"Bag it and Bin it" or "Stick and Flick"

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This may seem like an odd question, but what do you prefer to do?

I always carry poo bags with me, so that when Sir *****salot does his business I am adequately prepared. Whilst walking in a rural, wooded, or otherwise overgrown area however, I have been known to grab a sturdy stick and flick the offending pile into the under/ overgrowth, where it is highly unlikely to be trod upon by unsuspecting walkers. I feel doing this helps to (ever so slightly) cut down on the amount of waste I send to landfill sites, and it also saves me from toting my dog's business around for the rest of our walk.

Naturally if I'm on a public footpath, built-up area or somewhere where flicking is not a suitable option, I will use a poo bag.

Do you think "Stick and Flick" is ok to use in the areas described? Lemme know!
 
Depends where I am, on pavement, tarmac, sports or recreation grounds, beauty spots, training club, beach etc, I bag it and bin it.
Out along our forestry paths (not touristy) he goes on the verge and I tend to leave it. He is raw fed so it crumbles to dust in a few weeks.
I do observe what happens to the contents of our poo buckets (lovely, I know) which I empty in a scrubby part of our crappy little field, and it all just mulches down.
 
Exactly the same when out in the country I boot it with my boots into bushes,when on paths or cut grass I bag it and bin it.What I think riles alot of people is the aggressive stance on dog owners by the authorities about picking up poo, yes if it's somewhere where people are walking fine but if they think when I'm off the beaten track in the middle of nowhere I'm picking it up, then they have another think coming. It's not always the dogs that spread worms and diseases, the fox deposits thousands of worm eggs with every poo it does, yet no one picks theirs up!
MOST but I know not all, dogs are wormed in one way or another so I can't see the problem of leaving poo if it's not going to be trodden on by anyone else.
I'm sure some would disagree though!
Surely leaving it to rot down naturally is better than the sealed plastic bags I see full of poo left hanging on bushes or left on paths, they don't rot down and add to the problem.
 
As above, depends where I am walking. There is a popular walking area/beauty spot near us which actually has signs up asking people to "stick and flick" rather than use poo bags, presumably so the bins don't get filled to overflowing.
If I am walking in fields being grown for silage/hay I do pick up, I know myself the delights of finding baled c**p in hay, and I believe if it is baled in silage it actually can be harmful to cattle.
 
H usually plants his bum so far in a bush or shrub I'd have a job getting it out most of the time. But if I'm in a busy walking area and I can I do bag it and bin it. :)
 
I'm with you too OP, I 'stick n flick' it when in scrubby land on public property, leave it when in our fields (half the time can't find it nor do I know if dog has been) and pick it up when on paths/pavements. At home in the garden I have a 'muck heap' hidden down the end, I shovel her poo on to it, throw some earth over it - now it resembles a stingy nettle cluster! No one need touch it.
 
I think most people are the same, it's just common sense really isn't it but you'll always find someone who leaves dog poo right on a path which upsets non doggy and doggy people alike so we all get the blame.
How on earth do they expect us to find it in long grass and after dark?
Keep picking them up until you find the "hot one" so you know you have your dogs !!
Oz :)
 
cremedemonthe said:
Surely leaving it to rot down naturally is better than the sealed plastic bags I see full of poo left hanging on bushes or left on paths, they don't rot down and add to the problem.
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I think this is what gets my back up the most! Just curious really, all of your comments seem to be pointing in the same direction. I only really posted this as earlier today I was out with dog and a passer-by gave me a filthy look for flicking dog's business into an overgrown patch of ivy-type stuff beside the path. As if anyone would want to go tromping through that!! Made me wonder if it's something everyone does or if I was actually in the wrong.
 
I carry poo bags all the time and pick up wherever I am as a matter of habit! I know I sound completely bonkers, but wherever a turd is left, it will affect something. Even in ditches. My lot love investigating undergrowth and shi**y paws are not appreciated and don't get me get me started on the morons that hang their filled poo bags on trees, lazy gits!
 
Having seen certain areas of countryside around here ruined by bags of dogshite slung in the hedges, I would rather people used the stick and flick - at least then it can break down as nature intended.
 
I think stick 'n' flick is a perfectly acceptable method :D For what it's worth, this is what I generally do:
Bag'n'bin situations: pavement/built up areas OR if anywhere close to or bordering on farmland (neospora risk to cattle according to my mate and bbc Scotland - can cause abortion)

Stick and flick: woodland or forestry areas.

