# Hey asshole! Clean up after your dog! **URL:** \ **Category:** The BBQ Pit\ **Created:** [April 28, 2010, 11:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hey-asshole-clean-up-after-your-dog/537682 "2010-04-28T23:56:15Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 4
**Author:** ![Voyager](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/voyager/32/133_2.png) [@Voyager](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Voyager)\ **Post date:** [April 29, 2010, 7:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hey-asshole-clean-up-after-your-dog/537682/61 "2010-04-29T19:36:24Z")
> [@ivan\_astikov](#): > > And if we were talking about dogs shitting on people’s door steps, you’d be within your rights to get a laugh out of my reaction, but, as we are not… aww, who could be bothered by a little poop where they walk? ---
**Author:** ![Drunky\_Smurf](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/drunky_smurf/32/449_2.png) [@Drunky\_Smurf](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Drunky_Smurf)\ **Post date:** [April 29, 2010, 7:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hey-asshole-clean-up-after-your-dog/537682/62 "2010-04-29T19:41:15Z")
> [@kaylasdad99](#): > > In re: Post #48 > > I think **bucketybuck** needs a hug. {{{huggsies}}} **bucketybuck** ---
**Author:** ![ivan\_astikov](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/58f4c7/32.png) [@ivan\_astikov](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ivan_astikov)\ **Post date:** [April 29, 2010, 7:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hey-asshole-clean-up-after-your-dog/537682/63 "2010-04-29T19:45:23Z")
> [@Voyager](#): > > aww, who could be bothered by a little poop where they walk? We were talking about dogs shitting in public places. My doorstep does not fall into that category, so your “prank” would be like you seeing someone vomiting outdoors, then following them home and vomiting on their doorstep because they didn’t clear it up. Personally, I fail to see the humour value. ---
**Author:** ![muldoonthief](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/muldoonthief/32/3188_2.png) [@muldoonthief](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/muldoonthief)\ **Post date:** [April 29, 2010, 7:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hey-asshole-clean-up-after-your-dog/537682/64 "2010-04-29T19:52:26Z")
> [@Justin\_Bailey](#): > > This is a _ **online message board** _ you shit stain. Complaining about petty annoyances was practically the reason the Internet was built. Well, that and porn. Mostly the porn. ---
**Author:** ![Mooch](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/7bcc69/32.png) [@Mooch](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mooch)\ **Post date:** [April 29, 2010, 7:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hey-asshole-clean-up-after-your-dog/537682/65 "2010-04-29T19:54:46Z")
> [@ivan\_astikov](#): > > We were talking about dogs shitting in public places. My doorstep does not fall into that category, so your “prank” would be like you seeing someone vomiting outdoors, then following them home and vomiting on their doorstep because they didn’t clear it up. > > Personally, I fail to see the humour value. Speak for yourself. I’m fucking dying over here imagining someone sticking their finger down their throat puking on someone’s doorstep because they barfed in public. Holy shit! _RALPH_ ---
**Author:** ![Voyager](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/voyager/32/133_2.png) [@Voyager](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Voyager)\ **Post date:** [April 29, 2010, 10:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hey-asshole-clean-up-after-your-dog/537682/66 "2010-04-29T22:53:52Z")
> [@ivan\_astikov](#): > > We were talking about dogs shitting in public places. My doorstep does not fall into that category, so your “prank” would be like you seeing someone vomiting outdoors, then following them home and vomiting on their doorstep because they didn’t clear it up. > > Personally, I fail to see the humour value. No, we’re talking about how obnoxious it is to not clean up after your dog in a place where people walk. Since you claim it is no big deal, why should it be where you walk? I clean up after my dog, because I don’t think you should leave presents for anyone anywhere. You seem to think it is fine so long as you don’t walk there. I’d don’t share your barf fetish, so I won’t comment on that. Whatever turns you on. ---
**Author:** ![cochrane](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cochrane/32/10441_2.png) [@cochrane](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/cochrane)\ **Post date:** [April 30, 2010, 1:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hey-asshole-clean-up-after-your-dog/537682/67 "2010-04-30T01:21:55Z")
> [@Yllaria](#): > > As a dog owner, I’d be worried about worms and other parasites in off-trail mounds. Good point. Feces is a noted vector for diseases, as well, especially parvovirus. Only an irresponsible owner would walk a sick dog, but that’s the type who would leave the shit lie anyway. On trail or off, picking up the poop is not only an act of consideration for other humans, but also, keeps disease from spreading to their animals. ---
