Let's talk dog poop
 

Not a nice subject I know but on Saturday when I was walking around Ossy, I couldn't help but notice the large amounts of the stuff all around. On one particular street it was awful and I had to pick Zack up to get him to the end of the street. Don't people care anymore?

So what's the solution - dog wardens, free pooper scoopers, consistent fines? Any other ideas?

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Do the owners or the "dumpers" not get a fixed penelty if caught?

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Pampers for dogs? Must say though Gayle, not noticed much these days myself and can't remember the last time stepped in any and had to wipe me shoes. Suppose all relative to what was in the past. Will try and brace myself to look around Clayton at some stage to seek out these foul patches. Love dogs but, apart from the fact I work and couldn't look after it properly, don't fancy picking up its .... what happens if they are rather on the loose side ? Don't bear thinking about.
I'm sure things are better and the fines are making a difference; very rare you see a dog wandering on its own too.

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people caught leaving their dogs crap on the pavement etc should have it fed to them while its still warm , we could have a special patrol that has a huge supply of paper plates and plastic spoons

now lets talk cats

anyone whos cat is caught befoweling another persons yard should also be fed its excriment but also have the privilage of either watching it get hit around the back alley with a coal shovel or watch it hang from the washing line

just my 2 cents ;)

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Hunting..............

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I quite agree, other people's cats, like other people's children, are a pain in the backside. Their owners should be made to clean up after them, as should the owners of horses...and the owners of children!

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Its when cats bury the evidence in the rose garden the fun starts especially if you have to work amongst them. Cat deposits usually smell worse than a dogs.

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well ive rang the gun shop in ozzy and apparently the cheapest air rifle they have capable of killing or maming a large rodent is £160 which is a lot dearer than when i used to have one in my younger days lol

if you want a happy chav and a clean garden/yard please forward whatever money you can to my paypal account to help with the cost

thankyou

all proceeds exceeding the cost of the air rifle will be put towards funding a safe house for when the RSPCA come looking for me ;)

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Chav was 'ere.

R.I.P. Buttons.

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Chav on the loose :swear8: :hitting8: :uzi: :dogrun:

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there are no dirty dogs ,just dirty dog owners,, it makes me laugh when people say ..oooh i always clean up after my dog..
and now the nights are drawing in ,people can sneak off without being seen ,,,,yuk...

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Thanks to Chav and Garinda for such an enlightening debate on the subject. I'll be sending my cat around to your house to take revenge.

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I merely said hunting.

I should have been more specific. All the people who can no longer hunt legally, could chase the owners of pets who do their dirties on the pavements and don't clean it up.:)

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since they took away the necessity of having a dog licence any idiot now has the right to own a dog resulting in an overwhelming lack of responsibility for their animal failing the reintroduction of the dog licence I'm with Chav
only shoot the damned owners responsable

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ahhh so it all comes to light now eh gayle....

only a cat owner would start a thread about dogs pooping all over the place and neglet to mention cats as well lol

dog poop is mainly left by peopel who walk their dogs and refuse to clean their pets mess up unlike cats who the majority of are just left to mess anywhere they like

unless of course you have a clean tidy pussy , i have nothing against them at all :D

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jesus christ jedi just 1 reply from you takes up half a webpage lol

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like 2 get point ax (short enough for you chav?)

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Still to big Jedi. Here let me massage it for you. I'm sure to make it smaller for you.;)

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do you always have that effect rindy

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We've had this debate before, I am getting a deja vu feeling. I think that the Community Wardens would have been well placed for collecting on the spot fines for this, they would have paid for their annual salaries within the month where I live. I am a dog owner, but at least I pick up the poop...:)

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Its the owners who take their dogs out and let them leave a deposit on the playing fields and municiple footy pitches that make me mad. Nothing worse than a child having a good time outside comming home in tears because they "found" the deposit. These owners should be imprisoned its putting kids health at risk.
:swear8: :hitting8: :s_boom: :thumbsdow :whack: :stop: :niet: :angry:

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Ok if we are gonna talk dog poo, lets have a look at one of the more interesting things that might be in it. Toxocara Canis, a form of nematode roundworm, propagates itself via eggs secreted in dog poo. The eggs can survive in harsh conditions like grass and playgrounds for a very long time - years! Once the parasite finds a new host the eggs hatch into larvae and can cause flu-like symptoms, sight impairment and occaisional blindness in humans, particularly children.

Here is a picture of an encapsulated larvae in the retina of someone's eye.

A really good reason to exercise your dog away from areas used by children and clean up after it. Cats can get it too, though they usually get a different form.

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Chav, you might not like cats and take your point that they are left to roam but cats prefer gardens and do bury their stuff - dogs on the other hand don't care and do it where they're stood, on pavements where kids can walk. One pavement that I walked on the other day was literally every other step had to dodge dog poop.

My cat is tidy, it has a nice toilet under a tree in our garden (a very well cultivated tree I have to add) where it always goes. It is possible to train cats to do that you know!

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Is this aimed at my pussy cat?

