[Closed] Dog Shit in Plastic Bags

I stood a dog toffee in GT car park a while ago. Pi**ed me right off, it wasn't in a bag though.

You think thats bad. I once leant my bike down on a grass bank in kirroughtree car park. I picked it up and the grip that had touched the grass verge was now covered in a big splodge of dog poo.

Oh how i didnt laugh 🙁

Yup, as a dog owner this bewilders me too, people seem to bag it then either leave it or hang it from a tree?!?! WTF? Bag it, walk with it to the nearest bin, then drop it in, it ain't frickin hard.

I was in Styal woods on Saturday. The National Trust have put signs up asking people to stop leaving poo hanging in trees.

My own personal solution....

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no judge, no jury. ,Seems reasonable to me 😀

no judge, no jury. ,Seems reasonable to me

BNP vote...tick.

LHS - Member
Yup, as a dog owner this bewilders me too, people seem to bag it then either leave it or hang it from a tree?!?! WTF? Bag it, walk with it to the nearest bin, then drop it in, it ain't frickin hard.

Apparently Delamere Forest are implementing a "shit & flick" system on the forest trails, dog has a shit, owner can then use a stick to flick it off the trail - no bins in the forest, so removes the need for hanging plastic baggies from the trees.

I wish all dog owners were like LHS.

mfl - that only works if you have relatively small numbers of dog owners walking, I used to work at a country park where there were particular dog-walking routes where the done thing was to flick it aside (before the days of doggy bags) - they stank, the whole area was a no-go zone for anyone with nostrils.

In 2000 years archaelogists will be diggin these bags up and thinking WTF?

a "shit & flick" system

hmm, i can see their logic, but have you ever tried to flick dog shit with a stick? All that will happen is you'll end up with lots of smears of dog poo everywhere.

Apparently Delamere are implementing a "shit & flick" system on the forest trails, dog has a shit, owner can then use a stick to flick it off the trail - no bins in the forest, so removes the need for hanging plastic baggies from the trees.

They have done this at Haughmond Hill nr Shrewsbury, the result is that right now, while it is nice a warm, it ****ing stinks of dogshit until you get a couple of hundred meters from the car park.
I'd bring back the bag it and take it home personally, at least when it's in a bag you can't smell it, or ride/step in it when they just flick it to the edge of the path.

My local National Trust park is a great place for walking the dog, off leash, hills, streams all a dog could want. We find lots of plastic bags of poop hanging from trees and periodically go around collecting them all in a big bin bag and disposing of them.

At the moment all the locals know it as pretty much a dog park so they don't mind the dogs running around off leash, it only takes essentially littering like what a lot of people do to change peoples opinions / tolerance.

To top it all off the local ranger installed a load of dog poop bins every 1/4 mile or so and people still throw them in the trees. 😯

Gets my goat too - dog crap disappears fairly quickly. Plastic bags don't. We have taught our dog to crap at home (got loads of scrubland here - perfect to dog merde) or out of sight of people - some of the lengths she goes to to crap somewhere subtle are quite funny. If she does it in public (very rare) we pick scoop it and chuck it away properly.

Some dog walkers expect bins to be EVERYWHERE. simply chuck into something deep and overgrown or flick it away from the trails.

I'd bring back the bag it and take it home personally, at least when it's in a bag you can't smell it, or ride/step in it when they just flick it to the edge of the path.

Makes a good hand warmer too!

as a dog owner I can't get my head round ppl using a plastic bag and then hanging it from a tree, fricken disgusting.

simply chuck into something deep and overgrown or flick it away from the trails

pardon the pun but IMO that's a shit solution.

If your dog craps in public places then either bin it or take it home*

[i]*Unless it's one of those super runny ones which make you want to vomit then kick some dirt over it or something[/i]

hmm, i can see their logic, but have you ever tried to flick dog shit with a stick? All that will happen is you'll end up with lots of smears of dog poo everywhere.

I am feeling quite nauseous at the thought

when we cleaned up the local cycle path recently, the amount of bagged dog poo was phenomenal. As first I thought I'd just come across a section where someone must have dropped a box of poo-bags and they'd blown into the hedges and filled with maybe rainwater or something to make them heavy. But nope, just loads and loads of poo-filled bags flung away.

I told the council, suggesting more bins and / or signage. Not interested whatsoever.

z1ppy - Member
as a dog owner I can't get my head round ppl using a plastic bag and then hanging it from a tree, fricken disgusting.

Exactly...

I had to carry two "goodie bags " down from the top of Snowdon last week as ours decided thats when they wnated to drop the kids off at the pool.

If you have a dog, thats one of the perks.

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http://waterwaynews.blogspot.com/2010/03/okay-poos-done-this.html

FC here have bio degradable bags at start of the walks "bag it and throw into the undergrowth if you are not near any appropriate bin" are the instructions.

All I can say is, get a cat

Binners, that's a bit extreme. You only get to shoot them once.

What is really needed is a paint ball gun that shoots dog poo ammo. Unlimited supply in the woods, plenty of legitimate targets if we can get the law changed to make poo bag hangers fair game 🙂 I'm sure most are too dumb to get the message until they had been tagged a few times.

The biggest issue with this for me is small children. My two year old loves to run into woods at the first opportunity and of course half the time seems to come back with dog poo on him, its just a nightmare. Leaving dog poo anywhere, bagged or not, is gross and inconsiderate. Flicking it off the path just makes it harder to spot and avoid.

ddmonkey - that should teach you to have better control of your kids and be a responsible parent.

