I've always assumed the "dog poo hanging on trees in bags" phenomenon was caused either by people who want to be reminded to collect on the way back from their walk, or by it getting caught in the tree by chance when people had flung it away.
Yesterday I saw someone intentionally hang their dog poo in a non-bio degradable bag just before they got in their car which suggests both those theories are wrong and there's some advantage to dealing with it in that way.
Why do they do it?
Did you manage to say something to the inconsiderate idiot?
Because the dog poo fairy comes to collect it obviously.
Channel your inner chimp and fling it back at them?
I thought the same (first two reasons)
Very occasionally if I am on an 'out and back' walk I may put the bagk on a low wall or similar and pick it up on the return leg. I do pick it up though, every time and I only do this if I know there isn't a bin elsewhere on the walk to use.
Don't try and make sense of the actions of stupid people as their actions are just stupid
did you get their reg
report them?
i think i would of taken it off the tree and stuck it in their exhaust.....
I just don't see why someone would go to the effort of taking bags, of picking it up but then leaving it in a tree?
I heard someone (may well have been on here) assert their reasoning was: "it makes it easier for the park rangers to collect" 🙁
Just mad speculation here but I'd always thought the same.
TBH in some ways better in a tree than flung into my face but I'm guessing some people do this as you say... then someone see's someone else and without engaging their brain thinks this is "what you do".
Very likely their brain gets little use in general.
At least you're not going to ride through it (or as the Army keep complaining arroudn here, crawl, ewwwww).
It's also a great way to disguise your hot sausages.
someone in my local park hangs theirs on the spikes on the entry gate, seen it on the local primary school railings too. Hopefully in a few years assassination drones will automatically DNA test it and visit the owners...
Doggy folk, with the odd exception, are a bit odd.
I have heard the reasoning "it makes it easier for someone else to collect" before too. Why your dog's defecation should be someone else's problem is beyond me. Dirty dimwitted dickheads.
Not just on trees, but left lying in the street, even dropped outside the front door of a row of terraced houses.
It’s a dick move by people who are thoughtless, inconsiderate dicks.
maybe they think it's good for the tree
OP - what sort of poo bag was it then? I always assumed all poo bags were fully biodegradable. Or was it just a sandwich bag or something?
OP – what sort of poo bag was it then? I always assumed all poo bags were fully biodegradable. Or was it just a sandwich bag or something?
Sadly not. I have to specifically buy bio bags otherwise they stay hanging in the tree for ever.
I always assumed all poo bags were fully biodegradable
A) I'd not credit someone with that level of ****wittery to consider buying biodegradable bags
B) It's still hung on a tree, which is the problem. Most places* are happy if you leave dog poo where it is as long as it's not on the path.
*there's reasons why not, like play areas, army training areas, sensitive ecosystems like sand dunes, but if you're dogs just doing what bears do naturally, it's fine.
Last time I experienced someone hanging a poo bag in a tree before getting in their car at Cannock I collected said bag of Fido's finest and lobbed it at their windscreen so hard the bag split and left a humongous skiddy smear all over it as they turned their wipers on.
Having the misfortune of living in an area where people come to walk their dogs, its difficult not to just reach the conclusion that a lot of dog owners are just selfish inconsiderate ****s of the highest order!
From experience the worst offenders are Mr and Mrs matching Berghaus with their chocolate lab. Mrs Binners recently went ballistic at just two such people who casually observed their 4-legged shitting machine curl out a massive steaming log right onto the steps in front of our house, then just turn and walk off. And hanging dog poo bags from the trees behind our house seems just the standard done thing to these strokers
I'm thinking of planting landmines or getting a snipers rifle
OP – what sort of poo bag was it then? I always assumed all poo bags were fully biodegradable. Or was it just a sandwich bag or something?
Standard size Tescos branded carrier bag. (Which at 5p a pop must be the most expensive dog poo bag ever.) Perhaps they are biodegradable.
Sadly not. I have to specifically buy bio bags otherwise they stay hanging in the tree for ever.
Now that is staggering.
Every day is a school day. I always buy the degradable ones but I never leave them behind – however when they inevitably end up in landfill I'd rather they rot away a bit more quickly.
Although yesterday I had the misfortune of having to clear up a month's worth of dog waste (our spaniel was house-bound after an injury) from the garden AND dig out the rotting hell where we put waste on other occasions she'd dumped in the garden.
I do hate selfish dog owners though - and delight in giving them spare bags when I catch them trying to walk away from the scene of the crime saying 'sorry I forgot my poo bags today' 🙂
"I always assumed all poo bags were fully biodegradable"
Given the phenomenal amount of bags of poo in my local woods I assumed that none were biodegradable.
