Damn DogWalkers !!!

There will only ever be one way to stop the majority of dogs leaving their mess all
over the place and that is is by knowing which dog/owner left it.

Imagine a time in the future, technology advances to a point where DNA testing can be done on the spot by dog wardens, an instant fine is then sent to the registered owner of that dog from a massive dna database.

Sigh.... I can only but dream of poo free paths and recreation areas.
 
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Gremlin said:
Just been for a walk along our local canal, now ok it's pretty much rural and to be honest I don't much mind if dog pooh is left on the edges, it degrades quick enough, especially in this wet weather
But what does annoy me is those bloody conscientous walkers who pick it up in a plastic bag then ..........................wait for it ................................throw the bag in the hedgerow, WTF is that all about and why bother to decocate the hedge with bags of various colours
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I own two dogs and I find the habit of other people who bag their own dog's poo and then just leave the bag just mind numbingly stupid!

I was once walking my dog and saw a teen age lad let the big Labrador he was walking do a surreptitious poo, he didn't know I had seen it. When he went to walk off I asked if he was going to clear up the poo. He said he had no bags. I provided one. He was not a happy bunny as he picked up the big steaming pile! It was a sweet moment of schadenfreude :lol:
 
Jeeze guys I thought I was the one that talked a load of Sht!
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Yep 'tis a problem here too ( and yes I am a dog person )
The other one that winds me up although not a health hazard per se'
I have 2 fairly tall shrubs out in the front garden.
and passing dog owners seem to think that its OK to let their dogs
p'ss on them. I have asked on many occasions for the dog owners
name and address, and when they ask why I tell them so that I can get my dog to crap / p'ss
on their lawn. next time "I" am passing :D
 
A few years ago when I had a front lawn, before it ws turned into a drive, as there was no hedge peple always used to let there dogs use it, but never when I was about to catch them :bang:
So put up a post with some cheapy nappy sacs attached and a note asking people to please clear up............................ should have know better, next d all the bgs had gone and still pooh on lawn :bang::bang:

Cobra said:
Jeeze guys I thought I was the one that talked a load of Sht!
:D
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Nope you do the spam threads............................. I do the sht threads :p :D
 
Make everyone caught using a mobile when driving go round collecting the dog poo bags as community service

Too evils sorted in one hit and would clear the backlog in no time
 
tijuana taxi said:
Make everyone caught using a mobile when driving go round collecting the dog poo bags as community service

Too evils sorted in one hit and would clear the backlog in no time
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:clap::clap::clap::clap::clap::clap::clap::clap:

I have photographed three people using mobile phones while while they were driving, In each case the police prosecuted!

If you use a mobile phone handset while driving you have no right to a driving licence. In fact you have abrogated your right to use the road full stop. People who use their mobile phones while driving are careless, selfish, arrogant and thoughtless. I think there should be an automatic 1 month ban per offence in addition to the effect of any points on the licence! 1st offence 1 month walking, 2nd offence 2 months walking etc. etc.
 
boliston said:
I spend at least an hour per day walking in the country and dog related things seem the main hazard. If it's not the massive piles of poo every few yards there are then walkers who seem incapable of controlling their dogs.

Just the other day I had a dog jump up at me that was coated in mud and when I told the owner that it's not going to look good going back to work coated in mud (it was my lunch hour) the owner seemed to imply that I should not be wearing clothes that need to be kept clean when out walking! :bang:
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My wife was attacked by two dogs as a child, and as a result is very scared of dogs. My 2 girls have also picked up her fear, just from seeing her reaction to dogs. It really gets on my nerves when irresponcible dogs owners let their dogs off the lead but then fail to control them, or on occasion have them on a lead and still fail to control them. If that had been me, he would have been left very much knowing what a **** he was. Because of the family, I would have no problem giving a dog a good kick if it was jumping around either my wife or kids, may not keep the rspca happy, but anything like that would make the problem much worse in the future for my girls, so not concerned. The owners fault IMO, should have trained there dog. If it ws the owner jumping all over my wife or kids they would get a good smack, so the dog is no different.

Last time at the park some young stud was out with his girl and 2 large bulldogs. As soon as he let them off the lead they were tearing around terrorising other dogs, jumping up at the kids play equipment and fighting each other. He had no chance of controlling one of them, let alone two. Because I was with the kids, there was no way I could leave them to have a word, but it really wound me up.

