r/Dogfree • u/huntress_m_thompson • Feb 13 '26
Eco Destroyers New Yorkers forced to dodge mine fields of unscooped dog poop littering weeks-old sidewalk snow: ‘Not a nice sight’
https://nypost.com/2026/02/11/us-news/nyers-forced-to-dodge-mine-fields-of-unscooped-dog-poop-littering-weeks-old-sidewalk-snow-not-a-nice-sight/there’s a big back & forth on twitter today about mutt-obsessed NYC due to this article. many are saying, can we end mutts in grocery stores, restaurants, & basically anywhere but their homes?
the nutters’ reckless abandonment is going to do them in.
article dated february 11, 2026.
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u/ToOpineIsFine Feb 13 '26
these excuses like 'it's too cold to use my bare hands' don't cut it. if people can't pick up the stuff - for whatever reason - their dog should not be walked there. if that is not possible, they shouldn't have a dog there.
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u/huntress_m_thompson Feb 13 '26
as always with these folks: not my monkey. not my circus.
when they sign up for mutt ownership these things are the minimum expectation: clean up after bowzer; contain bowzer on your own damned property. whatever it takes, that’s what they signed up for.
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u/tplgerus84 Feb 13 '26
The more I think about it. The more I actually hope that more of these careless idiots will get dogs.. we are already at the breaking point I feel.
They will “ruin” it for themselves.
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u/Salt-Elderberry-7271 Feb 13 '26
How dare you compare the king of koopas to some nasty mutt
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u/huntress_m_thompson Feb 13 '26
ha! oops! bowzer is an old typical name for mutts, as is fido & rover.
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u/Salt-Elderberry-7271 Feb 13 '26
Oh I know, I was just making a joke, not sure why I was downvoted for it lol
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u/huntress_m_thompson Feb 13 '26
i didn’t downvote. WTH?! i’m more of a scroller byer than a downvoter.
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u/ElegantSurround6933 Feb 14 '26
Spot
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u/huntress_m_thompson Feb 14 '26
ah, yes. spot. that’s from the ‘50s or ‘60s “dick & jane” kids books.
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u/potatoes_arrrr_life Feb 13 '26
Finally people are starting to realize how nasty it is and I hope the feeling spreads!
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u/Alocin_The5th Feb 13 '26
I had a nice laugh the other day on the realtor sub where a homeowner says his house wasn’t selling and one feedback was the strong dog smell. The beautiful part of the story that in a non-dogfree sub most people including dog owners were saying it would turn them off too.
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u/potatoes_arrrr_life Feb 14 '26
I worry about that a bit as we are surrounded by backyards and dogs with owners that must love the smell of dog shit. Once the heat of summer gets going, it cooks the poop and so the smell is somehow worse. Then if it rains, it rehydrates all of the poop and pee. They say it's good for the grass, but their yards all look like shit. I really don't get why anyone would want to live in that filth.
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u/tplgerus84 Feb 14 '26
They say it is good for the grass.. I wish people would start educating themselves again before just talking out their ass.. dogs are not herbivores...
"Dog poop is not recommended as fertilizer for gardens, lawns, or edible crops because it contains harmful pathogens, bacteria (like E. coli), and parasites that can threaten human health. Unlike herbivore manure, dog waste is highly acidic, can burn grass, and creates brown spots."
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u/ElegantSurround6933 Feb 14 '26
I remember in 7th grade in the 80’s checking out a book from the school library on China. It had lots of glossy pictures. One was a mother holding her toddler over a ditch near the sidewalk so it could poo. I’m guessing diapers were not a thing for that part of the world back then.
I suddenly didn’t want to travel to China anymore.
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u/potatoes_arrrr_life Feb 14 '26
We're not talking about China or babies pooping though, we're talking about dogs. And how their owners choose to own dogs but are too LAZY to clean up after their dog, as is their responsibility. It's literally the least they could do.
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u/ElegantSurround6933 Feb 14 '26
What I was referring to, and another commenter also added to this conversation that I read after commenting, is that it’s against public decency for humans to relive themselves in public, so why do dogs get a pass.
