Comments on: What’s the Big Deal with Dog Poop?

By: Lauren

Lauren — Tue, 04 Sep 2012 12:10:32 +0000

This post made me laugh. I see all sides of the argument where we live: parks are not dog friendly, but the village installed some doggie waste bins; some folks would rather have multiple “no pooping” signs on their front lawns at all times than risk maybe possibly having some actual poop there at some point. In the park, where dogs are not allowed, you rarely see poop on the ground even though many people walk dogs there anyway. But on the streets that surround our little league field (!), there is so much doggie doo on the ground, I won’t even walk Desmond there. Meanwhile, I can’t tell you how much cat poop I have seen in my own yard and around the neighborhood. Again, I have to ask why it’s ok for cats to do whatever they want, off-leash, on any property, but dogs are looked at as some kind of evil popping demons.

By: Karen Friesecke

Karen Friesecke — Sat, 25 Aug 2012 14:17:57 +0000

Oddly enough, I don’t see much “unclaimed” doggie doo when I walk the dogs. The problem that Brampton does have is with Goose droppings. The park where I used to take the dogs has such a problem with Goose turds that you can smell it while you’re walking. Here’s a little FYI. On average, Geese poop every 12 minutes and produce about 1/4 pound of waste a day. That’s quite a lot for a bird that weighs 11 pounds on average.

By: Jen

Jen — Sat, 25 Aug 2012 03:10:22 +0000

In reply to caren gittleman. OMG I can't stop laughing at this one:)

By: Sam

Sam — Fri, 24 Aug 2012 15:25:47 +0000

We had the same issue at a local park – the city wanted to close it unless the dog folks did a better job at picking up poop. So we all planned a weekend to do a sweep and found NO poop. We were so confused. The park is still open, the complaints about poop are still there, but we still can’t find any!

Sam

By: Colby

Colby — Thu, 23 Aug 2012 23:15:54 +0000

Your community sounds pretty awesome. Only about 2 stray poops a year! That’s great! I probably see them every day and I’m pretty sure it’s not from the people who live in our condo community. Outsiders like walking through our homes and grassy areas because we live on the golf course and I’m pretty certain those are the folks leaving their doggy dookies. I can’t wait to catch one of these people in the act. Actually I’ll probably do nothing and just pick it up, but in my mind I have a mouthful to say!

By: houndstooth

houndstooth — Thu, 23 Aug 2012 23:04:48 +0000

We have signs all over our public park about how “poop pollutes” with a picture of a dog pooping. But there were piles of horse crap left to fester there all summer last year. I feel like there’s a rather nasty double standard here about dogs in this backwards corner of the world, while kids run wild and horses crap freely. *sigh*

By: Catherine

Catherine — Thu, 23 Aug 2012 21:22:09 +0000

I’ve never thought dog poop to be a big issue anywhere I’ve lived – either we’re in the country and in most cases it is ok to leave it, or people must scoop it up quite the thing. The only time I was shocked by dog poop not being cleared up was when I saw a woman’s german shepherd puppy poop in the street whilst being dragged a long and the woman did nothing about it. The poor dog! The other bad poop I’ve seen is on the ferry on the outer viewing deck. My dog pooped there yes. I immediately cleared it up and put it in the bin 3 feet away from me. Other dog owners it seemed are not so caring of the ferry! The ferry deck is outside yes, but it’s not a garden or the street – it’s a platform on a vessel so more similar to an inside floor than the outside world… it is manmade.. so why is it ok for you to leave dog poop on it??

By: Georgia Little Pea

Georgia Little Pea — Thu, 23 Aug 2012 21:19:39 +0000

Unscooped dog poop is (apparently) what drove a local man to placing poisoned chicken mince balls in our parks a few years back. I can understand meadow muffins and sidewalk truffles annoying people but to drive them to murder? I suspect that’s why our local off leash laws are being reviewed…an angry anti-dog mob in the neighbourhood. They’re in the minority but they’re LOUD. Some people are just haters.

I tried taking the survey but it just leads me to a generic sign up link. And btw, will we be seeing Honey in the cart pictures for the rest of the year? 🙂

By: shanendoah@life by pets

shanendoah@life by pets — Thu, 23 Aug 2012 21:00:18 +0000

We generally have at least one more poop bag with us then we think we’ll need. While there’s not a whole lot of random poop on our walks (sometimes there is- always in someone’s yard), there’s plenty of random poop at the dog park.
We know that sometimes we just miss our dogs pooping (though with two of us who both like to know where the dogs are, it’s rare), or that sometimes they are far enough away that when we get to the spot where we think they pooped, we won’t be able to find it. This isn’t most days, but it is some days, and if it happens to us, it happens to others. So our general theory is to do at least on “karma” pick up on every visit. Sometimes there are numerous piles in the same area, and one bag will get 3 or 4 poops in it. Sometimes the poop is right on or near a path, so we just grab it.
We’re not perfect- nobody is, but if everyone simply carried one more poop bag than they think they’ll need, and did one more poop pick up than their dog is responsible for, think how much cleaner every place would be.

By: Jackie Bouchard

Jackie Bouchard — Thu, 23 Aug 2012 20:13:53 +0000

Oh poop. I too hate to see other dog owners not picking up – it gives us all a bad name! I try to pick up other random deposits I see on walks in our neighborhood (I call it “paying it forward with the poop”) but at the huge dog park where we go several times a week a lot of people do not pick up. I can understand if the dog poops out in the field in the high bushes (we’re talking a 100+ acre park here, and the center part is full of high bushes/weeds that some dogs love to romp through). If your dog poops out there, it’s nigh on impossible to find. But what makes me really crazy are the people that don’t pick up poop right on the path, or even worse on the beach! As I was picking up our pup’s poop on the beach one day a woman said to me “Oh, you don’t have to pick that up.” I was shocked. “Um, yes I do. And so do you. Or it ends up in the bay!” Idiot.
I also have seen NASTY letters in the paper about poop. One lady wrote such a nasty letter that I was like “Wow – who is this woman and what is her major malfunction??” So I googled her. It turned out she was a Nazi camp survivor! I decided to cut her some slack. 🙂 Maybe all the folks who write such hate-filled anti-dog-poop letters to the editor have lived through something beyond my imagining. I doubt it, but you never know…