I know this thread has lots of responcible dog owners on here, but because of the irresponcible ones, both not controlling there dogs or cleaning up the mess, it does annoy a lot of the non dog owning population. I would be very happy if there was a local park that didn't allow dogs so that my wife and kids could enjoy it without having to worry about badly behaved dogs and dog turds all over the place.
 
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Yv said:
got to agree, I would rather it was left than bagged and hung, that really gets on my nerves and it happens a lot in the country park we walk our dogs in. Mind you, again, its a very large area and I have counted only 4 bins in total, so hardly surprising sometimes.
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So take it home with you? It's nobody's responsibility but the dog-owners to dispose of their dog's mess.

I often work in a country park, where there are just two dog-poo bins. A few years ago, I remember they cost £1500 EACH to maintain for a year.
 
As a dog owner it annoys me when other dog owners don't deal with the poo in the right way. However, I have to say that I'd rather step in a piece of dog crap than on a needle dropped by some damn dope addict! And what about human puke and **** in our streets, not to mention men spitting? For me, that's a lot worse than anything a dog can do! Let's put things in perspective!
 
lawrie29 said:
My wife was attacked by two dogs as a child, and as a result is very scared of dogs. My 2 girls have also picked up her fear, just from seeing her reaction to dogs. It really gets on my nerves when irresponcible dogs owners let their dogs off the lead but then fail to control them, or on occasion have them on a lead and still fail to control them. If that had been me, he would have been left very much knowing what a **** he was. Because of the family, I would have no problem giving a dog a good kick if it was jumping around either my wife or kids, may not keep the rspca happy, but anything like that would make the problem much worse in the future for my girls, so not concerned. The owners fault IMO, should have trained there dog. If it ws the owner jumping all over my wife or kids they would get a good smack, so the dog is no different.

Last time at the park some young stud was out with his girl and 2 large bulldogs. As soon as he let them off the lead they were tearing around terrorising other dogs, jumping up at the kids play equipment and fighting each other. He had no chance of controlling one of them, let alone two. Because I was with the kids, there was no way I could leave them to have a word, but it really wound me up.

I know this thread has lots of responcible dog owners on here, but because of the irresponcible ones, both not controlling there dogs or cleaning up the mess, it does annoy a lot of the non dog owning population. I would be very happy if there was a local park that didn't allow dogs so that my wife and kids could enjoy it without having to worry about badly behaved dogs and dog turds all over the place.
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Parents also need to teach their children how to behave around strange dogs. Last summer I was walking the dogs on a local green when a kid shouted doggy and ran towards my youngest dog. When he saw this and ran towards her she screamed and ran in the other direction. Bertie thought this was a great game and joined in the chase until I called him back. If it had been a large or aggressive dog the outcome could have been very different.
 
Galaxy66 said:
There will only ever be one way to stop the majority of dogs leaving their mess all
over the place and that is is by knowing which dog/owner left it.

Imagine a time in the future, technology advances to a point where DNA testing can be done on the spot by dog wardens, an instant fine is then sent to the registered owner of that dog from a massive dna database.

Sigh.... I can only but dream of poo free paths and recreation areas.
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Ooh yes a police state, there's something to look forward to:clap::bang:
 
Mike Jackson said:
Parents also need to teach their children how to behave around strange dogs. Last summer I was walking the dogs on a local green when a kid shouted doggy and ran towards my youngest dog. When he saw this and ran towards her she screamed and ran in the other direction. Bertie thought this was a great game and joined in the chase until I called him back. If it had been a large or aggressive dog the outcome could have been very different.
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Presumably, if your dog had been a large aggressive one, you wouldn't have it running free near children :cuckoo:
The arrogance, ignorance, irresponsibility and selfishness of some dog-owners defies belief.
 
gabe said:
As a dog owner it annoys me when other dog owners don't deal with the poo in the right way. However, I have to say that I'd rather step in a piece of dog crap than on a needle dropped by some damn dope addict! And what about human puke and **** in our streets, not to mention men spitting? For me, that's a lot worse than anything a dog can do! Let's put things in perspective!
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Yes, let's! I'm sick to death of coming home with syringe needles, puke and spit stuck to my boots! Doh.
 
whatever happened to the white dog eggs that used to grace the pavements? not seen one of those since about 1979 i think :gag:
 
leftcurl said:
whatever happened to the white dog eggs that used to grace the pavements? not seen one of those since about 1979 i think :gag:
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Which is roughly when supermarkets gained supremacy v the local butcher.

The white is caused by calcium in bones!!!
 
