and outdoors. Indoors is not for pooing, and outdoors is.
If you think I should be able to explain the nuances of different surfaces and environments, then let me know how.