Surely my dog can poo on the pavement if I pick up immediately?

[sergeantmajor]

Well it seems I am "in the doghouse".
Taking my dog for a walk, on the lead, with DH and DD at the weekend. The dog squatted down to poo on the pavement, outside a neighbour's house (NOT on their property). The owners were sitting in their front garden and started complaining, saying I shouldn't let him poo there, it was disgusting. I said that I was going to pick it up. Then they said I should move him so he finished his poo in a woody bit down the street. I said I didn't want to pick him up mid-poo, and that I would pick it up immediately. They kept calling out, saying how disgusting it was.
After I had picked it up, they said that I ought it to hose the ground down and they were going to get their hose. Actually (if you'll excuse the description), the poo was so firm that no trace had been left. I had a water bottle with me, so I washed away the (non-existent) traces. They continued to call out abuse and f-words, even with my dd present, and the exchange turned extremely unpleasant.
As I walked away, another neighbour called out the window "well done", meaning the unpleasant owner, not me!! I think they thought I was someone who hadn't picked up.
I am fuming.
As far as I am aware, city or countryside, the dog poos, you pick up: that's it. You don't try and catch it, or move it, or shield the process from view. I can't even imagine what the alternative is.
What do you think?

@cleopatrascorset the difference being one is an animal?

But if it makes you feel any better if your baby shit in front of my house I wouldn't care. As long as you picked it up.

I really hope you don't have pets. Dogs are trained to go outside. Sometimes they will poo in places such as outside someone's house if that's where you happen to be when the urge arises. It's the owner's responsibility to pick it up.

Sometimes you have to walk through estates to get to grass or sometimes there is no grass. But a dog has to go to the toilet.

Get off your high horse.

@cleopatrascorset

"Maybe we should strap poo bags to our dogs bums???? 🤣 "

I fail to see what's funny. I put a nappy on my baby to stop her crapping on the pavement. Why can't you do world the same courtesy for your "fur baby"?

Because. It’s. A. Dog.

Not a human baby

If you want me to nappy to my dog, then you better nappy up cats, foxes, hedgehogs, badgers, birds...basically any wild life that could go on the pavement and shit in front of your house

@cleopatrascorset

"Maybe we should strap poo bags to our dogs bums???? 🤣 "

I fail to see what's funny. I put a nappy on my baby to stop her crapping on the pavement. Why can't you do world the same courtesy for your "fur baby"?

Oh see we are far more civilised here. None of that nappy nonsense. DS was born using the toilet. Where’s your wrath for the cat owners who send their shit factories out and encourage them to poo everywhere but their own back garden. They are the worst.

My aunt would make her dog poo in the gutter. Maybe try that next time.

@SoVeryLost I have yet to meet a cat owner who actively encourages their cat to shit in other peoples gardens.

You picked it up, so there's no problem. People are idiots.

@Cleopatra so what would you have dog owners do? Train them to use the bog?

@cleopatrascorset
Good on your neighbours. You dog owners are so entitled. How would you like it if I took a shit outside your house? Or growled at you on a narrow path or sniffed your picnic lunch? I bet you'd call the police. So why's it ok if your mangy hound does it instead??

Nasty. If a dog has to poo it has to poo it can’t hold on. As long as it’s picked up it’s fine, seeing how nasty your post it the dog who growls at you probably picked up that you are nasty that’s why it growled. And if you choose to eat smelly food at a picnic near dogs e lecture they would like a sniff, as would wasps and bees.

Actually I think it's disgusting - you don't scrub the path afterwards so people will get some residue on their shoes and traipse it into their house.

You shouldn't have a dog if you can't take it for a walk in a grassy area

[quote LST]@SoVeryLost I have yet to meet a cat owner who actively encourages their cat to shit in other peoples gardens.[/quote]
Read the rest of my message. I’m being sarcastic throughout. Although I do disagree as I have met both cat owners who don’t let their cats out and cat owners that allow their cats to roam freely and don’t have a litter box at home. However, in the above post I was being sarcastic.

I put a nappy on my baby to stop her crapping on the pavement. Why can't you do world the same courtesy for your "fur baby"?

A baby gets through - what? - 8 nappies per day on average, and they all either go into landfill or have to be washed, creating pollution either way. Baby poo harms the environment far more than dog poo, so surely the answer here is to start training babies to emulate dogs, rather than the other way round?

I would pull my dog to the kerb and do it in the road if he couldn't wait.

@cleopatrascorset

Good on your neighbours. You dog owners are so entitled. How would you like it if I took a shit outside your house? Or growled at you on a narrow path or sniffed your picnic lunch? I bet you'd call the police. So why's it ok if your mangy hound does it instead??

You do understand we consider humans and animals rather different and apply different rules of etiquette?

Or are you married to a llama?

@ivfgottostaypositive

Actually I think it's disgusting - you don't scrub the path afterwards so people will get some residue on their shoes and traipse it into their house.

You shouldn't have a dog if you can't take it for a walk in a grassy area

How is that better? I actually think it’s worse when dogs poo in grass. It’s harder to see if it hasn’t been picked up and it’s harder to not leave behind obvious residue. I’m not a dog owner so this is just from my observations from trying to make sure everyone avoids stepping in anything brown.

Oh give over

Animals are animals, domesticated or wild.

They are going to go. They don’t use the toilet, they don’t have nappies, they go when they need to

It’s our job as responsible pet owners,to pick up after them. That is it

Oh I see @cleopatrascorset you're upset that we bring dogs into the human world??

You're making me wish I could go to the alternative "dog world" they clearly come from.

You do not own the pavements.

Honestly. I can't believe people would actually be that much of an asshole to have a problem with a dog going to the loo. Quite honestly if the OPs dog had pooed in my garden I wouldn't care. AS LONG AS SHE PICKED IT UP.

Christ sake. There are way worse things in the world. I wouldn't even think twice if I looked outside now and someone's dog was going to the toilet.

The people referred to by OP and some of the posters on here are bonkers .

OP you did nothing wrong at all. As long as people pick up dog poo then all is good. Plus the council own the pavement so it’s really not up to house owner to decide where dogs can poo.
I think lockdown has sent some people crazy.

Most people will pick up after their dogs .However there are always a few who dont! This spoils it for anyone else! Like you I always pick up and cant see you have done anything wrong at all TBH.

Er no, because they are WILD. It the entitled dog owners who bring dogs into the human world but don't make them obey human rules to whom I object. Same applies to cat owners, FOAD.

Does FOAD mean what I think it does?

Can you not guide the dog off the kerb so the shit lands in the gutter and then clean up?

It's pretty easy to see when a dog is about to take a dump.

My dog tries very hard to hang on until we reach grass but he is getting older and sometimes he just can’t. It is awkward if they go outside somebody’s house but you picked it up so I can’t see a problem.. We get loads of bird poo, cat poo and fox poo round here too, fact of life. Not happy with the human poo complete with used tissues I came across in the woods once though - if desperate human could have gone off the path

@soverylost my apologies. This place is so full of people like Cleopatra I find it hard to know who is being serious and who isn't sometimes 🙈🤣

@smallsteps88 Fuck Off And Die? She sounds terribly pleasant doesn't she..