It’s one of the reasons why I have to bulk buy poop bags and store them in every pocket, just in case. Then when I’m out and about with the dogs, realise I’ve forgotten my wallet but have plenty of poop bags.
But yeah, dog owners should pick it up… especially at the side of the pavement. And one hundred thousand percent in a park.
This happend to me when I was at the shops with my mum's retriever.. luckily enough I was able to scrounge a spare plastic carrier bag from a passerby and I've always got a roll of poop bags in my jacket on the off chance I'm or a fellow dog walker is caught short.
One time I had two bags left. The shop is a 5 minute walk away, closer to 10 with the dog (he's a slow one...).
I thought I was safe. I thought he'd never go more than twice on a walk normally. I thought 500m was short enough a distance.
He shat 3 times. The third time, he scooted over to squeeze one out over someone's garden path. I was mortified, dragged him to the shop as fast as I could, grabbed some bags and ran back to pick it up again.
Now, if I'm ever on one bag (very rare now, I try to keep a spare roll in my coat pocket), I'll not tie it up too tightly just in case I need to use it one more time
Don't worry, it'll all biodegrade before the "I only walk my dog when I'm off work" brigade have a week off for Easter and litter the pavements with shite again to perpetuate the cycle.
My flat overlooks a footpath with a patch of grass notorious for people not picking up after their dog. In the summer I leave my balcony window open for the air and if someone doesn't pick up after their dog I'll loudly comment and ask if they need a poo bag (the bin is visible from my window too so no excuses). They can't see me, they just get a disembodied voice guilting them into picking it up. Enormous amount of fun. If they say yes I can throw a roll of poo bags at them too.
Only today I forgot to take a bag with me, I continued my walk, took the dog home and then walked all the way back again to pick up said poop because I was mortified that I didn't have one with me.
Before I have had to untie the bag with the poop already in it to add the second unexpected poop.
What I find even worse than people who don't pick up the poop, is the people who pick it up and then fling the sodding bag into a bush. At least the lazy fekkers who don't pick it up are not leaving biodegradable plastic bags all over the place.
What I find even worse than people who don't pick up the poop, is the people who pick it up and then fling the sodding bag into a bush.
I used to walk down a canal towpath to get to work, and there was one particular tree that was festooned with plastic bags full of dog turds, it looked like Satan's Christmas tree. Utterly fucking baffling. Why would you take something unpleasant but biodegradable and make it just as unpleasant but less biodegradable? It wasn't even that far from a fucking bin. Fuck's sake, just boot it into the canal if you're not going to throw it away, I'm 99.99% sure that a sizeable amount of people have pissed in there after a night out over the years.
My only assumption is that its people who know full well that they're supposed to pick up after their dog, but can't bring themselves to carry the shit-parcel any distance at all, so they bag it up, pat themselves on the back for "doing the right thing" and then just leave it or stick it on some foliage.
Can we also talk about cat shite everywhere too? People love complaining about people not picking up their dog shite (right fully so) yet all the neighbourhood cats a free to come and shit in all our gardens without a care in the world.
My garden is the demilitarised zone between three competing cat's turfs - meaning my turf is always full of cat shit.
2026 will definitely be where I build that cat detecting water cannon, i know I've said this yearly since making the garden look pretty in 2012 but I mean it this year.
That's great that works for you - it's quite a big area I have and things like that don't seem to work - other things I've tried include CDs on string and the high frequency motion sensitive alarms. I never seem to catch them with my super soaker either.
This works for a little while until it rains. I haven’t got the heart to use cayenne pepper, I want them to stop shitting on my lawn but I don’t really want to hurt them.
My nieghbours cats shits in my garden, not sure which side it is as both have cats but it always goes back over the fence of the neighbour I don't like 🤷♂️
I remember a time where my dog had 3 shits on one walk. Carried them all, then round the corner from home he shot out his 4th (he was unwell).
I felt like shit leaving it, thankfully another walker had a spare bag and offered one, after all I was clearly in a pickle as I was already carrying 3 bags of shit.
I’ve seen it too many times when dog owners are in their own world on their phones, paying no attention to the dog, who is trailing a good 3+ minutes behind because it’s just stopped to take a honking big shit in the middle of a footpath. Owner oblivious and couldn’t care less. Walking a dog is one of the best parts of owning one - a chance to spend really good quality time with a pet and absorb yourself in their world.
