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?

When I first got a dog I found picking up the poo absolutely stomach-churning, I couldn’t bear it and invested in all sorts of (rubbish) pooper scooper devices. But I suppose you get used to everything and 15 years on I bend down and pick it up without a qualm.

This.

What was pretty gross was the smell emanating from the fucking huge cat shit left on my front garden this am. Which I have no choice but to pick up. I know exactly whose fucking cat has done it and as they live across the road and can see my front lawn I’m also pretty sure they know their cat is doing it too. But I guess it’s a cat owners perk that it’s ok to not clean it up

My dog does pops that are a decent consistency (how am I having this conversation 😅)- so literally bag down and I can just pick them up! I didn’t find baby’s nappies that tough but maybe it’s because in the past I worked with horses and dealt with cow dung too!!!

I have no idea.

Dogs are filthy. Their arses are always concealing some dreadful winnet of shite.

I would heave at the thought of picking up someone else’s dog’s poo but for some reason, picking up my own dog’s poo doesn’t really bother me.

I mean no one likes a mushy one (🤢) but it doesn’t really bother me. It’s part of being a dog owner and if you hate it that much, you shouldn’t get a dog.

I don’t own a dog but occasionally look after my sisters. I’m very glad she doesn’t have a big dog, small poo I can handle!

Any dog owner that doesn’t have a Dicky Bag should google and buy one right now. It’s a neoprene zip up pouch which you can attach to your belt or strap around your waist, you pop the dog poo bag in it and it’s MUCH more pleasant than carting about poo in a plastic bag. (Contains the smell for one thing).

No thanks this is why I don’t have a dog but also because I couldn’t give one the life it deserves

I have never minded changing nappies as they’re human babies and it’s human poop

im also a nurse and deal with poo all day so don’t really want to deal with any other poo thanks and no I have no issue wiping my own human bum or any other humans bum

I accept that it's part of being a dog owner. Extra strong bags are important. Cold weather poos are easiest (hard and frozen)
What really bugs me is the piles of poo left on the verges, in the woods, on pavements. How on earth can people just leave it?
My dog stepped in a pile of poor recently and it's insult to injury to have to clean another dog's poo from your own dog's paws 😡

I don’t mind it, for some reason. Always pick it up. I wouldn’t like to change a nappy though! I have double standards really, my neighbour leaves full nappy bags outside the front door throughout the day and then puts them all in the bin at night which I think is gross but then I’m fine with carrying a poo bauble for miles 😂

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The dog haters of MN - why are you so fixated on dog poo?

Picking up poo is part of having a dog. Same as changing your own kid's nappy. You just get on with it.

It's like changing your child's nappy.
It's gross to change someone else's child's nappy but you have to do your own child's.
I love my dogs so much that it doesn't bother me any more , it used to when I first got a dog but that was 20 years ago.

Same. I used take rubber gloves out with me to pick up poo. I ditched them in the end, but would still pick up loads of grass and leaves along with the poo. Now, I just pick it up without a second thought.

It’s like baby shit for me.

You couldn’t pay me enough to change another baby’s nappy. I never have done, I never will do. My own babies? I’ve been projectile shat on and didn’t blink an eye.

My dog is the same. She’s mine, I’ll pick up her poo. I wouldn’t go near another dogs.

I love how people who have presumably had babies and quite literally wiped poo from their arses (and worse) cannot fathom sticking your hand in a plastic bag, collecting a shite, tying a knot in the bag and disposing of it appropriately.

Shit is shit. You deal with it whether its a baby, a dog, or somebody who's sick and/or infirm.
Human shite isnt magically cleaner than any other species so if you can deal with one of them you can deal with all of them.

As someone upthread said earlier , if you feed your dog a good quality diet it really reduces any smell and the poos are fine .

I usually find things dogs do a lot less disgusting than I would if a human did them, not sure why. Don't really want to watch humans gnawing on bones, lying on their backs with their legs spread or drooling everywhere. When dogs do it, I smile indulgently. Once had a retriever who liked to roll in slurry. Also a spaniel who would specifically look for my knees to wipe his mouth on, happily avoiding all other knees as he dribbled his way determinedly to mine. I don't think I would have kept them around long if they'd been human, as it is I just rolled my eyes.

I don't mind my dog's poo, because I absolutely love them, but I do find other dogs poo grim.
I also have horses on a sheep farm and spend a fair amount of time around their poo, neither of which I mind at all.

One of the many reasons why I'm not interested in owning a dog. I've done my fair share of poo-picking with DC. Not doing it for an animal.

I’ve got a large golden retriever. She’s did one in the garden while my friend was over the other day. She said it looked like a 6 foot 4 man had jumped the fence and laid one out. She was quite impressed.

Dealt with worse, got no choice when you own a dog.

Dog poo absolutely reeks. It’s ten times more potent and vile than baby poo which is mostly just milk. Not a comparison at all. Plus you can properly clean up a baby/child’s bum. A dog just walks around with a pooey bum hole.

Just say you hate dogs and be done with it, OP, no need to cast aspersions on responsible dog owners to make yourself feel justified.

Same as a human arse then really..

I pick up, as what actually disgusts me is the thought of someone walking in it.