Picking up other dogs poo.

[Parrotperson]

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Dogs are wonderful, dog poo left unpicked up is disgusting and unnecessary. Keep Britain Tidy says: “Dog mess is the most unacceptable and offensive type of litter on our streets. Our research...

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[CorvusCorax]

I can pick up my own dog's all day long. Other's turns me, but I have done it.

 

[JGC]

I quite often pick up after others because none of the chuffing neighbours pick up, but I hate picking up the old stuff. Hate it.

 

[skinnydipper]

I've always picked up after my own dogs.

I've picked up other dogs' poo but resent having to do so.

And don't get me started about finding dog crap on my drive.

 

[Tiddlypom]

I do sometimes pick up others' dogs poo, but only in a self interested way, I'm afraid.

So yes when it is on our own road frontage (not infrequent) , and yes if when out and about and the poo is in my way and I'm likely to tread in it, eg by the car.

Otherwise, no, there'd be no end to it .

 

[Christmascinnamoncookie]

Hate picking up cold poo. We have little shovels in the garden. I tend not to pick up other dogs’ poo.

 

[splashgirl45]

I’m not sure that always picking it up is the best thing. On pavements etc always should be bagged and put in bin but maybe we ought to follow the national trust directions and just flick it into the undergrowth to rot down rather than using so many plastic bags. I have started to do this when I walk our local fields if I can find a stick to flick it… I have picked up other dogs poos but , for some reason, it makes me shudder yet I can pick up my dogs without a thought..

 

[tda]

I would rather not, but we also have a small grass verge at the top of our drive and my lunatic neighbour always assumes it's my dogs mess , so I clear up whatever's there to keep the peace

 

[BallyRoanBaubles]

I don’t think I could bring myself to pick up another dogs poo (unless it was my friends dog I was walking/looking after etc)

 

[Birker2020]

Strangely enough tonight (whilst walking in my new trainers ) I picked up the pooh the same dog leaves in the same place which is there every time I visit the park.

Other dog walkers have spray painted the concrete path with a template as they are so incensed with the owner! It hasn't made any difference. Trouble is the dog is a big GSD owned by a 'well 'ard geezer' and no one will confront him.

 

[PapaverFollis]

I can't remember the story very well but a friend if mine was in France and spoke to a chap unblocking his septic tank. I don't know how the conversation actually got to this point but he ended up saying "ah, but it is loved poo"... meaning he didn't mind the job so much because it was his family's sewage.

I occasionally pick up other dogs' poo if I need too (clearing areas at the start and finish of parkrun for example, dirty ****s leaving it laying in a park) and I always think "this is not loved poo". No problem picking up after my own, especially as their food seems to give them small, firm and not too smelly poops!

 

[scats]

Cold poo freaks me out
I pick up other dogs poo in the salon, obviously, but I don’t want to be picking up after other dogs out and about. Three of my own is quite enough!

 

[Titchy Reindeer]

I would never stop if I picked up other peoples' dog poo. Here in rural France, only the Brits (and not even all of them) pick up dog poo. I hate picking up cold dog poo but will occasionally do a POPOF (pick one, pick one free) if my dog has pooed next to an existing one. I'll pick up if it's right next to my front gate and once did a swap because I saw my dog pooing (in the dark, on dead leaves) and could not for the life of me find the damn thing, but did find a cold one.
There's a house in the village with its wall and some windows straight onto the road, the slightly mossy area right outside is covered in dog sh1t. It's disgusting and if I lived there, I think I would be having words and if that didn't work, I would be "returning to the sender" by putting it outside the dog owner's front door.

 

[Sprout]

I pick every day …. always better after a hard frost.
I also have to deal with other dog’s poos left right outside our gate, where we, postman etc will step in it. I also occasionally have to deal with full poo bags, thrown over the fence into our garden!

 

[CorvusCorax]

See I'm always with my dogs when they go/mine are never out unsupervised and they're clean in the kennel, so I never have to lift cold poo, which is why it makes me wretch when I have to do it.

I also have a verge which people think is a public dog toilet, I've had various success with using spray powder/silver spray to highlight the offending issue...not sure my landlord approves, but it gets the message across.

 

[alibali]

I’m not sure that always picking it up is the best thing. On pavements etc always should be bagged and put in bin but maybe we ought to follow the national trust directions and just flick it into the undergrowth to rot down rather than using so many plastic bags. I have started to do this when I walk our local fields if I can find a stick to flick it… I have picked up other dogs poos but , for some reason, it makes me shudder yet I can pick up my dogs without a thought..

I agree with this, up to a point. I won't leave poo anywhere any one is likely to step in it/see it OR on grazing land as dog poo contains parasites that can cause illness in farm animals I have read elsewhere. I prefer to stick and flick where possible to reduce landfill but bag and bin where necessary. Still feel guilty about stick and flick for some reason but I think that's just social conditioning. I'm lucky to be very rural though, in town I think it always needs picked up

 

[Ratface]

Strangely enough tonight (whilst walking in my new trainers ) I picked up the pooh the same dog leaves in the same place which is there every time I visit the park.

