Dog owners

[Ninja Mania]

See if everyone carried a camera, they could take pics of the offending dog and owner and show it to the appropriate people, they would not have to suffer the abuse sometimes thrown at them.
Failing that batter them over the feckin heed with it.

How horrible for her!!!! It really is disgusting but down here, Ags, dogs are banned from the beaches from May 1st to the end of October.

Now thats a great idea, why dont you start a petition Ags to get this law in force on our beaches too.

[Ags]

I don't think we have to go that far Ninja. As we have said already these people are in the minority. At least if we see people who live locally not taking away their dog mess we can report them by name which I know has been done quite recently with one particular dog owner .
This owner maintains it is worse for the environment to put the poo in plastic bags than it is to leave nature to take its course on the beach!! Wouldn't be that if it was her family who ended up covered in it

[ceartas]

This fact is frequently spouted as a scare tactic.
Marion

Alas, it is not. There are different forms of toxocariasis and not all go blind. However, when worm eggs enter the system a child can suffer severe symptoms. I recall a child whose nervous system was damaged because of this and they were ill for months. Children could have just bad stomach pains but IF there is a danger of ANY illness in a child, dog owners should take their responsibilities seriously.

I agree...I did say that I did this research some years ago and only researched documented cases of blindness...I didn't research/discuss any other damage/symptoms of toxocariasis.

This owner maintains it is worse for the environment to put the poo in plastic bags than it is to leave nature to take its course on the beach!! Wouldn't be that if it was her family who ended up covered in it

No, I said I found it just as disgusting when people left the full poo bags lying around.

However, I totally agree that it's disgusting that owners don't pick up their dog's faeces and dispose of it appropriately...and I'm a dog owner! One of my pet hates, however, is the owners who pick up the poo, knot up the bag neatly then either chuck it into the long grass or hang it from a branch!

I said nothing about environmental impact although, if you want me to put my environmental manager's hat on...it is worse for the environment but perhaps not for public health. Although, when you step on a bag full of poo that's been suppurating and breeding bacteria and worm eggs in a warm, closed environment for two weeks, it's just as disgusting as stepping in fresh poo or the stuff that's got crusty on the outside but is still moist inside!

And I do frequently get covered in other people's dogs' poo and find it just as repulsive as anyone else.

Marion

[Ags]

Now ceartas - calm down calm down! If you'd like to read my post again you will see that I was referring to a lady who lives near me with whom I have had the great dog poo debate!! Yes it may be worse for the environment but my reason for posting was in the interest of my daughter and other kids playing on the beach! I totally agree however that poo bags lying around are equally disgusting!!

[ceartas]

Sorry, Ags.

It's been a rubbish week at work and, in my haste, I misread your post.

[hugs]

Marion

[John S]

Marion, your like a dog with a bone barking up the wrong tree

[EMDEE]

This stuff can indeed be dangerous.

http://dreamdogsart.typepad.com/art/200 ... havoc.html

[LANDROVER ROGER]

I have seen large orange slugs feeding on dog faeces.Just an observation and,no,I had not been drinking!I have noticed,as have previous posters,the neat bags of faeces slung in bushes or hanging from trees where I walk my dogs.I suppose that they are seen to be responsible and then literally not giving a s**t!

[EileenH]

I think the persons responsible for leaving their dog's mess along where I stay must be reading this post. Ever since I mentioned it there has been hardly any dog mess round my way! I haven't even seen that many people walking their dogs round here. So having a moan about it seems to have worked. Either that or they're feeling that guilty they've started lifting up after their dogs!

[elainemck]

I'm glad to see someones situation is improving, maybe the dog owners were reading and realised what they were doing! Although I don't think anyone round my way is reading it as it's just the same if not worse, every day more dog poo on the pavements! Yuck.

[mrn]

As this thread is called Dog Owners I just want to know how many of you were like me and crying when Wellard died last night in Eastenders?

[gromit]

As this thread is called Dog Owners I just want to know how many of you were like me and crying when Wellard died last night in Eastenders?

I cannot lie, there was a tear in my eye...

[Govangirl]

As this thread is called Dog Owners I just want to know how many of you were like me and crying when Wellard died last night in Eastenders?

I was totally confused! The corpse of the poor dug (who deserves an Oscar, by the way) was just left there on the carpet while the vet walked nonchantly away into the Walford sunset. Was it possibly because he didn't get paid?

I mean, who's gonnae clean up that mess after a few weeks?

[LANDROVER ROGER]

Eastenders.Turgid dross!!!!!!!!!!

[Govangirl]

I agree Roger. I watched it because 1) I was on holiday and there were only 2 channels on the wee TV 2) I was bored waiting for my man and son to come off the mountains and 3) the newspaper's advice to watch the soap's tearjerking death of an old favourite got my attention as there were so many characters I would like to see suffering a long, protracted and painful death. Unfortunately, it was the dug!!!!
No, not Pat, a real dug!