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As a former dog owner, for nearly all my life, I am the first to agree that dog mess is disgusting, anti-social and dangerous. My dearly loved 16 year old dog, who we had to say goodbye to last month, was a bit incontinent in the last year of her life and would sometimes "do it" on the trot as we walked. Pooper-scooper bags are cheap and fit nicely into a pocket. It was no great effort to clean up after her and I would no more have left her pooh on the pavement, or grass, than I would throw out human "waste". People who do should, in my opinion, be heavily fined.

I have a cat, too, I've also had cats all my life. It's not so easy to follow a cat around with a pooper-scooper but they can be trained, as kittens, to use a litter-tray. You can't blame a cat that has never had that training for finding its own lavatory and, yes, cat pooh is revolting and equally dangerous.

Attack the owner, not the animal.

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Some dog owners just let their dogs out in the morning and push off to work......the dog can do what it wants, whenever and where ever it wants......these owners are irresponsible and should not be allowed to own a dog. Responsible owners take their dogs out.....have a pocket full off poop bags and pick up their dog's mess.
Cat owners who are responsible will train their cat to litter or to a patch in their own garden. I am owned by two cats and they both use litter trays.....I used to have a dog too and I never failed to pick up the doo-doo.

Katex.....I went in Mercer park recently and the area of grass close to the childrens playground was full of dog mess. I saw a large mixed breed dog.....with it's owner.....the dog did a poo large enough to be considered as being from a human .... the woman saw me watching her and she just gave a sort of gallic shrug and walked off ignoring the mess her animal had deposited.

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well ime unconvinced i dont care how well trained a cat is unless it has never stepped foot outside the house no one no matter how good an owner can account for its whereabouts or its actions when in other peoples property

if my child walked into your yard and took a crap me saying but he usualy uses his potty or burries it in his leggo wouldnt make you feel any better about it i dare say

maybe i should start returning the cat crap to its owners via their letterbox :mad:

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people who let their dogs crap everywhere are just as bad but at least a dog dosnt jump over your wall , take a crap and ****** off

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You've obviously had some nasty "experiences" on your property, Chav. I sympathise with you but, you'd know this if you had any real knowledge of cats, it's just the same as your analogy of a child's behaviour. Cats are creatures of habit and they will chose a favourite spot for defacation. If the "spot" is chosen for them, from a very early age, they will stick to it (in a manner of speaking) for life.

Incidentally, if your child did as you suggest I would beg you to take him to a psychiatrist without delay. Conversely, of course, I could just get him with an air-gun. ;)

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Save the cats.

Scare off Chav from your property with an airgun.

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Ok after saving them what is the plan?

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Hate to resurrect his thread, but a remark on the 'Life on Mars' programme last week ( where a detective is transported back in time to 1973) made me laugh. They had caught a suspect and about to rub his nose in WHITE dog pooh. The traveller remarked that he doesn't see that much anymore ! meaning in 2006.
Terry Wogan had looked into this and explained on his programme was due to the fact that when you shopped at the butchers he always presented you with a marrow bone "and something for the dog". This was obviously calcium based and would account for the colouring in the pooh. Don't know how true this is, however, gave my sad brain stimulant and wondered if you would find this colour more acceptable Gayle ? :)

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Chav your wrong m8, next doors doga was always in our garden, taking a crap, it used to slip through the slats and in the council fence, and then under our panels, which had a gap under them because next door decided to level their garden out and remove two foot of soil from by the boundry fence. It also used to come through the hedge in the front garden, and if the drive gates are left open we get all the estate dogs in cos next doors dogs been in.

The answer is of course a dog warden, issuing on the spot fines, with maximum press publicity, and also the use of your cctv system to catch them. free poop scoop bags during this campaign to get people in to the habit of using them. put bins up and warning signs up. It does work. Sounds like ossy is lacking civic pride, you need to create some.

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Gayle it would help if teh council supported people who try and clean up after their animals. My MIL takes her dog for a walk to Church and has rung up teh council to ask for a suitable dog poop bin so that they can deposit it in it. The councils reply was that it couldn't afford them. You can't ask people to dispose of it properly if you don't provide such a suitable recepticle.

As for white dog poo I thought it was bone meal they used to use in dog biscuits that did it but they don't use it anymore.

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As for white dog poo I thought it was bone meal they used to

Thanks for that informative information Enti .. sounds like you certainly know your dog pooh :)

Mmm . how do you extract a sentence from the main quote, did it once, but don't know how ?

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quote the post and delete everything except the scentence you want to stay

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Like this ? Cheers Chav, did try this but couldn't get it in the indented box .. seems OK now.

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Or you can just type [QUOTE=blah][/qupte]

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I think there is nothing worse than all this dog poo in the back streets and on pavements everywhere so therefore I have this idea of luminous dog food, if there were a small amount of a harmless luminous substance included in the dogs food then when the animal did the nessesary it would also deposit the luminous substance along with the poo on the pavement, then after dark it would glow and in some instances illuminate the back street, plus the fact no one would step in it as it would be clearly visible in the dark.

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They told me they could afford a bin in my suggested site but it wouldn't be much use as they couldn't afford to pay anyone to empty it.

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I was thinking that too whispy, it used to dry up quicker.

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I blame pedigree chump

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i thought white poop was excusive to poodles...?

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thought it was the mark of royal dogs.....humans have blue blood, dogs have ivory poop

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i wonder if albinos have white poop...?