It makes me furious

[happy_face]

So many people get on their high horses about us dog owners and that we should pick up any mess that our dogs make. But how come it's ok for some people to come to the park and leave their mess behind?????????

I always pick up after both of my dogs' mess because of Health & Safety and because I treat the park how I would like it to always be. But it drives me nuts that people, especially in the hot weather come in tenfolds laden down with disposable bbqs, bbq meats, plastic cutlery and cans upon cans of drink and just about anything else you can think of. Then they'll light their bbqs and sit there and eat and throw their meat bones over their shoulders, cans are left behind where ever they were put down. And when they're done with their feast they leave behind a huge trail of rubbish. Some people even go to the lenghts of putting all their rubbish in a plastic bag but then leaves it sitting there in the middle of the park. There are dustbins all around the park - but do you think they can be bl00dy bothered!!!

Do they think there are little fairies whizzing around at night time tidying up after them all? More like foxes who will come and rip open any bags, spread bones out all over the place and then I come walking with my dogs who innocently gets a whiff of the bone, eats it and maybe chokes on it or is lucky enough not to choke on it, throws up all night.

God people are irresponsible

So it's ok for humans to destroy nature is it??

Right rant over

[drgnrdr]

DITTO! Sic' em Happy!!!!

I think that was an excellent rant..not over the top..to the point, concise, the fairy part was a nice touch, I'd give a 9.4.....can I hear from the German, Mexico, or UK judges? LOL

[fat rascal]

rant away... that was a good one!!

[clair3934]

I know how you feel happy i always have poo bags with me to pick up after my dog but the a lot of the people that walk there dogs in the same park obviously don't care about that, children play on bikes and climb in the trees there I would hate to be them or their parents if they got covered in poo

[Snappy]

I agree totally! The other thing that annoys me is dogs being banned from shops and other places when some people children are more badly behaved than my dog ever would be!

[gessoo]

and dogs are often a great deal cleaner too, Snappy!

[Sphinx_Svens]

Duh ... it's not OK for people to litter ....

So just concentrate on picking up poop for a living

[shaneystar2]

I totally agree. I always clear up after my dog on the odd occasion when he goes in public! He likes his own patch in the garden better though .He gets distressed if he can't "go" in private !! We have a lovely little park opposite and one person walks these two huge Dogues de Dordogne there every day and they poop as much as a horse ,and he just leaves it steaming there..When I challenged him about it I got a mouthful of abuse.
In my other local park whilst walking Shane one day I saw a girl change a poopy nappy on a park bench and then chuck it under the bench .There was a bin next to the bench ! You should see the state of our beach now the summer season is under way .And my council tax goes towards clearing it up every day . Grrr.

[gessoo]

I always clear up after my dogs in public places too. Most of the time they are walked out in the middle of the countryside and poo in the fields so it's impossible to clear up unless I run around in the fields behind them. I don't suppose it does much harm in the fields, though. At least they are regularly wormed.

[horselady]

A couple of weeks ago I saw a woman holding her child over the gutter so it could go to the loo, not wee either! Public toilets are just across the shopping precinct, would have taken her about 3 minutes to walk across. Goes without saying that she did not attempt to pick it up.

[imd123]

Speaking of getting on your 'high horse' why is it that horse riders let their horses c**p on the road and leave it. I too am a dog owner and clean up after him and wouldn't think otherwise.

[Goodsoulette]

The same people who dont pick up their rubbish after them are the same people who dont pick up their dog cr@p.

I hate dogs mess with a passion. Nothing riles me more than my little boy standing in it when he is just kicking the ball around. I just throw the shoes away cause I cant face dealing with it.