I always assumed it was either:
like when somebody rams your car in a supermarket car park and then writes a note which says, "the person watching me write this note assumes I'm leaving my name and address";
or
like when gamekeepers used to skin moles and leave the skins hanging up pour encourager les autres - a sort of "if you make me bag my dogs shit up then I'll just leave it in a tree with some added turtle murdering plastic".
Luckily I live somewhere where I can just flick the poo into a hedge and spare the use of any bags. I have noticed that some people who do take the bag away hang it on their rear wiper (presumably don't want the smell in the car) but it then falls off or breaks off defeating the point.
I’ll just leave it in a tree with some added turtle murdering plastic”.
Point of order. Turtles are not, as a rule, arboreal. 😉
Also, do these people not have pockets?
It's a plastic enclosed dogshit .....not a plutonium scorpion dusted with anthrax.
Tie the bag and stick it in your jacket pocket until you get to a bin.
This has gotten on my nerves for a few years.
If I ever get around to it, one year at Xmas I'm going to collect enough of them to decorate a pine near the trailhead with these dog-shit-baubles and some tinsel, and perhaps a festive message along the lines of 'Merry Shitmas', or something more creative (if anything ever comes to me).
What's wrong with just letting the slugs and bugs scoff it? Apart from this time of year it's gone in two days.
‘Merry Shitmas’
.....and a Crappy New Year
On a bike ride with my son t'other day stopped at a little bridge over a stream to admire the view.
Then I noticed a number of 'Xmas decorations' hanging from a tree over the stream. No way could they have been placed there too far away. The location really couldn't be regarded as the start of any walk either. So must have been flung with no intention of coming back to collect them on the way home.
Also noticed the new habit of people hanging bag off the towbar / rear wiper and witnessed it dropping off with explosive consequences.
Lovely just lovely.
I tacoed a wheel at Swinley once and walked back down one on the dog walker routes.
The gate at the end was literally covered in poo bags of all colours. It was gross, god knows what the ranger does if he heeds to get through the gate with an ambulance.
It seems most people seem to think the problem isn't leaving turd in bags lying around, but that no one picks it up for you
I only ever hang mine in bio degradable bags. I like to do my bit for the environment, I'm not a total idiot.
I always assumed all poo bags were fully biodegradable
They generally are but peoples perception of biodegradable plastics is a bit different from the reality.
Most biodegradable plastics will still take years to degrade otherwise they would start to decompose before they got on the shelves
What I really fail to understand is that surely - the hard part of the operation is complete. You've picked up a warm turd. If you intended to leave it somewhere complete with plastic coating, why not just leave it as is (Steaming on the path) or "pretend" to pick it up in the first place.
I have said it before - and had stick on here for it - that there is a selfish majority (51%, yeah?) of dog owners who don't pick it up at all, who leave bags of the stuff lying or hanging around needlessly.
Add in the 'oh, he is only being friendly' as the hound lurches up at you or chases bike/shoes/screaming child, and I have had enough.
Idiots in all walks of life - and they tarnish the well behaved lot. 🙁
It's grim. Mrs P works with international vets that study all the horrible parasites that pet animals carry, some of which are incredibly harmful to humans. Why have we got ourselves in a position where it's accepted that you can own an animal (in growing numbers it seems) that endangers the health of other humans through the non disposal or badly carried-out disposal, of faeces. The Romans/Victorians solved these issues as far as our own species hygiene was concerned many years ago. <<rant over>>
The local wardens to us try hard with signs and bins, but they're too small and often overflowing which makes it a grim job to sort as per picture above and encourages tree hanging. A dog tax to pay for councils to employ specific, large and hygienic bin systems that can be emptied without stinking and endangering the staff having to empty them would be a start.
I does my head in, I always pick up after ours and carry it to a bin or whatever, it's hardly difficult or dirty if you do it properly... and standing in the stuff annoys me just as much as anyone else, I assure you.
I caught a guy last week bag up his dog poo and chuck it in a hedge at the local trails. Made him go in pick it up and take it to the nearest bin. Does my head in being a dog owner myself it gives us a bad name
Luckily I live somewhere where I can just flick the poo into a hedge and spare the use of any bags.
I'm glad your are not living with a botanist doing regular hedge surveys.
The local woods here have a stick and flick policy. It doesn't stop people bagging and depositing said bags around the nearest waymarker post.
I caught a bloke yesterday flinging a freshly laid dog egg in a bag in to a tree. When I challenged him his excuse was that he meant to throw it in the river!
When I told him that was just as bad he claimed that he didn't know where a bin was. I pointed to the large, silver cylindrical receptacle about 20 feet away. He just turned around and walked off.
There really are some cockwombles about.