Dog Turds on the pavement

[flip_flop]

I was happily walking to work this morning, iPod in and gazing in the shop windows I was passing when I trod in a huge dog turd.

I'm a dog owner, and I like to think a responsible one - I always, without fail, clean up after my dog. Even when he's got the trots I carry a 2 litre bottle of water so that I can wash it away, or at least dilute it.

Apart from the fact I nearly broke my bloody neck, I was wearing a pair of Timberlands - and if you've ever tried to get dog sh1t out of the sole of a pair of Timberlands, you will know it is a nigh on impossible job.

So, my question is, on a scale of 1 to 10, how painful should the torture be for people who don't clean up after their dogs?

[naomi24]

//how painful should the torture be for people who don't clean up after their dogs? //

Rub their noses in it.

[hc4361]

Horse riders, whether police or not, leave the horse mess behind because:
1. It is not required by law to clear it up
2. It is nowhere near as harmful to health as dog mess
3. It would be difficult and dangerous to try and control a horse on the road whilst picking up its leavings.
4. It is a lot easier to accidentally tread in dog poo on the pavement than a great heap of horse poo on the road. Only a blind person could fail to see it.

[sandyRoe]

And horse poo goes very nicely on the vegetables in the garden.

[Mr Veritas]

flip_flop
Please don't go to Amsterdam then,or all their citizens would be severely punished.
Apart fro tne Vondel Park(which is clean and about the only large open space) Amsterdammers don't have parks as we do;so there is dog poop everywhere.
Or maybe they just are not worried about it.
That is not too excuse dog poop here,but there ARE worse places!

[LoftyLottie]

Found the same all over Europe Mr Veritas. They don't seem to care. They don't seem any less healthy for it either!!

[Old_Geezer]

Yes; when I was young the pervading opinion seemed to be that animals have to crap, get used to it. But we became more civilized (at least as far as this subject is concerned) and I can see no reason why other parts of the world can not progress also, given time and understanding.