Am I Going To Be A Heartless Bar Steward?

[sunny-dave]

I was out doing my bins early this morning, when I spotted a small dog on a lead cràpping on my bit of front lawn.

The owner merely waited for it to finish and then began to walk off.

I enquired (to a retreating back) whether she was going to clear up the mess - and was treated to a reply from a quite elderly lady, with a seriously cut-glass accent, which was along the lines of :

"Dreadfully sorry young man, but I simply can't bend down to pick things up"

and with that she swept away - moving quite briskly, I thought, for someone with a bending problem.

Now I'm torn - I have a photo (phone cameras are quite useful) which could identify her I'm sure and I really don't want her dog using my lawn as a toilet (apart from anything else it encourages other people not to clean up either).

But, if she really is incapacitated, it seems harsh to report her and possibly stop her walking her dog.

On the other hand I've just had a smelly and unpleasant job in cleaning up the poo - and am more than a bit grumpy about it.

What would you do?

[Dee Sa]

Dave she cant live far from you , probably walking the dog locally with her bad back and all, so just do her a favour and take it back for her deposit on her lawn with a sarcastic unsigned note .
Once this man was taking his shopping from the back of his car into the house and he spied hubby with our dog at the time a cute little 3 month old shar pei puppy on a lead ... get that filthy animal away for my house he said as he was taking more shopping inside, then hubby noticed the shopping was from Tesco and hubby had the same make bag but with our dogs poo, so he just put it amongst the shopping and walked on.

[THEMOTLEY1]

Dee Sa, naughty naughty, but I luv it ;-)

[Mamyalynne]

Splutter, wipes screen!!

[Cloverjo]

Haha! That's brilliant, Dee.

[gness]

Oooo, Dee.....that's wonderful.....shouldn't laugh I suppose...but....☺

[marval]

I love that Dee.

[Eve]

Have a similar issue round here, near a large park so plenty of dog walkers about.

There is one dog in particular though who is either Houdini reincarnated or the owners just let it out to roam, though the latter would surprise me as it's an expensive looking dog. It's done its business on my front lawn a fair few times but I have no idea who owns it as I only ever see it out on its own and the dog wardens are never interested when I've rung them about dogs on the loose (including this one).

It's a large aggressive looking dog too so no way I'd get close enough to see if it has any collar disc with owner information. Had to wait for it to move away once before I could get to my front door :(

I am sick of trying to avoid stepping in anything, especially when it's dark, really wish they would have more wardens or something out around here as it seems many people round here just don't care about where their dogs does their business.

I'm not sure I'd be brave enough to front anyone though, save a meaningful glare and hope it guilt tripped them.

[webbo3]

Follow her home and post it through her letter box.



Dave.

[Hypognosis]

Bring back the dog licence.

Price: 15 bags of poo.

[gness]

Well that's a queue I won't be joining in the Post Office, Hypog..... :-(

[Hypognosis]

@gness

Noooo. Not the Post Office. The place where dog owners don't even like to think about. The places where the council takes all the bags from more diligent owners and does who-knows-what with it.

(I'm too tired to post a thread and it would set an unfortunate pattern, after my last one). ;-)

[gness]

Wonder what they do do with those bags......?...☺

[Hypognosis]

@gness

Under no circumstances should you google "history tanneries", at this time of night. Nor within 2 hours of any meal time.

[gness]

Well I have a fair idea......the local tannery used to advertise their jobs as... separating the men from the boys.......they advertised often.....☺

[Hypognosis]

They really worded the adverts like that?! Eee, it's like fishing fo' mugginses.

I suppose appealing to their sense of macho self-worth gets them every time. :o)