Sloper said:
Presumably, if your dog had been a large aggressive one, you wouldn't have it running free near children :cuckoo:
The arrogance, ignorance, irresponsibility and selfishness of some dog-owners defies belief.
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sorry but some people (kids included) dont know how to act around animals. go up to a dog running, screaming or waving your arms around and youll get a reaction of the same from the dog.
 
neil_g said:
sorry but some people (kids included) dont know how to act around animals. go up to a dog running, screaming or waving your arms around and youll get a reaction of the same from the dog.
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So you're claming that if a free-running dog attacks a kid and rips his face off, it would have been his own fault? You might believe so, but I doubt most right-thinking people would. Or the court.
If the dog was on its lead, there wouldn't be a problem, would there?

No need to be sorry, btw; you've just strengthened my low opinion of selfish dog-owners.
 
Sloper said:
So you're claming that if a free-running dog attacks a kid and rips his face off, it would have been his own fault? You might believe so, but I doubt most right-thinking people would. Or the court.
If the dog was on its lead, there wouldn't be a problem, would there?

No need to be sorry, btw; you've just strengthened my low opinion of selfish dog-owners.
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Ok let's not get into an argument over this, you get irrisponsible people in all walks of life.
I used to hve GSDs and you wouldn't beleive the breed prejudice there is a against them.
Last one was fine with kids which was just as well as they seemed to be attracted to him, it was the parents that panic and would come rushing over to grab the child !!!
Now he was quite protective and I would have to warn the parents not to snatch their kids away, also lecture them on why the kid should have been cuddling a strange dog in the first place :eek:
He wasn't sgood with other dogs but i spent a lot of time training him so i could get him to lie down whilst I grabbed the offending stray dog and retunred it to the owner, who was invariabl standing in distance shouting that their dog was ok, hmmm attidude changed when I mentioned mine wasn'tbut at least he was kept close.
 
Sloper said:
So you're claming that if a free-running dog attacks a kid and rips his face off, it would have been his own fault? You might believe so, but I doubt most right-thinking people would. Or the court.
If the dog was on its lead, there wouldn't be a problem, would there?

No need to be sorry, btw; you've just strengthened my low opinion of selfish dog-owners.
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You clearly don't know much about dogs then. Running up to a tethered dog is potentially far more dangerous than going up to one that is off the lead.
 
DemiLion said:
You clearly don't know much about dogs then. Running up to a tethered dog is potentially far more dangerous than going up to one that is off the lead.
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:plusone: hence my gsd was never on a lead but always under control and close to me
 
DemiLion said:
You clearly don't know much about dogs then. Running up to a tethered dog is potentially far more dangerous than going up to one that is off the lead.
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:bonk:

It's true that I know more about selfish dog-owners than I do about dogs.
 
Sloper said:
So you're claming that if a free-running dog attacks a kid and rips his face off, it would have been his own fault? You might believe so, but I doubt most right-thinking people would. Or the court.
If the dog was on its lead, there wouldn't be a problem, would there?

No need to be sorry, btw; you've just strengthened my low opinion of selfish dog-owners.
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no thats not what i said now was it.. :thinking:

DemiLion said:
You know that lime is calcium right? :p :D
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i do now :bonk:
 
Gremlin, I'm not arguing and I'm sorry if it appears that way; I'm just expressing my opinion :) I have strong feelings about these people as their dogs' deposits are an occupational hazard for me.
 
Sloper said:
If the dog was on its lead, there wouldn't be a problem, would there?
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If most kids were on leads there wouldn't be a problem either. I've got more control over my dogs than most people have of their young children in my experience.
 
Sloper said:
Presumably, if your dog had been a large aggressive one, you wouldn't have it running free near children :cuckoo:
The arrogance, ignorance, irresponsibility and selfishness of some dog-owners defies belief.
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I personally find that attitude incredibly insulting. My dogs are not large or aggressive but neither were they running free round children. The child ran towards my dogs who were chasing each other around me.
 
If your dogs weren't running free with children in the vicinity, how did your youngest dog run towards the child? Why did you have to call Bertie back if he was on a lead?
You proposed the hypothetical situation of the outcome being different if your dogs had been large or aggressive. I was responding to that. Anyway, dogs don't need to be large to harm a child or even an adult. And all dogs can be aggressive. They're animals; they are unpredictable.


