Im not sending dd1 to school tommorow.

[Beauregard]

Thanks to the inconsiderate person/people who on a daily basis allow their dogs to foul the footpaths on our route to school.Every morning is a nightmare trying to avoid the excrement with a 4 year old and a pushchair,sometimes we have to walk in the road as it is unpassable.This route is well known to the local council and several parents campain and religiously plague the council to come and clean it up,which they do but it is soon replaced with more excrement.We have a mile to walk to school and it is pretty much filthy all the way there,but there is a section of footpath before you get to the school gates that is always bad.DD1 has trodden it the excrement already this week and today she came out of school in her plimsolls as the class had been for an educational walk and she had trodden in dog excrement.Her shoes cost us £32 and now after a few weeks we have had to throw them away because the teachers didn't clean it off at the time it has dried on so much you just cant get it off and the shoes reek.Now im not meaning to get at the teachers here as no it is not in their job description to clean dog excrement off their pupils shoes but my dd was in their care when it happened.We cant really afford to buy anymore shoes at the moment and we only spent £30 on trainers for her on sunday and im not sending her in those.

no one seems to take the problem seriously though.

Ahhhhhh. Brings back happy memories of walking dd1 to school with dd2 on reins and dd3 in buggy.

"Not there!"

"LOOK OUT!!!!"

"There! THERE!" "NO! NOOOOOO!"

"ARRRRRGH!!!"

"Why don't you ever LISTEN to me!!"

we ahve many 'Mind the Poo!' moments.

If i make dd walk in her wellies and then wear her flimsy plimsolls which she will trip over ,she will get upset as this sort of thing worries her.

I really am sitting at the computer lol at the image of hunker running down the road with a machete it is completly at odds with the picture I have of you in my mind

I have been known to confront people with dogs, one man said "yes i would pick it up, but I cam eout without a bag" i duly took ds1 stuff out of a carrier bag he was taking to school and handed it to the man. He was so shocked he had to pick it up! i thn pointed out the dog poo bin.

Contact local council if it is really bad, they shoudl deal with

Im sure the council will come knocking on my door soon enough if i keep her off indefinately,maybe that may get their attention.

dur dur dur dur music should be playing in the back ground for that sign I reckon Lockets!

Where we used to live, there was a dog owner that used to let their dog out by itself. It used to do its business right outside our street door. DH had enough so he scooped it up, carried it up to the 2nd floor (we lived on the ground floor) and dumped it right outside their door! (Or did he throw it on their door? )

The council are well aware of the problem and are fighting a losing battle.
Unless they loosen the law people will keep eluding prosecution.

We have to slalom round several piles on the way to school too (and what kind of person lets their dog cr@p right outside a school gate?) but I would never keep my children off school because of it - and I know how incensed it makes you; I am not downplaying that.

I'd shoot the owners too, hunk.

Btw, I bet I'm the only person who has ever said to their child "watch out for the dog poo!" and had him look up into the sky while going "where? where?" Gotta love that child

If i send her in her wellies and plimsolls she will get upset.

why?

Dp donned a rubber glove as we only have one and no brush,dont know why,and scrubbed them outside with a cloth and hot soapy water.

She is sensitive if things are different

So is this the new Mumsnet campaign-shoot the dog owners who don't clean up?
Our school is the same-loads round the gate-strange really as there isn't that much anywhere else.

Wish I could afford to throw away a £32 pair of shoes because there is dog shit on them. Get her a pair of wellies. It's a shame if it upsets her, but really, she is going to have to put up with worse than that in life.

Old toothbrush works well into little crevices but you have to watch out for splattering.