Have to say, I don't walk a dog everyday though, so can understand if people don't want to walk around with poo bags (or scented nappy bags in my case :o) dangling off their wrists, so stick'n'flick in that case would be much preferable to the "hanging it on a tree" brigade! :mad:
 
cremedemonthe said:
Yep, just been round Kenley airfield for a walk and found 11 bags of poo on the fence alone, that's with out the ones in the trees or in the bushes!
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We had some moron chuck their poo bag of **** onto our muck heap.......it was in a nappy sack so not even biodegradable (but even the biodegradable bags take an age to rot, so not ideal as the muck heap is spread on the fields). **** in bales of hay also piss me of no end,:(
 
Same here depends were we are and were they go, I always have poo bags in one pocket and treats in the other. So if they go in the rough it gets flicked into the undergrowth, on a path or somewere someone is likely to tread in it it gets picked up. Bags of poo left about or thrown in to a tree or bush drives me mad, worse than not bothering to pick it up at all!
 
Same as most people on here. I come across a SHOCKING about of dumped poo bags! Even through our off-track forest walks I'll usually come across at least one.... SIGH!
 
blazingsaddles said:
I carry poo bags all the time and pick up wherever I am as a matter of habit! I know I sound completely bonkers, but wherever a turd is left, it will affect something. Even in ditches. My lot love investigating undergrowth and shi**y paws are not appreciated and don't get me get me started on the morons that hang their filled poo bags on trees, lazy gits!
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Not bonkers at all, I admire your commitment! I do feel a little guilty at flicking sometimes, worried which small animal's home I just splatted with a very warm yet unwelcome delivery!
 
Flick if potentially inconvenient to people in the woods (council maintained, advice on the website is to 'move it off paths' but no need to remove.)

On the street, the recreation ground or park, it is religiously picked up, but big dog had an incident last week and I would have needed a hose :o I'm ashamed to say that the slop was left. :o
 
cremedemonthe said:
What I think riles alot of people is the aggressive stance on dog owners by the authorities about picking up poo, yes if it's somewhere where people are walking fine but if they think when I'm off the beaten track in the middle of nowhere I'm picking it up, then they have another think coming. It's not always the dogs that spread worms and diseases, the fox deposits thousands of worm eggs with every poo it does, yet no one picks theirs up!

Surely leaving it to rot down naturally is better than the sealed plastic bags I see full of poo left hanging on bushes or left on paths, they don't rot down and add to the problem.
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Totally agree! Stick & flick is far better IMO (and surely far better than plastic bags hanging up in beauty spots with dog poo in them!!).

I live in an area where if Fido poo's anywhere in the local authority/public domain, INCLUDING what is termed as common land (but in reality is privately owned) then we can be fined.

What really gets me is the sheer money spent on dog wardens, who're given far too much power IMO. In my area the budget for them is ludicrous ............. wonder what would happen if that money was spent where it was REALLY needed instead ....
 
I tend to bag and bin, both at home and out, but would be happy to stick and flick when out if the terrain made that more suitable.

I've only just noticed people bagging and then hanging bags in bushes or leaving them. Am horrified as it gives dog owners such a bad name and so plays into the hands of the antis.
 
Depends where I'm walking. If on footpaths, pavements or if there are cattle crazing I bag. Otherwise flick. Although there aren't many places I walk that aren't footpath or cattle.
 
Id rather people stick and flick, than bag it and throw it over the hedge into my field (nearly got hit once :mad:) or hang it in the trees like a crap-filled-bag christmas tree bauble...
 
Ok, so stick and flick seems to be a fairl acceptable method... Now for the next thing I get funny looks for!

Our faithful spaniel is known as "the dog of many poos". Clue's in the name really, rather than drop his business and be done with it, he prefers to stagger his toilet stops throughout the length of a walk. His record on the beach one time was 13!

As I would need many, many poo bags to cater for my dog's bathroom habits, I have been known to recycle poo bags by collecting more than one poo per bag. Anyone else do this, or am I thoroughly alone in my bid to save the world from doggy bag domination?!
 
Depends. Usually do goes in the middle of a thorny bush or nettle patch, so walkers highly unlikely (and more or less impossible to pick up! Some of our local woods prefer stick and flick so we do what we're told. Major issue is total lack of bins around a lot of our area - so you have to carry the thing. If I'm going on a linear walk and dog does his business right at the beginning I will pick up in a bag and then hang to collect on my way back. Never forgotten to collect though.
 
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