Irresponsible Owners

Janique said:
My friend came out of hospital today, Scrat was extatic ! It was nice to see ! He is staying even closer to her now, following her into the loo...

I tried to talk about teaching him to be alone for a few minutes, for his own sake but she won't hear it....

Well, it's up to her, i tried to tell her that he was getting tired of being in the car and on the go all day but she is saying that he is used
to stay in the car.

Her husband was handicapped and they had a very big car with plenty of boot room for Scrat, now she has a nissan note, quiet a small car
for a big dog...

Hopefully, she will open her eyes at some point, i can't do anymore.

Today, he stayed in the car for 2h30 and coming out, he was really stiff....It made me wince tbh.... It's not nice to see, he needs a few minutes to get going again.

I was very lucky with Nouille, being a Basset and coming from a stud, she was used to be in a big group of dogs. The breeder was a bit worried about
her being alone.

Iv'e got her aged 7years old, and from day 1, I left her for a few minutes and she never complained. Now, she happily stay home and snores the day away !
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What does your friend do in the summer? I have a GSD with separation anxiety. I do tend to take her everywhere I can, as it's just easier than leaving her, but that's incredibly restrictive in the summer months when I can't just leave her in the car. She was 7 when I got her and she's much improved from then, but I don't think I'm ever going to cure her totally. She's better with the run of the garden when I'm out, but even that's not great when it's hot as I worry she'll get heatstroke.
 
Smitty said:
And actually on reflection you don't hear of puppy farm dogs savaging people to death. And they don't lead great lives.
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Who is breeding XL bullies if not puppy farmers? Certainly the article above describes completely unsocialised pups, in small, dirty conditions. If they had gone on to be rehomed, they wouldn't have been "puppy farm" dogs by the normally agreed definition (poor, sad fluffy thing to be pitied) but they'd have been no better off for it.
 
meleeka said:
What does your friend do in the summer? I have a GSD with separation anxiety. I do tend to take her everywhere I can, as it's just easier than leaving her, but that's incredibly restrictive in the summer months when I can't just leave her in the car. She was 7 when I got her and she's much improved from then, but I don't think I'm ever going to cure her totally. She's better with the run of the garden when I'm out, but even that's not great when it's hot as I worry she'll get heatstroke.
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Well, it will be the first summer she has to deal with it as last year, her husband was home all the time being handicapped.

So, she could go as she pleased, at the moment, she leaves him in the car, even at the cinema.

When asked about the summer, she will stay home when too hot as she is retired and if she has to go during the day,
leave the car in a downstairs car park.

It's a shame really as when she goes to the cellar for 10 min, he is quiet, it's only when she put's her coat on and take her bag
that he get's all worried and rush behind her.

I still think, she could train him but she won't even try.... Still, it's her dog. So up to her.
 
Can we talk about verges?

Today, for whatever reason, I noticed - and then couldn't stop noticing - the large amount of dog shight on the grass verges of the singletrack road through the neighbouring village, and then on the trails. It's like people think if their dog poops two centimetres off the trail or road, it's totally fine to leave it.

When I need to ride onto the verge to dodge other trail users, cars, rocks, whatever, it's like dodging landmines. Hermosa almost stepped in a massive one today. Like a dire wolf could have left that thing. That would have been nasty to clean out of a hoof boot.

Of course, I am sure all HHO dog owners are responsible and are not the perps here, but Christ on a bike, clearly lots of dog owners are. I get it if the dog goes in the bushes, well off the trail. It's not great for the environment, of course (in large concentrations....if everyone's dog is doing it), but you're not going to go looking for that thing. Well, I imagine super conscientious owner do. But I'm talking about the poos within a foot (or less) of the trail.
 
Caol Ila said:
Can we talk about verges?

Today, for whatever reason, I noticed - and then couldn't stop noticing - the large amount of dog shight on the grass verges of the singletrack road through the neighbouring village, and then on the trails. It's like people think if their dog poops two centimetres off the trail or road, it's totally fine to leave it.

When I need to ride onto the verge to dodge other trail users, cars, rocks, whatever, it's like dodging landmines. Hermosa almost stepped in a massive one today. Like a dire wolf could have left that thing. That would have been nasty to clean out of a hoof boot.

