Why people don't pick up after their dogs?

anaya

Its like a poop hell, I live in Dublin 15 but its everywhere. Can't step even think of stepping on the grass and even on pathways feel like picking it up and putting it on the front door of the dog owners or throw it inside their homes....

lkionm

Did someone mention dirty protest?

TiGeR KiNgS

lkionm wrote: »

Did someone mention dirty protest?

Not at all

everlast75

Dna database for all dogs with details of their owner's address.

Locate, fine and faecally decorate their front door

Tiddlypeeps

I think a lot of it has to do with the whole "nobody else does it so I'm not gonna bother" mentality.

I'll admit that I don't tidy up after my dogs (I really should start) and the main reason is that they stop to pee on or sniff another dogs poop every 10 feet. Another poop in that mine field isn't really gonna make a difference.

jimgoose

Because they don't particularly feel like handling faeces, in spite of the fact that they are responsible for it being there. Bit like the average bank CEO. You owe the Oracle a general audit and a powerful laxative.

DipStick McSwindler

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Boombastic

everlast75 wrote: »

Dna database for all dogs with details of their owner's address.

Locate, fine and faecally decorate their front door

And cats, sick of those fcukers sh1tting my garden. Btw I always pick up after my dog.

Surveyor11

Latest trend around my neighbourhood is to pick it up and hang it in poo bags off the nearest tree/post/gate. Would rather they just left the sh!te there on the ground TBH

westies4ever

filthy habit not cleaning up after your dog. and it gets the responsible owners who do a bad name.

frank reynolds

they should all be chemically castrated, or put on the list for forced sterilisation. isnt that how it goes???

Gone Drinking

Because my dogs never picked up after me, the little fcuker

anncoates

IrishFeeney92 wrote: »

*Their

You seem like an exceptionally clever poster.

Exactly what we need more of on this forum.

**Vai**

I clean up after my dogs everytime. Im a great lad.

Seriously, doesn't take much. Poo bags cost next to nothing. Makes me so angry when I step in someones dogs sh1t.

anaya

Sorry, spell mistake

BillyMitchel

Always clean up after mine and he craps mountains, although accidents have happened. What really pisses me off is people who pick it up and then just leave the stupid little sh*t bag there. Whats the focking point like?!

anaya

**Vai** wrote: »

I clean up after my dogs everytime. Im a great lad.

Seriously, doesn't take much. Poo bags cost next to nothing. Makes me so angry when I step in someones dogs sh1t.

Thank you for doing that, we all really appreciate that

DipStick McSwindler

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anaya

lkionm wrote: »

Did someone mention dirty protest?

Nope just sick and tired of it, once I brought it home under my boot and my home smelled like poop for a week

anaya

Surveyor11 wrote: »

Latest trend around my neighbourhood is to pick it up and hang it in poo bags off the nearest tree/post/gate. Would rather they just left the sh!te there on the ground TBH

I never saw it and I wish I don't see it ..

**Vai**

http://www.independent.ie/world-news/europe/return-to-sender-spanish-town-sending-dog-poo-back-to-owners-29325197.html

mr bungle.

frank reynolds wrote: »

they should all be chemically castrated, or put on the list for forced sterilisation. isnt that how it goes???

The owners or the dogs ? :-)

BillyMitchel

anaya wrote: »

Nope just sick and tired of it, once I brought it home under my boot and my home smelled like poop for a week

Did you walk on it or rub it on yourself?!

The Backwards Man

Ban everyone that doesn't have at least ten acres of their own land from owning dogs.

anaya

BillyMitchel wrote: »

Did you walk on it or rub it on yourself?!

Seems like you have experience rubbing it on yourself?

**Vai**

The Backwards Man wrote: »

Ban everyone that doesn't have at least ten acres of their own land from owning dogs.

Yeah! And kids!

ozmo

Tiddlypeeps wrote: »

I'll admit that I don't tidy up after my dogs (I really should start)

Maybe better enforcement of fines would help:

Dog Owners Responsibilities - Contact 8906264

Dog fouling in public places is the biggest public nuisance created by irresponsible dog owners.It is noxious, dangerous and a source of diseases to humans including Toxocariasis (blindness in children) and Campylobacter (acute gastroenteritis). The law is quite specific: do not let your dog foul in a public place and if it does foul in a public place you must collect the waste and put it in a litter bin. It is as easy as taking a plastic bag with you every time you walk your dog in a public place.
If you don't clean up your dog's waste you could be fined €150 by a litter warden or receive a fine up to €3,000 in the District Court.

link

anaya

**Vai** wrote: »

http://www.independent.ie/world-news/europe/return-to-sender-spanish-town-sending-dog-poo-back-to-owners-29325197.html

ha ha ha you made my day

Meritocracy Wins

Picking up sh1t after a dog is why I don't have one.

**Vai**

anaya wrote: »

ha ha ha you made my day

Great idea though isn't it? Dunno if you would get the volunteers here.

Felexicon

Only started picking up after my dog recently because we've moved to an area with a lot of kids in neighbouring houses. I don't mind if I'm out in a field a step in a bit of shít but if it's a footpath, park or residential area you need to bag those bad boys.

McDermotX

Animals are crapping in our houses and we’re picking it up! Did we lose a war?

Tiddlypeeps

Tiddlypeeps wrote: »

I think a lot of it has to do with the whole "nobody else does it so I'm not gonna bother" mentality.

I'll admit that I don't tidy up after my dogs (I really should start) and the main reason is that they stop to pee on or sniff another dogs poop every 10 feet. Another poop in that mine field isn't really gonna make a difference.

You just shouldn't let him stop anyway, he could pick up any number of things from other dogs pi*s and s*it. A could firm pull on the lead every time he tries to stop will keep him moving.