Call them out. Pisses me off seeing dog shit about but whenever I have seen a dog walker try to ignore it I've called them out and they've always gone and picked it up (relictantly).
I remember one with a German shepherd mumbling something about not having a bag then seemingly discovering one from thin air.
Sometimes our dogs will do all the actions to poop and just not do it. I hate the thing of looking like we're "those people" even though the dog did nothing
My dog hunches over just a little to pee, and I was concerned people thought she was pooping and leaving it, so now we've started saying "oh is that just pee worthy?" or "oh it's poop worthy!" so anyone nearby knows
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Really pisses me off. There was dog shit at my local park's car park yday. If you can't pick your dog's shit, you don't get to own a dog. FFS.
As a dog owner it pisses me off no end. I'm responsible and I hate it when I see others aren't.
My biggest fear is going on a walk, running out of poo bags and being thought of as one of those people.
It’s one of the reasons why I have to bulk buy poop bags and store them in every pocket, just in case. Then when I’m out and about with the dogs, realise I’ve forgotten my wallet but have plenty of poop bags.
But yeah, dog owners should pick it up… especially at the side of the pavement. And one hundred thousand percent in a park.
This happend to me when I was at the shops with my mum's retriever.. luckily enough I was able to scrounge a spare plastic carrier bag from a passerby and I've always got a roll of poop bags in my jacket on the off chance I'm or a fellow dog walker is caught short.
One time I had two bags left. The shop is a 5 minute walk away, closer to 10 with the dog (he's a slow one...).
I thought I was safe. I thought he'd never go more than twice on a walk normally. I thought 500m was short enough a distance.
He shat 3 times. The third time, he scooted over to squeeze one out over someone's garden path. I was mortified, dragged him to the shop as fast as I could, grabbed some bags and ran back to pick it up again.
Now, if I'm ever on one bag (very rare now, I try to keep a spare roll in my coat pocket), I'll not tie it up too tightly just in case I need to use it one more time
My dog passed away summer '24. Im still finding poop bags in coat pockets
You have a dog though /jk
I once did that and ended up standing beside the poo until the next dog walker came through.
The sheer amount of dog shit on the pavements since Christmas is getting ridiculous now.
If you don’t pick up after your dog, I hope that Satan himself inserts your dog up your arse.
Or craps in their garden. Could call him Poocifer.
Or Beelzebab
Don't worry, it'll all biodegrade before the "I only walk my dog when I'm off work" brigade have a week off for Easter and litter the pavements with shite again to perpetuate the cycle.
It's been so cold the last few days that I stubbed my toe on a dog log in the park.
It's not the dog's fault their owners are irresponsible.
Maybe Satan kan insert a spiky object the size of their dog up their arse?
My flat overlooks a footpath with a patch of grass notorious for people not picking up after their dog. In the summer I leave my balcony window open for the air and if someone doesn't pick up after their dog I'll loudly comment and ask if they need a poo bag (the bin is visible from my window too so no excuses). They can't see me, they just get a disembodied voice guilting them into picking it up. Enormous amount of fun. If they say yes I can throw a roll of poo bags at them too.
Doing God's work.
EXCUSE ME !
Very loudly.
YOU SEEM TO HAVE NOT PICKED UP YOUR DOGS MESS
point to mess.
Hopefully some other people will tut.
There's a guy who walks his greyhound down our road every day and NEVER picks the dog's shit up. The street is now full of little greyhound nuggets
Someone needs to confront him
I've tried but he gets really aggressive and as a weak woman I don't want to push it.
Find out where he lives and report him to the council.
I'm a dog walker and this infuriates me.
Only today I forgot to take a bag with me, I continued my walk, took the dog home and then walked all the way back again to pick up said poop because I was mortified that I didn't have one with me.
Before I have had to untie the bag with the poop already in it to add the second unexpected poop.
What I find even worse than people who don't pick up the poop, is the people who pick it up and then fling the sodding bag into a bush. At least the lazy fekkers who don't pick it up are not leaving biodegradable plastic bags all over the place.
