Alan B'Stard
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About time.
The short walk to the shops in Marston Rd when I lived at Lovatt St was like dog shit alley some days.
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About time.
The short walk to the shops in Marston Rd when I lived at Lovatt St was like dog shit alley some days.
Gramaisc
Forum O. G.
Just in case some people are confused, this is where Dog Shit Alley really is - I have campaigned for a street-name sign for it.
It required circus skills to get a bike through it unscathed - but, there was little possibility of manoeuvring a push-chair without gaining some accretion, which might explain the two used, disposable nappies that also were there for a few weeks once...
My Name is URL
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If that's dog shit alley, then this must be "Dog Shit Fields"....
Related note - was up walking on the chase a few weeks back and was astounded by the sheer number of bags of dog shit thrown into bushes at the sides of paths.... I know this has been done time and again, but why go to the effort of picking it up and then chucking it into the bushes... leaving a worse situation than not picking it up in the first place possibly....
Gramaisc
Forum O. G.
About once a year, I clear the debris that has fallen from an over-hanging tree onto a flat roof over a double garage that adjoins a public footpath. There's usually four to six dog-shit bags on there, as well...
My theory is that people feel it necessary to not be seen to leave the scene empty-handed, but then have no intention of carrying it any further than where it can be safely (for them) and surreptitiously disposed of..
shoes
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That really gets on my tits, walking our dogs around our local area, especially as a lot of the hedges are shedding leaves now, you see so many poo bags which have been cast over the hedges and walls into fields where they shall remain evermore. At least the shit itself is biodegradable!
My Name is URL
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Having said the above... along my walk (at Seven Springs) I also picked up a few bits of litter (good citizen and all that) thinking there might be a bin back at the car park... I was wrong...
Ended up having to take it home with me.
Perhaps having bins up there would take too much emptying or something but surely there must be a solution.
Ended up having to take it home with me.
Perhaps having bins up there would take too much emptying or something but surely there must be a solution.
Withnail
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They get ravaged by scavenging beasties as well.
Gramaisc
Forum O. G.
In Port Laoise there are solar powered compacting bins that need emptying much less often. Not readily accessible to scavengers, either.
I doubt that they have a solar powered sprinkler system, though - setting fire to bins seems quite popular round here..
John Marwood
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Jonah
Spouting nonsense since the day I learned to talk
All dog owners shouldn't be tarred with the same brush as it's irresponsible, lazy dog owners who leave the mess behind. I find it's mainly owners of larger breeds which don't scoop the poop mainly because the dog leaves behind such a lot.
I always clean up and carry the bag back home or deposit it in an available bin.
It doesn't help when owners feed their dogs 'wet' food (out of cans) instead of dried food. Wet food consists mainly of water so, as we all know, what goes in, must come out. Wet food in, sloppy poo out. Feed dogs on dried food and you get easily scooped poop.
I always clean up and carry the bag back home or deposit it in an available bin.
It doesn't help when owners feed their dogs 'wet' food (out of cans) instead of dried food. Wet food consists mainly of water so, as we all know, what goes in, must come out. Wet food in, sloppy poo out. Feed dogs on dried food and you get easily scooped poop.
flossietoo
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I would certainly appreciate that. When I take my dogs on the Chase I pick-up after them. I usually have a rucksack and in there I stash a supermarket carrier bag into which I drop-and-wrap the poo bags because I haven't got enough hands to manage leads, spaniels, magic tennis ball and used bags. There are no bins to deposit this at the end of the walk and it has to come home with me, in the car. The main car parks onto the disused railway line provide dog-waste bins. Downs Banks is particularly well served, with bins at the end and at the half-way point. You see far fewer discarded bags there.
The easier you make it for people to behave properly, the more likely they are to do so.
Bob
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I don't know if anyone has been out to Gnosall recently but a lot of money has been spent there creating a wetland habitat that is also functional for the community, the field just down from the park has previously been unusable for most of the year has been dug out for a conservation project and a raised footpath/ walk way has been installed to create a link from the park to the disused railway line.
The last time I walked the path I cam across two piles of muck in the middle of this 3 foot wide raised path, one of which had been ridden through by a bicycle, there is wide open field either side of this path and there is absolutely no excuse for it. For a dog owner to have such disrespect for everyone else who uses the path is beyond comprehension.
The last time I walked the path I cam across two piles of muck in the middle of this 3 foot wide raised path, one of which had been ridden through by a bicycle, there is wide open field either side of this path and there is absolutely no excuse for it. For a dog owner to have such disrespect for everyone else who uses the path is beyond comprehension.
PeterD
ST16 Represent.
[Pardon me french] So the wife comes in last night and informs me that some young man had allowed their precious to take a shit on our path, not outside our front, actually on the farking path leading to our door. Its one thing not clearing up some dog shit from the public footpath but allowing them to wander onto our property to unleash a cleveland steamer is taking the piss. [/pardon me french]
Em L
Mental Floss
Blokey lives right near this alley, we frequently take his young'un for a bike ride and this is normally how we get onto the Isabel Trail - don't think I've ever walked down there without having to avoid many huge piles of dog mess
We're just lucky his lad is pretty good at steering, I'd be sick if I had to clean off bike wheels...
Jonah
Spouting nonsense since the day I learned to talk
Walked my dog this morning. Took two poop bags with me. The dog pooped and I duly scooped. A bit later on he pooped again and I duly scooped again (double bagged to save a bag). Later on in the walk and only 300 yards from home I deposit said poop bag in a bin and 50 yards later the dog decides to poop again (3 poops in one walk is a rarity). Luckily I had second bag so I reached in my pocket and it was nowhere to be found. After checking all my pockets and finding nothing, I decided to leave the poop and walk home to get another bag.
Got home, picked up another bag and walked back to do the said scooping and found the owner of the house outside which the dog had done the poop, out in his car searching for me! He had obviously seen the dog do his business and me leave it there, put two and two together and decided to go all "vigilante" on me. He stopped the car and then saw that I had a poop bag in hand and realised what I was doing. After he looked a tad embarrassed, he told me that a guest had trodden in dog mess and walked it into his house and left it all over the carpet. Fair play to him, he actually thanked me for coming back to clean up.
One question though. How the hell did his guest NOT realise he had trodden in dog mess???? Through my own experience, you just KNOW when you've trodden in poop the nano-second it happens.
Got home, picked up another bag and walked back to do the said scooping and found the owner of the house outside which the dog had done the poop, out in his car searching for me! He had obviously seen the dog do his business and me leave it there, put two and two together and decided to go all "vigilante" on me. He stopped the car and then saw that I had a poop bag in hand and realised what I was doing. After he looked a tad embarrassed, he told me that a guest had trodden in dog mess and walked it into his house and left it all over the carpet. Fair play to him, he actually thanked me for coming back to clean up.
One question though. How the hell did his guest NOT realise he had trodden in dog mess???? Through my own experience, you just KNOW when you've trodden in poop the nano-second it happens.
stoofer34
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Gramaisc
Forum O. G.
I'll bet he wouldn't stop in a box junction..