Other dog walkers have spray painted the concrete path with a template as they are so incensed with the owner! It hasn't made any difference. Trouble is the dog is a big GSD owned by a 'well 'ard geezer' and no one will confront him.

What the management and general welfare of the GSD like?
I have had three GSD's in my life, all trained to Gold level in the Good Citizen's training scheme.

My GSDs were all of good conformation, straight, flat backs, lovely temperaments, training practised every day of their lives.
Needless to say, every poo was picked up and responsibly disposed of!

 

[Mrs. Jingle]

Ours mainly deposit within their own paddock at the house and it is always cleared up immediately whilst still steaming. Any that they do in our fields are flicked into the hedgerows around the fields.

Very rarely see another dog anywhere near our property thank goodness as I am certain clearing up an unknown dog's would turn my stomach.

Fox poo on the other hand is the bane of our lives, well my son's at the moment as he is in charge of all things animal related at the moment. Finding them before our dogs anoint themselves is challenging to say the least!

 

[skinnydipper]

I also have a verge which people think is a public dog toilet, I've had various success with using spray powder/silver spray to highlight the offending issue...not sure my landlord approves, but it gets the message across.

I have tried without success to find the video I watched recently of a chap fed up with people allowing their dogs to toilet on the front of his open plan garden. He set up a camera which filmed the action, then printed a still of the owner and dog mid poop and mounted it on a stake next to the .

 

[FestiveG]

The problem with the message of stick and flick, is that it's taken to mean that as long as it's not actually on a footpath it's OK to leave it. This leads to local unimproved grazing land turning into a huge dog toilet, goodness knows what damage it does to my neighbours cattle.

 

[Parrotperson]

It’s interesting isn’t it? I too hate picking up cold dog poo but why? Surely it should be better than hot dog poo! It doesn’t make sense but there it is!

We only have a problem here in the summer with the tourists. I’m sure most are good but the poo ratio left on the ground defo goes up this time of year.

 

[Parrotperson]

The problem with the message of stick and flick, is that it's taken to mean that as long as it's not actually on a footpath it's OK to leave it. This leads to local unimproved grazing land turning into a huge dog toilet, goodness knows what damage it does to my neighbours cattle.

Yes. This. You still have to be responsible where you flick it but people tend not to worry as it means they don’t have to pick it up.

 

[skinnydipper]

Maybe people don't pick up after their dog because they use those wafer thin, see through nappy bags that seem to be popular. Yuck.

 

[CorvusCorax]

It’s interesting isn’t it? I too hate picking up cold dog poo but why? Surely it should be better than hot dog poo! It doesn’t make sense but there it is!

We only have a problem here in the summer with the tourists. I’m sure most are good but the poo ratio left on the ground defo goes up this time of year.

Warm poo is better, definitely in winter.

 

[JoannaC]

LOL I much prefer cold poo hate feeling the heat of fresh! Mine mainly go in the garden before i take them anywhere and one of them always takes herself right in the undergrowth if she does go when out so I rarely have to pick up poo. The boy will do it bang smack in the middle of the path on the rare occasion he does though. I have picked up other dogs poo but would prefer not too, even our lodger's german shepherd's poo turns my stomach and i often look after him. I have a pooper scooper around the property so it gets chucked in the hedges at home.

 

[Keith_Beef]

I don't think it's a great idea. I don't pick up other people's litter unless it is a direct nuisance to me, such as paper that blows into my garden. If I had a dog, I'm sure I would feel the same about other peoples' dogs' poo.


I have once in my life picked up another dog's poo.

A neighbours' dog skipped out of the gate as one of the owners was leaving the house in his car. The motorized hate closed behind, leaving the dog out on the street.

Our gate was broken at the time: rusted hinges, I pulled too hard, was left holding a 2.5m X 1.5m fake wrought iron gate.

I was always friendly with this dog, so being locked out from his home he decided to pay me a visit and left a calling card in the garden before my very eyes!

I clipped a lead rope to his collar, picked up his poo in a plastic bag that I attached to his collar and took him home.

Nobody there... I phoned, no answer.

It was a cool enough day so I tried him to the owner's driveway gate, put a bowl of water next to him and sent an SMS to both of the owners (husband and wife).

"Your dog escaped and he came and shat in my garden. You'll find him tied to your gate; I'm on my way out and I don't want to leave him alone to wander around and play in the traffic."

 

[Rokele55]

Part of my job is keeping the grounds tidy. Helpful other staff often give me directions to dog muck (or sheep, or fox etc.) Which requires removal. I keep a stock of bags for the purpose and get very shirty when staff nick them for their dogs and there are none left. Little devils. However, my stomach was challenged when a would be burglar left a turd shaped calling card. I hoped the scenes of crime people would take it away but they declined. That was cold but I don't think it made much difference

 

[Parrotperson]

Maybe people don't pick up after their dog because they use those wafer thin, see through nappy bags that seem to be popular. Yuck.

Oh I have a friend who swears by those but I wouldn’t ever contemplate using them! Awful things.

 

[CorvusCorax]

I just use normal nappy bags from Tesco or Boots, they're fine.

 

[splashgirl45]

Nappy bags from sainsburys are good value and not thin