Taking dog poo home

[Prudie]

Just back from a walk frequented by dog walkers and dodging poo the whole way I got to thinking - the responsible owners who scoop, what do you do with it? Put in the dustbin at home?

[Bambiagain]

Yes, unless there's a bin supplied by the local authority or whoever on the way.

[seadogg]

Very often, there is a place on the walk where the local council provide special bins for dog "waste". Otherwise, properly bagged up, it can go in an ordinary bin. If there is no provision, the bin at home is fine.

[Jumbo747]

I have seen someone take a fairly large plastic carrier-bag and stuff that into a dog poo-bin(he didn't have a dog with him). Presumably he had been saving it up for a day or two.............

[sandyRoe]

Some people near where I walk my dog bag it up and then hang it on the branches of shrubs. Other bag it and then leave it on the ground.

[Prudie]

I've seen the special bins but this is a very rural area and there aren't any. It's a newly built gravel path (after the local farmer closed off the fields that dogwalkers used). It's a shame that some people don't bother picking up as it gives dog owners a bad name. It's no effort really is it.

[Prudie]

You're right sandy, there was a plastic bag left on the ground today. I ask you how stupid can you get?

[seadogg]

We all get cross about that stupid practice Sandy. At least the dog poo left by the path is dealt with by slugs etc but those damn bags just hang around.

[firewatch]

take it home every time! It pees me right off dog owners who dont scoop!!

[FredPuli43]

Chuck it in the hedge or on to a field. Pity to waste good organic fertilizer! That's if I need to pick it up; mostly a well aimed kick will clear it into the hedgerow. But that's the country for you. We do have the bins, all installed at the behest of 'townies' on the Parish Council, and emptied by a contractor, but only the ones on the recreation ground have any point.

If someone just chucked it into the roadway, to join the existing piles of horse muck, would that be an offence? Has the public obsession with toxicaria meant that that's forbidden?

[boxtops]

I was amazed to find that my friend puts her dog poo into a suitable bag but slings it under the hedge, on the grounds that it'll disintegrate. Yes, but not for a long time!

[lankeela]

I use nappy bags but always have a carrier bag in my pocket, so when I pick up poo with the nappy bag, I knot it and I then put it in the carrier bag as I have several dogs and carrying lots of little parcels gets a bit dodgy. As its double bagged I put it in the wheelie bin when I get home. I rarely use the actual poo bins as they are either full or I feel an obligation to take mine home.

[slinkycat]

The local playing/dog walking field has 6 poop bins and its still a minefield down there, makes me so angry, some people leave the dog poo even when their dog has done it right next to a bin!
I bag it and take it home (my own dog's poo that is!) if theres no bin around.

[ladyalex]

About a year ago someone took to throwing bags of dog poo over our garden wall. This mystifies me as surely the difficult bit is scooping the poo to start with. Finding a bin must be easier.
A couple of days ago I saw a poo bag left hanging on someone's iron gate.
Mystified again.

[craft1948]

I only take my dog for walks on York racecourse which has plenty of poop bins.

[4getmenot]

another reason I wont have a dog, cant think of anything worse than feeling the warm poo through the plastic bag

[tamborine]

why not down the loo; flush it away for the treatment plant.

That's better than polluting public places.

[slinkycat]

Its fine through the bag 4get, its when you realise you haven't quite positioned your hand fully in the bag that's the problem :/

[chi-chi66]

I watched a young girl from my window, she scooped up the poo into a
sainsbury bag...very good I thought, until I went out later..she had dumped the bag on a neighbours wall...that was left there for a few days.

My friend, years before scooping..when her alsation pood in her back garden
or outside, she would pick it up, in a bag, take it home and put it down her
loo.

[craft1948]

4get you can actually buy plastic grippers which fit inside poop bags so you don't feel the poo................

[tamborine]

But putting it in bins etc is more for land fills. Land fill sites round here lie dormant for 20+ years. Land doesn't grow nor breed & needs our protection.