In St Paul, this isn’t too much of a problem. Every couple blocks or so there’s a city trash can.
Minneapolis doesn’t do that with the same frequency and unless there are full cans at the end of a house, I’ll either carry it or look for a business dumpster.
Maybe this is a little irrational but I would be a little po’d. Today is garbage day, the bin is on the edge of the street and I have made two trips out to the curb today with more garbage to put on inside. If I opened the bin and found somone had put a bag of dog poop in there, that would honk me off. If I opened the lid and found somebody put any of their own garbage in there, it would honk me off. Is the alternative for them to litter instead? NO, it is their responsibilty to carry their fucking shit back home. Strap a bag to fido and have himn pack it out if it is too gross for the responsible dog owner to carry.
People care about the oddest things. By all means, put your bagged dog doodie in my garbage. It will sit next to my own dog’s doodie that I picked up off the back lawn last night. It is a trash can for TRASH. Feel free to walk up and put it in the pail next to the house if it isn’t a garbage day. I really don’t care. Better than leaving it on the street or on my lawn, which being a corner lot, seems to attract lots of dogs doing their business.
I guess we all have our issues because the neighbors that leave their garbage bins out all the time at the curb, REALLY piss me off. Stop being so lazy and bring your bins up and back like the rest of us.
I wouldn’t do it, but I don’t even throw it in my own can without the doggie poop bag (and they do make biodegradable ones now) being inside another bag. It makes too much of a frigging mess of the trash can if a turd escapes, so I’m not about to inflict that on my neighbors.
In this state if the town does trash pick up at all (which is a big if. my town doesn’t, so you buy town bags and bring it to the dump yourself or hire a private contractor and use regular bags) it’s far more likely for there to be town-provided recycling bins than garbage cans. I can only think of a handful of towns I’ve seen garbage cans that match from house to house the way they would if they were handed out.
I guess I wouldn’t mind if they somehow managed to get the baggie o crap into the trash bag, but to just toss in on top or worse down the sides of the can? I’ve experienced way too many times of having things left behind by garbage collectors to be cool with that.
Ours get put on the street up against the curb, so that someone putting something into the can isn’t ever on your property. Around here the trash collection company owns it once it goes to the curb, so the can thieves are stealing from them, not me.
I wouldn’t mind someone putting poop into my can before collection, but not so much after - though our can is at the side of the house and we put the poop from our dog into it, so it wouldn’t be that big a deal. However, cans in our neighborhood are only out Tuesday evening to Wednesday morning when they get collected, so most days you’d have to really trespass to throw poop into someone’s can. My dog has been trained to go in the nearby part, where there are plenty of covered bins. I don’t think I’ve ever used someone’s trash can for her poop.
I didn’t know this was a thing people did. Is it so hard to limit your walks to be close to your home? Or if they must be farther away, you can’t work out a way to get the poo from his ass to your own trash? People are freaking inconsiderate.
I don’t care much if dog poo is on the ground, I never walk in the grass anyway. And it’s fertilizer. Don’t put your dog’s shit in my trash, mkay? We don’t have city-supplied bins. If we did, I might not care. But given the choice between those two evils, I’d rather it stay on the grass where bugs, absorption, and exposure to the elements will make quick work of it.
Best of all, carry that shit home. It’s the price you pay for dog ownership. I don’t own a dog because I don’t want to deal with shit.
If its a big nasty deal to carry your own dogs shit then dropping it in SOMEONE elses garbage can and the possible bad consequences THEY will have to endure for other persons dog crap is also a big nasty deal and therefore you shouldnt do it.
If its not a big nasty deal to put it in someone elses garbage then its also not a big nasty deal to carry it home yourself.
I said upthread that I’d dropped my dog’s poop in someone’s trash…but I’ve only done it maybe three or four times in over 30 years of owning dogs. (After reading this thread, OK, fine. I probably won’t ever do it again!)
But my rationale was this at the time: Pick up dog poop in baggie. Oh, hey, it’s trash day and the trash trucks will be by within an hour. (My neighborhood, so I know the schedule.) Oh hey, here’s someone’s trash can open and filled with already-festering garbage right on the street next to where my dog left a shit! Cool, I’ll toss the bag in there since it’s trash day and it will be picked up shortly. Yay, saves me carting it back to my house. I figured no harm done. And to reiterate - in the same scenario, I wouldn’t mind one bit if someone did the same with my trash. Why would I? It’s bagged, it’s trash, it’s being picked up within an hour. As long as the person isn’t doing it in such a way as to foul up my trash can, I don’t give a shit, as it were. It’s trash, that’s why I’m throwing it away. I don’t want it. I don’t want yours either, but as long as it’s all put in the trash can to be taken away, it all goes to the dump one way or another so have at it.
On the other hand, I have backpacks for my dogs and when on longer walks or hikes in wilderness areas or county parks, the dogs get to carry their own poop in the backpack until we get to a Dumpster or trash can or back to my own vehicle for later disposal, whichever comes first.
Well, I don’t think its the crime of the century or anything.