**Author:** ![Eyebrows\_0f\_Doom](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/eyebrows_0f_doom/32/3119_2.png) [@Eyebrows\_0f\_Doom](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Eyebrows_0f_Doom)\ **Post date:** [April 30, 2010, 4:53am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hey-asshole-clean-up-after-your-dog/537682/68 "2010-04-30T04:53:35Z")
> [@StusBlues](#): > > Nah. He just trolls the pit bitching about people who post here. That’s **ivn**. This \*\*ivan \*\*is the criminal one who used to burglarize people’s homes. ---
**Author:** ![Stan\_Shmenge](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/94ad74/32.png) [@Stan\_Shmenge](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Stan_Shmenge)\ **Post date:** [April 30, 2010, 7:55am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hey-asshole-clean-up-after-your-dog/537682/69 "2010-04-30T07:55:13Z")
I have always been told that the Illegal Aliens were here to do the jobs Americans don’t want to do, so we must welcome them, at any cost. I am an American. I don’t want to do the job of cleaning up my dog’s shit. Have at it, guys! I try to make sure my dog squats on that property you always use your leaf blowers on, at nine o’clock on Sunday morning, even when there are no leaves around. Seriously, what the fuck is up with that? EABOD. KTHNKSBY. ---
**Author:** ![ivan\_astikov](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/58f4c7/32.png) [@ivan\_astikov](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ivan_astikov)\ **Post date:** [April 30, 2010, 8:13am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hey-asshole-clean-up-after-your-dog/537682/70 "2010-04-30T08:13:29Z")
> [@Eyebrows\_0f\_Doom](#): > > That’s **ivn**. This \*\*ivan \*\*is the criminal one who used to burglarize people’s homes. Actually, I used to expose their security failings. For a fee, of course! ---
**Author:** ![chela](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/chela/32/21582_2.png) [@chela](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/chela)\ **Post date:** [April 30, 2010, 12:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hey-asshole-clean-up-after-your-dog/537682/71 "2010-04-30T12:45:37Z")
> [@Mooch](#): > > As a responsible dog owner who cleans up after his dog, I would have suggested that you stuff it. So, Miss Responsibility gives not a crap about letting her pooch trespass on other peoples property? Just because you carry a doggy doo doo bag you think your dog is off the hook for pissing in my flowers? :rolleyes: ---
**Author:** ![panman\_1960](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/919ad9/32.png) [@panman\_1960](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/panman_1960)\ **Post date:** [April 30, 2010, 3:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hey-asshole-clean-up-after-your-dog/537682/72 "2010-04-30T15:42:03Z")
While we are on the subject… SHIT! I really enjoy being in my back yard, tending my garden, when the evening breeze brings along that wonderful aroma from the neighbors yard full of shit. Inconsiderate douchebag won’t pick up his own back yard so, while I’m grilling my family dinner, we have clouds of flies that are born on a yard full of dog shit! Oh yeah, I loves me some dog shit! I train my to large dogs not to go in the garden, and their crap is picked up daily. Sure fucknuts, the rain washes it away but it doesn’t rain every morning! Flies are natures way of cleaning dead animals, but your dog IS YOUR FUCKING RESPONSIBILITY! Why should I have to spend $ on yard guard to enjoy a wonderful evening dinner on my patio? Guess it’s also my respnsibility to buy supersize cans o Fabreeze to mask the odor too! Fuckingshitforbrains! Whew, I fell better now… venting is good! later, Tom. ---
**Author:** ![Labrador\_Deceiver](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/7c8e57/32.png) [@Labrador\_Deceiver](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Labrador_Deceiver)\ **Post date:** [April 30, 2010, 4:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hey-asshole-clean-up-after-your-dog/537682/73 "2010-04-30T16:07:07Z")
> [@chela](#): > > So, Miss Responsibility gives not a crap about letting her pooch trespass on other peoples property? Just because you carry a doggy doo doo bag you think your dog is off the hook for pissing in my flowers? :rolleyes: Before you accuse people of trespassing, you may want to check on your local right-of-way laws. They differ from place to place. ---