I used to walk down a canal towpath to get to work, and there was one particular tree that was festooned with plastic bags full of dog turds, it looked like Satan's Christmas tree. Utterly fucking baffling. Why would you take something unpleasant but biodegradable and make it just as unpleasant but less biodegradable? It wasn't even that far from a fucking bin. Fuck's sake, just boot it into the canal if you're not going to throw it away, I'm 99.99% sure that a sizeable amount of people have pissed in there after a night out over the years.
My only assumption is that its people who know full well that they're supposed to pick up after their dog, but can't bring themselves to carry the shit-parcel any distance at all, so they bag it up, pat themselves on the back for "doing the right thing" and then just leave it or stick it on some foliage.
Should have booted at her. It'll be worth the shit on your shoe.
“You’ve got shit on your shoe…”
Can we also talk about cat shite everywhere too? People love complaining about people not picking up their dog shite (right fully so) yet all the neighbourhood cats a free to come and shit in all our gardens without a care in the world.
My garden is the demilitarised zone between three competing cat's turfs - meaning my turf is always full of cat shit.
2026 will definitely be where I build that cat detecting water cannon, i know I've said this yearly since making the garden look pretty in 2012 but I mean it this year.
I've had a bit of success (granted on a small patch of grass alongside the driveway rather than a whole garden) with coffee grinds and citrus peels.
Apparently the cats don't like the smell so they go elsewhere.
That's great that works for you - it's quite a big area I have and things like that don't seem to work - other things I've tried include CDs on string and the high frequency motion sensitive alarms. I never seem to catch them with my super soaker either.
This works for a little while until it rains. I haven’t got the heart to use cayenne pepper, I want them to stop shitting on my lawn but I don’t really want to hurt them.
My nieghbours cats shits in my garden, not sure which side it is as both have cats but it always goes back over the fence of the neighbour I don't like 🤷♂️
Average dog owner from what I have seen
There's a guy near me who let's his dogs shit on the grassy verge beside the path to the park.
When the wife asked if he was going to pick it up he said "oh we don't pick it up out of the hedges", with a tone that implied she was the crazy one.
I carry some nitrate gloves so if I see this, put the gloves on, pick it up and lob it at the back of their head.
Are you sure they’re not nitrile gloves?!
Sure you do buddy 😂
I've bagged up and returned through people's doors before
I remember a time where my dog had 3 shits on one walk. Carried them all, then round the corner from home he shot out his 4th (he was unwell).
I felt like shit leaving it, thankfully another walker had a spare bag and offered one, after all I was clearly in a pickle as I was already carrying 3 bags of shit.
What a time it was to be alive.
I mean, they could at least bag it then throw it into a tree.
This infuriates me! 😖
It really pisses me off. I’m disabled with five little dogs, and if I can clean up after them, why can’t everyone else?
I’ve seen it too many times when dog owners are in their own world on their phones, paying no attention to the dog, who is trailing a good 3+ minutes behind because it’s just stopped to take a honking big shit in the middle of a footpath. Owner oblivious and couldn’t care less. Walking a dog is one of the best parts of owning one - a chance to spend really good quality time with a pet and absorb yourself in their world.
There was dog crap right next to the dog poop bin the other day. 🙄
dog owners are the worst when are we getting a big media campaign shaming them and their poop machines
Call them out. Pisses me off seeing dog shit about but whenever I have seen a dog walker try to ignore it I've called them out and they've always gone and picked it up (relictantly).
I remember one with a German shepherd mumbling something about not having a bag then seemingly discovering one from thin air.
Oh dog shit? I guarantee I stand in it wearing my new trainers. With the really ridged / patterned soles. Like fucking clockwork.
The NPCs should just start insisting these dickheads clean up after their dog. Embarass them.
My favourite part of a cold morning walk, having a couple of warm dog turds to stop my hands from freezing
"Excuse me, I think you dropped something" Nice and loud in your sweetest, most caring tone and make sure to play the part all the way to the end.
I miss white dog shit - at least it was easier to spot at nighttime!..
Sometimes our dogs will do all the actions to poop and just not do it. I hate the thing of looking like we're "those people" even though the dog did nothing
My dog hunches over just a little to pee, and I was concerned people thought she was pooping and leaving it, so now we've started saying "oh is that just pee worthy?" or "oh it's poop worthy!" so anyone nearby knows
At least it was on the side, rather than in the trail.