Okay I meant to bitch about this last summer but I forgot and was not surprisingly reminded of this stinky habit this past weekend:
I went for a nice relaxing swim/picnic at Long Lake and as my friends and I walked along the trail to get to the lake we counted 12 rotting bags of dog shit, most of which were hanging from the trees – “lovely decoration” is what Mother Earth said to herself.
Come on people! seriously, if you’re not going to put your dog’s shit in the fucking garbage then don’t bother putting it in a plastic bag that takes a million years to decompose! No more low hanging shit fruit!!! —No more shit bags please!
This article appears in Jul 22-28, 2010.
Sounds like you wandered on to the set of Atom Egoyan’s “The Blair Shit Project”. Your tax dollars at work; keeping Canada’s cultural industry fresh and vibrant
I see this all the time too, I don’t really understand it much myself.
I really wish there was a garbage can at the entrance to the trail at Long Lake.
My friend and I went there last week and brought her puppy. The puppy must have eaten something funny, because she had a few stinky runny poos. My friend picked up the poop, but it got all over the bag, and it was so messy and stinky, and there was nowhere to put the bag! So we had to bring the stinky shit covered (and filled) bag into the car. Which we did because we are both good pet owners, but it was super unpleasant.
Like abc123 said, there aren’t enough garbage cans in the park. Call your councilor/public works, or shut up.
Garbage cans only work for the 25% of the poulation who understand their function and know how to operate such high tech equipment. 50% of the populace adopt a live-and-let-live attitude to them, trusting that Kismet, Karma, or the prevailing westerlies will transport their waste from the ground to the receptacle. The remaining 25% view them as an actual threat to be crushed, kicked, ignited, used to smash bus shelter windows or thrown into the nearest body of water.
There are at least 3 in a space of about 100 yards at Birch Cove Park and by 5:00 PM every day the grounds are littered with plastic drink containers, beer cans and bottles, fast food wrappers, used diapers and sundry other objets d’art whose function is best left unexplained.
I agree – Mr. Ivan. It’s a sad state of affairs when the lessons drilled into our brains since toddling (don’t litter!) escapes the general populace… sigh. And that’s not the only lesson missing in the “common sense” of folks these days either. Take your pick, there are a gazillion.
You got it Ralmn. Common Sense and it’s twin brother Common Courtesy are either the world’s biggest oxymorons, or the world’s most endangered species. Rarely seen in captivity; virtually extinct in the wild
actually, plastic bags don’t decompose because they are made by a synthetic material… but they do photocompose. It’s just a shame no-one knows how long that takes because they’ve only been around the last half century or so and that’s nowhere near long enough.
Technically speaking though, they would photocompose more quickly hanging on a tree than they would in a landfill since very little sunlight is exposed to them once they are buried…
So in closing, whomever is doing this is actually doing mother nature a favor rather than the alternative of throwing the bag out.
OP: The day the dog owners at Long Lake actually follow the rules of the park is the day the 7th sign of the apocalypse arrives. Those self-righteous entitled pricks never have and never will treat that place with the respect it deserves.
don’t blame the dumb animals, blame the fucking dumb owners of them.
If these owners waited around for a few minutes, the dog would eat its own shit. What a stupid animal.
Grrrrrrr.
Yeah – shit bags hanging from trees. You have no idea how significant this is. Did you experience any ‘lost time’ recently? Have you seen strange lights in the sky? Do you sometimes experience high pitched tones like a ringing in the ears? Do you have persistent troubling visions?
If you answered ‘yes’ to any of these questions I’d say that you and your friend had a ‘close encounter’. A ‘close encounter of the shit kind’.
For the love of humanity, the next time you come across a scene like that run away very fast. ‘They’ are here and ‘they’ are taking samples.
That is all I can say at this point. I don’t want to draw attention to this discussion.
you are a funny fucker mr. farmer…thanks ivan. grrrr is right. dogs are not nearly as stupid as bags of skin like you mr. venal. my crows are coming to peck yer eyes out
I’ve seen this exact same bitch 5 times now.
I agree, but people also shoudn’t just leave it in the middle of the fucking path for a lovely surprise to someone walking!
The only place I see bags of dog shit are in the elementary school garbage cans where I put my dog’s crap. The kids can use it as PlayDough.