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?

I walked 5 miles on a well known trail today. Not a single bin anywhere.

I took my bags home though.

If the lazy fuckers can’t be bothered to take their digs shit home or put in a bin the won’t bother flicking it under a bush

they simply don’t care and are lazy selfish disgusting slobs

i saw someone picking up after their St Bernard once, and I said "you don't need a poo bag, you need a carrier bag." They agreed.

I thought at first you left a full one in your jacket! Hope I wrong about that.

And happily my dog makes a fair dent in our local horse poo problem.

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straight into the nearest Vladimir (the poo-tin)

Round of applause for this

My dog has no problem finding fox poo to roll in fairly often!

While it's never nice to see a pile of any animal poo the difference between horse and dog is horses are herbivores making their poo pretty much harmful unlike dogs.

Horse poo is pretty harmful when it is left in the road. Am speaking as a former biker.

The worst is dog shit being put into bags and then hung up on trees or gates. I’d rather the shit was left alone than having to see that.

Hopefully these will be paid for by a dog tax because I don't want that cost added onto my council tax thanks. Bloody entitled dog owners. Just pick it up and put it in your own bin at home.

Dog poo can be put in general waste bins. It all gets processed the same.

People should just train their dogs to shit in their own gardens and there wouldn’t be dog shit all over public footpaths. It’s revolting.

I run kids' cycling sessions on a council owned facility in a park. The cycle area is fenced and gated and there are "no dogs" signs all over the place. Yet every single week I have to pick up multiple piles of other people's dog shit before the kids can ride, probably about 50% of which has been bagged but then dumped. I think I'd rather deal with the unbagged to be honest as I just flick that into the grass, but I have to actually pick the bags up and walk across the park to the bin with it. It drives me mad. The whole of the rest of the park is dog friendly so why not stick to that, and why go to the trouble of bagging the poo and then dropping it in the middle of an area that is obviously used by kids? I like dogs but their humans not so much.

Can you train yourself to only shit at home? Never get caught short when out? Or somehow train your baby to only poo at home.
At least you can justify it to yourself. You can't explain it to a dog.

Mine go in the garden and when they go for a walk. Always pick it up when out and about and put in the dog poo bin.

Same, and that is fine.
Scrubbing the pavement with bleach, or only letting your dog poo at home - there is no need.

Many councils are actually removing dog poo bins permanently. I guess because they don’t want to spend money on getting them emptied. People can’t use their wheelie bins for disposal - no dog excrement allowed, and there’s often no dog poo bins at parks/woods, so I’m not sure where you’re supposed to dispose of them.

There’s lots of things I don’t use which i have to subsidise with my council tax. But unfortunately it’s something we just have to suck up.

Our dog is 5 . I've picked up every poo except one which he did in a large clump of nettles in a wooded area.
I pick it up and always carry it with me until I find a bin. I've never 'forgotten' it!
Near my home, in an alleyway on route to a primary school, i often pick up poo that ignorant dog owner's have left (there's an actual dog bin in the alley!) Parents, teachers and kids don't need to deal with shit on shoes at 9 am!

A friend of mine trained all her dogs to shit on command, in her own garden. It is possible.

Of course it is. A lot of people can't be bothered though. And tbh why should they, when there are few expectations to do otherwise, and few repercussions for fouling public spaces.

yes I was once running with someone who flicked the poo into a crop food field which made me feel sick 🤢

My dog will be 15 in June. I am not going to be teaching her anything in her twilight years.

DON'T LEAVE IT BEHIND!
whether it's in a bag or not.

there are too many dogs, and too much dog shit, for the environment to cope with.
and loads of reasons why 'flicking' it into the undergrowth is not a good solution (some of them listed by others on this thread).

if you can't be arsed picking it up and taking it home, don't have a dog. or pay someone to exercise your dog and pick it up for you.