TooTall I assume that is a joke?

Or would you rather I sit him in front of the TV and feed him sweets all day like a responsible parent should? Heaven forbid children being allowed to run around in the fresh air whatever next, cycling?

It's Monday, my Bin is out for the dustman to empty.

Bloody Dog walkers chuck their doggy bag of poop into my bloody bin.
Ok better than being on the street. But the lazy ****ers want my bin to stink.

I think people should have lessons or experience before owning a dog.
I won't pick up dog doo hence I don't have a dog.

I don't get it, how do i get my dog to sh!t in a bag and throw it into a tree?

The lazy bugger just does it on the floor and leaves it there.

Thats interesting bruneep -

Guy round the corner has a big German Sheperd. He walks it but (so he claimed to my neighbour) allows it to sh*t on the road but not on the pavement as this is legal (?)
I dont know what he feeds it but they are the biggest I have seen. Its gets spread all over the road, up driveways etc.
My wife saw his dog do a load outside our house so I simply picked it up with a bag and dropped it on his drive while he was in the house.
Havent seen him for a while.

Hope you didn't use a Tesco bag with holes in it. 😯

Well done surfer, I've sat in an autopsy, examined dead tissue but I couldn't pick up other sh*t, it's my kryptonite. 😳

Did you drop the bag or the dog doo on his drive? nice work, hopefully teach that guy to pick up his dog mess. 😀

I was on a walk with my mate and his kids at the weekend, properly out in the countryside with no poo bins anywhere. He bagged his dog's turds and then tucked them away in the undergrowth so he could then pick them up as we passed the same spot on the way back, as opposed to walking for an hour with a bag'o'shite.

I wonder how many - if any - of the hangers intend to collect them later only to find a do-gooder with a black bag's beaten them to it?

I thought not......

Think yourselves lucky. I was once out on a ride and suddenly got a nasty wiff of dog sh!t. I stopped and got off the bike and rotated each tyre as you do in an attempt to find the offending mess, but found nothing. I then proceeded to look at my saddle which to my horror was covered in crap. I then took a look between my legs and my shorts were also covered in it. I then realised that a whole log must have been thrown up by my back tyre whilst descending my favourite trail which then landed on my saddle and I then decided to sit down. 😥

12 miles from home and stinking of dog sh!t. Nice!

there has been a couple of times when I've walked my dog around my local country park (where they have 1 bin in the entire place because of vandalism) that when my dog has done its business...I'll pick it up..bag it...and then leave it out of the way somewhere to pick up on my way back to save carrying it all the way round my walk.
People shouldnt just leave it though

I have been trying to teach mine to crap in the bag but shes having none of it. Where am I going wrong?

I can't see why this is difficult - we always bad our dogs poo and it goes in a bin. Moreover there are plenty of dog poo bags which are degradable and won't be around for the future:

[url= http://www.bagnboxman.co.uk/acatalog/eco-friendly-biodegradable-dog-poop-bags.html ]here is one[/url]

and these are made of the same stuff they use for dishwasher tablets so are water soluble - gives you the option of flushing them down the loo

[url= http://www.flushablepoobags.co.uk/ ]flushing ones[/url]

really annoys me when I see loose dog eggs as it just makes life more difficult for those of us who don't leave it/make it in tree decorations.

rant over.

What do blind people with guide dogs do?

What do blind people with guide dogs do?

Same as the rest of us, use a toilet. As for their dogs, well... 😉

Tiger6791 - Member
What do blind people with guide dogs do?

guild dogs are trained to go on command. so i guess they do it at home.

Surely it's just a matter of time before someone comes round a blind corner and gets one of these hanging dog eggs full in the face.

I can only imagine that the people doing this resent being told to pick up their dogs * and hang it in the trees as some sort of protest at the fact there isn't a bin exactly where their dog decided to empty its guts.

As part of my commute I use one of the multi-user trails created by Sustrans and to be honest (at the time I use the trail at least) 90% of other trail users are dog walkers just letting their dog out for a post-work *.

The trail is filthy with dirty dog eggs in places. 👿

You could hook a plastic bag over a dog's back end, by looping the handles over it's back legs. Hey presto- no having to bend down to pick up eggs.

I have heard tell of someone being smacked in the face with a dog-egg bag, and the bag bursting on impact....

On Saturday's ride we came across a pile of these bags propped up on a grass verge in a local beauty spot.
Beside it was a large handwritten note by the farmer, saying would whoever is leaving this here remove it, as its destroying the enjoyment for others.

We followed a chap one afternoon walking his rottweiler along the canal. The dogs drops a huge one right in the centre of the towpath making no effort to pick it up or remove it. I was too scared to say anything, 'cos he looked like he'd knock me into the canal.
Disgusting.

Protest, no, pooberry trees are just a sign of bone idleness, stupidity or being away with the pooberry fairies (they harvest the pooberries in the middle of the night). Apparently.

I caught someone in the middle of hanging their tribute on a tree just up in the hills, so I asked "Why do you do that", she responded "Oh, it's to make it easier for the rangers to see it and tidy it up". I wish I had some witty retort to report but I was just struck dumb. I think she genuinely thought she was being really thoughtful.