It's on the pavements, the roads, the grass verges and even in the woods where we ride! Is it just me and where I live or is this a problem where you are?
its the weather
lazy owners and not wanting to get their dog muddy.
It’s as bad as anywhere else, kick a Canine in the shins round our way and people just ain’t impressed…
Bloody nightmare, especially after the snow melted. My kids wnet out to play after the snow melted in our close and within 10 mins the little'un had ridden his trike through one turd and then I know not how or where 10mins later the older one comes back stinking of dog poo as well! How I cursed all dog owners... Local woods are just as bad, get dog poo strike more times than not. Same when I took the children up to Ashridge, sh*te everywhere. HOW I HATE IT WITH A PASSION!!!!! And breathe...
its horse and cow eggs just off my house, dirty horse riders should clean up after there pets
just had a quick look but can't see any on the kitchen floor! not surprising really as I don't have a dogis this a problem where you are?
I have always wanted to go over to the local football field/playing area and put little cocktail stick flags in each and every canine faecal deposit with "Filthy dog owner!" written on it.
It might illustrate how much of the literal crap there is everywhere and make people think twice. I swear if I did it there would be so many little flags, at least one per square metre, the field would look like a miniature re-enactment of Gettysburg or some other enormous field battle.
Not too bad here but the last few mornings there's been more than normal.
The bridleway that runs behind our house in Brighton is known as "Dog Sh*t Alley". Its a disgrace. I've stopped taking my two kids along it after one fell over and landed in the stuff. Not to mention getting it all over your shoes or bike.
I'm thinking of making signs at each end of it: "Warning: you are now entering dog shit alley. Please tread carefully."
Forgot to say, I really LOVE those people who clean up the dogs mess but then hang the bag on a tree or throw it in a bush! What the **** is all that about!!
I remember visiting Perpignan down in S. France some years back and the pavements around the fort there were decorated liberally with the stuff. Every other step had to be placed with caution. Disgusting.
So what can we really do about it? The council seem powerless and can only promise to keep clearing the street...one day cleaned next day it's covered again.....any thoughts?
weekly moans to council now got a red bin and bad dispenser that seems to be getting used but some massive dog has a good session now and again and my word what a pile 😕
The number of dog dodo bag trees seems to be growing round here too.
Why?
Please can someone explain why dog owners feel the need to scoop and bag, then bung the lot, half way up a tree?
None here I hope -well I'm in the kitchen!
Bristol? occassionally in the run down areas where cycle lanes go through.
Personally I find horse poop worse on the cycletrack to Bath on the bridges where they just cover the bridge fully so walkers or cyclists have no choice to walk through it! 😈
irritates me to hell - if the owners can't be responsible enough to pick up their dogs shit, then they shouldn't own bloody dogs.
have to say though, the french are a whole lot worse than we are - bloody disgusting place.
In Paris they let them poop everywhere so keep an eye on the ground.
Dog fouling?
the poo side of things? too much.
the two-footed lunge, studs up, into the diseased little ****ers' knees? not enough.
Phillips' post reminded me of how its unacceptable for dog owners to let their dog sh!t and not pick it up but its somehow OK for horse riders to watch their charges expel 3 stone of horse dung in the middle of the road and drive away.
On the lane where I live we have a phantom poo bagger that all the neighbours are on high alert trying to catch in action, but so far no luck.
I like the idea of the putting cocktail stick flags in the offending turds. It would be gross to do, but maybe you're onto something. However I suspect it would only be a matter of time before an article appeared in the local paper complaining about littering!
Somehow people around our area seem to have expected dog s#it to magically disappear if it was in snow. Now the snow's gone it's everywhere.
There are two sorts of dog-owners. One sort, let's call them people, pick up their dog sh#t. The other sort, for the sake of argument let's call them scum, don't! Perhaps if it was posted through their letter box I presume it would happen less often.
I always end up cleaning my childrens sh@t off the wellies.
