I walk (with and without dog) a trail near me which is run/managed by a nonprofit, of which I am a member. There were zero garbage cans there when I first joined. Bagged crap along the trail was the norm. I suggested placing a can at the trailhead/parking area. Problem mostly solved.
Usually parks employees will pick up the bags. Better that than have someone step in poop.
Whenever I go to a dog park, the first thing I do is take about six or seven bags; I expect the worst from the dog that occasionally mark his turf with shitballs. Most bags available at dogparks are biodegradable. I’ve had used bags that were just a few months old literally crumble and fall apart in my hands; thye make a big mess.
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Oh, c’mon now. The parks I frequent have no trash cans whatsoever (state parks that have a carry in/carry out policy) and I manage to cart my dog’s poop out. I even have to place it in my car and bring it home to my own trash cans, so I don’t want to hear the trash cans are toooooo far away excuse. I have been tempted to leave a bag sit until my return trip, especially if my dog decides to poop at the beginning of our 3-4 mile walk, but I sometimes take a different return route and I’d be mortified to leave a bag of poop sitting around. My dog = my resposibility, no matter how many times he goes or how inconvenient it is for me to haul it out.
Making someone pick up bagged poop and leg it over to the trash barrel isn’t as bad as leaving raw turds on the ground for someone to step in. I think they’re content being half-jerks (which really is preferable to leaving raw turds laying around).
My guess is that it really doesn’t decompose in a timely manner. It remains noxious sitting there on the ground for a couple of weeks, depending on environmental conditions. If you bag it up, people will see it before stepping on it, and someone less important than you (like a park worker or guest) can easily leg it over to the trash can. As I said in my previous post, they’re willing to be half-jerks, and I’d rather that than being full jerks.
I don’t know if I agree with you about their jerkitude measurement - as already noted, a dog turd in a bag that isn’t biodegradable doesn’t break down/wash away for a very long time; it’ll just lie there, being a disgusting bag of crap until someone picks it up (and who wants that job?). I’ll agree that it is in a bag, not left open for people to step in, though, but that’s sort of very faint praise - it’s your dog, and your responsibility to fully clean its mess, even if it means carrying a baggy of crap around. I’m not really buying the argument that it’s okay to leave a bag of crap if there aren’t enough garbage cans - you have garbage cans at your house. Bring a Safeway bag with you to put your individual baggies of crap in - there are ways to accomplish this if you start out with the idea that your dog’s crap is your responsibility to get into a garbage can, and you do what it takes to make that happen.
Yes. My super power is finding and stepping in the only pile of dog poop in a five acre park. The jerks are the people who just watch their dogs go and do nothing about it. Judging from the amount of poop in our park, there are plenty of jerks. Putting up a bag dispenser didn’t seem to help any. However, since it has lots of trash cans, I can’t recall ever seeing an uncollected bag.
I’ve rarely been with my dog in a non-dog park. Sometimes I do end up bagging her poo in the dog park, throwing it over the fence to be put into the container when we leave, and then forgetting it (leaving the dog park is about as monumental and exciting for Dolly as is arriving).
The few times we have gone to a non-dog park (as in a people park where dogs are allowed on leash), she has pooed right at the beginning of the walk and I bag it and we walk back up to the trash can and dispose of it. Luckilly, I haven’t had to deal with her pooping during a long hike.
I can totally see myself bagging, dropping with the intent to pick up later, and just plain forgetting. And then feeling really bad about it later when I’m home.
My mom and I live at opposite ends of our neighborhood and will meet up to walk Dolly. If the dog poops near mom’s house, we’ll bag it and drop it at the end of mom’s driveway. If she poops near mine, the bag goes at the end of my driveway. I wonder what people think we’re doing with lone tiny blue bags of poo at the end of our driveways where we normally put the trash cans 
We use the the term “Simulpooping” when Sadie and Simone coordinate their efforts. It’s a joyous moment – the rest of the walk is playtime (or we can hurry back inside if it’s raining or cold).