Of course, I am sure all HHO dog owners are responsible and are not the perps here, but Christ on a bike, clearly lots of dog owners are. I get it if the dog goes in the bushes, well off the trail. It's not great for the environment, of course (in large concentrations....if everyone's dog is doing it), but you're not going to go looking for that thing. Well, I imagine super conscientious owner do. But I'm talking about the poos within a foot (or less) of the trail.
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The highway verge is part of the highway in law, and should be kept safely usable by any legitimate highway users. That is part of the law which predates devolution, but pretty sure that the Scots assembly won’t have inserted any permissive clauses for dog shite. Enforcing it is another issue, and local authorities tend to use any excuse to avoid verge maintenance in rural areas.
Footpaths, ROW, all have a definitive statement as to their legal width, quite likely to include whatever grass edgings, check it, because fouling a public footpath remains an offence. Obviously in Scotland riders and cyclists have far greater access to all routes and spaces, anyway, so potentially greater lobbying power against owners of shitty dogs.
 
There's just shite everywhere. We had a single dry day yesterday with a touch of sunshine and you can tell by the number of fresh lumps now littering the footpaths, not just verges but in town too. The first 50m or so of the paths at local NT type places or walks with car parks all absolutely reek, from the sheer concentration of dogs passing through.
 
blackcob said:
There's just shite everywhere. We had a single dry day yesterday with a touch of sunshine and you can tell by the number of fresh lumps now littering the footpaths, not just verges but in town too. The first 50m or so of the paths at local NT type places or walks with car parks all absolutely reek, from the sheer concentration of dogs passing through.
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Well, that’s breaking laws. As before, enforcement is an issue, but lobbying, making a serious noise with plenty of local media coverage re serious health hazard - is most likely to shame or force your local authority / NT wardens / Rangers / to take some action.
Unfortunately, probably wasting your time hoping to impact dog owners’ attitudes, until they are formally and publicly held accountable.
 
It's everywhere unfortunately. And if it is picked up, the bag is discarded. My boy dives into bushes to bring them out and then shake them ....
 
I have a verge outside my house and pretty much get crap on my shoe every time I leave on foot and it's been that way for ten years. I have signs on both my gates. It's a combination of people not caring, people thinking it's an OK place for a dog to toilet (you'd be surprised how many people think it's no issue for a dog to toilet on a verge because 'sure no one will be walking there' and people walking with their dogs miles agead of/behind them and they can't see where it's pooping (and of course a lot of people walk their dogs like this deliberately/they use 'I didn't see it' as an excuse not to lift).
 
Exasperated said:
Well, that’s breaking laws. As before, enforcement is an issue, but lobbying, making a serious noise with plenty of local media coverage re serious health hazard - is most likely to shame or force your local authority / NT wardens / Rangers / to take some action.
Unfortunately, probably wasting your time hoping to impact dog owners’ attitudes, until they are formally and publicly held accountable.
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Do you think this is a new phenomenon/nobody has tried any of that before?
 
The local authority asks that we report dog fouling on their equivalent of a FixMyStreet type portal. The action they take is to come out several weeks later and place a 'no dog fouling' sticker on the bin or lamp post closest to the reported area. After lobbying from a community group, the town council also now sponsor several bag dispensers around town. Still littered with shite.

I have a narrow gravel driveway not visible from the house, cats crap on the garden end, dogs crap on the street end, at least once a month one of us will track in shite coming home in the dark.
 
I have been walking round here for over 40 years and generally there hasn't been a dog poo problem (no pavements just grass verges and public footpaths). The last few months the amount of crap is awful, not just on roads and verges but on footpaths , which are through fields that will be mown for hay/silage. I don't know if people are coming here to walk , I have seen a few strange dogs and owners but I am fed up of it, particularly as I worry people might think its my pooches.
 
There's a bridleway I've been using for over 20 years where previously dog shite was a rarity but since the new year there's been a huge increase in it
I don't know if new people/dogs have moved in locally or if someone just thinks that because it's not on a pavement it doesn't matter
My horses wear hoof boots too - I'm always wary when scrubbing them after a ride and do a sniff test first
 
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