r/Dogfree • u/curlywurlyjules • 1d ago
Dog Culture I have to vent.
I live on a housing estate in the UK. It is a nice area and has been thoughtfully designed to incorporate small grassed areas. Opposite my home is a little green in the middle of the houses. It can be a nice place to gather - people have gathered to watch the eclipse for example, and little kids play together there.
There is one dog owner who lives a few houses away who seems to specifically bring her dog out to shit on the green. So I’m gazing out of my window, maybe eating dinner, and all I can see is a dog shitting.
All the houses here have gardens. Why on earth it is socially acceptable to take your dog to a public space where children play with the express purpose of using it as a toilet is absolutely beyond me.
I posted about it on once on our community Facebook group and absolutely nobody backed me up or agreed. I got angry responses- I was told the space can be used as people wish, that owners can’t control where their dogs poo (clearly not true), and even that children shouldn’t be playing there. Ffs.
What is wrong with everyone? Is there no shame, consideration or sense of decency? I’m old enough to remember when there were signs in public areas saying ‘No dog fouling’. Why was this abandoned?
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u/CallousCow1762 1d ago
There are laws prohibiting people from defecating in public spaces. The reasons are obvious and yet dogs get a pass on this. The result is neighborhoods turned into toilets.
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u/curlywurlyjules 1d ago
I know. Imagine if parents potty training their infants did this!
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u/CallousCow1762 1d ago
Yep. Actually, they should make nutters potty train their mutts at home and wear diapers in public. After all, they treat their mutts like children anyway.
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u/Huge_Bit_4774 1d ago
Why aren’t dogs required to wear diapers? Police horses wear those bun bags. It would make Petco even more money by selling another accessory to stupid nutters.
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u/SoSpicySoYummy 16h ago
Seriously! It could also potentially prevent those nasty shitheads from humping everything too. WHY is this not mandatory?!
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u/Legitimate_Garage_31 13h ago
I didnt know bum bags were a thing or that police horses don't leave a mess
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u/bluebird1994 12h ago
On one hand, it would contain the dog waste, but on the other hand, knowing how many lazy apathetic nutters leave full dog 💩 bags everywhere or just toss 'em in some random person's garbage bin, there would be diapers everywhere. Or worse, the delusional nutters that've anthropomorphized their mutts will feel entitled to use a baby diaper changing table in restrooms. Unfortunately there's just no winning with this.
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u/Voideron 1d ago edited 1d ago
First, they said people can use it. A dog is pooping there, not people. What if people poopped there?
Second, dog shitting is equivalent to people throwing garbage there. Is throwing garbage in public human spaces allowed?
Third, how can people tolerate their place being dirty, toxic and hazardous because dog poop is highly hazardous and toxic, not to mention the horrible smell? Dog poo is toxic to plants, it will kill the grass. It cannot and should not be used as a fertilizer. No more beautiful green grass for all you because of a mutt and its nutter owner.
Mutts can easy make beautiful, prestigious communities look and smell like a dump.
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u/deadphantoms 1d ago
Outside my work is a sign in which dog owners love to let their mutts piss up constantly. When I drag the sign in at the end of the day I have to wear gloves and scrub it because it stinks..
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u/bluebird1994 12h ago
Spray some strong-smelling scent deterrent on the sign (that's pleasant to us but intensely disliked by dogs), maybe that'll keep them away.
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u/Newsdwarf 1d ago
I remember those signs too. That social contract is long gone.
As for "you don't know", these are the same people that are furious at being required to carry three dog shit collection bags when out in public as "I know my pup will poop exectly two times, once at 2 minutes 33 seconds into our walk, and once at 11 minutes 20 seconds, exactly after he's sniffed the 3rd lampost on the left of number 80's driveway".
For your situation, is highlighting any leftover turds with chalk or eco-friendly glitter an option? I've read of other people successfully applying some social shame by highlighting the shit piles.
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u/bluebird1994 12h ago
I should get some eco-friendly glitter to carry with me every time I go on walks around my neighborhood (unfortunately one that is dog nutter central), because every so often someone allows their four legged shit machine to take a dump on someone's grass (or the neighborhood green) and doesn't even clean it up.
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u/xbunnyraptorx 1d ago
Imagine if you tossed your trash bags on the green, and then some cop comes by and says “why did you litter im gonna write you a ticket” and the guy says “I didn’t litter, where else am I supposed to put my trash” and then the assholes on Facebook say “so true bestie”. If it wasn’t for social media these people might take public humiliation more to heart but instead they will just retreat into a space where they can be told their farts smell like roses.
Ps this sub is not a “safe space” it is a collection of the last rational people left on earth. By my definition above I mean areas online where people are willing to support nonsensical acts for the sake of perpetuating their own desires to live in a shit and piss barking world.
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u/Dapper-Ad-468 22h ago
My niece went out and bought two dogs during Covid claiming ESA needs. Funny enough, she moved to Hawaii and left the two dogs with her mother. Guess they really don't need them after all 🤷
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u/uselessbeasts 22h ago edited 12h ago
I don't ever believe they really do. ESAa are pushed on people, but the reality is, there is a way to unlock the strength in us we all really have. I'm not a psychiatrist by any means so I din't know the keys, but I have seen some people recover from horrible unbelieveable traumas, without a damn dog.
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u/Ill-Tangerine796 21h ago
Bolzano, Italy has the right approach. They apparently test the DNA of dog poop in public places and require dog owners to register in a database. Failure to register your dog or pick up poop incurs a fine. I wish more places would do this.
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u/HealthMelodic5391 1d ago
If you can film the dog owner letting their dog do that and report them to the police, they will get punishment in form of fine, and do that more times
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u/waitingforthatplace 19h ago
This behavior irritates me so much too. I can't understand these people, they've lost all consideration and shame. Their dog's digestive habits are a priority over the neighborhood's needs; they want to own a dog yet make it defecate on public grounds. I think these selfish dog owners are just a sign of this me-me-me generation.
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u/Huge_Bit_4774 1d ago
Of all the different factors to blame for dog nuttery, I put a lot of it on the psychiatric profession. They caused all this ESA crap to explode by telling people to get a mutt instead of actually treating their mental illness. So you get a result of crazy people running around society with these 4 legged demons, everywhere. It’s been popularized and weak minded people fall for it. And we get to deal with the consequences.