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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:
bubblerock · 14/11/2006 23:58

Here are some freebies for you to give out to your inconsiderate dog walkers.

Judy1234 · 15/11/2006 00:00

My mother loved it when there was horse mess outside. It's brilliant for the compost heap and free of charge. We get a lot on our road but I've been out there to purploin it.

Drusilla · 15/11/2006 00:19

People will pay good money for horse shit

SneakyMouse · 15/11/2006 13:26

Hey, PFNM, is DD1 at school today?

joelallie · 15/11/2006 14:24

"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"

Sorry but it sounds to me as if you are getting at the teachers here... I'm not sure that being in loco parentis means waiting for each child to pass the pile of dog sh*t so that they can shout 'mind the poo' to each one does it??? And I don't neccessarily think it's the council's fault either. You can force people to be considerate and if they do clean up regularly they are doing their job. Yes it's totally disgusting - the road to our school is dog shit alley and it makes me mad but it's not worth missing school over. Wash the shoes in the washing machine if neccessary and tell your DD to watch where she puts her feet

oliveoil · 15/11/2006 14:29

Have only read the OP (and I am sure that the rest has descended into a witch hunt) but I take my 2 to playgroup in wellies.

£2 from Asda. Bargain.

Then change them when they get there into shoes.

And I would never through shoes away for a bit of crap, wait till it dries, heave, dig out dried bits with screwdriver, heave a bit more, then scrub.

TheHighwayCod · 15/11/2006 14:36

well unusually there was broken glass outside school today ont eh road

so the csaretaker cmae out wiht his brooma and sweot it up
dont ehy all that " joined toegther thinking"
i dont htn do shit en route is int he heads remit

Blandmum · 15/11/2006 16:24

Not strictly on topic, but can I tell you my 'shit' treadinf story.

I was walking into work once and trod in a huge pile of dog shit, so much that I semi 'surfed' the shit, and ended up falling in it. It was on my shoe, in my shoe, up my trousers, inside my trouser legs.

A chap, seeing me on the floor rushed over and picked me up, then smelled the shit and dropped me back in it!

I was an hour from home, by train, so I went into work and cleaned myself up as best I could!

Shit surfing, is what we call this sort of thing in our house.

Realistically, shit, and shit surfing happens. Learn to live with it , with the minumum upset and hassle. Binning the shoes is a huge over reaction. Scrub off what you can and soak the damn things. It isn't rocket science.

expatinscotland · 15/11/2006 16:30

I'd sue the council. I really would. Until they start getting hit in the pocketbook they'll continue to do FA about low live SCUMBAGS who let their dogs do this b/c nothing happens to them

7up · 15/11/2006 16:42

elbow grease, soaking, scrubbing WILL get shite off shoes . more effort needed

expatinscotland · 15/11/2006 16:44

We live in a 2nd floor flat w/no outdoor space.

No place to hose down shoes w/shit all over them, and there's no way I'd use the one dinky ass bathtub in there for that.

So we bin shoes covered in dog shit.

Bring back the environmental wardens and fine EVERY mutha f*cka who doesn't pick up after their dog £100. Dock their benefits £1 a week or more if they're on them.

Don't want to clean up after your dog, don't have one!

Dior · 15/11/2006 16:52

Message withdrawn

lorina · 15/11/2006 17:01

Dog poo is utterly horrible.But it is a fact of life. It can be dealt with.

Please please dont give your child a complex about it.

I clean it off with hot water with a slug of disinfectant in it and an old toothbrush.

Please dont over react like this it must be making your dd feel so guilty and its not really her fault

pointydog · 15/11/2006 17:02

how i've laughed at misdee's turd nestled in wasjing machine and martianbishop's shit surfing

stleger · 15/11/2006 17:27

I use bits of broken clothes pegs to wiggle, plastic bags over my hands, and sometimes a dettoxy disposable cloth to finish!

TheHighwayCod · 15/11/2006 17:27

hige over reaction imo

BettySpaghetti · 15/11/2006 17:40

I daren't mention this thread to DP or he would insist on joining MN and posting on it.

He took DS and DD out for a walk/cycle to a local nature reserve at the weekend and came back absolutely livid as the place was covered in dog shit (as were the kids, bike, trike and inside of car by the end of their outing).

He had to spend ages with a pressure washer cleaning the wellies and bikes and then take the mats out of the car and clean those too.

PeachyClair · 15/11/2006 18:27

You'd be better off testing if the shoes come clean in the washng machine than just bunging them, what's to lose? (they usuallya re OK, btw)

A day off school over this is frankly a HUGE over reaction! And no, it's not in a teachers job description to clean shoes, they should be teaching.

Complain to the council

Original poster
Beauregard · 15/11/2006 20:06

Well ive missed a lot havent i !
Before anymore of you jump on me ,YES dd went to school and YES i finally saw past the red mist and saw sense and sent her in her plimsolls and NO she couldn't of cared less and YES i sought out the correct dog shite removing equipment and the shoes were salvaged!
In my defence i was having a bit of an episode .
May name change now ,maybe to something like ...Maddogshitwoman.

By the way MartianBishop i had a lovely image of you surfing on shit

OP posts:
MadDogShitWoman · 15/11/2006 20:16

How does this suit me?

Blandmum · 15/11/2006 20:16

It is quite an immage

and one that has now passed into the language of the Martian Household.

One does not step in shit, one shit surfs!

It was either a v large dog, or small horse btw

expatinscotland · 15/11/2006 21:30

Dog shit makes me puke.

It really does.

That's why I don't own a dog and never will.

I honestly think they need to fine people who can't be arsed to clean up after tehir dogs to hell.

I really do.

On the spot.

It's also a health hazard.

misdee · 15/11/2006 21:32

well done on sending her in

are the shoes now clean?

btw dd1 wellies cost £2 from tesco.

MadDogShitWoman · 15/11/2006 21:34

I always used to pick up after our dog when he was alive.

MadDogShitWoman · 15/11/2006 21:35

Yes misdee the shoes have been resurrected

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