Dog people - how does the poo not disgust you?

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I live in a dog dense urban environment. Every day I see some fancily clad person walking along with their luxe takeaway coffee and their pooch only for said hound to hunker down, quivering with the bodily effort, to bestow a big steaming pile of pick me up now onto the pavement.

I mean I know the answer is that increasingly often it clearly does disgust them and that's why they leave it for other people to step in.

But seriously - do you feel less disgusted about poo in general? Do you think your own dog's poo is better (just as one's own child's nappies are less terrible than those of a random)? Or do you sit in dread of the next time it comes up?

That’s how I feel, too. Just as I didn’t mind my own children’s nappies, but the thought of changing any other child’s made me feel sick. Who knows why, psychological or hormone related, perhaps?

It’s a bit like having to change a nappy really. You get desensitised doing it for your child but wouldn’t like to change anyone else’s nappy, same with dog poo. Not my favourite thing to do but I’m desensitised, don’t ask me to pick up someone else’s dogs poo though.

The disgust isn’t why people don’t pick up, it’s laziness, self interest and a lack of care towards anyone else. My retired friend has a lovely balcony to sit and watch the world go by and he says that 90% of dog walkers are women and 90% of them pick up after their dogs. 10% of walkers are men and 10% of them pick up after their dogs.

You wipe your own bum tho right? Does that disgust you or is it just part of life you get on with and don’t moan about?

Like your kids - you love the thing that produces it so doesn’t seem so bad!

Cross posted!

I think some posters have misinterpreted my thread as calling for an end to picking up poo. This could not be further from the case. I would support a policy of detaining dog owners who don't in a prison constructed entirely from poo.

I don't know, it just doesn't bother me. My dog is fed well, so her poos aren't particularly smelly or anything, and picking it up 1-2 times a day is no big deal when compared to the benefits of having my dog around so...

This is why I will never have a dog.. also when I have seen many a dog with clumps of it stuck to his fur on his butt and they jump on the sofa or even worse the bed.. I don't get having dogs whatsoever, turns my stomach!

Exactly why I feed my dog raw food - poo mostly hard and not too stinky. some of the stuff left though is absolutely horrendous.

As a mum and a nurse, bodily functions don’t bother me.

I mean pulling a stuck poo out of the dog’s bottom before I’ve had my morning coffee isn’t my favourite but c’est la vie.

Yeah, I agree, it’s only ok if it’s your own dog, same way as your baby’s poo seems less gross than other people’s babies’ poo.

Sometimes, when clearing up after my dog, I see another poo that a less responsible or observant dog owner has left behind, and think “yuck, I should pick that up so no one stands on it.” And I do - but it grosses me out far more than my own dog’s poo does.

Dealing with some grim bodily functions are part of the deal of having kids or pets.

It just doesn't phase me. Picking up my dogs poo, cleaning out my cats litter tray, it's just another chore like doing the laundry or hoovering. I don't even think about it.

Do you have children OP?
If so, how did you cope??

Doesn’t bother me at all, occasionally I have retched on the smell, but I’ve had 2 DC and picking up dog poo is a lot better than changing some really disgusting nappies and cleaning poo/slime off dc. My DH is a retired bathroom installer who has obviously, in his time, had to deal with human poo, but is happy to pick up dog poo, he’s very careful not to let it touch his hands. I always have tissues with me.

It’s the same as your children’s. You just don’t think about it

Do you have children? Way more horrible bodily fluids have been bestowed my kids than my dogs. Although none as horrible as indoor cat littler poop 🤢

It's poo, it's a part of life

Indeed! Great minds and all that 😀

I don’t mind my own dogs poop but I absolutely gag at anyone else’s. Same for babies and kids I’m was fine wiping my own kids bums but anyone else and I was almost sick

I remember when we first had our dog the first poo he did I started gagging on the smell and I said to my DH I had made a mistake buying him and didn’t think I’d be able to deal with it.

After a while you get used to it though, and it becomes normal like changing a babies nappy. But it will always be the thing I like the least about having a dog!

You just shut off and get used to it.

Lots of dog owners see their dogs as their children, one of the family so I'm assuming it's no different for them to changing their child's nappy🤷

I couldnt do it.

think this is where resilience comes in

Same way that a parent changes their own child’s shitty nappy.

I prefer picking my own dogs poo up than other dogs poo, but it’s really no problem to pick any up.

Give me dog poo over a child’s nappy!

It doesn’t bother me in the slightest. My dog is a small breed and raw fed so produces particularly small and unsmelly poops but I sometimes look after friends dogs too where that isn’t the case. DH plays cricket and occasionally a poop is left on the pitch and I am first to offer to go and pick it up as some people can’t stand it.