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?

YABU OP only because children play in the woods. People walk "off-piste". Dog walkers that leave poo bags give all dog walkers a very bad name. They should be ashamed of themselves.

The wildlife dogs are most similar to is maybe wolves. Wolf packs - and other large predators- have huge territories, their population density is low. Far less carnivore shit entering the system per square kilometer than your average dog population dumps on their local green space.

Some areas that I go to, the forest rangers will stop dog walkers and ask them to stick and flick because the problem with discarded bags hanging from trees or left to pile up at gates etc is a horrible job for them to clear up.

I can remember a few years ago, hot sunny day walking along paths that had a river one side and over grown grassy area the other.
People that walked dogs there used the 'stick and flick' method to flick the dog poo into the over grown grass area and the stench due to the hot weather was awful.

Also see people out walking dogs in wooded areas just using their shoe to cover their dog poo with fallen leaves, no thought for others that may walk the area treading in it.

Dog nappies and leads mandatory.

Absolutely nothing offensive about horse poo but it is very offensive having to pick dog poo out of their hooves 🤢

😂 dog nappies

As a recent convert to walking dogs (we don't own one but adult DC does), I've become quite good at picking up poo using the bag as a glove. Sometimes when on the morning walk I try to guess if the dog will do another in the next few minutes so I can double-dip, rather than putting the bag straight into the nearest Vladimir (the poo-tin).

However, when walking in a wooded area I mostly use stick-and-flick to get it well away from the footpath, or perhaps a show flick if I'm wearing trainers and the poo looks fairly solid. It will be gone in 48 hours and there are all kinds of other animals doing exactly the same thing. The point is not to collect the poo for recycling, it's to keep it off people's feet and/or children's hands, at the minimum cost to the environment and (a bit) yourself. When I see a poo bag hanging in a tree I think "These people are allowed to vote" and shudder a bit.

what about the used needles and human waste

I wouldn’t mind seeing the size of the bags you use to pick your horse’s crap up with.

I go litter picking in my neighbourhood, I’m not a dog owner and it’s been a revelation how many full dog poo bags are lurking in the undergrowth. It’s gross, but I pick them up, put them in my big bin bag and then a council bin. It’s just bizarre to me that you’d pick up, bag it, and then toss the bag away. Is it a sign that some dog owners just aren’t coping with the amount of poo management that having a dog entails?

That’s like me saying my kids shit don’t smell!

Of course horse shit is offensive to those who don’t own them!

I come across that as well. I think some rough sleepers poo in bags and dump them.

And please can you tell me there wasn’t a poo in it 😀

I’m not a horse owner but I do have an allotment and I can’t get enough of the stuff. It’s not offensive to me.

Yep.

https://www.petsathome.com/product/simple-solution-disposable-dog-diaper-12-pack/P548

Okay I’ll concede to the fact that not every non horse owner finds horse shit offensive. But I imagine a vast majority don’t particularly want to be dealing with it.

There certainly is. Cleaning up a dog that’s rolled in horseshit is horrible.

I live in a National Park. The National Park authority have asked people to stop doing ‘stick and flick’ because the sheer numbers of dogs now present are producing so much waste that the nutrient levels of the delicate ecosystem are changing. Rare wildflowers that are reliant on low nutrient soils are being replaced by others, lusher growth is crowding them out. The rare butterflies and other insects that rely on the rare wildflowers as their host plants have seen a corresponding fall in numbers.

There are many people in the village I ride through who rush out with their bucket and spade 😂

I think you'll find rolling in fix or dog shit is infinitely worse than rolling in horse shit.

It’s all the same, all equally repellent and hard to remove.

Dog poo bags left behind is the same as throwing litter in the countryside - pretty disgusting. We’re coming to the time when lambs are calves are being born. They are curious and can chew the bags. It can kill them.
We have footpaths across our land. I’m sick to death of having to pick up bags of poo from the lazy arsed skanks that think it’s ok to leave them pushed into a stone wall, in the undergrowth or hanging on a fence. You are disgusting. Shouldn’t have a dog and shouldn’t come to the countryside.

https://www.dickybag.com/?srsltid=AfmBOor63yYnijMLaJoSmQVn1JZ-i6cyJpQJKcqSP2oQq8qhItMoMH8
Dicky bags are great - we never go on a long countryside walk without one. Local walks mostly have plenty of bins along the way, but if we’re not sure we take a dicky bag with us there too. I could never feel comfortable clipping even a double bagged poo to my rucksack, but a neoprene container is fine.

ed to say if you don’t want to click on the link (and who could blame you?) then just Google ‘dicky bags’. I suppose a thermal baby food container would do a similar job and might be cheaper?

No they are not. Most are cheap plastic.

Many of the "biodegradable" ones will still take over 200 years to degrade and probably choke some wildlife way before that happens.