To me its like parking in a handicapped parking space. There are IMO circumstances where the minor crime (with no actual consequence to anybody) of doing it are outweighed by the actual benifit it offers the offender. But the large majority of the time? Suffer your personal inconviences that were your choice and respect the rights of others and their property.
Can’t argue with this.
Just take it to your own trash. Bring a backpack, tie it to the leash, put it in your pocket, whatever.
Even in the best case scenario (which is rare) where you leave a perfectly sealed sturdy bag with no chance of escape and close the trash properly, somebody else may come later and close it incompletely. Then when the trash gets picked up, some falls out on the street. Now you have left a bag of shit right in front of the driveway. Thanks.
But is it still your property if you already decided to put it to the curb and throw it away? Would you be similarly upset if a neighbor routinely went through your trash and removed the magotty meat containers, the stinky milk jugs and the fruit-fly-attracting black bananas?
As I said upthread, it is not a crime in my county to take trash from the curb; a person puts it out with the trash - they no longer own it and have given implicit permission for other people to take it, simlpy by putting it to the curb after 6 pm the day before designated trash pick-up. That’s the law where I live.
So if (where I live) if it’s OK to remove trash from the curb because the assumption is: you put it out there so you no longer want it so therfore anyone can take it, then why would the reverse be true - I put it out there because I no longer want it, but dammit you cannot touch it until the Designated Trash People take it away?
Its not the someone else taking it. Its also not a problem IF the shit actually makes it to the dump intact. Its if the shit bag DOESNT go quitely into the night but ends up on the street, or contaminates the persons garbage can or other possible not good scenarios.
As others have said, THATS the problem. Its certainly possible for shit to happen and the person dealing with the shit won’t be the dog OWNER.
I don’t have a dog, but so long as no one is creating a situation where I can’t fit my trash into the bin*, I really don’t care if they throw sealed poop or other trash in it. I prefer not to pass by poop-carriers when I go for a walk. Throw it out!
*Say, if they’re walking their elephant herd.
The best longterm solution* is therefore to request the city to put up more public trash cans.
Unless your city is too broke to pay for that.
*The best short term solution being to carry the bagged turd until you’re at home or a public trash can; although in hot areas/ summer I can understand that this is problematic for a longer walk.
I always pick up after my small dog, and if I pass by someone else’s garbage can at the street, before I get to my own, I put the bag in there. It’s usually early in the morning, before light, or well after dark, so nobody has ever seen me to comment on it. I know if someone put such a package in my can(which was provided by the city) I wouldn’t mind. I’d much rather that happen than have shit lying in the grass.
Feel free to put the contained dog poop in my trash can when it is on the street on trash pickup day.
I yelled at someone once. He walked 10 yards up onto my property to dispose of his baggie of dog poop and got away clean.
He put it in the green Recycle bin. So now I, good citizen that I am…
Oh never mind, I can feel the blood pressure rising again.
First of all, in the UK many (most?) public spaces have publikc garbage cans where anyone can dump their litter. And they have special receptacles for disposi9ng of dog mess. Don’t you have such things in America?
He would have a legitimate objection to *you *stealing the space in *his *garbage can.
Yes, you were trying to be a smartass. She may not technically own the garbage can, but she is paying to use it, and that means she owns the rights to its use. You do not have any right at all to use it. She is paying for her trash to be collected, not yours, and by dumping your trash in her place you are stealing from her.
She has a limited amount of space in her trash can. Every other person that dumps in her space reduces the amount available to her. If she runs out of space, then she has to deal with an overflow that won’t be collected. One small item might not seem bad to you, but what if 100 people came by and each dropped one small item in her receptacle? Or what if you dumped a large bag of garbage? Can you see how that would be objectionable?
And it makes no difference whether it is a bag of smelly dog poo, or something clean and non-smelly, such as an empty cigarette packet.
Never have seen one in 60 years in a wide variety of states. In fact our local parks have bags for dog poop, but no special cans, so they clearly expect you to put it with the trash.
Not if the can is out for collection and there is plenty of room. Our homeowners association gets mad if cans are in front of the house, so anyone putting dog poop in a can where this could be a problem has the bigger sin of trespassing.
Nor here in the SW Pennsylvania (Pittsburgh area). Municipally provided recycling bins, yes, but not trash cans. We buy our own and have to follow some occasionally arcane rules for when they’re put out on the curb, when they’re brought back from the curb and where they’re kept in the meanwhile.
In the city proper, where I live, it’s not even required that trash be brought to the curb in a can. Bags can just be left at the curb so long as they’re tied up. If it’s trash pickup morning (or the night before) someone could leave their bag of dog poop next to my trash can or in with my bags without any problem.
Otherwise though, no. Take it with you. Put it in your own trash can and suffer if your can isn’t fully emptied, rather than leaving that nastiness to me. Cans not being fully emptied (because our trash collectors aren’t especially rigorous) is commonplace, and little things down in the bottom routinely stick around. If it’s your dog, you learn that and take steps to rectify it. (Consolidating little bags into a larger bag, typically.) But that’s not my lookout.