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?

I hate it! Especially when they do a soft poo in long grass 🤢. But you just have to deal with it.

Excretion is one of the seven characteristics of all living beings.

Either OP is a robot, or she is not very self-aware if she thinks her own shit doesn't stink.

I have my bingo card out ready.

😂

It's like having children the very young poo normally a messy job it still has to be done , as with a dog it's part of having a dog, as with children if you can handle the poo don't have a child same with dogs really

Fair enough to prefer cats over dogs, but presumably you clean up your cat's poo? Is that not as disgusting?

My cat's litter tray is in our old brick outbuilding because I really don't want a litter tray in the house, because they are revolting and stink, but I don't want her crapping other people's garden's either. My dog also doesn't bring half-dead animals into the house and drop them on my lap, but that's another story (but I find that much more disgusting than cleaning up after my dog to be honest).

happy to oblige.

This is my judgemental, aloof, intimidatingly-clever poodle, after her morning poo. Laying down on her favourite carpeted stair with her not-pooey bum hole because her anatomy works exactly as it should - leaving no residue.

Here she is looking condescendingly into the camera in despair about how little the allegedly smarter species understand canine anatomy.

Doesn’t bother me. If you walk away quickly enough you barely get a whiff.

I think they do look awfully cute pooing.There are other ways to warm my hands but I am very happy picking up my lovely dogs poos.
You sound like a miserable bastard.

Actually picking up dog shit is nothing whatsoever like changing a nappy. Babies don’t shit on the ground and leave residue for people to pick up on their shoes. A child in a nappy you just lie down, undo the nappy, lift up the legs and fold the nappy over the poo. Place dirty nappy to one side and clean child. Plus it’s an actual human child. Not an animal. Dog shit smells far worse than baby shit. I couldn’t deal with any animal shit or vomit, have feeding bowls in my kitchen, or worse, litter trays, or have any animal sitting or lying on my furniture. Yuck.

When a thread is addressed to ‘dog people’ and you get responses from people who don’t like dogs at all just goes to show how much Mumsnet really love to get all frothed up over any chance to slag off dogs. 🤣

I don’t care what they do but I detest dog owners who don’t pick it up.

Do you have kids? I tell you the amount of bodily fluid you have to deal with children make coping with dog mess a breeze - and animals are great at doing it at the most inappropriate times; in the middle of a zebra crossing, on your best carpet, right in front of a cafe full of people…

Except some dirty fuckers change nappies in cafes on the tables. I don't want to see or smell baby shit when I am tucking into my chocolate cake. And I know poonamis are a thing.

Cat shit is the worst though. I had cats and I always struggled with cleaning their litter tray, and picking up projectile diarrhoea from my elderly mog. Always made me heave.

On a cold morning a warm bag of poo in the pocket is as good as any hand warmer. In particularly freezing weather I slip the warm bag under my hat and am cosy all the way around the park.

Another top tip is to put your coffee cup and croissant in the same pocket and they will stay toasty warm for ages.

Lucky for you, no one’s forcing you to have a dog or a cat 😂.

Get scented bags and hold it by the handle after tying it then you’ll not feel or smell anything. I’ve 3 small dogs who I walk daily. Picking up their poo is part of being a responsible dog owner.

I was once out with my friend for coffee - her friend joined us.
her toddler was potty training, and she whipped out a potty AT THE TABLE and allowed her child to use it right there.
i can’t remember if it was a wee or a poo, but she just walked through the cafe with this full potty to empty it in the toilet.
i was baffled by the whole thing!

See op, it’s hard to understand if you are not a pet loving person.

It’s like my niece saying she won’t have kids because she can’t touch 💩 Because she is a teenager and not in the kid loving / maternal stage.

But when people have pets, they love them and poo does not seem like a deal breaker. Of course it’s not fun. But reward is higher than a momentarily inconvenience.

One doesn't mind at all if it's one's own dog.

I'm part of a litter picking group. Every week we pick up dirty nappies that have been just left behind on the beach, in the street and in parks. The worst ones are where some kind person has changed a nappy in their car then dropped it into the gutter before driving off and squashing the contents under their wheel in the process.

On several occasions we have had to clear up after dirt bags who have sat on the sea wall and shat over it onto the beach. As a final flourish they've wiped their arse and dropped the paper over the wall to blow around where people swim and play.

Yep, why not take the child to the toilet?
I had similar a while back where a mum changed her baby's nappy on the seat next to me. Then she went to the loo (which does have changing facilities) to get rid of the nappy.

Oh god no @Bologneselove The scented bags make me heave. The scent just seems to be amplified by the warm poo.
Unscented bags only here.

Humans are gross.
After any big protest/march in city centres, the amount of human excrement left behind is insane.

I was flying from Hong Kong to the UK once (12hr+ flight) and some revolting family were changing their bottlefed baby's nappy in the cabin. They were literally one row back from the toilets with an inbuilt change table. The pong lingered for hours.

The only time I have seen a flight attendant look visibly disgusted.