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

Cats only dig when it's light, dry, easily dug soil ....but they defecate everywhere in my garden. No sign of digging, irrespective of soil type.

Oh Newquay I'm so sorry to hear that. There was much campaigning and media coverage on toxocariasis back in the 1980s but it now seems to have dropped off the radar.
People should remember that just one tiny larva inside a microscopic toxocara canis egg could hatch inside you and then burrow and migrate to various organs. It it travels to the eye this can cause blindness, but it can migrate to other organs causing unidentified illnesses. People rarely know the cause of their illness is toxocariasis because it is rarely tested for.
Very regular dog worming is essential, but sadly we can't control what other people do which is why washing hands after a trip to the park is so important. Park soil is very contaminated.

We have a man who walks his dog along what is laughingly described as our 'communal gardens' in our council handbook.

The point being that he waves around a poo bag, presumably so that people like me can see it, then when doggy does a turd like a battleship, walks briskly away.

The worst of it is, I'm too cowardly to say anything.

My dear sister is almost blind in one eye and a friend is registered partially sighted because of dog poo-toxicara canis!
I heard the slogan-don’t buy or breed, rescue! And sterilise too!
Enough!

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.

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.

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.

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 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.

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.

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

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?

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!

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!

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.

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.

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

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?

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).

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!

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.

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?

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

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!

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?