this whole bloody village is covered in dog mess

[totalmisfit]

Just took dd 2.9 out for a breath of air after being confined to the house with flu for most of the past week.

It was fortunate i put her wellies on because every step we took had to be carefully measured to avoid stepping on pile after steaming pile of poo.

I'm not exagerrating, the entire street is lined with the stuff from one end to the other. It's just foul, and i'm only grateful she's no longer at the stage where she has to pick up and eat everything she finds!

We live in a small coastal village. The cliff-top car park a few seconds away is even worse than our own road. People just drive up, park, walk their dogs, leave the sh*t and drive off again.

Called the council to complain (again) and all i got was a 'we've no resources to tackle the problem. What we need is for local residents to co-operate and for dog owners to comply with legislation'. So there you go.

They also suggested I speak with the parish clerk, who i spoke to about this before. I won't be contacting her again as last time when i complained about the crap in the toddlers playground she just said 'what do you want me to do about it?'

I know i sound like a crazy nimby and there are worse things in the world but this has really pissed me off. According to the administrator 'our taxes would go sky high if more than one person per [huge] district was employed to clean the stuff up'. Right then. Cheers for that North Norfolk District Council.

and nobody cares!

Get a big stick (for dog owners)

How about printing out an offical looking sign saying

CCTV
Do not
foul the footpath

And just sticking it to a wall when no one is looking. It might bluff them into thinking they are being watched

YANBU! I hate hate hate this. I have a dog and always pick up her poo. I can't understand why people leave it all over the place. It is the height of lazyness and causes a lot more problems for the people who stand in it than it does for the person who has to pick it up.

If children play with it (which sometimes happens) then they can go blind. This actually happened to a boy when I was younger

Stepping in it causes a massive inconvienience of trying to scrape the stinking stuff off with a twig or on the grass only to have to end up washing your shoes .

Since having ds I have discovered a new incinvienience which is getting it on his buggy wheels . This means I can't take the buggy back in to the house as it will trail sh*t all over the carpet for him to crawl in so I have to leave it outside then get down and scub the wheels. Why should I have to do that just because people are too damned lazy to pick it up?!?!?!

Rant over, I with you on that one anyway!

I agree YANBU.

I'm a dog owner too and I know it's a horrible job to pick it up, but it's part of being a considerate owner. Our road has suddenly become covered with it, I guess someone new is walking their dog here and isn't picking up. It's makes me so angry, because people are already so anti-dog, not picking up fuels their loathing.

I must say though, more poo bins might encourage more picking up. Nothing worse than going for a walk, then having to drive home with eau de dog poo circulating round the car.

Oh another thing that irritates me though, is people letting their children poo at the side of the road and not making an effort to clear it up. I've seen it happen a couple of times, and if I happen to have poo bags in my pocket will go and clear it up

People let their children poo on the side of the road? Nooo! I've seen weeing.... but poo? Ok, can understand in desperate situations, but to not clear it up... omg... you are a very good citizen to clear it up, hotcrossbunny - you should get a local person's nice award, or something!

Still, I can empathise. YANBU AT ALL. Whenever I take my parents dog for a walk, I always have my pocket stuffed full of bags. And a poo scoop. And learn to breathe through my mouth...

YANBU - this is awful. I've been driven to tears cleaning dog poo out of the grooves of new kids Clarks shoes but I would still rather be you - living in a dog poo-covered 'small coastal village' than the grey industrial city where I live which is covered in gob/dog poo/fast food wrappers. I would aspire to be you - so take comfort from that if nothing else!

total, take heart that it is not just you and your village, from what I've seen the whole country is pretty much covered in the stuff and it is one of my pet hates

our village is fortunate to have a very large recreation feild with swings etc in one corner, scout hut etc - the parish council provide dog poo bins. some use them, some do not. We then have the lovely problem of louts setting off fireworks in them and blasting a bin load of poo all over the place. WHY???

what I don't get is WHY lazy dog owners STILL do not clear up, they must get it all over their own feet from time to time, surely. and in the car, & the house, or does being a dog owner give you some 6th sense and you amazingly avoid it all despite walking your dog in the same place every day among the ever increasing number of poo heaps??

I just stepped in a big pile whilst trying to whisk DS2 out of the path of another load...

we both had poo shoe

I had a big show down with someone yesterday that had 2 dogs in the swing bit of the park. off leads, dog did a shit, I pointed it out and they left it

I reminded them twice to come back, suprisingly they never did so I ended up finding a bag and doing it myself.

Oh and some owners do seem to be blissfully unaware of the health risks too. In our road the people who let their dogs mess all over the communal green are the same ones who let their DCs play out barefoot all summer, doing handstands and rolling around the grass. Last summer I saw a 4 yr old crying "mummy I got dog poo on me", the mother said (yelled) go in and get yer hands washed then. So, distraught 4 yr old, letting self in house to wash own hands = germs all over door handles and taps and probably the hand towel too? BLEURGH!

I would have Riven had we one, it almost made me contact my MP (not about them but about the lack of wardens)

as a dog owner I would be more than pleased to get see them out and getting people.

God this is happening here too, more so lately. Some dirty fecker is letting their dog crap all the way down the main road of our village, which is the only route to DS's preschool. Consequently there have been many incidents of dog poo being trailed into the building

Totally agree is minging.

Here's an idea in these credit crunched times: Get the Parking wardens to become "dog litter" wardens for a while.

Instead of fining people for being 5 mins over on their pay and display get them to fine everydog owner £50 a time for each pile left.

Even if they were out one day a week it would have an effect surely?

I am fed up of trying to avoid piles of turd everytime I leave the house.

If you have a dog you have to deal with the poo!

There must be something that can be done.

I am soooo sick of it, seems to be happening more often as time goes on.

It only takes 1 new dog on any route and thats 14 poo's a week if they get walked twice a day

They don't just dissapear either, the rain takes ages to wash them away, if it rains that is.

When I lived in a particularly manky part of east London, the pavement from my house up to the bus stop had SO much poo... and they were huge, I swear they were human poos. Ugh. I used to zig zag across the road, cos I knew which bits would always have poo on.

Maybe noonki is right - writing to the MP? Or is there a local newsletter thing that comes round that you could write to?

Just thinking about this still. I wonder if some big celebrity dog owner type person (Ben Fogle type maybe) were asked to do some big campaigning about the anti-socialness of leaving dog poo, and the associated dangers, maybe the older generation who still seem to think the signs don't apply to them might actually stop and think Don't know what the answer is, but it seems to be countrywide

Hotcrossbunny - I was thinking along those lines, what could be done to channel all this indignation?
I HATE this so much and there is a thread about it every week, so clearly everybody else does too, at least on MN. I mean everybody: dogless and dogowners, town and country, no regional bias, everyone.
We should think about something we could do about it.

Too right, it has to stop!

This does my head in too! We moved recently to a fairly well-to-do area in the north, from a not very well-to-do area in the south. Our new neighbourhood would be lovely were it not for the crottes every 10 yards. We're near a very large park, so that explains why we get a large number of canine visitors. But if our last, cash-strapped council could get the streets clean I don't understand why our new, wealthier one cannot. Shame on you Bury Metro!

We have the same problem. Rural village...countryside within 5 mins walk from anywhere in the village yet every pavement and most of the rec grounds are covered in poo .

I'm thinking of making a load of notices and flags and marking all the poos on the rec ground over the road from us just to make a point...I've had to keep DS off there for months as it's just too yucky