The park has rules and regulations for your doggie poop. There are garbage cans. There are plastic bags. There are signs. There are fines. But STILL I have to step around your giant doggie’s giant doo in the freakin’ middle of the grassy plain.
Beer bottles? Pick it up, kids play here! I shouldn’t find bits of broken glass. I always carry them back and get rid of them, or bury them, or something.
And the litterers. Litterers get me really really mad. :mad: We all live here, we all must work together to keep the place clean, for if we do not, what we must do, does not get done! (20 points to anyone who can ID *that * quote!)
I find dog poop in my front lawn all the time. And I do not own a dog. If I find out who’s doing it, I’ll stomp him. But that’s not really likely to happen.
There really is no excuse for leaving your dog’s poop in the park (or anywhere but your own yard, for that matter). You can buy disposable scoops where you don’t even have to touch anything to pick it up.
I have two dogs who both seem to “bank” poop just for walks. (Perhaps they are amused by the sight of me scooping it up.) I also have a weak stomach, so leaving behind the smelly piles would be very tempting. But, though it may come as a shock to some, owning a dog comes with responsibilities.
As for the glass, I honestly think some creeps like the idea of people getting cut-- there’s no other reason to break the bottles in a place like a playground.
I have a small dog, a lovely girl named Bernadette. She has to go outside to poop. Attached to her leash is a small little cylinder with doggie bags in it. I am a respectful dog owner. If my dog poops, I clean it up.
HOWEVER, this is what pisses me off. People who bitch about her eliminating. Hey - you see me picking it up. Hey, that’s a piddle - what would you have me do with that? Yeah, it’s a lawn, but where would you have her piddle? Sidewalk? I am respectful, I clean up her waste, step around the other large piles in the same areas, and people bitch at my Bernadette for other dogs’ poos. Look - she’s a small dog - do you really think THAT came from her? It’s twice the size of her head, fer chrissakes.
I can’t walk her in the local park - they have rules about no dogs. I respect that. Other grassy areas are fair game, as long as I clean up. Cripes, you’re peeved cause she piddled on your wood-chipped lawn? Get ooooover it.
I’ve even run out of bags, gone home, gotten a bag and cleaned up. Still get bitched at. Just what do people think she should do?
I’ve actually seen shrubs burned away by dogpiss. It ain’t pretty. I don’t let my dog piss on shrubs anymore - he’s gotten used to looking for a wall or a pile of dead leaves or car tyres to piss on. He goes about 200 million times during a walk, so there’s a fair bit of his piss down our street.
I, unfortunately, am a very possessive person. I do not like people who use my things without asking, simply presuming that it is okay or “shouldn’t be a problem, it’s not hurting anything.” Although it is very small minded of me, it belongs to me, and if you want one or want the use of one, you can go buy it just like I did. For example, no secretaries, it is not alright if you open my office door, go into my office, and turn up my office stereo loudly so you can listen to it on the weekends because I’m not around. I have a very prickly sense of privacy and dignity in what I own.
That being said, even though it may be stupid, it is my right and I do own it. Likewise with dogs. You don’t own the property your dogs are taking a dump on. Even though you clean it up, I respect the rights of property owners to be upset that you presume it is okay to let your dog onto their property and to let it relieve itself in the first place. I do not want my neighbors deciding they can hold their family reunion on my lawn because “they’ll clean it up and it won’t hurt anything,” even if they actually do clean it up and it won’t hurt anything.
I once had a lady get mad at me for putting a poop bag into her trash can that was out at the curb for pickup the next day. She actually said “How dare you!” All I could think was hey lady, at least I cleaned it up in the first place. Like one poop bag in her trash can is the end of the frickin’ world. Some people are never happy. I guess they’d prefer it if nobody was allowed to have a dog.
Hey, I know someone who did this with a loaded diaper - :eek: - that was way nastier than any poop bag. The only other choice was to leave it simmering in the hot car until they could go home, though.
Sometimes I wonder if these uptight kind of people wait up at night to chase away all the wild creatures that might poo or pee on their property under the cover of darkness, or the birds who might drop one as they fly over … at least we clean up after our pups, and always walk them leashed, and teach them to have manners (ours know that shrubs, mailboxes and such are off limits).
My dog won’t poop in my yard. He did it twice and once he realized that it was his yard he stopped. That means I have to walk my dog every day so he can poop. I always clean up after him and I get pissed off when other people don’t clean up after their dogs.
I’ve never had anybody get upset with me for my dog pooping on their lawn, for two reasons I think, 1) As soon as Goliath gets into that crouch, I pull out the poop bag and 2) Goliath is a small, sweet and incredibly friendly dog- it is hard for anyone to get upset with him.
PS - I never buy the poop scoop bags. I just save the bags from my trips to the grocery store.
I get what you’re saying, but where, then, would you suggest a dog eliminate? She needs a grassy spot (her only chosen way, otherwise she’s agitated and can’t go) and the park is off limits. I try to restrict her to the strip of fgrass between the street and the sidewalk, but even that seems to “ick” folks out.
I own a dog. She is my companion. She has to poop. Unfortunately, she refuses to be potty-trained, otherwise, life would be easier. She can’t use the cat-box - Ali would scratch her eyes out. Just what would the enswer be?
Not being shnarly, just wondering if you had an idea of where they could go if they couldn’t use ANY piece of green around thir house?
Nope, she just prefers you to put it in your own trash can, not hers.
“How dare you” is a bit over the top, but really, it’s her trash can and if she doesn’t want dog shit in it, that’s her choice.
She might be concerned with it becoming a habit, with you and other dog walkers. Next thing you know her trash can is one big disgusting pile of poop bags. Have you ever seen public trash cans filled with those poop bags? I’m glad it’s not my job to empty them.
