That’s what we do, unless we’re at the park or at a place where there’s a public trash barrel. We have friends and family who are dog lovers, but they don’t want the poop anywhere near their house – we will actually bring the bag with us when leaving and dispose of it as soon as we find a public trash barrel. Or we’ll bring it home and dispose it in ours.
And yes, it can get pretty rank
But you know what? I’m a dog owner, and I’m responsible for her. I simply don’t understand why some dog owners refuse to admit this.
What a strange rant. What an odd thing to be blinded by rage about.
I do have a dog, but he won’t poop in public - only in his own back yard (and seldom in the front or when someone might be looking - yes, I have a dog with privacy concerns about his bowels), so this hasn’t been much of an issue. If we go to the dog park with him, he may be comfortable enough to poop, and I always bring bags in case he surprises me…but I’m not saying this to be defensive.
Trash is, in my mind trash. Trash cans around here are owned by the trash company. Bagged poop (and as the owner of a large dog who only poops in his yard, I’ve dealt with a lot of it) in a tied poop bag thrown in the trash does not stink and does not smear all over the trash - because its in a bag. I’ve never had a poop bag explode when we put something heavy on top of it. It would never occur to me that this would be a deal for anyone that wasn’t a jerk.
I also, however, don’t make a habit of looking inside my empty trash bin when I roll in back into the garage on Friday afternoons. Other than the “rinse it out, throw some bleach in it, rinse it out” in the Spring - thinking about the inside of my trash can isn’t something I waste brain cells on.
This propably won’t be so funny to you who weren’t there but it has provided my husband and me with many laughs.
A couple of years ago we visited my husband’s brother and his wife in their ritzy gated community in San Diego. She was really putting on the airs while we were there.
One morning the two of us went for a walk around the complex and, at the edge, overlooking a steep grassy hill was a crude sign written by the (apparently not so ritzy) managers.
It read, “WE KNOW WHO’S THROWING POOP DOWN HERE SO STOP IT.” Sure 'nuff. The hillside was littered with the evidence.
We took a picture of the sign and it’s still our favorite photo of our visit. Really ticked the sis-in-law off. Heh.
This is what stuck me as well. Its a garbage can fercrissakes. Stinky gross stuff that has nothing to do with poop goes in there, Who inspects the inside of their can every week?
OP, are you required to use a certain trash can by the city/town? Because if you’re not, and a sign doesn’t do the trick, they do sell locking trash cans. Or, maybe following these directions, you can modify the existing can and save yourself money.
I certainly don’t inspect the inside of my can every week. The trash guys might miss a poop bag that was down at the bottom, though. I’ll only discover this if they leave the can upended at the end of the driveway. I just put it back in and wait until next week :shrug:
But if you lock it then the sanitation guys can’t empty it. If you unlock it on trash day, you still have the problem of people putting bags of poop in the can once a week.
I am nearly positive that a sign that says “no poop please” will do the trick.
I assume a lot of the opinions here are shaped by your local trash situation. As I mentioned upthread, you could put dead bodies in my trash can, I wouldn’t care. Hell, I might not even notice. (You think I’m joking, but I am being quite literal here.) In Chicago, trash bins are property of the city. I’ve never heard of anyone keeping them anywhere but out in the alleyway behind their house, near the garage (assuming they own a house.) To my knowledge, nobody ever takes them inside, not even inside the garage. Why would they? I’m not even entirely sure you are allowed to take them inside, even if you wanted to. But I understand most localities are not set up like this. Still, for me, it’s just trash. I’m not possessive about it for that reason. It’s just a plastic container that sits outside in the alley. I don’t need to maintain it. I don’t clean it. It’s just a place to put garbage.
I wish that was the case here; if I walked along the path near my house, I’d probably count about 15 or so mounds right now. We do have a problem around here with people walking their dogs off-leash in on-leash areas, though - I think it’s symptomatic of a larger problem here with people not understanding what their responsibilities are as a dog-owner in a large city.
Our bins are owned by the company that has the concession from the County to take the trash. Most people in my neighborhood only put them out on trash day and then they go in the garage for the rest of the week. Monday is green ones for leaves, cut grass, etc. and brown ones for household garbage, dog poop bags, etc. Wednesday is blue ones for recyclables. Obviously, different neighborhoods have different days. Some people leave their cans out all week which I am sure, especially after reading this thread, pisses people off but I don’t care at all.
Of course I don’t want my trash can smelling like trash. So gross. When the pooch needs to bend out a biscuit on someone’s lawn I pull out a brightly colored bag and make a big show about bending down to pick it up only to just smear it around in the grass so it only looks like I cleaned it up. No poop in your trash, no poop in my trash, everybody is happy!
Not really.
But really, it’s a trash can. It’s supposed to stink. Leave a note if it chaps your hide so much. You should smell my can after a crawfish boil.
Maybe switch to just leaving your filled garbage bags at the curb instead of the whole can? Not that you should have to do that, but that’s just how almost everyone does it here. Can’t throw poop in your can if the can’s not where they can get to it.
Not that you should have to change to stop their bad behavior, just it might be easier than having a coronary finding poop in your cans over and over.
When I’m in a baggin’ mood I often toss the bag aside and pick it up on the return trip. That way I don’t have to carry a bag of shit for the whole 1-1/2 mile walk. My dog usually poops in the first 5 minutes and I’ve never failed to get the bag on the way back.
P.S., this is on seldom used (except by other dog walkers) city park land, not peoples front yards.
Where is he? Honestly, I don’t think that legally speaking, “your” trash bins at actually yours. And keeping them inside your garage? That’s just gross, dog poop or not.
I keep my trash bins outside most of the year, but keep them in the garage during the winter. This is because the bins get in the way when clearing snow, and if they blow into the side of the house during freezing weather, they are likely to damage the siding of the house. (The vinyl siding gets brittle in freezing weather.)
So, am I truly the only dog owner here who has put on his jacket, thrust his hands in his pocket, and momentarily wondered, “What is that?”. Yep, my SOP is to tie off the bag and stick it in my pocket, to dispose when I come to a public can or get home.
On occasion, when trash cans were out to be picked up, I have put a bag in a can. Seriously never crossed my mind that any sane person would object, until it was discussed here some while back. I wouldn’t, however, put it in an empty can after trash had been collected.
Just read this thread, and I’m kinda underwhelmed by the outrage. The garbagemen here flip the bins upside-down after they empty them, so the only opportunity for the turd burglars to use our bin is right before they’re emptied anyway. I’d much prefer that to what some people here have apparently been doing, which is dropping them down the storm drain in front of our driveway. Which drains into a ditch leading to the creek out in the back yard. After a rainstorm, there might be 3 or 4 baggies waiting to be fished out of the mud back there. And who knows how many actually make it to the creek itself. Disgusting.
