Dog poo!

[DameDoggieDoo]

Currently holidaying in beautiful south Devon on a rather affluent stretch of coast - there are a lot of dogs here too!

The number of bags of fresh / recent dog poo seemingly "abandoned" on stunning coastal footpaths is quite surprising to me. I I am not a dog owner myself, but do get that you might not want to carry a hot turd with you for miles - so AIBU to give dog owners the benefit of the doubt and imagine they have left the bag somewhere they can collect it on their return leg? My DP says I am.

If you are a dog owner who sometimes leaves bags of poo on or near the path, do you always go back for it? This isn't a goady post, I am genuinely interested to know what is going through your mind when you bag it but don't bin it? Do you intend to collect it later or do you imagine that a ranger will walk the path daily to collect litter? Or do you just think that it will eventually biodegrade in a tidy way if it's bagged and left away from the main footfall?

You have a very odd definition of common sense.

Unless it's your property, pick it up

So it's ok to leave dog shit bags around messing the place up ? I hate this too at the play park. I'm sick of it. Disgrace really.

It's a filthy habit and no dog owner should do it. There aren't usually bins along these paths so it can be difficult, but you can buy small containers that attach to your belt that you can put the bag in until to get to a bin.

I'm a dog lover, and used to be a dog owner (can't at the moment, had to take in two needy cats after a good friend died). I would love to have another dog, but some dog owners drive me up the wall doing things like this. Talk about giving dogs a bad name, when they can make such a valuable contribution.

Would you consider getting one of the multiple dog bags available to carry your dog’s bits and pieces and poo in?

My bag is very light weight, cross body and was about £8.00.

You say that ‘other normal people’ do this but you are a minority on this thread.

I am a dog owner and know lots of dog owners, who don’t do this. Obviously some do.

Where I live I have only seen 1 bag of pick up later poo, hanging on a fence post. The owner of the poo came back, I assume because an hour later it was gone.

I personally don’t understand leaving dog poo lying around.

There's a couple of places I will hide a bag near the start of the walk and get it on the way back - but unless you're rummaging behind fence posts/logs etc, you're highly unlikely to see it.

Most places we just carry it with us, but theres a couple of circular walks here where its a tight squeeze to get my chair through a gap, and where I hang bags on the chair is a direct hit for the fence post. I tried holding the bag but then I am holding too many things one handed.

Its rare though, usually I am with someone else and he carries the poo, or we're close enough to the car that he pops back and leaves it behind the wheel to get later.

Mostly its people telling themselves they will collect it later, with no real intention of doing so!

I also don't understand the people who spot that the poo bin is full, and keep trying to ram stuff in, balance it on top or leave it on the floor beside the bin. Just take it home!