Mike Jackson said:
Parents also need to teach their children how to behave around strange dogs. Last summer I was walking the dogs on a local green when a kid shouted doggy and ran towards my youngest dog. When he saw this and ran towards her she screamed and ran in the other direction. Bertie thought this was a great game and joined in the chase until I called him back. If it had been a large or aggressive dog the outcome could have been very different.
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Kev M said:
If most kids were on leads there wouldn't be a problem either. I've got more control over my dogs than most people have of their young children in my experience.
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amen to that.

i was on the train one day and there was a guy with a collie not on the lead, it was supurbly trained, led down at the owners feet not battering an eyelid. and people had the nerve to have a go at the guy for not having it on a lead (id put money on them not being dog owners). it did nothing wrong.

yet kids on a train... HAVOC. and no one batters an eyelid.

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neil_g said:
amen to that.

i was on the train one day and there was a guy with a collie not on the lead, it was supurbly trained, led down at the owners feet not battering an eyelid. and people had the nerve to have a go at the guy for not having it on a lead (id put money on them not being dog owners). it did nothing wrong.

yet kids on a train... HAVOC. and no one batters an eyelid.

:shrug:
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Because kids and dogs are really comparable :thinking:
 
Sloper said:
If your dogs weren't running free with children in the vicinity, how did your youngest dog run towards the child? Why did you have to call Bertie back if he was on a lead?
You proposed the hypothetical situation of the outcome being different if your dogs had been large or aggressive. I was responding to that. Anyway, dogs don't need to be large to harm a child or even an adult. And all dogs can be aggressive. They're animals; they are unpredictable.
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I won't bother responding to this load of rubbish because you will only choose to misinterpret what I write anyway in line with your deep rooted hate of all things dog.
 
Mike Jackson said:
I won't bother responding to this load of rubbish because you will only choose to misinterpret what I write anyway in line with your deep rooted hate of all things dog.
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You misunderstand me; I'm an animal lover and donate monthly to the RSPCA. I grew up with a lovely Alsation (oops, I mean GSD) called Ricky. It's dog-owners I detest. (Well, some of them, not all of them of course).
Perhaps if you did my job, you would feel the same.
 
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Sloper said:
If your dogs weren't running free with children in the vicinity, how did your youngest dog run towards the child? Why did you have to call Bertie back if he was on a lead?
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It's a popular misconception that dogs have to be on a lead to be under control, the whole point is that Mike called his dog back and it responded, why the hell did the perants allow the child to run up to loose dogs the dog took no notice until the child approached.
Where I live, my dogs are rarely on leads and in fact never had a dog that was particularly well behaved on a lead, but they were on the whole welll behaved and responsive running free.
 
Gremlin said:
It's a popular misconception that dogs have to be on a lead to be under control, <snip>
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I think the point is a dog on a lead CAN be controlled! ... What bugs me about dog owners is those that use those extending leads and expect me to walk around them, rather than reigning in the dog .... Dogs :thumbs: Owners (some) :thumbsdown:
 
Gremlin said:
It's a popular misconception that dogs have to be on a lead to be under control, the whole point is that Mike called his dog back and it responded, why the hell did the perants allow the child to run up to loose dogs the dog took no notice until the child approached.
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I don't know. Perhaps the parents were irresponsible? Dog owners don't have the monopoly on that.

Gremlin said:
Where I live, my dogs are rarely on leads and in fact never had a dog that was particularly well behaved on a lead, but they were on the whole welll behaved and responsive running free.
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On the whole? :thumbs:
I've had three 'incidents' involving dogs in my life. As a kid I was bitten on the little finger by a West Highland Terrier and had to go to hospital. Another time, I was driving a van at work when a big dog (a Lurcher I think) ran under my wheels, dislocating his shoulder, and later, I was riding my motorcycle when a dog ran out and bit my front tyre! I bet he never did that again. None of those dogs were on a lead.
 
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Wow, this has gone a bit downhill!

If owners control their dogs and parents control their children, then there shouldn't be the problems. Re kids running up to dogs - while parents should control them, it's common sense that if your dog will bite if that happens, you need a muzzle - for the dog's sake as much as anything.

If your dog is offlead it should either be a place you can see if someone's coming and pop them onlead, or they should be well enough trained to cope - your dog shouldn't be running up to people, or onlead dogs without them being ok with it. Surely it's that simple?

Likewise, parents should ideally stop children running up to strange dogs. But it's not always possible - I was a heller from the time I could walk for stroking strange dogs :D Dogs are easier to train than kids.

A bit of common sense on both sides and it's all ok.
 
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