I can one-up the OP. On one of the paths we walk regularly, someone carefully bags and ties off dog poop and carries it to the trash can (one of those domed swinging door types) and puts the bag on the rim of the can, wedged partly in the swinging door. And there it stays. Whoever this is, he or she touches the swinging door sufficiently to force it partly open, so it seems unlikely to be an attempt to keep the hand clean, then fails to follow through and leaves the baggie there.
Is it some kind of statement? Why go to all that trouble and then abort just before the final two inches of toss? It seems like it can’t be a manually disabled or one-handed person, because a knot is tied (anyone dextrous enough to tie a knot one-handed could probably master a swinging trash can lid). I am baffled, and this is a frequent surprise to find at that one can. It’s like a little prize. “Look what I did!”
When I pass by, I always push the bag the rest of the way into the container, which is never over-full, just because I don’t want non-dog-people to have to stare at it and think bad things about dogs.
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I’m not even going to read the rest of the thread. This is the correct answer.
Occasionally there isn’t a trash can around, so you have to hang on to it for awhile. If you’re not used to waiting to find a can, I think it’s quite plausible to forget a bag once in a blue moon, particularly if you set it down for some reason.
We go trail running with the pooch: running through a natural ravine system with trash cans very few and far between (like maybe one in the parking lot at the trailhead, that’s it). Dog poops on the trail, we bag it, and then… It’s not like you can jog the rest of the 15k with a bag of crap in your hand. Normally, we find a good hiding place where no one will accidentally step on it and it won’t be unsightly, and then we pick it up on the return end of our loop. We don’t forget it though, the “leave no trace” philosophy is too entrenched in our minds.
We did forget a bag of poop once and it was unbelievably embarrassing. We never, ever use indoor trash cans for dog poo, that’s just gross. We always use outdoor cans (and avoid the ones near food places). On the main street near us, for some reason, trash cans are only one every three or four blocks. The dog pooped on a grassy knoll a block from the post office, my SO bagged it and the plan was to drop it off at the nearest trash can, three blocks away at the doggy park. She went in the post office to pick up a package that she had to sign for.
We were rushing to make a dinner reservation. Just as we sat down at the restaurant, she looked horrified and said: “OMIGOSH! I left the dog bag in the post office!”
Preoccupied by finding the card with the claim number, she’d gone in the building carrying the dog bag (normally she’d have left it outside next to the dog and me). She then set it on the floor next to the counter so she could sign for the package (she sure as hell wasn’t going to put a bag of poo on the counter). Preoccupied with opening the box to get at the new bike part, she walked off leaving the poop behind, and I was so excited about the part, I didn’t notice the absence of poo either! :smack:
We did go back right after dinner though, and she apologized profusely to the manager. Oddly, no one recalled finding or discarding the poo bag, but it wasn’t where she left it. The manager seemed to think it was funny, but my SO was mortified.
ETA: By the way, lesson learned. We have never gone indoors accidentally carrying dog poop ever again.
That would drive me a little crazy, trying to figure out how someone could get the doggy bag all the way to the garbage can and then lose the will to push it in.
I leave it along my route for pick-up on the return trip (within the hour). A few times someone has picked it up before I could return. I wonder if they realize I planned to return for it.
Ditto. At the dog park I take my dog to, there’s a dumpster in the parking lot and none in the park itself. If my dog poops during the walk, I’ll bag it and pick it up on the way back rather than carrying a bag of poop around. I don’t think I’ve ever forgotten to pick it up, but I suppose I may have. It probably evens out, because I’ve picked up and tossed poo bags I’ve come across in the park.
I’d much rather see bags of poop lying around than big steamin’ piles of crap left by inconsiderate dog owners who can’t be bothered to pick up after their pets.
What I like is finding the bags neatly stowed by the side of a loop trail. I think some people believe in the dog poop fairy.
I see these dog poop bags everywhere. Millions of people are doing this. Would anyone ever admit to it?
Dogshit bag people are the worst kind of litterers.
zombie shit… I’ve found those in hiding places. Damn little dogs!
In a busy park, yes. But sometimes you can find dogshit bags on a lonely country walk.
What kind of idiot bags a dog shit and then leaves it ?