Dog Excrement

[clivebeca]

Dog Excrement

Does anyone have any positive/ even innovative way of dealing with this anti-social problem?
Our pavements and footpaths are a disgrace, and a health hazard. This now seems to have reached epidemic proportions.
“There are no bad dogs, but many, many bad dog owners”.
Sensible answers/suggestions please.

[jomifl]

Start an urban myth that dogsh1t contains legal mind altering substances and it will vanish (overnight).
In fact I did tell a pothead acquaintance of 2 freely available and legal and cheap mind altering substances which you can get in your local supermarket but he preferred the mystique and thrill of paying criminals for dodgy substances that he could be arrested for possessing.

[tamborine]

squirt of lemon bleach foils dogs & cats

[tamborine]

squirt on ground not on animal

[trt]

## I dont know why Divine didnt die after he ate dog poo on video. ##

Whose divine and surely he didn't eat dog poo?

[RATTER15]

We always pick up after our dogs and we very rarely find any other dog Poos.

[ToraToraTora]

rub the owners nose in it!

Really it must be the area because it's rare where I live, we always pick our dogs up and it seems most others do too.

[woofgang]

can we please share positive and innovative ways of dealing with the broken glass, used condoms and discarded needles that are a daily factor of life where I walk my dogs?

[lozzer50]

i always pick up after my dog, the ones who dont shou;ld be ashamed, caught one owner letting its dog 'go' in our garden luckily i knew where he lived so i picked it up with a poopy bag and went and posted it through his letterbox there is no excuse for not cleaning up , my dog was poorly recently and because of this he was 'runny' shall we say so i took 2ltr bottle of water to make sure i could swill it away

[KARL]

I too have carried/delivered excrement to a dog owning neighbour. Once, while outside the UK, I asked what their experience was of infection of humans by dog parasites (blindness is well documented, but apparently denied by some). I was told that they were not much of a problem there compared with in the UK - because "the Brits are the dirtiest". Actually, I have since found out that that particular person underestimated their problem, but nevertheless the sentiment seemed to me quite interesting. Whenever I have suggested that there are hygiene issues surrounding having animals among and in close contact with humans in the home, I have received derision and vitriol here on AB.

[MrIncredible]

http://www.fixmystreet.com/

I use fix my street web site quite a lot for this reason, our school run is a constant hazard of dog fouling.

if you report to on here they will contact the council for you who will send someone out to clear it up and if they dont they will continue to conact them on your behalf.

[clivebeca]

Thanks / Diolch MrIncredible, will certainly follow that link.

[Caribeing]

Dog owners to blame why have dogs if they can't clean up after them, I have a neighbour whose back paved garden is full of dog poo absolutely disgusting don't know how they can look out at it. Dog Poo the scourge of society.
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[saxy_jag]

I work for a parks department and part of my job is dealing with dog poo complaints from members of the public. Although the guys and girls out there in the parks do their level best, there is only so much that can be done where the majority of offenders are concerned. There are plenty of notices and bins around our parks and green spaces, a good deal of them 'multi-waste' bins, so people don't even have to go and find a special poo bin to dump it in. Bins are emptied regularly too. But still we find not just unbagged poo, but poo that's actually in bags but then dumped or thrown into - or in some cases UP into - the bushes. It hangs there in the mornings covered in frost like some bizarre Christmas decoration. We've even had instances of piles of bagged poo just left on the ground by the post where a bin had been vandalised and made unusable.

Short of having three times the number of staff on site (which we can't afford), following these people around and getting a load of verbal abuse in return (and still doesn't get the stuff picked up), it seems as though there's nothing anyone's going to be able to do to stop this plague.

I'm sure our parks officers would welcome any legal solutions, however.

[carrust]

I would ban dogs from public parks....problem solved

[saxy_jag]

If we did that, Carrust, we wouldn't have many parks left to use. Something like 80% of our users cite dog-walking as one of their main reasons for visiting parks. They also pay council tax for the privilege of doing so. Although it may not seem like it they are, in the main, clean and responsible owners. It's just the minority who spoil it for the rest. And let's also remember, the ones who walk their dogs responsibly are often also the ones who take their kids, ride their bikes, play football, go fishing and visit the cafe. If responsible dog-walkers go elsewhere then they take all that with them and the council would need to justify why they're spending money on facilities that nobody uses. Result - council's hard fought-over cash being channelled towards other deserving cases which equals fewer parks for everyone.

[KARL]

The argument has been made that if you persuade people to stop smoking then government would lose taxes and hospitals would have to close.

[saxy_jag]

I once heard an NHS trainer (a smoker) come out with 'smokers raise taxes to fund hospitals' line and he was taken to task over it. If hospitals didn't need to treat smoking-related conditions they wouldn't cost so much to run.

Making dirty people clear up after their dogs isn't going to reduce or increase the amount of council tax raised from them. What it would do is allow what they do pay to buy them more community facilities and services instead of it being used to pay staff to clear up the mess they leave behind. But of course, they're usually to stupid or selfish to see this.

[keyplus90]

I believe this problem is due to the people who do not see it as a problem. Unfortunately so many people have come from the countries and specially areas within those countries where they have no concept of these things. They are buying cars but don't know how to drive them within the laws of the country and a society, they are getting dogs but do not know what to do when the dog does a poo, they clean their houses but chuck the rubbish out in the street.

Unfortunately it is cultural thing. At least where I live.

[weecalf]

Could traffic wardens put on their remit .Yellow line & brown streak same difference 80 quid fine

[mallyh]

i've found the people who leave their dogs mess just swear if you say anything to them .