Pet owners!

The BBQ Pit
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Last night, I take my kids to a park with a couple of other families. Its a lovely secluded sopt behind a church (on church property - open to the public) brang-fucking-new equipment, beautiful spot near the woods - get the picture - its fucking lovely!

Out of the woods come a young (20’s-30’s) yuppie couple, well dressed, with a poodle. They carry the leash, but the well trained poodle doesnt stray from their sides…
except to shit near the playground equipment… on the grass… where little kids PLAY!!! Not once mind you, but TWICE!!! this little fucking SHIT MACHINE craps in a motherfucking PLAYGROUND on church property!!!

The yuppies look on proudly, and walk on.

Honestly, I almost said something, but I was too pissed off to trust myself.

These are affluent people, educated, and they are on PRIVATE property, owned by a church with a playground… I cant think of a dirtier thing to do.

And to be fair - cat owners.

Grrrrr, I wont debate ‘cats instincts to roam’ or any of that crap. I will tell you that if your cat is in my yard - its MY CAT NOW!!!

You car is shitting in my flowerbed, its pissing on my trash - when it doesnt tear it open and spread it all over the place.

Worst of all, your cat is making my cat want to go outside!!! I dont want my cat outside. I like him all nice and clean with no fleas, or diseases. I like the shape of his head now, as opposed to the flat look a car will give it.

I WILL catch your fucking cat, and you wont get it back till YOU pay the SPCA for all its shots and boarding costs.

Cold hard fact - rabies has crossed the border from Maine to New Brunswick. There have been confirmed cases only 4 hours away from my home. The days of letting pets wander the streets without collars and tags and shots IS OVER!

I am gonna catch those damned cats… just watch me.
Why oh WHY, cant people be responsible with their animals?
If I wanted my kids to play in dogshit, I would get a fucking dog. If I wanted trash all over the place, I would do it myself!

Aaaaaaaaahhhhhhhhh!!

As I cant get a trap from the SPCA just yet (and I DO feel a bit sorry for the cats) is there a humane way to get them out of my yard? (no I cant fence it)

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Is there a reason why you specifically describe these people as “Yuppies”?

Does that somehow make the behavior you describe worse?

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Maybe it does for me… good question.

I guess Chris, I just expected people of that age, who arent uneducated trash, to have more respect for other people, and for church property. I surely didnt mean Yuppie as an insult. (Young Urban Professional isnt it?)

Maybe I would have been just as outraged if it had been some drunken scumbag walking his big vicious dog… but I wouldnt have been so stunned.

Or if they had been elderly, or disabled somehow, I could have understood…maybe they couldnt pyhsically clean up after their animal.

I guess its a stereotype I carry in my mind - educated people my age just know better.

Huh. Never really though about it that way. Does that make me a bad person? Am I prejudiced? :eek:

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My typing tonight is atrocious. It looks like I am drunk!

I wish I could fix all my typos, I am proofing - -swear it!- but I am missing them.

Its after 2 am here, time for bed,
night

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Sounds to me like you are. But if it makes you feel any better, I think we all are.

You had a preconceived idea of that person based solely on their physical appearance and nothing more. You were stunned in the above instance because that behavior came from segment of society that you don’t expect it to come from. You expect a ‘yuppie’ to act a certain way and a ‘bum’ to act another way.

Would you be as stunned as you were in the above scenario had it been a drunken scumbag who instead of walking away nonchalant, reached into his/her pocket and grabbed a bag and picked up the droppings?

Probably.

Welcome to the real world where people continue to act in ways that you’d never expect them to act.

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I beg to differ. My car is very well-behaved and has been trained never to leave the garage or parking space it’s in without my supervision.

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Hey, kelli.
KELLI!!!

A little hung over today?

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Eh, maybe she’s just taking her kids to the park on a lovely Sunday afternoon, Chris. Some of us do have lives outside the SDMB, you know. :wink:

And FWIW, I’m with Kelli on this one–I’d be shocked to see two nice-looking people with a poodle letting it crap all over a private playground, whereas I wouldn’t be shocked to see a drunken bum let his mangy old Heinz 57 dog do the same thing. So people got prejudices. Go figure. [shrug] We expect better things of people who look nice, and we don’t expect much of people who look like they’ve been sleeping on a park bench with a dog all night. That’s why we teach our children to comb their hair and put on clean underwear every day–so people who see them will think they are nice people.

On the “neighbor’s cat” thing, experience teaches us that there’s not a whole lot you can do, other than trapping and “disappearing” the beast. Dunno about the legal aspect, but I’m pretty sure if you tried to hold their cat hostage by refusing to give it back until they paid kennel and inoculation costs, that the law would be on their side.

