Their brown heads Jen

Have to do a bit more exercise and get faster and more cunning, Anya.
Not got long, though, because they'll lose their black heads.

My manure is vegetarian, Elegran, but I haven't got a sense of smell, so I do not know if it smells less than a carnivores. Actually, not many carnivores use my toilet, either.

You have to sneak up on them jen

Horse manure is vegetarian manure, it doesn't smell as bad as carnivore manure.

Messy chewed up grass when it rains, though. At least it's big enough to avoid on the Valley railway.

The gulls that flew past me today certainly looked like they had black heads. Must be the mating season. Couldn't get close enough to see if it was very dark brown or black.

It's just chewed up grasses.

Of course horse owners shouldn't be required to pick up horse droppings.

No, they never have black heads Jen they gave very dark brown heads in the mating season and a very dark brown spot on the side of the head at other times.

What time of year was it, Anya? Not the mating season, obviously, because they are black-headed then!

I do think it strange when dog owners are picking up dog poo next to piles of horse manure on the Valley railway.
I remember in York they tried horse nappies for the horses pulling the carriages. I do not think it lasted long.
Horse owners take their horses back to the stables and spend hours cleaning them down, but are never prepared to go out and clear up after their horses. Why not? Should they be made to?

Tongue may be in cheek, but it's all true!

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A seagull (probably an erroneously named black-.headed gull in case Jen is interested) pooed on my GS from a great height only last week. I tried to tell him that was supposed to be good luck but he wasn't impressed.

Red Rum once pooed on the road outside my house when we lived in Southport. Now that was impressive, so I rushed out with a shovel and scooped it up, hot and steaming, for my roses honest!

I thought maybe it was tongue-in-cheek, but perhaps not...
Dog poo is one thing, but wildlife droppings are just a fact of life, especially if you live in the countryside.

Oh, I don't doubt that it's all true.

What I was questioning was whether you were really complaining about fields having sheep droppings and cowpats on them, as well as wondering what you expected the council/RSPB to do about the congregating birds!

But people only moan about dog poo and cat poo.

I think that's discrimination. I'm only looking at the bigger picture.

Serious Ana? Every word of it was true.

www.fixmystreet.com is the website to report it and anything else that might be blighting your community, like flytipping, loose paving, vandalism, etc.

Anya, was that post serious?

Where we lived previously we had a bird poo problem. A series of telephone wires radiating out from a central pole that was the meeting place for the local starling population, and a parallel line of electric cables where other species preferred to gather.

Underneath each of these great dollops of bird poo, elderberry coloured in the autumn. I wrote to the RSPB and the council about it several times but they said it wasn't their responsibility to pick it up or issue birds with nappies.

What did we pay our rates for I wondered?

Here the problem is the fields are littered with sheep poo and cow dung. The parks with rabbit droppings and fox scat (and that really pongs). And the town hall is white with pigeon droppings.

We're drowning in shit the stuff

I live in a small village , and must say dog poo is a big problem, I have owned dogs for the last twenty years, my first dog would only poo in her own garden, the other two ( all have been big boxer dogs) would rarely poo when out on walks, but it is no problem to me.... to pick up my own dogs poo and dispose of it when I get home. However I could not pick up after another dog... yuck. We have a small jitty which I walk up daily to visit the local shops, some bright spark has put a sign up (similiar to a car registration plaque ....... bright yellow background with DOG SH++ ALLEY printed on it..... and the dog poos have been sprayed in a bright yellow paint.... silly I know....but I counted 30 dog poos one day. Have you noticed cats seem to poo on the lawns without digging holes... I dont know which is worst... yesterday a lovely sunny day... decided to do some weeding... yuck.... there was cat poo in every trowel ful of soil... now that did make me heave !!!!!!!!!

Some poo-tossers maintain that the bags they use are biodegradable and so, in time, the said deposit will return to the ground from which it came. If it was true then surely it would be an alternative mechanism for disposal rather than swinging a full bag when meeting 'n' greeting neighbours, putting in the bin and then adding to landfill?

And No I do not dislike dogs its the owners who act irresponsible I DON'T LIKE

I am glad you have enlightened me about the reason for dog poo being hung in trees!! I have puzzled this for years and not being a dog owner I had no idea why some areas have trees littered with plastic bags full of poo. As some have been there for months until the bags rot away and I must admit some are very high up and I have not seen any 10' people walking their dogs! so I assumed folks got fed up of carrying them and just threw them up a tree out of the way (a bit of an extreme and baffling hobby..but....) so it would seem a bit more of a valid explanation that they intend to collect it on the way back..except of course those that go back another way...
Not enough people are fined for dogs fouling, why would they ever assume anyone would love to step in or have it attach to their pram wheels?? We stopped humans depositing their own waste in the street years ago, why should dogs be any different? they are not living wild in their natural habitat they are living as pets in populated areas so the owners should be responsible for all aspects of the pets behaviour.

My parents trained their lab to pee over a drain in the back yard. And this was the dog that bust a gut to get home to poo in her own garden.

I knew someone who trained their dog to wee over a drain in the gutter, it can't be that hard to do.