**Author:** ![Alice\_The\_Goon](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ed8c4c/32.png) [@Alice\_The\_Goon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Alice_The_Goon)\ **Post date:** [April 30, 2010, 4:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hey-asshole-clean-up-after-your-dog/537682/74 "2010-04-30T16:08:53Z")
> [@panman\_1960](#): > > While we are on the subject… SHIT! I really enjoy being in my back yard, tending my garden, when the evening breeze brings along that wonderful aroma from the neighbors yard full of shit. Inconsiderate douchebag won’t pick up his own back yard so, while I’m grilling my family dinner, we have clouds of flies that are born on a yard full of dog shit! Oh yeah, I loves me some dog shit! I train my to large dogs not to go in the garden, and their crap is picked up daily. Sure fucknuts, the rain washes it away but it doesn’t rain every morning! Flies are natures way of cleaning dead animals, but your dog IS YOUR FUCKING RESPONSIBILITY! Why should I have to spend $ on yard guard to enjoy a wonderful evening dinner on my patio? Guess it’s also my respnsibility to buy supersize cans o Fabreeze to mask the odor too! Fuckingshitforbrains! > > Whew, I fell better now… venting is good! > > later, Tom. You know, here you can report this to Animal Control, even anonymously, and they’ll take action against it. ---
**Author:** ![Sister\_Vigilante](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/9de0a6/32.png) [@Sister\_Vigilante](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sister_Vigilante)\ **Post date:** [April 30, 2010, 5:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hey-asshole-clean-up-after-your-dog/537682/75 "2010-04-30T17:15:17Z")
I wasn’t aware that one was legally required to pick up their dog’s poo on their own property. Anyway, an ex-neighbor of mine would walk his dog, on leash, into my front yard to poo. I caught him once when the dog squatted right in front of my basement window. I knocked on the window, caught the dog’s attention, at which point he was promptly yanked away. The next day I went out to find a minefield in that portion of my yard. I put every piece right back in his yard. ---
**Author:** ![chela](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/chela/32/21582_2.png) [@chela](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/chela)\ **Post date:** [April 30, 2010, 5:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hey-asshole-clean-up-after-your-dog/537682/76 "2010-04-30T17:28:53Z")
> [@Labrador\_Deceiver](#): > > Before you accuse people of trespassing, you may want to check on your local right-of-way laws. They differ from place to place. Are you telling me that there are local ROW laws that pertains to dogs on leashes squatting in yards?:dubious: ---
**Author:** ![Alice\_The\_Goon](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ed8c4c/32.png) [@Alice\_The\_Goon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Alice_The_Goon)\ **Post date:** [April 30, 2010, 5:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hey-asshole-clean-up-after-your-dog/537682/77 "2010-04-30T17:33:42Z")
> [@Sister\_Vigilante](#): > > I wasn’t aware that one was legally required to pick up their dog’s poo on their own property. Yup. I don’t know about your city, but here it needs to be picked up within 24 hours. [Cite](http://www.pimaanimalcare.org/citucsonwaste.html). ---
**Author:** ![Cat\_Whisperer](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cat_whisperer/32/4839_2.png) [@Cat\_Whisperer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cat_Whisperer)\ **Post date:** [April 30, 2010, 7:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hey-asshole-clean-up-after-your-dog/537682/78 "2010-04-30T19:02:37Z")
> [@chela](#): > > Are you telling me that there are local ROW laws that pertains to dogs on leashes squatting in yards?:dubious: Actually, the first meter of my front yard isn’t actually mine; it’s city right-of-way. Your meterage may vary, of course. ---
**Author:** ![Chessic\_Sense](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/7c8e57/32.png) [@Chessic\_Sense](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chessic_Sense)\ **Post date:** [April 30, 2010, 7:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hey-asshole-clean-up-after-your-dog/537682/79 "2010-04-30T19:32:20Z")
Someone mind explaining this “…and shit” thing to me? I’ve seen it in threads beside this one. It makes no sense. Is it supposed to be funny? ---
**Author:** ![billfish678](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/7bcc69/32.png) [@billfish678](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/billfish678)\ **Post date:** [April 30, 2010, 7:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hey-asshole-clean-up-after-your-dog/537682/80 "2010-04-30T19:50:05Z")
Here is my question. Say there is a big snow storm the previous night. My little Mr Poopers really has to go. So I shovel the snow off of the city right of way so Mr Poopers can drop a load. Do I get total dibbs on my shoveled out place (and if so for how long?) or is that space free for anybody to use? [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hey-asshole-clean-up-after-your-dog/537682.md?page=3) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hey-asshole-clean-up-after-your-dog/537682.md?page=5)