I have a friend who takes his dog to various parks, including Long Lake. I have told this friend repeatedly that dog owners are supposed to pick up their dog’s poo with a plastic bag and deposit it into a trash can or take it home to toss. But, no, he thinks it’s o.k. to use a pooper scooper and toss dog turds into the woods. He figures that’s better than filling the landfill with plastic bags of dog shit. Then he complains that the park smells like dog shit. Go fucking figure that one out. —Tired of Beating Head Against Wall
This article appears in Aug 21-27, 2014.
Well, the foliage there is quite lovely…
I’ve done that. No big deal and nobody will walk or bike on it. Beats tying a bag of poop to a tree that no one is ever going to retrieve.
Tell him to make plastic bag Christmas tree ornaments and hang them on the trees like other lazy fucktard people do.
Thanks Señor Campana. I’ve never understood the warped logic of bothering to use a dog poo bag and then hanging it on a tree branch. I used to think that maybe there was a fairy poo collector that flew around and gathered them up. However, now that you have pointed out that our dog walking friends are leaving them for ornamental purposes maybe we can start a campaign to get them to use more brightly coloured bags.
It does seem that there is an inordinate number of complaints on this board related to dog owners. As far as I can tell most people are responsible and manage their dogs well but a minority like to flout the rules and norms of civil behaviour. I think the OB is doing the right thing by calling out bad behaviour. As for the poop problem, maybe there needs to be poop patrol that hunts down the bag-left-behind perpetrators and rubs their faces in it. Too harsh?
Plastic bags take 100 years to decompose. I agree, why not leave it there to decompose or biff it off into the woods. Who cares if it stinks. Nature stinks sometime. Better than a landfill full of plastic poo bags, stupit head.
You have a point there no_fool. When it comes to parks, may as well just flick it into the woods and let it compost. As long as it is not too close to a path who cares. On city streets people probably don’t want it flicked onto their lawn, though. The real question for me then, is what do people do with the bags when they take them home full of dog pooh? Does this mean that one or two plastic bags per dog is going into the landfill every day? Considering that at least 20% of homes have dogs … that’s a lot of plastic bags and dog poo in the landfill! If so, I think someone needs to come up with a better solution.
The little brown paper sandwich bags make perfect shit bags,they would biodegrade in less than 1000 years .
Like people … there are too many dogs.