What happened to white dog sh@T
none here, but i am sat in my living room so should hope not either!
loads around where I live in Bristol, same as everyone else really, its the minority of ****ing ignorant people who don't bother and within a short period of time its everywhere.
Makes no sense to me, as ultimately you are going to end up walking in it.
Saying that if my dog shits in the woods and its not on the trail I leave it there as it makes no sense to me to bag it, bin it, and then wait for it to get shipped halfway around the world to go in a landfill.
I have a huge bag of it sitting out on my decking.
My Toby (14.5 yr old Lab')is incontinent, so each movement goes into a bag and that goes into the big bag.
I just need to take it to the community tip, or maybe I'll empty it in someones back garden.
Suggestions?
David Cameron's front garden?
My dog won't even walk on the pavement as there is too much crap.
dog owners have won
that's why at parks they build an inner fence around the swings etc....
London memory ;+{, footie kit lady stopping washing our Sunday league kit as it had so much dog shit on it
Horse crap is not nearly so nasty as dog crap - the difference between a carnivore and a herbivore.
Try going to africa - have you see what heffalumps do? Makes horse crap look insignificant.
If a dog shits in the street and the owner doesn't clean it up, shoot the dog and ban the owner from having a dog for life. Maybe that'll focus the retards tiny minds.
Horse crap is not nearly so nasty as dog crap - the difference between a carnivore and a herbivore.
tick.
lot less wrong with a heap of grass and hay waste than dog food and meat waste.
why shoot the dog? or do you expect it to carry a bag around with it? sounds sorta like if you catch a cyclist on a footpath you should smash his bike up, and ban him from cycling for life to me (ie: a retarded and stupid idea, that would never work)
Everywhere.
If there was no such as Dog Walkers I'd never see a soul out riding.
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About half of my postal round comprises of 300 or so houses on a run down council estate. Nearly everyone has a big fierce dog, typically a rotweiller, that they let crap wherever.
When the recent snows melted what was weeks of dogs**t, stratified in two dimensions within the snow layers suddenly melted into one great mass covering every-****ing-thing, paths, grass, paving, just everywhere.
Mans best friend indeed.
I like it when they pick the S@$* up in a bag and then throw it in the hedge.
Nice to see the animal lovers are out again! Its not the dogs fault its the human owners! Most people are happy to go to the coast and let their children paddle in human sh1te, how odd?
Only in the woods where I like to ride. ggrrrrrr! Here's my artistic contribution, all taken within 10 minutes:
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my dog shits in the woods! shock horror 
Horse dung, or indeed cow dung doesn't bother me in the least. It's pretty much just mashed up grass. It hardly smells and it doesn't bother me if I get it on my feet or tyres.
A couple of years ago I ran over a frozen horse poop. Nearly had me off my bike - it was like hitting a block of reinforced concrete.
I did get an explanation from an acquaintance about the dog poop in bags. This is on a local urban mixed use path. The theory he had was that there were no bins anywhere (true) and that people are employed to pick up rubbish along the path ( true) so by bagging the poop and then hanging it on a tree the litter pickerups could collect it easily and he did not hae to carry it home.. Quite frequently someone hangs a carrier bag up and all the poop bags go into that so obviously many people think that way.
Load of poop if you ask me but that is why these people seemed to do it.
rideing down a Sustrans cycle track,mature womans dog craps in front of me, so i cycle past her and the dog, she delicately picks it up,and places it hanging on a tree,so i wait until she passes by and then cycle back to her dogs deposit, and throw it over a fence into somebodies garden.
Few seconds latter a chap is screaming over the fence about the dog shit,i kindly point out the lady with the dog just down the track,he starts screaming at her he will follow her home and to the ends of the earth to reunite her with her dogs deposit.
Of course she denied throwing the deposit, but as i didnt have a dog just a bike she was seen as a villain.
shit happens.............
i went out on a nite ride earlier on after reading this thread, and as soon as i got on the cycle path there was a dog egg with a stick stuck in it and a little paper flag on the stick...
made me chuckle
Being a dog owner I'm proud to pick its 5h1t up. I don't like it but I like stepping in it even less plus as I'm not a c***, (usually) I simply couldn't be that bad to leave it sat there.
