Cheeky Mare

Oh, Septimia I like that one!

We have had dogs and now look after grand-dogs but always clear up after them, and generally keep them all on extending leads (a wonderful invention) when out and about to make sure they mind their manners. But we do have a garden which is big enough for them to have a good full speed belt around as all dogs like to run sometimes. I just don’t understand why people living in flats think its a suitable environment for a dog.

What we get a lot of is people who sanctimoniously pick up their dog’s poo - and then sneakily hang the bags in our hedge and that of our 93 year old neighbour. Especially as there is a dog poo bin 50 yards away!

I lived opposite a woman who let her dog out to mess outside my gate. Once I found the culprit I shovelled up the mess and took to her door offering to dump it on her step or on her lawn. It never happened again.

I watched a woman with a dog this afternoon. Very smartly dressed woman, bobbed hairstyle but not a " doggy-bag " in sight. I walked to my gate and was watching her across the road when her dog suddenly crouched, ready. She immediately looked over and saw me watching her and started dragging the dog along who was still crouching and no doubt dropping its guts at the same time.
For two pins I could have marched over to give her a piece of my mind as well as a plastic bag but there was a blasted car coming and I wasn't going to run after her. I hadn't seen her in this area before so it made me wonder if she'd just brought the dog to muck up this area rather than her own.

On a day out we were walking through a street market and saw a woman making no attempt to stop her dog lifting it's leg on some fabric covered stools placed in front of a stall. The stall owner was shouting at the dog owner but it was obviously water off a ducks back.

We were having the dogs on beaches conversation at the weekend, one of my daughters said she asked a man on a dog free beach to at least put the dog on a leash, as her children were nervous, I won’t repeat what he said!

The stall owner was shouting at the dog owner but it was obviously water off a ducks back.

Or piddle off a fabric stool?

I thought that, but didn't say it!

Disgusting...... hate irresponsible dog owners. I did something similar once pixie......one particular dog owner used to allow dog to foul on my front lawn...so fed up, I waited until I saw them again and took out my purposely messy cat litter tray! I said I was going to dump it all over his lawn!!!

Never saw him again although DH was furious as he said you never know what backlash there could be! He is right of course, but its a shame people are scared now of approaching people in the wrong!

Even worse are people who pick up but fling the plastic bags everywhere!!!! I can't help pointing it out...."who do you think is going to pick that up? The poo fairy?) Most of the time they just look at me as if I'm some kind of loopy grumpy old woman!!! As far as they are concerned "it's picked up"! No...it isn't! Just an unsightly mess which won't eventually wash away either!!!

Off my soap box now!