Also other people not cleaning up is not a reason for you not to, maybe its everyone having this mentality that there is so much of it around.

starviewadams

Or why do people bother bagging it and then just tying the bag to a branch of a tree or on to some railings?

BillyMitchel

anaya wrote: »

Seems like you have experience rubbing it on yourself?

No just on others! Fancy it sometime??!

**Vai**

McDermotX wrote: »

Animals are crapping in our houses and we’re picking it up! Did we lose a war?

I think its the crapping outside that is up for discussion here. If your dog is crapping in your house that's a whole other kettle of fish!

starviewadams wrote: »

Or why do people bother bagging it and then just tying the bag to a branch of a tree or on to some railings?

Never seen that but yeah its ridiculous. I dump it in the nearest public bin. I know you're supposed to take it home but Im a member of the public and its a public bin.

Honey-ec

Where I live, practically everyone who walks their dogs picks up after them. I'd imagine it's dogs that are left to roam that are the bigger issue in certain areas.

gobnaitolunacy

Same reason people throw stuff out of car windows and dump refuse sacks full of rubbish at the side of the road, they just couldn't be arsed.

wildlifeboy

if my dog makes motions to go on a path i pull the lead and he stops i wait until we are in the woods or beside a hedge and let him go. i bring bags but if he goes in the woods i just fling it into the shrubery or the hedge. ifs its on concrete i pick it up. simples.

Dravokivich

anaya wrote: »

Its like a poop hell, I live in Dublin 15 but its everywhere. Can't step even think of stepping on the grass and even on pathways feel like picking it up and putting it on the front door of the dog owners or throw it inside their homes....

In Carpenterstown myself and there's some fúcker around here who bags it and hangs it off fences. Do they expect it to magic it's way to a bin or something...

ozmo

Dravokivich wrote: »

In Carpenterstown myself and there's some fúcker around here who bags it and hangs it off fences. Do they expect it to magic it's way to a bin or something...

Maybe its a kind of protest -
"There Ive bagged it... my job is done"

kylith

Tiddlypeeps wrote: »

I think a lot of it has to do with the whole "nobody else does it so I'm not gonna bother" mentality.

I'll admit that I don't tidy up after my dogs (I really should start) and the main reason is that they stop to pee on or sniff another dogs poop every 10 feet. Another poop in that mine field isn't really gonna make a difference.

And that's why there's dog crap everywhere; because of all the other people thinking 'well, one more won't make any difference'. Shame on you for giving us all a bad name.

I clean up after my dogs and I carry the bagged poo to the bin (the numbers of which declined sharply before the British queen's visit and haven't gone back up).

Now, maybe I should start a thread with sweeping generalisations about people, because of all the rubbish, half-eaten sandwiches, sweet wrappers, and general other man-made detritus that I see littering footpaths every day. Especially the junkie shíte under the bridges on the canal.

El Guapo!

I usually always clean up after my dog. But he was sick a while ago and had diarrhoea. He scuttered a puddle of it onto the grass and I had to leave it. Some woman stopped me and started going mad at me for not picking it up. How the fcuk was I supposed to pick that up?! With a straw?!!

jimgoose

El Guapo! wrote: »

I usually always clean up after my dog. But he was sick a while ago and had diarrhoea. He scuttered a puddle of it onto the grass and I had to leave it. Some woman stopped me and started going mad at me for not picking it up. How the fcuk was I supposed to pick that up?! With a straw?!!

I don't know why they have those "Ná Scoitear" signs on motorways and never around greens or footpaths. I mean, who walks a dog on a motorway??

Surveyor11

Dravokivich wrote: »

In Carpenterstown myself and there's some fúcker around here who bags it and hangs it off fences. Do they expect it to magic it's way to a bin or something...

yep same here, noticed about 2 or 3 bags of sh!te hanging up in Riverwood this morning between my house and walk to my kids school. Will be putting this person right if I catch him - we've campaigned for bins long enough with Fingal for some lazy [EMAIL="tw@t"]tw@t[/EMAIL] to make some sort of decoration of them. Sometimes it's just bagged and left on the ground to fester.

stoneill

Some people think that they are too good to pick up dog ****e.
Saw it last night in Griffeen Valley Park - kids were doing their GAA training and in come a couple walking their dog, dog stops right beside the kids to take a crap meanwhile yer man in his A&F t-shirt and yer was in her oversized Gucci sunglasses pretend the dog isn't having a gick.
Luckily I have a stash of dog poo bags, any responsible owner have pockets full of them.
I walked over, said nothing, handed them a bag and embarrassed the gick out of them to pick up the poo.

anaya

BillyMitchel wrote: »

No just on others! Fancy it sometime??!

hahahaa:D

anaya

stoneill wrote: »

Some people think that they are too good to pick up dog ****e.
Saw it last night in Griffeen Valley Park - kids were doing their GAA training and in come a couple walking their dog, dog stops right beside the kids to take a crap meanwhile yer man in his A&F t-shirt and yer was in her oversized Gucci sunglasses pretend the dog isn't having a gick.
Luckily I have a stash of dog poo bags, any responsible owner have pockets full of them.
I walked over, said nothing, handed them a bag and embarrassed the gick out of them to pick up the poo.

You said everything without saying anything, that's the politest..;)

anaya

starviewadams wrote: »

Or why do people bother bagging it and then just tying the bag to a branch of a tree or on to some railings?

That doesn't make sense, the hard part is done, why why leaving the easy part undone?

starviewadams

Baffles me too,but nearly every field in my estate has dozens of bags of dog mess tied to the railings and hanging off tree branches.Disgusting looking.

Council usual collect them every few weeks.

looking_around

don't know, maybe you should ask the next dog walker you see walking away from their dogs sh!te