Poo Bags-A Contentious issue

Before plastic bags became readily available, reponsible dog owners either trained their dogs to pass motions on their own property, or on the street at the kerb edge. Some dogs owners, but very few, took a newpaper or a trowel with them when walking their dogs.

Dogs did not have to be kept on leads all the time when I was a child, so the problem was not so great, as most dogs found a suitable patch of grass (suitable in their eyes, rather than in ours).

I don't know about English towns, but in Scotland and Denmark the two countries where I grew up, shopkeepers and householders swept the pavement outside their house every morning - my paternal grandmother, who had lived in France until war broke out in 1914 hosed her pavement in the French fashion every morning, so dog dirt was not exactly a problem outside her house.

You could be fined for littering public streets, and as policemen walk their beat, this was no empty threat.

You can put up as many bins as you like, but that will not prevent lazy people from not depositing any kind of rubbish in them.

Changing the law and making it compulsory for anyone who acquires a dog, whether for the first time, or the nth time, to attend dog training classes with them, before a dog licence can be issued, and making it illegal to have an unlicensed dog works in Germany, where I have never seen dog dirt, either on city streets, or country roads, or discarded bags with the dirt. What I do see every time I cross the Danish-German border is well-trained dogs, that unlike their Danish counterparts, never jump up at you, as you pass them, because they are trained to sit, or lie down on the approach of anyone, and that if on a lead never bark at you. That a dog barks, as you pass the garden of the house it lives in, is only natural, but if the owner hears the dog barking, he or she will say something allong the lines of "that will do" and the dog stops barking, immediately.

I haven't got a dog but I used to doggy-sit while their human parents were away on holiday, 3 or 4 times a year, the dogs are brother and sister, absolutely gorgeous, I loved having them, the parents always provided me with food, bedding etc. and poo bags then I'd buy them things from my own cash, like treats and nibble bits!

I always picked up the poo in the bags and dumped them in poo bins, or normal bins when poo bins weren't available, I'd NEVER just dump them on the ground, dangle them on trees or just leave it, I think it's utterly selfish, inconsiderable and common! If they don't have poo bags then use carrier bags or man-sized tissues!

They always made me laugh with the things they did and while the sister was quite considerate by trying to poo on the grass instead of the pavement, her brother just dumped anywhere and one day I was taking them up a narrow road with just a bit of grass on the pavement so she did her best to poo on there while her brother then decided he wanted one and literally dragged himself, me and his sister in the middle of the road, while sister was pooing and did an elephant-sized stinking dump.... directly outside the Kingdom Hall of the Jehovah Witnesses! Hopefully their god was busy at the time and didn't notice...!

It was pouring with rain and thankfully no cars were coming at the time as I tried to pick it up fast and get us all back on the pavement! His sister told him off for dragging her away while she was doing her business and I just absolutely died laughing!

I could never get my mother to see that her dog's excretions were her problem and no-one else's. I bought her various scoopers, bags, gloves, you name it, but she would only use them grudgingly and, even then, only picked up the "firm" ones. Anything loose she'd leave "for the rain to wash away". Some people just don't have it in them to face nasty jobs. Makes me wonder what she did when I was a baby (NOOO, don't even go there!!!).

There seem to be a lot of dogs. I live near a country park and people pass my house with sometimes 3 dogs on the way there. They are the owners not dog walkers.
I notice more and more poo bags being left in the park and often now some just let their dogs soil the paths and walk on.
Responsible dog owners must hate this too as it casts a slur on all dog owners.

I have to leave my bins out by 6.30am but the collection is not usually until after 10am.

Quite a few times I have come home to find one or more dog poo bag in my refuse or re-cycling wheelie bin. I have to remove them which, as I am short and old, is quite a challenge. Also, as some dog owners don't tie the bags up, and they leak and make my bins smell.

Generally speaking, I like dogs but I can't say the same about some of their owners.

Not enough bins. Our local wildlife area has no bins at all, so people leave the bags at the entrance. It’s a huge area with several ins and outs. I expect each entrance has a pile of poo bags at the gate.
Take your poo bags home!

LovesBach

Local authorities in this area have designated all bins as 'dog poo and litter', presumably to save having a special collection. This seems to make sense, and generally dog owners are responsible. If there was no bin I would most certainly take my dog's offering home - it's hard to see why people can't do this.

Same here, we live on the edge of the town park and there are numerous receptacles for litter and dog mess, there are two a very short distance away from our house. The park wardens empty the bins regularly.

I think people do it intending to pick it up on the way back.

People can catch diseases from dog’s poo and it can cause pregnant cows to abort. So very good health reasons to pick up apart from looking unsightly not to mention smell. If you have accidentally pushed a pram wheel through dog’s poo you will know how horrible and smelly it is and if it gets on children’s or anybody’s shoes. Yuck!

and whilst I am it, wtf at bottle banks with all the bags left shoved in between the units or just random rubbish left in boxes
WHAT ARE THESE PEOPLE ON??

Oh I know, Janet and John need their front garden embellishing in my dog's crap, come on little Johnnie force one out and I'll stand and watch.

Ohhh I know just what this estate needs, a dog poo tree. Come on guys lets all join in, brings the neighbourhood up wonderfully or lets do a dog poo installation by the MUGA

ffs

ViceVersa

I genuinely don't understand why people do this. As a responsible dog owner, I always carry poo bags with me, but if there isn't a bin nearby when needed, I would always bring it home and bin it. We are lucky to have many woodland walks near us, and I hate to see poo bags hanging from trees or bushes. It's just sheer laziness and thoughtlessness - same as with all litter louts!

I agree. We’ve always had dogs and always picked up after them.

Would never dream of leaving them hanging in a tree.

Yes exactly, I brig my dogs poo home as well. The amount of people who let their dogs shit on my lawn and don't clean it up is disgusting AND THEY MUST BE MY NEIGHBOURS

I genuinely don't understand why people do this. As a responsible dog owner, I always carry poo bags with me, but if there isn't a bin nearby when needed, I would always bring it home and bin it. We are lucky to have many woodland walks near us, and I hate to see poo bags hanging from trees or bushes. It's just sheer laziness and thoughtlessness - same as with all litter louts!

You could take the poo home and let nature work its magic in your own garden.

Local authorities in this area have designated all bins as 'dog poo and litter', presumably to save having a special collection. This seems to make sense, and generally dog owners are responsible. If there was no bin I would most certainly take my dog's offering home - it's hard to see why people can't do this.

People should take home their dog poo. Leaving it in public spaces in a bag is a deliberate act of vandalism.

Nature doesn't work its 'magic' in this context as dogs poo on paths and paved areas.

If you can't sort out your dog poo- you shouldn't have a dog, sorry.

Someone has to empty the dog poo bins too- and that costs!

I've picked up three of H's poos this morning in bags. I walked on and put them in the nearest bin.
That's what you do as a responsible dog owner.
Very occasionally I have hung them on a branch and returned for them, but never left them.