To say don’t put dog poo in bags

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…if you’re not going to take the bag with you or stick it in the bin.

Went for a walk in local woodland for the first time since last summer and the path is strewn with poo filled bags. It’s really revolting. If you’re not going to take it home, it would be far better to flick it into the undergrowth and let it decompose. Leaving the bagged poo is surely the worst option?

Surely if the poo bag degrades, the poo will be on the path again?

Oh the irony

I would like whoever keeps bagging the poo and then dropping it over the fence behind my shed to stop, I can tell you that much for free.

Is there a difference between dog poo and horse poo then? Other than most responsible dog owners pick up their dogs poo?

Poop is poop…

Someone with a horse will be on soon to say that horses are vegetarian and therefore their poo is the equivalent of stepping in Chanel no 5. It very much isn't

Off topic a bit but they are really not. Even the ones that say they are compostable are only really compostable in very specific circumstances that are never naturally present in the real world.

The compostable ones thrown by the side of a woodland path will be there for several decades before they naturally break down - possibly even centuries! It's shocking they are allowed tocall themseleves compostable tbh.

Horses are vegetarian and their poo breaks down a lot easier than dog poo. Nothing smells quite as bad as dog and cat poo. This is because of their diet. Fox poo can smell bad but there is not so much of it about.

@AngelinaFibres ..I'm vegetarian and my poo isn't any different to anyone else 🤣🤣

I took compostable bags when we had our little dog. Used them on pavements and paths. If she went in a thicket or dense undergrowth, left it to decompose, along with the fox and badger poo.
Flushed contents when I got home and composted bags.

People are getting lazier and lazier. My woods have bags and bags of it, what's the point picking it up and leaving it there?. Absolutely disgusting and lazy behaviour.

But vegetarian animals don’t eat fatty things.

Other people’s dog shite is off limits.
I happily pick up my own dog’s poo and dogs I personally know’s poo - ( small bore poo)

But a nasty mound of slushy shite done by a Bully - no thanks!

They always seem to have gut issues and owners who never pick up afterwards.

Me too - the point about bagging poop is not that it’s toxic to the ecosystem (see previous post re other wild animals pooping and peeing freely), it’s about making sure that the pathways used by humans and, potentially, children are clear of the poop. It’s why we clean up on pavements and take special care in urban areas. My dogs actually run off lead into the shrubs and heather and poop there.

I do not roam the bushes of the 400acre woodland near me looking for my dogs poops - but I do make sure the pathways they’ve used is clear and that has often meant cleaning up the poops of other inconsiderate dog owners, too. I was once a mum of young kids/pushing a buggy.

Presumably everyone can agree that the worst option of all is to bag it and hang (or fling!) the damned thing into a tree or bush. I simply can't comprehend that thought process.

Our dog used to usually do a poo pretty soon after he started a walk so if it wasn't somewhere we knew there would be a bin I'd nip back and leave the bag tucked under the boot of our car and then we'd take it home.

My dog has just pooed!
just going to bag and walk back a few hundred metres to the bin!

Please don't leaves your dogs shit in the woods so it's stepped on or eaten by another animal! Plus the damage is doing to plants. Don't be lazy and disgusting

As an estate manager can I request that people don't "stick and flick" unless the landowner specifically says its OK. A lot of people have dogs now, I'd estimate I have over 200 a day emptied in our woodland - that's a huge amount of shit being dumped in the undergrowth and it's damaging to the plant communities in that sort of quantity. Pick it up and take it home.

@doodahdayy x post

This problem is getting worse everywhere and it's so grim!
Owners not picking up or picking it up in bags and hanging it on trees so it looks some really putrid Christmas tree!

Each park should have a warden with a pellet gun and megaphone and start pelting these dirty gits whilst they are loudly subjected to a good telling off!!

I always flick when walking rurally, I also try to dodge all the horse shit all over the roads which is evidently ok!

Anyway I do pickup but also try to get her in the gutter so there's no remnants on the path.

The Night Poo is easily found with a phone torch these days and illuminated tag on dog so one can see where they stop.
Before tech a mag lite torch 🔦 did the job.

This ^ sums it up nicely. Not to mention the risks for children. I stopped taking DS to one local woodland as it was so stressful trying to get him to look out for and avoid poo. Hours spent cleaning it off wellies. It's shitty behavior for dog owners not to bag and bin (pardon the pun). There are plenty of ways to carry it with you and its a responsibility you take on when you get a pet dog. One or 2 scumbags used to let their dogs poo on the pavement alongside school every day. It needs better policing and stiff penalties to deter people like this. 100's of kids would step in it, and little brothers and sisters - trailing it into school, into the hall (where they later have PE and dinnertime), buggy wheels etc. It's such a small thing to do to avoid other people (mainly women in all probability) spending time cleaning it when it's gone all over shoes etc. Not to mention the serious health risks.

www.ardsandnorthdown.gov.uk/article/1422/Toxocariasis#:~:text=Dog%20Control-,Toxocariasis,in%20parks%2C%20gardens%20and%20playgrounds.

If you can't carrying with you, push it aside and cover it with stones. Let the rain do the rest. This advice I was given after I complained to National Trust about bags left along path on Brecon Beacons, Pen Y Fan walk. They do have litter pickers to collect them, and why should they? It's not a town park, it's a mountainside grazed by sheep (and covered in sheep poo!). Common sense should advise that in a natural outdoor setting plastic bags are a no-no unless you are prepared to carry it back.

You should not be leaving dog poo in the Brecon Beacons or anywhere. It will change the flora and could be harmful to wildlife. Sheep poo is not the same. It is just grass that has been through the stomach. Bag it up and take it with you. Of course you can carry it with you.