Can Someone Make Sense Of This Behaviour?

Tarser | 09:45 Fri 20th Aug 2021 | Society & Culture

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This morning I was walking my dog, obeying the law and the socially obvious right thing to do. I picked up and bagged my dog's doings. Just ahead of me, in the alley was a man doing the same. As he walked off, he placed the bag on the ground. I was a bit baffled! Next, further up the walk, his dog dropped another package. The man picked this up as before, walked a few steps and hung the bag on a fence. He then said 'Good Morning' to me as I passed him....I got the sense that this was completely normal behaviour for him. He didn't look guilty or worried that I had seen him do it.

What's the most likely explanation for this behaviour? It was a strange mix of the right thing to do followed by the obviously wrong thing. Laziness? stupidity? Defiance? Expressing himself as an individual? It all seemed so surreal!

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Deskdiary

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I save a very special loathing for people who don't pick-up after their dog - I've always picked-up after my dog has shat, and have done so for every dog I've had, and then bung it in a bin, or if none are available, bin it at home. My footwear of choice are Timberland boots, and on more than one occasion I've trod in dog mess that some inconsiderate ahole hasn't...

10:56 Fri 20th Aug 2021

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Smowball

Very strange indeed!

ladybirder

Barry mine is a Rescue, as always, so you take what you get. The first day he walked into my flat, after about an hour, he went over to the patio doors and turned round and gazed at me with a fixed stare. Clever boy, he was asking to go out. But, he only ever does a pee. Anything else he waits until he is walked.

burlyshirley

I wouldn't dream of 'training' my dog to do a poo on cue, she goes when she wants. I think it's cruel making them wait until you think they should go !

barry1010

Shirley, none of my dogs ever waited to open their bowels. All guide dogs are trained to go on cue in the same place and there is nothing cruel about it.
If my dogs needed to go when they were out, they did, but it rarely happened.

Canary42

Let's face it, the majority of dog owners have only one purpose in "walking" the dog - to get it to pee and defecate away from the home.

For the former any lamppost will do, for the latter free disposal bins provided by the long-suffering taxpayer.

Yet if a human tries peeing up against a lamppost they get fined and put on the Sex Offenders Register. What a stupid society we've created.

barry1010

Urinating in public will not get anyone put on the SOR unless it was done deliberately to cause alarm or distress. You could get charged under a bye-law but that is not enough to get on the SOR.

"In order for an offence to be classed as indecent exposure, it must be proved that the exposure was intentional and intended to cause harm or distress. Therefore if you expose yourself accidentally, such as when going to the toilet, it is not possible for this to be counted as indecent exposure."
https://www.lawtonslaw.co.uk/resources/what-is-classed-as-indecent-exposure-in-the-uk/

It might be different in other countries.

davebro

More of a concern here - where we have a couple of ponds - is Canada Goose crap. No one picks that up!

barry1010

My grandkids slipped on that stuff, Dave, and got covered in it. It was no fun getting them home in the car, I thought about putting them on the roof rack

AZardoz

The bag is just for appearances, then they chuck it into the bushes or onto someone's lawn. Standard-grade hoomans.

Unusual avatar, Canary42. Does it relate to a recent post by TTT ?
Re dogs:
https://postimg.cc/zLdzW7Jk