It really disgusts me when I see dog eggs sat on the pavement or hiding in grass verges. We have a pond by us and it has 2 crap bins but I've seen dog poo sat there just a few meters away.
I think I'll get myself some flags too.
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I doubt it will shame them though as they clearly don't give a toss.
Funny story though, my dad once saw a bloke let his dog crap outside his house and left it there to be trod in. My dad went and picked it up in a bag and followed the man home. When the man was in side he rang the bell and handed it to the man in a bag and said "your dog left this behind", turned and walked away. 😀
I've often thought it'd be brilliant to carry about a wee rubber glove, just in case I see someone leaving a curly one unbagged. quickly cycle up, pick it up with said glove, and whack it into the back of their napper!. Aaaargggghh! imagine how horrible it would be, hair matted with dog sh1t!.
It's shit here
The streets of Barnsley are paved with brown!
I got so sick of it in my area I bought myself a dog! Well if you can't beat them...
On a serious note pooch and I don't leave the house without a roll of poo bags (so I can hang them in tree's. :twisted:)
Someone round here used to stencil a star in gold paint round street shits. Even after the turd has gone the ghost remains.
Or rub the owners face in the shit then throw them off the path...
I have to walk my kids to school and nursery through a minefield of pavement poo!! It has got to a point where my (nearly)3 year old shouts "mind the poo" every 10 yards!! Think I might buy an air rifle, for the owners not the dogs, as expecting a dog to pick up its own s##t is asking too much.
It is the same outside my kids school, I had to ring the council twice yesterday but they did come round and clean it. It was dog shit dodgems up until that point.
I wonder how the owners of these dogs would react if we all went round and took a dump on their doorstep?
It's like tarring roadies with the same brush, I'm sure not all of the wa*kers run red lights, ride 4 abreast at 20 and don't bother signalling or shoulder checking.
My dogs eat meat and the birds love their sh1t, I've bagged some up and come back only to find the bag ripped open, and the shit gone. It doesn't stink or is sticky, infact it just crumbles to dust like chalk and it doesn't stick to shoes or tires.
We don't have a side gate on our house and during the snowy weather I found a pile of frozen dog eggs in our back garden. The house opposite has a "pet" dog which they let run around the street because they can't control the bitch. I had to stop myself bagging it up and hurling it at their front window.
Dogs will die.
I have a particular aversion to dog shite, so much so that if I ride through some I ain't going anywhere until I've scrapped every last bit off the tyre, the thought of a bit flying off and hitting me in the face makes me gag just thinking about it.
Haughmond Hill nr Shrewsbury, especially the 100 metre radius from the carpark is covered in dogshit. They have a flick it into the bushes rule, which invariably means that it ends up on the edge of the path.
Presumably, they don't leave dogshit lying around in their gardens at home, or flick it onto the Hostas and daffadils, so why is it ok for them to take their dogs out for a crap in a public place and leave it there?
Boxing day, took my lad up there for a ride, very slippy on the graded tracks, but the verges were softer, however there was a poo every metre, even walking was a problem, had to give up.
As a dog owner, I'm disgusted by the lazy bastads who let their dog sh1t anywhere (usually in the middle of a path) and just walk off and leave it.
I sometimes understand the bagging up and leaving in a bush as there are often no bins to chuck it in and I guess the (slightly less) lazy morons think they are saving people from treading in it.
I was out in the pitch black last night with no-one around and my dog did her business, I picked it up, stuck my (luckily gloved) thumb in it and chucked it in the nearest dog-poo-bin. No-one was around and the pooh was on the verge, not on the path.
So, as Cool-Hand-luke says, we're not all lazy, ignorant, stupid c***s.
[edit] ^^ sounds like I stuck my thumb in it on purpose! I did it accidently, but was just trying to make the point that it's not a pleasant task.
