To put dog mess in a strangers bin?

[AnnaQuayRules]

I normally would never dream of doing this. However, today I was walking my dog along a road when he decided to crap on the grass verge. So of course I picked it up and bagged it.

It was bin day and everyone's bins were outside their houses. The bin lorry turned into the street and so, as it approached, I popped the bag into the nearest bin which was collected almost immediately.

However the man in the house came storming out and started shouting at me. He said I had no right to put anything in his bin. It got worse when I tried to explain, especially as he hadn't realised it was a dog bag. So I apologised and moved off with him still shouting down the road.

I would never have placed anything in anyone's bin whilst it's on their property, but these bins are all on the pavement waiting to be emptied. It was about 3/4 full, I placed the bag on top of what was there and the whole bin was emptied within about 60 seconds.

Was I really out of order?

They often poo in the garden but usually the exercise causes them to then need to go.
My dog usually needs a poo about 5/10 minutes into a walk. We’ve kind of timed this to coincide with a country lane rather than the pavement or conveniently he often goes on the bit of verge next to the dog bin. Can’t always be helped though.

My dog also loves nothing more than pooing in the thick bushes of stinging nettles on our bridleway. Mumsnet opinion seems to be that I should go to great lengths to retrieve them and take them home.

I honestly don’t think MN can be reflective of real life. And I’m yet to see anyone raise and valid points about why this is such a horrendous and disgusting faux pas from the OP. The bin lorry was on the street, the bin was emptied within minutes if not seconds of her depositing the bag. Where is the problem? People just don’t like the idea of someone using something of theirs. Even a council owned wheelie bin. It is utterly tragic.

It reminds me of my grandparents god bless them. After they retired and were in ill health, putting the bin out and watching and waiting for it to be emptied almost became a highlight of the week. I can imagine the frothing they’d have been doing had someone put a dog poo bag in mere seconds before collection. But I doubt they’d have been able to articulate why it was such a huge breach of common decency either.

What an awful sneery way to take about your grandparents.

There are plenty of bins in public areas to drop dog poo off. You don't use residents bins for your dog crap. It's simple social etiquette. If I see anyone drop crap in mine I'd be out like a shot too.

What a weird world you inhabit, where bagged dog poo = a human using a bin as a toilet.

I don’t think we can get the council involved as it’s private land, even though it has the PROW across it. It’s a bit like the parking and litter problems we have too (a whole separate rant). They don’t care unless we blocked access, which we obviously can’t do.

We have considered a bin lock, but if they don’t put it in the bin they will leave it either bagged or unbagged on the drive. We can’t win really. It’s very frustrating.

What’s sneery about it? I loved them dearly, we used to laugh about it together.

If you literally have nothing better to do than worry about bin etiquette then it’s a very sad way to live. And that is sneery. Because I cannot fathom why anyone would waste their life ‘being out like a shot’ over something so harmless and trivial as a dog poo bag being in your outside bin for a few minutes at most.

I'm so surprised by the comments - not that they're wrong because everyone has a view but I thought most people would be ok with this. Personally, I wouldn't care at all if you did this. I don't have a dog but our outside bin is an outside bin - it stinks anyway, holds rubbish and gets collected by the council that everyone pays their council tax for...and thankfully dog poop bags are definitely designed to contain it like nappy bags.

I have never been in that situation but until reading these responses, if I ate a snack on the walk home with my daughter from nursery, I would probably have shown her to be a good citizen and to put the wrapper in a bin if we passed one especially because we often pick up rogue packets as we're walking along that we see and take them home to our own bin to help the planet. If the bins were on the street I would have just popped something like that in. I might have to rethink 😬

'I can imagine the frothing they’d have been doing had someone put a dog poo bag in mere seconds before collection. But I doubt they’d have been able to articulate why it was such a huge breach of common decency either'

That ^ is sneery.

Hey, I'm perfectly able to multi task and have lots of better things to do, but nope I won't have other folk's dog crap in my bin. I have a dog, it's cheeky fuckery to help yourself and use someone elses wheelie bin. I'd say obviously but it clearly isn't with some hapless people. Public bins, you only need walk 200 yards before encountering one.

No. It isn’t sneery. You do not understand the context or dynamic between me and my relatives so let’s leave that one there.

Are you able to explain what the huge issue with someone using your bin is other than ‘cheeky fuckery?’

Had it been a freshly emptied bin or a bin not due to be emptied for a while I could see the issue. I mean it wouldn’t bother me personally but not everyone wants to smell someone else’s dogs shit.

But in this case when the bin was literally about to be emptied and the bag would have been in there a few minutes at most. What is the problem?

Doesn't sound sneery at all. It sounds affectionate and well within the normal interactions of a family able to laugh at themselves

I'm not a dog owner but I can't say a properly tied bag of dog poo in my bin would enrage me but I would be annoyed seeing you put something in my bin as I don't know you've wrapped it well and that it won't make a mess of my bin. If you do it in future make sure the owner can't see!

@AnnaQuayRulesyou are welcome to put securely bagged dog shit in my bin any time (I’m not a dog owner who does this myself, I just can’t see why it’s such a crime - it’s not like I’m climbing in there to eat my dinner or anything)

I hate dogs, dog owners and dog shit but...I wouldn't care about this? It's a bin? I have no interest in whether or not my bin is clean/smells etc. I put things in it and the bin men empty it.

As a dog owner there's no such thing as a securely bagged dog crap thh, fingers go through them so very easily so it is not beyond the realms of possibility that there could be something in the person's bin that could easily rip a bag causing crap to spill.

There are public bins everywhere. Use them.

Literally never had my fingers go through a poo bag - buy better bags!

Wow! Some bloody totally entitled people here! It would not have bothered me at all! I'd rather you put it in my bin than leave it bagged up on the street like so many people around me do!

This has literally never happened to me or anyone I know. It would be a rather big design flaw if it was such a common occurrence. People are tying themselves in knots to try and convince themselves that this is a far bigger issue than it is.

'Wow! Some bloody totally entitled people here!'

I know! Bet the same folk who use other people's bins are the sort to use p&c spaces <without a dc> or park across people's drives. Entitlement is rampant on mn

Lol that there is so much hate to put rubbish in a bin. The bin doesn’t even belong to the home owner, it belongs to the council and it is there to control rubbish from being left in the street. I don’t mind if someone uses my bin in a pinch so I assume they won’t mind me using theirs. All this crying about the smell is a joke, like you’re spending time in there yourself? Get over it! Your rubbish stinks too.

OK well I’m not a dog owner but either way it’s a bin so it’s for crap. And the bloke whose house it was didn’t even know it was dog shit when he shouted at the OP. So he was annoyed that she was putting ‘litter’ in his bin which is deranged.

And yet you’ve still been unable to articulate why it’s so bad to use a bin for its intended purpose 😂

I can't understand why people don't care if their bin is dirty or smelly.
I don't want something like that near my front door and that I have to interact with frequently by lifting the lid.
The more I read of other people's standards or lack of them concerning their own bins the greater my objection to anyone putting anything in my bin.
No one should touch it except this household and the licensed waste disposal operatives.

There are some people who have maggots crawling around in their bins because they’ve never, ever washed them out. Ever. All manner of food stains and splatters in there. It doesn’t bother them though. Bins, especially during the summer, if not cleaned regularly, reek to high heaven. They, then, want to drag everyone down to that same standard by throwing dog poo in others’ bins.

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'Licensed waste disposal operatives'... you mean binmen?

On balance, I lean toward YABU because it's really not up to you how fine someone else should be about having poo in their bin, no matter how briefly.