to think that dog poo should always be picked up?

[Prudence69]

Because I'm getting sick of going for walks with MIL, her little dog doing poops and her saying, "Oh, you can't see that, it's in the roots of a tree,", me saying, "But a child could fall in that. It's disgusting." I once even said, "What kind of a pig leaves dog shit lying around?" but it's the same every time.

She just doesn't get it. I get really annoyed because each of my DCs have fallen with their hands in poop and it's the most disgusting thing ever.

I always pick up, unless my dogs do it in a heavily wooded area - off the path. Its a natural product, and doesn't take long to break dow. Unlike plastic bags which take like, 3000 years or something.

PD - That is vile. I don't want dog shit on my DC shoes and in my house. Please pick it up.

I've just moved to a rural area and the consensus is that using plastic bags and sending poo to landfill is worse than leaving it in a field - not on the path - with daily "traffic" of about 10 people (9 dog walkers and 1 farmer - who will be walking on the path, apart from the farmer)when the field is fill of excrement from other animals. if it's not on the path the chances of stepping in it are very small and the consequences of leaving it are less bad than the consequences of sending it to landfill. anywhere else - footpaths, pavements, parks I clear it up.

Have just returned from school and was so angry was about to post a new thread & then saw this so I will just add to it. There was a little old lady walking with a zimmer frame & a lassie type dog past the school gates. the dog proceded to poop but as she didnt stop it trailed it all along the fence. When she didnt pick it up I asked her why not & she firstly said her dog hadnt done anything. Then when I showed her she said she couldnt pick it up because she couldnt see. Well I wasnt going to do it for her. I was so angry as my kids often come home with poo on their shoes & it makes me gag having to clean them. I know she was a little old lady but if she cant clean up after her dog she shouldnt have one.

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Sorry I can't find anything more lay-person friendly - this is about Neosporosis

Even regularly wormed and vaccinated dogs can pass infections to farm anaimals. Your assumption that this is not the case is wrong. You really shouldn't leave dog shit all over a farmer's fields.

If you're worried about plastic bags going to landfill, then you could get those bio degradeable bags used for kitchen waste?

Or get a special poop scooper that means you could tip the poo down the loo when you get home?

Shit on the pavements isn't a good move, surely?

Exactly Winky - you dinosaurs who still think it's OK to leave dog poo around in some places can buy them in most supermarkets in the baby sections as biodegradeable nappy sacks. Only a couple of quid for about 100.

abraid - I use biodegradable nappy sacks for my dog.

People who do not pick up after their animals are DIRTY!!! Dog poo can cause blindness. Also would like to clean it from your shoes. Outside my dd's school there is often dog poo and on more than one occasion it has been trailed into the classroom and onto the carpet where the children sit.

I understand that you may feel out in the countryside no one will be bothered but the excuse about poo bags being bad for the environment does not wash as there are alternatives!

i say it again
nappies...doggy nappies are the way to go...its the future i tell you

I totally agree. Some mutt had obviously pooped right outside the main door to our flat yesterday, right in town. How on earth I managed to avoid it with the buggy as well I have no idea!

I know a lot of people don't bother picking it up in fields, but where I live, people hike over the fields, often with little kids. I'd rather be totally anal about it, than leave it for someone to tread in.

Someone is letting their dog take massive shits on the corner outside my house. If I see them I will be throwing DD@s nappy sacks to pick it up.

MIL, who is registered disabled, walks with a stick adn has had 2 strokes and a heart attack picks up her dogs poo, and has trained it to go on command (command is 'Be a clean girl')
If she can, anyone can. When we lived in teh country our dog was trained to poo in one area of our garden and we had one of those dog bin things that you bury and it turns the poo into compost by emptying the scooper in. Would never dream of allowing her to shit all over fields.

Plus there are dog poo bins all around my neighbourhood so you can use a scooper and then dump it in the bin.

or a cork

there is a dog poo bin directly across from my house, and even those who do use it at least half cannot get the bag in the bin and drop the shit bag on the ground!!

pick up the poo!!!!

agree little old ladies are the worst culprits.

Lol at troutpout

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Sorry, touch of pregnancy sickness. I should steer clear...

We never used to have much of a problem here but in the past three months someone has obviously just got a dog and never cleans up after it. There is one stretch of road on the way to school where there were, I kid you not, at least six poos on the pavement in the space of about 25 metres. Right on the pavement too, not even on the grass verge. Then the kids tread in it and spread it even further. Absolutely disgusting.

Someone put a notice on a lamppost, reminding dog owners that it's illegal, but to no effect. The lastest tactic is thas someone has stuck a sign on the grass verge next to a particularly large specimen, asking the dog's owner to clear it up, poo bag attached to sign! No-one has taken up the offer, it has to be said!

I agree that poo should be picked up ,where people are going to walking ,my dog which is crossed with a mountain goat ,climbs a crag for a private poo and im sorry there is no way im going up after him to pick up the poo ,however i know 100% that no-one else is going up there either . If he does it anywhere else then its picked up . The article about the parasite was interesting ,however the scientist did say there was an 'outside chance' that it might be transmitted by dog poo ,which doesnt sound awfully convincing ,especially when you consider the debat regarding TB and badgers

There have been some great posts about how to train your dog to poo in one area TGB - JackB could probably give you some more info on how to do that so you could train him/her to poo in an accessible spot, and then you could pick it up.

'Shit on the pavements isn't a good move, surely?'

Has anyone on this thread actually said it is, Winkywinkola

Poo on pavements and in children's playgrounds/playing fields should ALWAYS be cleaned up. Who exactly has argued with this point?

Some of us have expressed doubts as to whether it is entirely sane to run into fields/up cliffs/into heavily overgrown areas to collect dog poo where NOBODY WILL WALK. Except for defecating foxes. Or should we clear up after them as well? And badgers. And what about the sheepdogs I see in a field working the sheep? Should I insist the farmer goes and clears up their poo too?

Don't worry about fox poo and farmers dogs, just take responsibility for your own dog and clean up after it.
I have a dog and always clean up after it, whether in a field or on a pavement as other people and their families will be walking there too.

abraid, the farmer has probably ensured his dogs are wormed regularly. Why should he trust people using his land as their dogs' toilet to have done the same?

Riven, in response the the "outside chance" phrase, that article was published in 2002 and there has been considerable research into Neospora since then. This link gives more detail.

Neospora caninum has been confused with Toxoplasma gondii, a common cat parasite, for years, and only in recent years has it been shown to be a separate entity.

Blimey abraid. You sound a bit het up.

All the farmers I know NEVER worm their dogs - they don't see the point and I know alot of farmers. Sad but true.

As for poop on the pavement my 5 year old always shouts loudly "mummy that ignorant person hasn't picked their dog poo up!" - if he understand the essentials of poop scooping at 5 then I demand that every one else does too!!

Its often the middle aged generation sadly that leave the shit lying around.....in my locality anyway....

I always take baby wipes with me too in case its one of those evil poos that slime across the pavement despite being picked up in a bag.....nasty stinky job but its one of the joys of dog ownership IMHO.