The North Downs is littered with the stuff. Parts of the South Downs also.
It seems dog owners think it's ok to take a laissez-faire attitude their dog's poop. I've seen it happen on countless occasions.
Man's best friend is my tyre's worst enemy.
It is pretty bad here somethimes but so is litter. As a dog owner I do always pick up after my dog as I wouldn't like to step, ride, what ever in it myself. There are load of unresponable dog owners out there, lets face it there wouldn't be the dogs trust and the like if people were responsible pet owners; I wouldn't have a dog that took years to get to trust anyone because she had been kicked and beaten.
And lets face it there are a lot of irresponsible mountain bikers out there, the ones that leave litter all over the place, Glen tress can look like a rubbish bin in places at certain times.
It seems there are irresponsible people all over the place who don't seem to give a crap what they do to the countryside they profess enjoy, it's just a lot easier to pick on dog owners, granted dog poo is a lot worse to step in than a crisp bag but the same basic rule applies.
More bins would help, something that I have writen endlessly to the local council for, one success but not much more.
As usual all the hatered that come out on forums has emerged, seems to me that people only want their 'kind' to have access/ have around rather than be logical about things. Same sort of people that will shout at you for going ahead of them down spooky woods because your on a xc bike and you will get in the way of their freeride fun.
I once saw a woman on Crosby Beach wiping her dog's arse with a tissue after it crapped everywhere, she did try to pick it up but as it was all runny I dare say she was only partially successful 🙁
local reservoir much favoured by dog walkers and noticed during the snow that the red box for posting bags was untouched (covered in snow - no prints) now snow has melted there is sh1t all over the path in the area where the box is and people park
....SherryMost people are happy to go to the coast and let their children paddle in human sh1te, how odd?
obviously i'm not most people and as to the victor meldrew/price of milk tag i get fed up cleaning shit off the kids
A dog tackled me from behind and didn't get the ball yesterday. That was a bad foul.
I picked it up and threw it for him though.
My house seems to have a major problem with cat fouling, obviously not the cats fault but I have expressed my disgust at the neighbours that own cats, next step is a weekly clean up and deposit of said cat mess proportionately on the neighbours drives that own cats, see how they like it.
there is surprisingly little dog shit around here. although generally speaking germany is pretty bad for it.
whereas in the UK you might comment when seeing someone NOT picking up their beloved dogs shit, here you comment to others when you see someone pick it up.
mate and i had a go at some family a few weeks back. mum, dad and two kiddies, plus the dog. the dog shits in the middle of a park about 5m from where we were standing. i called the 'frau' back and asked her if whe was going to clean it up. then her husband came over and start telling us to mind our own business. my mate then lays into them explaining to them what sort of example are they setting for their kids. "don't worry kids, need a shit? shit in the park"
i'd shoot the dogs because after shooting the owners who is going t pick up the poo?
In this part of Germany the city send officials around the parks to check people with dogs have got them on a lead, as well as the owner is carrying a 'crap sack' and that their dogs have got their taxation tags (yes dogs are taxed in Germany ) and that they are insured. Failure to comply with any of the above criteria results in a hefty fine (in fact more than if you are caught speeding in your car!).
It seems there are irresponsible people all over the place who don't seem to give a crap what they do to the countryside they profess enjoy, it's just a lot easier to pick on dog owners, granted dog poo is a lot worse to step in than a crisp bag but the same basic rule applies.More bins would help, something that I have writen endlessly to the local council for, one success but not much more.
As usual all the hatered that come out on forums has emerged, seems to me that people only want their 'kind' to have access/ have around rather than be logical about things.
I don't know where you get the idea from that people are suggesting it's acceptable to litter - I'd have a go at somebody littering just as I'd have a go at somebody not picking up after their dog. As you mention though, dog poo is far more disgusting than a crisp packet - I'm not really that bothered if my son steps on a crisp packet when out walking.
