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Dog poo grrrrrrrr rant and rave and a bit of swearing too!

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marthamoo · 19/10/2004 16:30

AAAARRRRGGGHHHHH! Ds2 just stood in some (not with me, I am eagle eyed hawk woman when it comes to spotting the stuff; he was with Grandma and Grandad while I picked up ds1 at school).

All over my living room floor and my f**king settee. Luckily the settee has removable washable covers.

YUCK! YUCK! YUCK!

In a fair world the only people who would step in dog poo would be the f*king irresponsible dog owners who let their dogs sht outside peoples' houses and don't clean it up.

Sorry but I REALLY needed to rant about that - on my bl**dy settee

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bundle · 19/10/2004 16:32

during walk on sussex downs on weekend we considered whether appropriate punishments should be:

rubbing nose of dog owner in poo, sort of an on the spot fine
shooting them (someone said dog, but i suggested again the owner) dumping massive* amounts of poo (maybe local sewage works could oblige) on doorstep of offender

snmum · 19/10/2004 16:32

it really gets my goat and i am a dog owner. i can honestly say none of your kids would step in my dogs shit because on the very odd occassion they shit elsewhere than on my property it is picked up. it really riles me that people leave it all over the path, beach, grass etc. And to let a dog shit on a childrens play area is disgusting

motherinferior · 19/10/2004 16:33

Was all over ME and DD1 the other day. Yeeeeuch.

bundle · 19/10/2004 16:36

oh, MI, that was your really shit day, wasn't it?

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marthamoo · 19/10/2004 16:37

I like all those, bundle. It is beyond disgusting - I think this is the worst time of year because it's really hard to spot with all the fallen leaves. You do see more people cleaning up after their dogs these days, but still far too many seem to think it's acceptable to let them go wherever and just leave it.

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yoyo · 19/10/2004 16:39

Someone around here seemas to delight in letting their dog(s) mess outside the school gate. Just what the teachers need...

snmum · 19/10/2004 16:39

they have mystery finers round here as the problem is so bad!

One bloke got approached after his dog did a poo and he left it, and he said I am picking it up. he picked it up with bare hands and chucked it in the bin....bluergh

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marthamoo · 19/10/2004 16:41

There was a massive pile outside our school gates the other day - I went in and told them and the caretaker came out and cleaned it up, but not before practically every child in the school had trodden in it and walked it into the building

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clairabelle · 19/10/2004 16:45

this really pees me off and I too am a 'responsible' dog owner. came back from school the other day only to find it all over dss buggy wheels, my hall floor and dds shoes

lou33 · 19/10/2004 16:59

Dh and I caught 2 lads with 5 greyhounds letting 2 of them have a shit outside our house the other day. I wound down the car window as they were walking off and screeched, EXCUSE ME BUT YOU LEFT YOUR DOGSHIT BEHIND. They tried to deny it was their dogs, even though we had seen them squatting doing it ffs. They wandered off, but they had forgotten we knew where they lived, so dh went and moaned on at the mum, who sent them back to clean it up. Their dad stopped dh a couple of days ago, and said if we had anymore trouble from them to let him know and he will sort them out.

Chandra · 19/10/2004 17:07

Some stupid dog walker allowed his dog to poo inside our front garden, I didn't realise about it until I found my dear lovely Yorkie munching the stuff! Yuk! I didn't want to get near her even after I cleaned her and bathed her, poor thing...

bundle · 19/10/2004 17:08

lou, excellent result

lou33 · 19/10/2004 17:12

I was really surprised actually,I expected dh to get a mouthful of abuse, but they understood completely.

Can't bear it. It was bad enough before ds got hs wheelchair, but the thought of it getting onto his grab rails.......

bundle · 19/10/2004 17:14

lou, i picked up some litter in the park the other week after i saw a teenage boy throw it onto the ground, he was with his parents and his dad said did you throw that? and started having a real go at him...dd1 is even more disapproving than me re: litter if that's possible.
pooey grab rails: yuk.

Gingerbear · 19/10/2004 17:17

We are lucky, live close to countryside, so tend to step in horse or cow poo rather than dog poo.

When we walk our dog, we always clear the it up.

Isn't fox poo just as bad though?

suedonim · 19/10/2004 19:45

We always clear up after our dog, too. There's nothing worse than sht in the house. I was reminded last week that the UK has improved a heck of a lot, even if we're not a 100% sht-free zone yet. We were in France and, quite frankly, the streets were covered in poo, even in the cities. Do French people not mind dog mess, or what? I spent the week telling dd to "Watch out!" "Look where you're walking." etc. Yuk, yuk, yuk.

DLP · 19/10/2004 19:51

In one place i lived the council had designated dog toilets which was basically a square about a meter and half by a meter and half with a fence around three sides and filled with wood shavings, dog owners walked round the outside and the dogs on the inside. every couple of days the council men came and cleared up. it is a good idea and council tax payers are getting something for their money, i don't have a dog and hate it when you see people out letting dogs do what they like anywhere they like.

bunny2 · 19/10/2004 20:06

Bring back dog licenses and use the revenue to pay for more cleaning up. It is truly disgusting as is cat shit - dont get me started on that one ....

Mirage · 19/10/2004 21:24

Where I used to live there was one woman who would never clean up after her dog & would stand & watch it s**t outside the same house every day & just walk off leaving it behind.

One day,the owner of the house in question,followed the culprit back home & posted the poo back through the dog owners letterbox.

There was never a problem after that.

wellsie · 19/10/2004 21:45

The park where we walk our dog there are 3 doggy poo bins so it amazes me when I watch people let their dog poo and they don't pick it up.

IMO when the nights and mornings get darker there is more poo about as people can't see where the dog has done it, however this is not an excuse and they should be like me and my DH and take a torch out with them!!!

Oh and by the way, DH currently has one trainer outside the backdoor having just jogged in a big pile of it!

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