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.

Oh and get a box of disposable latex gloves.

Drusilla- I cant afford to throw shoes away believe me.

I think someone should complain to Clarkes.
They're the worst at putting intricate lumpy patterns on the bottom of girls shoes.
It's a nightmare winkling out that last little bit.

So clean them.

Geox trainers are the worst - those tiny 'breathable' holes...

Dog owners can be so inconsiderate. We have bins on our road and most people go dog walking with plastic bags and pick it up.
So you put her in Wellingtons (£4 from Woolworths) and when you get to school you take them off her as you go in and put them in a plastic bag you keep under the buggy and repeat exercise when you collect her.

When I was growing up someone in my home town used to go around putting fluorescent yellow paint rings round the dog poos and posting up flyers with (cartoon) pictures of a child crawling towards a steaming turd, hand out-stretched. It was very funny (the campaign I mean, not the poos) - don't know if it made the ignorant bloody dog owners think twice about clearing up, but it provoked a debate in the local paper. The only downside was that long after the poos had washed away the pavements were dotted with yellow circles...

I have had to stand for ages with a knife (I did throw it away after!!) getting dog shit out of every crevise in the sole of the shoes before scrubbing clean.
We have the same problem here with a path to the school. Dh phoned the council and got the headteacher involved and stickers are now in place but if I see any dog shit we phone the council and bug them till they send a machine to clean the path.

Have no brush to clean them with or toothbrush or matches to pick the shit out or disinfectant and only 1 glove.
Obviously im really shit cos i havent got the relevant dog shite cleaning equipment.

can you bung them in the washing machine?

Sorry but im not putting dog shit in the washing machine.

use one of yoour toothbrushes and buy a new one first thing tomorrow morning- cheaper than a new pair of shoes.

its just shit

put the machine on a boil wash empty afterwards.

If you use a toothbrush, keep your hands out of the water whilst you scrub and wash really well afterwards you can cope with one glove. As a kid I used to clean dog shit off my shoes with dock leaves Wouldn't recommend that!

we just got told to walk on the grass after we had stepped in it.

use a knife
you have one of those, no?

No sorry misdee still not buying it

Ha ha we used to do that too misdee- dragging our feet- in fact I think that's still my first response to dog shit!

No Emkana ,we eat with our hands

I have a knife which I keep in the garage for this purpose.

Ditto!
Get the worst off on the edge of the kerb then shuffle around in grass.
Then leave shoes in porch for someone else to clean.

A neighbour had a similar problem outside thier house and resorted to highlighting the piles along the pavement with some kind of white powder (less permanent than paint) and made signs saying stuff like 'Would you leave this outside YOUR house??' etc. Did seem to sort it out in that case. Could you and other concerned parents sort out something similar? If you make if obvious that the subject is being monitored the lazy gits who can't manage to clean up after their pets might just up their game for fear of being singled out....
Totally agree that it is outrageous to have to run this gauntlet, but SURELY you can find a way round it that means your DD won't miss school?

also try leaving them sole upwards inm the rain to soften up the dried poo.

after wiping ahoes in the grass, we used to try and find a puddle to wash them in.

Great idea.

And when they are not achieving you can blame the system and say it was shoite.

I have never heard such a nonsensical excuse for not taking your child to school.

Sorry Miss.........

I missed the bus............

The dog ate my homework............

I left it on the hall table..........

A dog, as yet unknown, kept me at home and I was therefore unable to come to school to work.