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Im not sending dd1 to school tommorow.

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Beauregard · 14/11/2006 22:08

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.

OP posts:
Jimjams2 · 14/11/2006 23:19

I stepped in human poo the other day then walked up to my bedroom before realising. Now that was gross (shouldn't have been wearing crocs- I noticed the time I was bare foot).

misdee · 14/11/2006 23:21

i stepped i na puddle of wee. not really o nthe same scale though is it. i had socks on, so got that lovely warm icky feeling [gross]

Jimjams2 · 14/11/2006 23:22

Oh yes that's grim. I have to strip ds1's bed every morning before ds3 rushed in to roll around in its wetness. Bleurgh.

misdee · 14/11/2006 23:23

oh, and on the washing machine front, i once washed a big turd. huge it was. and right at that front of the seal when i opened the door

Gillian76 · 14/11/2006 23:25

Cocktail sticks good for the crevices.

Don't throw the shoes in the bin and if your DD is sensitive, she won't like telling her friends she missed school cos she had shit on her shoes

SherlockLGJ · 14/11/2006 23:26

Old toothbrushes are good for the crevices........

Jimjams2 · 14/11/2006 23:26

PMSL that's hilarious. I still haven't topped turning roound to see ds2 aged about 20 months holdiing one of ds1's huge turds (he'd obviuosly left it on the sofa) pretending to eat it.

And on that note..... bed! Night!!I'm going to be sniggering at the thought of your washing machine.

misdee · 14/11/2006 23:27

oh god, JJ, i remember that!

i havent tumbled dried a turd yet. but i bet i do before my baby days are over!

tortoise · 14/11/2006 23:28

There is loads of dog shite along the path to school here too. Both DS1 and DD1 stood in a bit today. I just got them to wipe on the grass then a puddle! I wouldn't keep any off school/pre-school because of it!
And why can't you wash the shoes in the machine? Have you never put pooed in underwear through a wash or vomited on sheets? It will be washed through during the wash cycle or even do an empty wash afterwards if its that bad! I wouldn't bin the shoes.

Drusilla · 14/11/2006 23:29

cheaper than a new pair of Clarkes

handlemecarefully · 14/11/2006 23:29

I can understand your intense irritation pelvicfloor - but this is overreacting somewhat (sorry). I hate to see dog poo on the pavement - more so because I am a dog owner and can feel the finger of suspiscion unjustly pointed at me sometimes.

We live in a very salubrious area dontcha know, and we don't get much dog turd on the pavement (dog owners, including moi, are educated / informed enough / civic minded enough to pick it up)...but there is a big pile of pony shite on the pavement leading up to dd's school which we've been skirting around with heightened vigilance since end of last week.

Bloody equine people! Nob ends!

Jimjams2 · 14/11/2006 23:31

OMG those bratz ones are hideous they have pom poms on them!

Can you imagine misdee- a lovely smell of cooking poo throought out the house!

edam · 14/11/2006 23:31

Our neighbour's son made up a poster to hang on the bushes that separate his garden from a grass verge, saying 'dear dog who poos here, please ask your owner to pick up your poo, it makes our garden smell'. Apparently it worked.

Drusilla · 14/11/2006 23:32

They are spectacularly gross, aren't they?!

Drusilla · 14/11/2006 23:32

The Bratz wellies, that is...

Jimjams2 · 14/11/2006 23:33

I've never seen wellies with heels before!

tortoise · 14/11/2006 23:33

HMC There is horse shite along the path here too! 2 big soggy patches of it that the buggy will not fit around due to railing along the path! I have to lift the back and steer round it with the front wheel!

handlemecarefully · 14/11/2006 23:35

Bloody annoying isn't it? If they can afford to keep a horse they can afford to pay a little man in a flax jacket pushing a wheel barrow and wielding a shovel to follow in their wake picking up the great horsey dollops of poop!

misdee · 14/11/2006 23:37

bratz wellies are gross!

dora ones dd3 would love but they dont come i na 5

Drusilla · 14/11/2006 23:37

Horse shit is just warm grass though, really.

pucca · 14/11/2006 23:37

This original post is so ridiculous.

For god sake, go and buy a nail brush and scrub them, it is like listening to a whiney child, i haven't got one! SO get the stuff you need.

As for keeping your dd off school well i am just at that, what a stupid reason.

misdee · 14/11/2006 23:38

scoop uyp the horse sh*t and put it on your roses.

soapbox · 14/11/2006 23:40

I've just read this thread and I'm sitting here nose crinkling, sure I can smell dog shit

A bit like louse threads - can never read one of those without needing a good scratch

edam · 14/11/2006 23:41

Misdee, my gran used to make my dad go out with a little cart and shovel and pick up the horse sh!t for her roses. He says the best thing about leaving home was not having to pick up any more horse sh!t...

handlemecarefully · 14/11/2006 23:46

I've had a constructive thought - it would be far more effective (if the council really is doing nothing about this problem) to have an organised 'absence from school day' where you get scores of mums at your school to keep their children off for one day due to this problem (I don't think missing one day of schooling for a good cause is a deal breaker in terms of missed educational opportunity.)

You could ensure that the local media picks this up - blimey, it could even be quirky and topical enough to make the human interest story at the end of the national news if you promote it effectively in advance

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