Called a woman a "disgusting bitch" yesterday after witnessing her leave her dog's mess behind on the pavement. Might have done something more direct had I not been rather constrained by having my little boy in the car with me (not really happy about parking up and leaving him in the car whilst I chased her with her dog droppings).
Called a woman a "disgusting bitch" yesterday after witnessing her leave her dog's mess behind on the pavement. Might have done something more direct had I not been rather constrained by having my little boy in the car with me (not really happy about parking up and leaving him in the car whilst I chased her with her dog droppings).
Perfect example then of a well adjusted human being then…
Your son gets an angry ball of rage for a Farther who swears at strangers and seems incapable of behaving in a civil fashion to women…
It’s Dog shit not Genocide you moron, politely register your disgust, and move on…
Christ knows what you do if he puts a cracker in the DVD player…
politely register your disgust
How? I'd already asked politely whether she was leaving that there, and didn't she think it rather disgusting, and been totally blanked. Figured that was the only sort of language she might understand - if she wants to be treated in a civil fashion she should treat the rest of society in a civil fashion (what does her sex have to do with it?)
Not really sure where you get the idea I was a ball of rage either, nor how calling some woman exactly what she was has any relation to how I'd react to my child doing something he doesn't necessarily know is wrong.
Personally I reckon being rude to people leaving their dog droppings behind is a very good sign of a well adjusted human being.
"disgusting bitch"
Seems a fair comment to me tbh, can think of far worse things she could have been called.
Our local park, where I used to play football as a kid is now nothing more than a dog poo alley now, feel free to play in it if you want.
I know it only a few irresponsible owners, but maybe a few stern words, might get it through their skulls that its not acceptable behaviour.
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My house seems to have a major problem with cat fouling, obviously not the cats fault but I have expressed my disgust at the neighbours that own cats, next step is a weekly clean up and deposit of said cat mess proportionately on the neighbours drives that own cats, see how they like it.
Unfortunately cats are deemed in law as "free range animals", therefore nobody is directly responsible for its actions, whereas dogs are not and therefore the owner is responsible. Unless obviously your neighbours walks their cats on a lead round your garden? (I have a cat and am fed up with our neighbours cats shitting in our garden rather than their own, but nothing i can do.)
cr@p of any kind is abhorrent, but human / dog's is the worst. I believe dog cr@p can also carry disease IIRC (im happy to be corrected on this point). I still shudder riding down a lane at the end of my road and getting my legs and face sprayed with shit off the front tyre. Urgghhh.
Perfect example then of a well adjusted human being then…Your son gets an angry ball of rage for a Farther who swears at strangers and seems incapable of behaving in a civil fashion to women…
It’s Dog shit not Genocide you moron, politely register your disgust, and move on…
Christ knows what you do if he puts a cracker in the DVD player…
Some irony in such a complaint about over-reaction there!
[i]Your son gets an angry ball of rage for a Farther who swears at strangers[/i]
Genius. Extrapolated from where, exactly?
I still shudder riding down a lane at the end of my road and getting my legs and face sprayed with shit off the front tyre. Urgghhh.
Use a bloody mudguard then! Perhaps I could market some as "dog poop guards"
Possibly Dez, But kids are wonderful little things, once they have learned it's OK to call one woman a "Disgusting Bitch" they can merrily apply the same insult to any and all Females, what you've then taught your kids is it's OK to over-react to (in the grand scheme of things, quite minor) stuff and hurl what some would consider quite strong personal abuse at strangers. It’s a mindset not a million miles away from that of a Jihadist…
Just because you don’t mind a bit of misogyny, doesn’t mean your son/daughter won’t get excluded from school for copying Daddy in the playground…
Frankly it’s bad parenting not to teach by example…
Like I said it’s Dog Shit, dirty, possibly full of diseases, and very anti-social not to pick it up, but using abusive language and mulling over physical attacks on those who don’t pick after their mutt is just ****ing stupid…
Don’t ignore it, but don’t lower yourself by acting like a thug…
If you have to abuse strangers, why not try interweb forums…. Oh…
why should you have to use a mudguard? the shit shouldn't be there in the first place, you might aswell suggest riding around in an NBC suit.
