Dog poo bags put in hedges

I imagine a lot of dog owners find it just as odd and annoying as you and I.

To a certain extend I understand those who just let the dog dirt lie, but why wrap it carefully up and then not take it with you home to the bin? That I don't get.

The worst is tying it to branches which are just about level with my head; cannot but think this is done deliberately.

Of course the responsible dog owners amongst us are just as horrified as you by this practice Catlover it's easy to carry a container to hold the used bags until you reach an appropriate bin or get home. Sadly there will always be people who are selfish and lazy.

What I'd like to know is what happens to all the bagged up dog poo that is put into bins and collected by the local council. Does it just go into landfill?

If it does, that seems very environmentally unsound to me, because all those plastic bags will take decades to rot down yet the dog poo itself will biodegrade in a matter of months.

I helped to clear a very overgrown institution garden a few years ago. The institution was closed and the locals had used the easily accessible gardens for dog walking. And thrown their filled poo bags into the undergrowth. We cleared away hundreds of empty bags; empty because the contents had rotted away. It seemed such a pointless exercise. I would have thought it would be better, in open countryside at least, for dog owners to carry a little shovel and just shovel their dogs' offerings deep into the undergrowth where it would degrade naturally.

Or is dog poo just too utterly toxic for this?

I do appreciate that this could not be done in built up areas...

It's disgusting. If we can't find a bin we take it home and dispose of it there.

I genuinely don't understand why people do this - if you're going to go to the bother of picking it up and bagging it, surely it's not asking too much more to simply carry it with you and either dispose of it in the nearest bin or in your own bin?

I remember the vet telling me that a dog's digestive system contains more bacteria than any other, so I guess that is why the poo is so toxic. Leaving it to biodegrade isn't good because it contaminates waterways, lakes and rivers.

Maybe some walkers leave the poo bags to collect at the end of their walk if they are taking a circular route?

I see this every day on my dog walks, and due to lockdown with people being encouraged to stay local, have to assume it is local people. A lot of people are lazy and disgusting, I dread to think what their houses are like.

Burning it all with the garden rubbish is by far the best way to get rid of it.

I think people don't want to have to walk around with it until they find a bin.
Neither would I, which is one of the reasons I wouldn't want a dog.

Dog walkers who leave their dog's "deposit", should be rounded up & smothered in it ... Utter Filth

I often see these bags when I walk along the former railway track near me and can’t understand why. Now I shall charitably assume they intend collecting it on their way back, as it is not a circular walk.

I was told that ‘they collect it on their way back’. Pah as if. It’s disgusting. We had a spate near us where people were throwing it over the hedge into a horses field. The owner had to make a plea to stop it as the horses were trying to eat it. ?

If people had intended to come back, then I'd say they ought to get their short term memory checked.

I’m a dog owner and I often collect other people’s poo bags to deposit with my own in the bin. It really makes me angry that people are so irresponsible. Unfortunately it tends to give all dog owners a bad name. Why have a dog if you’re not prepared to be responsible?

Exactly MissAdventure if you are not prepared to clean up after your dog then don't have one. Alternatively teach your dog to defecate in a designated area.

Too true, unless you are prepared to pick up and dispose of correctly you shouldn’t have one, all part of parcel ( excuse the pun) it’s disgusting!

By one I mean a dog