Dog wee (sorry!!)

[samthepigeon]

Am I the only person who thinks that dogs weeing everywhere is really horrid. I know people pick up poo after their pets, but dog wee up lamp posts, gateposts, walls, hedges, fences, trees, even just on the grass seems really nasty too, especially if you have children who like to run and roll on the grass, or to poke about in tree roots etc. And there are so many dogs everywhere these days!

I think that in Spain dog owners have to carry a water bottle with you to wash or dilute the dog wee. Does anyone know if that is true?

Well I’ve a dog and 2 cats (one cat comes home to use the litter tray the other I’m pretty sure must be peeing and pooing elsewhere) I obviously pick up the dogs poop but don’t do anything with her pee…I don’t walk her around children’s swing parks and 100% won’t be bringing bottles of water to wash away her pee😂, this full post is ridiculous.

So, you think it’s ok for dogs to foul pavements and property while the owner stands there, ignoring it?

Property. No.
Pavements. Yes.

Property obviously not, I’m not sending her into gardens to piss 😂 but if she pees on the pavement that’s fine. I live in Scotland we are 90% rain.

I don’t know what the script is with mumsnet and their daily dog hate posts…we are a baw hair away from a post around some dog walker having the audacity to walk past someone’s house on a windy day which has put some fictional child in mortal danger due to their severe allergies

No they don't need to be off lead daily. I love where there are leash laws and they're enforced with hefty fines. People walk their dogs on the leash
Professional dog walkers are a thing.

And yet, at this moment, the AIBU is 50/50. That means we should all take notice of what other people think.

Genuine question, in all honesty how much thought will you give to the 50% of people who say YABU?

Not sure about the rest of Spain but I had a lovely holiday in Seville some years ago. The only big negative about it was the pavements with frequent piles of dog poo. No-one was picking it up there, so I very much doubt they would have done anything about wee either.

@samthepigeon you are worrying about dog piss ? Do you know what your food is grown in? Do you know what the animals your eat actually eat?

It's a hub for peemails.

I am vegetarian, so not an issue. My food is not grown in the excrement and urine of animals that are meat-eaters - and I think that is the issue with dog wee. High nitrogen, very smelly etc, which is very different from the urine of animals that are herbivores. In fact, I am a big lover of horse poo etc as I use it for my garden - it is fab stuff.

As I have to give thought to them all the time, as I encounter dog piss all the time, and have kids who will loiter round tree roots and sit on benches where dogs have lifted their legs, I often think about it. We walk up a grassy pathway every day to school, a place that is used by dog walkers, and the kids go onto the verges, pick up sticks from the edge, look at the butterflies on the brambles etc, and I know damn well they are walking in dog piss. I know it is hard to control where dogs wee, as they seem to do it twenty times in a short distance, marking territory, which is why I wonder if owners would consider carrying a water bottle and give it a quick squirt to dilute. It also causes an imbalance in the eco system.

I wonder if a dog-wee lover could come and tell me why it is acceptable to let their dog do it.

@samthepigeon - how would you feel if someone dragged you off the toilet mind stream? Of one gotta go one has to go.

Which is why we need to consider if people could squirt it with a water bottle after.
I do see dog owners tug their dog away from my front garden as their dog is sniffing and getting ready to wee-mark, but that probably only happens when I am out the front gardening, or getting in the car etc. So it seems that dogs do get dragged off.

How is that different from rain washing it away?

It isn't. Except it may not rain for days if not weeks sometimes.

I don't allow my dog to pee on fences, walls, benches, wheelie bins, cars, in gardens, near play parks or on pavements.

He does pee against trees and on grass as I don't have the skills to insert a catheter into him.

Also, he's trained not to pee in the garden as I don't want my grass to burn. Funnily enough, the areas I walk him the grass is fine! Must be stronger with all the fox, cat and badger pee!

I don’t know where you live but that’s not the case here. I wouldn’t let a dog wee up someone’s belongings. But other than that I can’t get worked up about it.

Humans eat meat and wash their sewage into our rivers and the sea. Millions of gallons of it almost every day.

Much worse than dog wee.

Dog wee is much less disgusting compared.

There's a place near Bristol Suspension Bridge the UberEats guys use as a toilet. I used to walk my dog along to the park there and would regularly see guys park their moped/bike and hop over the fence into the woodland.

Nowhere to wash your hands. One of the reasons I don't order UberEats.

I’m currently cleaning spider shit off my blinds. I leave the little fecker live rent-free in my bathroom as he scoffs the little flies that come in whilst I’m airing the room.

Massively unimpressed with the large splats of spider piss and shit on my nice white blinds though. Think I’ll have to evict him.

Pigs eat fish meal on UK farms.
Pig manure is spread on land used to grow crops in the UK.

As a gardener you must get fed up with other peoples' cats weeing, pooing and digging up your borders. Really grim in a veg patch.

You may have a point about washing streets, especially in built up areas.

You are taking the piss literally if you think it would be reasonable for people to wash grassy verges and bramble patches.

People have been living alongside dogs for tens of thousands of years. A bit of dog wee on a blade of grass along a green lane is what we're used to and will do no harm.