Your son gets an angry ball of rage for a Farther who swears at strangers
Genius. Extrapolated from where, exactly?
I "Extrapolated" it from:
Called a woman a "disgusting bitch" yesterday.... Might have done something more direct had I not been rather constrained by having my little boy in the car with me
Still feel free to clarify, and I'll back your application for farther of the year...
No, still can't see where you get 'angry ball of rage', 'Farther' or 'swears at strangers' from.
Is steam actually coming out of your ears?
over-react
In your opinion. So the correct response to somebody deliberately leaving disgusting health hazards lying around is simply to let them get on with it?
mulling over physical attacks
You appear to be extrapolating again.
Can I just point out that I was there, and know I wasn't an angry ball of rage. Though given I'm apparently only one step away from being a suicide bomber, who am I to judge my own mental state?
aracer, I think you missed my point or I wasn't clear (most likely), I wasn't accusing anyone on here of littering or saying it acceptable but more meaning that there are irrisposible people weather it's mountain biking, dog walking, hill walking/ running what ever, its just sad that people do not respect the countryside around them.
Sadly, I hate to say this but it does seem to be a area/class thing, the small park a few blocks from me is HORRIBLE dog mess every where and A LOT on the small football pitch, the area is not that great, but go a few blocks the other way where the area is really nice and the parks are pretty good. I think that like a lot of things if there is litter and dog mess already there it only gets worse. Sad but true.
If it's any consolation to non dog owners/lovers it's really not great finding that your dogs beloved ball has bounced into dog mess and you have to bin it and have to walk home with a moapy dog or that they or you have stepped in it. Getting dog mess out of paws is a lot harder than shoes.
Bins and fines would help, I would love to see the govement pay people to catch people not picking up after their dog or for dropping litter, e.c.t and enforcing the fines that are there but lets face it whoever gets fined?
What I do really object to is the blame the dog attitude on here, it's just seems stupid rage, I like dogs, others don't big deal but it's the owners fault not the dogs. You wouldn't shout or threaten a child of two who dropped litter, would you? It would be the parents fault for not picking up after the child, it like the dog doesn't know any better.
I really think this thread should have ended one post after it started, with the conclution "it's not the dogs fault it's the owners, it's horible but all you can do is try and catch people and ask them, politly to clean that up", everything else is pretty pointless or just bile riddled rage.
Forums, were pointless rage lives, it's little wonder I rarely bother looking at posts on here, used to think mountian bikers were really nice people but sometimes reading this site really puts me off 'us'.
What I do really object to is the blame the dog attitude on here, it's just seems stupid rage, I like dog, others don't big deal but it's the owners fault not the dogs.
Not something that came across in your previous post - I got the impression more that you were complaining about us picking on dog owners when lots of other people also litter...
I think there was one post suggesting shooting the dog - maybe I missed another one. However in general your objection is totally missing the mark, given the rest of us are complaining about the owners, not the dogs. Where exactly is this "blame the dog attitude"?
Where exactly is this "blame the dog attitude"?
Mmm, the tag - dead dogs rock, gives it away a bit.
Unfortunately, I have 2 dogs, and yes I pick it up every time - unless the one is doing it behind a bush 30 feet of the footpath and I'm likely to injure myself picking it up. But the biggest problem around here along with doggy doo do, is broken bottles - at least one on every stretch we walk, disgarded food, vomit from last nights excesses that can go weeks without being cleaned by the coumcil. Even witnessed a pidgeon decomposing on a roadside the year before last.
Well they are a couple of posts blaming the dogs but maybe I didn't read them all that carefully...I have obivouly missed the mark, a mark that mainly seems to be, lets shout at someone or shout someone down for thier views?!?!?! We have to have someone to have a daily rant about one group of people. Sigh.
You are probally right I have maybe missed the point slightly but also have suggested a few actual solutions to the problem and have actually done something about it, that hasn't involved shouting abuse at someone. Good grief.