Hey you jerks who pick up your dog’s shit in bags and then leave the bags tied to the trees or littering the trails, carry your shit with you out of the park! There is a garbage can near the parking lot or take your shit bags home and dispose of them in your garbage cans. Your laziness will harm the rest of us dog owners who like to walk our dogs in the park both on and off leash and who pick the poop up and dispose of it properly. Last year’s development plan for Long Lake Park calls for no dogs off leash because of concerns about shit lying around…prompted no doubt by the rudeness of dog owners like you turds. If you can’t carry your dog’s shit out of the park, stay at home and don’t wreck Long Lake for the rest of us.
—My mama taught me to carry the trash out
This article appears in Jul 30 – Aug 5, 2009.
Woohoo….can’t wait to walk my dog there. I just bought a house nearby. As a responsible dog owner, I never leave the used-baggies behind….that’s just gross.
Why would someone bag up shit and then just leave it there? The bags are to carry the shit to the garbage so you don’t have to touch it. So why even carry bags at all? How do these people manage to dress themselves in the morning and leave the house without somehow strangling themselves on their tie or drinking Lysol?
Yeah, that makes no sense to me. better to leave it on the ground to eventually decompose than wrap it in plastic and tie it to a tree. Maybe they are planning on picking it up on their way out of the park?
I go to Long Lake every weekend and I see these shitbags leaving shitbags all the time. Whenever I see someone hanging it off the tree I call them out on it and tell them to be sure they take it out with them, or I’m gonna hurl it at them. Thing is though OP there shouldn’t be ANY dogs off leash there. It’s not an HRM designated Off-Leash Park, it’s a Provincial Park and there’s not supposed to be ANY pets off leash in a Provincial Park.
http://www.gov.ns.ca/natr/PARKS/long-lake.…
http://www.novascotiaparks.ca/misc/helpful…
I really don’t mind that people have their dogs off-leash, but for fuck sakes people, when your dog is barking it’s head off at me and my friend’s when we’re carrying our canoe in, don’t look at me and say “Don’t worry, they don’t bite” or some other moronic bullshit like that. Don’t call their name repeatedly until they stop barking (which almost never happens), run over, grab them and get your fucking dog on a leash and under control. I love animals, but I will NOT risk my safety or my friend’s safety. If I feel threatened by your dog, I will do whatever is necessary to protect myself, especially when you’re not supposed to have them off their leashes in the first place. So OP, I thank you for being responsible enough to clean up after your dog, but please make sure you are also responsible enough to know when to put your dog back on it’s leash. Not everyone loves dogs and some people are downright terrified of them.
Bang on, Never Wrong!
What do the assholes say to you when you call them out on their hanging of the shit bags? Public shaming is always good.
And I agree totally on the barking dog bit and feeling threatened. I enjoy dogs as much as anyone but I’m not going to risk my safety/health b/c of a lazy pet owner. If I had to take a 2×4 out to clobber Lassie so be it.
My biggest pet peeve (haha) is quickly becoming irresponsible and lazy pet owners. Clean up after your pet and put it in the garbage and train your pet. It doesn’t seem like a hard concept to understand to me.
I agree Never Wrong about the dog owners yelling at their dogs to stop barking…if you have to yell at your dog repeatedly to stop doing something, all you’re doing is creating noise pollution and wasting breath and energy. An untrained dog is an untrained dog, and no matter how angry the owner sounds, the dog won’t understand or care what command is being given.
Here’s a stupid confession. I saw a shitbag tied to a tree for the first time when I was 10 or 11. Not knowing what it was and having a rather suspicious mother, I got all excited and called the police- I was convinced it was a bag of crack. Welll I guess it was- only not the kind my wannabee-investigator’s mind was expecting. 😛