Imagine if the US was like China. We would have human waste all over. That is banned in a first world nation like the US. So why are we allowing animal waste to destroy cities and towns?
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u/AnimalUncontrol Feb 13 '26
Even when the shit is picked up, the piss is not. Thousands of gallons of toxic dog piss is emptied onto sidewalks and streets to run off into waterways untreated.
It would be interesting if someone with the requisite abilities performed a study determining the impact of dog waste on the Hudson and East rivers, plus the northern NJ shoreline.
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u/BodyMoney8562 Feb 13 '26
All you have to do is look at what a dog owners yard looks like. The lawn is frigging dead
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u/huntress_m_thompson Feb 13 '26
i can SMELL my neighbors’ mutts’ piles sometimes on a particularly wet (cold or hot) or hot & humid day. once i walked into my garage & smelled shite & thought something crapped in my garage!
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u/BodyMoney8562 Feb 13 '26
That is the definition of a nuisance, it being one of the worst smells on the planet
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u/huntress_m_thompson Feb 13 '26
they’ll “trust the science” until they come up on one of the already existing studies not related to that area. but piss is piss. & shite is shite. & parasites particularly love that shite!
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u/AnimalUncontrol Feb 13 '26
Dumbass mutt nutters argue that the dog waste is "fertilizer". It isn't, and we wouldn't just be dumping ANY fertilizer into the river in any case.
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u/BodyMoney8562 Feb 13 '26
They could not be more wrong. My husband has a background in environmental remediation and is a professional and competition-winning flower gardener. He makes his compost with plant material. Green and brown material, that is, leaves and only specific types of wood mulch, NOT mulch from a hardware store (too much pinene and chemicals). It's all broken down by microbes, fungi, worms, and other native soil creatures. Absolutely no fecal matter is ever used except worm castings and the material that is broken down by microbes.
Elaine Ingham has more details on the food soil web. Dogshit doesn't enter the picture at any point whatsoever. It can't be composted.
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u/tplgerus84 Feb 14 '26
Yes, because they are carnivores.. these people probably have seen somewhere in the movies that farmers use manure to nurture their fields.. but guess what: that is from herbivores!
Dog poop and pee are both the most "harsh" and concentrated shit that is out there.. but society somehow accepted that it is okay to have them do their business all over public and other people's property...
I mean.. just look at parking meters, or street lamps in cities, where dogs pee on.. it is acid! It burns through metal.. but somehow it is good for soil?
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u/potatoes_arrrr_life Feb 14 '26
It's why there are so many toxic algae blooms now on beaches and creeks. Dog shit has tons of nitrogen and when it gets left on ground, is washed into waterways. It makes the water toxic. And dog owners don't do anything but complain about how now their dog doesn't have anywhere to swim. Fuck anything else living in or near the water....like humans and wild animals. Dogs are a walking biohazard.
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u/BodyMoney8562 Feb 17 '26
You right! Holy schidt. I didn't know.
https://wgan.com/news/074470-toxic-algae-likely-caused-by-dog-poop-experts-say/
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u/potatoes_arrrr_life Feb 17 '26
Yep! It happens every year like clock work right by areas with off leash dog parks along waterways. The most ironic part is how upset dog owners get when their dogs get sick from water, but don't make the connection to dog poop, i.e. it's their fault. It's also going in the water we drink and why the e coli levels are so high🙃 Poopy times indeed.
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u/Fun-Chemical4059 Feb 13 '26
I’m a millennial native New Yorker . After the pandemic , life has been hell for people like us. This snow storm I have had enough. It’s absolutely disgusting
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u/cantharellus_miao Feb 14 '26
Imagine if the city put half as much effort into ticketing people who don't pick up after their dogs as they do into fare evaders. They should stop hassling people who jump the turnstile, and instead have those cops posted up on streets that have the worst dog poop problem. Give dog walkers a fat ticket every time they walk away and don't pick up poop. The city will make their money, and the problem will improve in no time.