Just a WAG. You have my sympathies.

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No fuckin’ way??? :stuck_out_tongue:

I’m feeling persnickety and so I’m going to town on this one. Has nothing to do with the fact that I love your posts, and admire your mindset. This one ticks me off, DDG.

I have sometimes shown up in a fancy hotel dressed like shit, covered in white stains on my shirt from dried sweat,hauling a Magliner filled with battered equipment cases, looking to check into my room. Why should I be treated like garbage UNTIL I provide a Gold Amex card and a confirmation number for my room?? Since when is it written that nicely dressed adults with cologne and clean boxers aren’t abusive sick dangerous unstable killers who take their wives bodies and dismember them, then dump the body parts from an airplane out at sea? ( Such was the case in NY State, last year the prestigious surgeon who did his wife was convicted).

I dress as I wish for work, and am judged by the quality of the work, not by my attire. While I encourage my kids to present themselves at school in a clean manner, they chose their wardrobe ( with caveats of course- I don’t let them run wild).

Yeah, I’ve got my share of prejudices too. Assuming that dress equals human decency just ain’t one of 'em.

Cartooniverse

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I agree completely Cartooniverse. I loved my last two jobs because I could dress however the fuck I wanted, do what I wanted to my face, hair, eyebrows, arms, hands. It was great. I was judged on my work. Unfortunately, much as I’d like the world to accept me, it doesn’t. I know that if I’m travelling and want to get bumped to first class, I’d better look respectable. If I want people to put forth that extra effort, I should look nice.
And on to the rant. I don’t know about there, but here, letting your dogs poop and not cleaning it up is illegal. I would have gone up to them and made them clean it up, or else threatened to call the cops. "What, you don’t have a baggy? Guess you’ll just have to use your hands then! :smiley: " I hate people who don’t clean up their dog shit. What the fuck is their problem?

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I was sober as hell last night, just wicked wicked tired!

I didnt mean I would personally hold the cat, I meant if I get an SPCA trap, and take the cat in as a stray, the owners have to pay the pound for the shots etc the animal receives.

Today I was hostessing a ‘Fantasia’ party - the kind with the lotins and adult toys :smiley:

See, I have a life off the board! :wink:

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Hey Kelli, I think I can go one better. Last summer, I was at the local open air mall. There was a very nicely dressed woman with a beautiful greyhound, probably with a pedigree. Right in the middle of the mall, this dog takes an enourmous shit, while the woman watches with a faint smile on her face. And than she just walks away! All she had to do was go ten feet in any direction to get a plastic bag, but no, to much work for this fucking aristocrat. Too good to clean up after her damn dog.

This sort of thing is surprisingly rare. A lot of people bring their dogs to that mall, which has a nice, sunny plaza-type thing in the middle. Most of the dogs there (mine included) are very well behaved, and their owners are apparently very good about picking up after them but it only takes a handful of people like that one to get the mall to change their pet policy. Stupid bitch.

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May the assholes down the block who let their huge pitbull/rotweiler (I don’t know which it is, and to be honest, I ain’t about to get close enough to it to check) who fucking shits in my yard almost EVERY MOTHERFUCKING DAY rot in hell.

Thank you. I feel a little bit better now. I just get so pissed that I can’t even let my kids play in my own fucking yard without cleaning it up first.

And yes, it’s a $500 fine here in lovely Spiffeld to not clean up after your dog - but when I called the local P.D. on these fucks, I was told that it was my responsibility to confront these inbred losers about their shit-leaving mongrel. Yeah, right. I think I value my life a little bit more than that.

–tygre

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<<gulp>> kelli, if I ask VERY nicely and shower first, can I come dressed as Leopold Stokowski??? I have this kind of sleek sharkskin suit that is cut out of black and looks like a tux and I have this glowing baton and Capezios…and…and… :eek:

I’d best stop here. :smiley:

Cartooniverse

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Gotta ask:

Did you ask/remind these knuckleheads to pick up the poop? Most pet owners I’ve confronted will. You’re right that they shouldn’t need a reminder, but then… well, they are yuppies.
(That sounds a lot like puppies… which probably equates to the same degree of scatological responsibilty.)

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You expect people to know better. It shocks me, working my internship at a museum…finding fingerprints on displays, a PENCIL SLASH on a portrait-a repro, so it’s not bad, just annoying, people stealing little things from interactive things we have set up…and an APPLE sitting on a display.
Sheesh.

But yeah, people who don’t take care of their pets, or let them roam all over creation are pretty far down on my list of favorite people, to put it mildly.