Dog poo - again! This time I want to fight back...

I think if you followed luckygirl's suggestion you could well get done for attempted arson. Or arson itself if it went wrong.

Where I live if you have a video you can report it to the dog warden and they will fine the offender. They also give out notices to fix to the lamp posts that state people must clear up after their dogs or get fined. Once someone has received a fine in an area it often stops.
Ladymuck and Tedber so brave (so funny) don't think I could have done that.
Its so sad that some people don't clear up as most dog owners do. Always worst in winter, dark nights so some don't bother, I always take a torch.

You should live in my house, quite often I find bird poo, lizard poo, frog poo and occasionally snake poo on my back deck.....yesterday I found possum poo.....a bit of dog poo on the lawn would be a change

We always accompany our dogs when they go outside to the garden. There are two reasons for this: 1. we need to see where they've 'been' so we can clear it up straight away and water any wet patches (thereby avoiding dead patches on the grass), 2. we don't allow them to annoy the neighbours by barking to come in. There's no way we'd leave their leavings in a public place or on someone else's garden or driveway! They walk on a lead so they can't disappear up someone's drive and virtually every pocket has a roll of bags in it. All my dog walking friends are equally responsible. The anti-social people must sneak around late at night or very early in the morning.

I watched the documentary last night on the Metro in The North East. There was a lady on there with a miniature pony on the train. She was getting it used to being a guide pony for a lady in London. The pony wore a bag to catch its poo, why can't all dog owners get them for their bloody dogs and dispose of the shit in their own property rather than contaminating other people's gardens, drives and the public footpaths?

I had an email from the Dogs Trust to say flick with a stick whenever possible, rather than a plastic bag. I've always done that, as I live on a country lane, & never take the dog out without one. So easy to flick it under the hedge & yet there is usually a lot of dog poo on the lane that dog walkers just don't bother about. Infuriating & thoughtless - there are usually a choice of sticks around as well!

Perhaps should add - there are no houses where I walk, just fields! And plenty of hedges.

I’m not quite sure about this stick and flick approach - unless it’s flicked under a hedge where no-one will ever walk then it seems a bit grim as children and other dogs will run about off the paths and can pick it up. How do you get every bit of poo off the ground with a stick? Isn’t is easier to pick it up in a biodegradable bag and stick it in the next appropriate bin?

My front lawn is just like an open air toilet at times. I spray the path the little beggars take with Jeyes Fluid. They don't like the smell and it keeps them away for a while. The poo is disgusting and unhealthy. Why are these animals domesticated. We don't keep pigs indoors.

There is anger here directed towards dogs, which I do find sad; they are loving companions who ask little and give much, and as they don't have the benefit of sanitary facilities they have to go when they feel the urge - as all these angry people would have to in the same situation. The fault, as always, is at the other end of the lead - or more precisely with the owners who don't have dogs on the lead, as I have seen in the local park. Dog running around and depositing, and owner deliberately not looking back to see what the dog is doing. The dog poo is disgusting and unhealthy, but the answer is entirely with owners, and you can so easily train a dog. An elderly neighbour of mine trained his dog to perform on a sheet of newpaper, and he picked it up and took it home in a bag!

It’s not the dogs people on here get angry at, it’s the owners. I’m also getting a little bit fed up at the humanising of dogs - they are everywhere it feels (although that may because I had to spend part of my commute yesterday listening to the bark bark bark bark bark bark and on and on and on of a large dog reverberating around an enclosed station concourse yesterday - poor thing was obviously distressed at the noise and bustle but the owner was completely disinterested).

SirC, you're right, it is the owners who at fault, and as you say dogs seem to be everywhere.
I wonder how soon it will be before some boffin calculates that dog poo is costing £X million a year to dispose of country wide? And that dog f**rts are destroying a layer of the atmosphere we've never heard of?

Yes, that will be the next thing to appear on the list of environmental no no’s!

You can get a dog poo wormery on line and ours eliminates much of our dog bag use. The few bags we use are biodegradable.

For those plagued with cats poo in the garden, try planting up a small crate with catnip. The cats can't resist pooing in it so at least it's contained.

I hate dog owners who don't pick up their dog's poo - really feel like rubbing it up and down their clothes! More than one grandchild has stepped in it as a toddler at the CHILDREN'S park and we have had to go home. DGD was hysterical last weekend when she got it on her winter boots (2 1\2) and cried all the way home then I had to leave her in the house with her brother (6) till I had cleaned it off the boots and me in garden. Furious!

Years ago cats used to dig a hole and bury their poo. I used to have a cat that used to keep digging until the hole was dig enough. Now I have no cat to deter others going all over my lawn. Is it because cats these days are trained on litter trays.
Whenever I had a new kitten I put it in the garden and showed it where to go.
A dog can be trained to wait until there is a suitable place to go. My dog was trained to wait until we got to the woods and go in the undergrowth or if I could not take her out she would go on the compost heap. Dog owners should be trained!

As I understand it the correct way for dog owners is actually to teach them to use a corner of your own garden, then you have a doggie chemical loo to dispose of it. So why do they not do that?

You can save your own urine and leave it there with a dash of chilli sauce.its a good deterent to teach the dog to avoid that area

The catnip has not worked for me as I’m my garden the cats simply roll in it till it’s dead (even when I put some stubby sticks in it to try to protect it). The cat shit is everywhere - but the link with litter trays is interesting. Hadn’t thought of that before and had wondered about the exponential increase over the last ten years or so

Also, it’s easy to spot the difference between hedgehog, fox and cat faeces so I’m clear about what we are dealing with here.

Cats only dig when it's light, dry, easily dug soil. I have a covered area, at the end of my garden, with plenty of sand dug in. That's where my cat is supposed to go (and usually does) when outside.

She has a covered indoor litter tray. I can't stop her sometimes going under next door's hedge, though. They regularly rake the dry soil there, creating perfect 'cat litter' conditions.

Our council pay you £50n if you report dog fouling and can prove it and it is taken to court.

Nice (well not nice) little earner if it worked

I could make few £100 a day

Cats only dig when it's light, dry, easily dug soil

I’ll be sure to let my neighbour’s cat know she’s been doing it wrong these past few years.

My neighbour throws his dog's poo in the river; downstream little kids regularly paddle in the water. I haven't summoned up the courage to remonstrate with him. There is ALWAYS dog poo on the lane where I live. What would these dog owners think if a child defecated outside their house? They obviously think their dogs are more important than human beings.

The one person I did catch who was letting his dog use my front step as a loo was dumbstruck when I charged up and said "that's nice isn't it, how would you like it if I came and peed on your front step". Just hadn't occurred to him that it wasn't a nice thing to do.