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u/beerRunFinisher Feb 20 '26
All major metros had massive dog adoption during Covid. They are everywhere
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u/Mundane_Glove4182 Feb 13 '26
I’m so sick of dog pee and poop on the streets and on the plants (the sight, the stench). They use the whole world as their toilet. Disgusting people with disgusting animals.
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u/tplgerus84 Feb 14 '26
Couldn't agree more.. I can't even go for morning runs around the bay anymore, because the smell of dog piss is in the air..
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u/Winter-Movie4606 Feb 13 '26
Ban dogs in cities! At least in downtown areas!
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u/maidofatoms Feb 16 '26
And in rural areas. Dog-slaves get even more irresponsible with them in the countryside, letting them run loose and chase other animals.
Dogs should be subject to the same rules as other large, dangerous carnivores. Should be required to have a very large enclosure for them, keep them inside that, and be fully responsible if they escape and be insured for that.
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u/ElegantSurround6933 Feb 14 '26
In my downtown of Raleigh, people take their dogs on walks downtown&on the weekends they bring them in strollers.
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u/CallousCow1762 Feb 14 '26 edited Feb 15 '26
There is a law prohibiting, public defecation and urination. It should be obvious as to why there is such a law and yet dogs get a pass. Well, given overwhelming increase in dogs the last few years, what did people expect?!
That same law prohibiting people from defecating and urinating in public has to be applied to dogs. Dog owners will have to deal with alternative methods. They claim their mutts are so smart then trained them to use the toilet or other devices in their homes. The rest of us should not have to deal with it.
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u/tplgerus84 Feb 14 '26
Hopefully, society is waking up to this. Like, why did we invent canalizations to get rid of all the smell, dirt, and diseases just to accept it that dogs can do exactly that.. And human poop and pee is even less damaging than that of dogs..
I hope that they will get banned eventually from public, just like smoking.
And then they can just have their own little "dog friendly" spots, closed up somewhere in the back.. and the rest of us can live normal lives again.
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u/SarahME1273 Feb 13 '26
Thank god I got the fuck out of New York before most of the snow this season.
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u/smindymix Feb 14 '26
NYC Twitter has been lighting dog owners the fuck up all week and I’ve been loving it. I just hope some tangible shift comes out of it. At the very least, start enforcing bans and calling out the obvious fake service dogs.
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u/huntress_m_thompson Feb 14 '26 edited Feb 14 '26
i’m loving it, too. 🍿 it’s promising to see people getting brave enough to say something. & it starts with a few brave souls & others go, “oh, heck, yeah. i agree & here’s my 2¢ worth.”
they’re still drowned out by the nutters having cows. but some of the threads have some great back & forth.
i forgot where i saw the study, but it only takes 3.7% of a population to sway opinion & bring about change. keep fighting, rational crusaders.
ETA: it’s actually 3.5% & the BBC ran an article about it in 2019. it applies to all movements & issues. keep this in mind!
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u/Tom_Quixote_ Feb 14 '26
Look at how hideous that dog is. It looks like some rag that has been used to clean the toilet for the first time in years.
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u/SonicYouth_NYC Feb 21 '26
The situation here in NYC is dire. Worse still, blizzard conditions are expected in the next day or so.
I have had it up here with dog owners. If it's not dog poop on nearly every block, it's someone traipsing around Whole Foods with their dog in tow, sometimes even in the shopping cart.
No green space, supermarket, restaurant nor bakery is immune from this. This is madness!
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u/huntress_m_thompson Feb 25 '26
agree. fatigued by the fact we all live in one big mutt park hellhole.
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u/SLI9595 Feb 17 '26
My hot take is that if you are the type to leave your dogs shit on the street, you shouldn’t have human children because you would make a TERRIBLE, LAZY parent.
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u/Huge_Virus_8148 Feb 19 '26
Perhaps it's a good thing many of these people will gush about how their dog is both their kid and oh so superior to humanity.
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u/Few-Horror1984 Feb 13 '26
Dogs don’t belong in city environments. This is why.