Heroes

[Penninetrader]

That's the thing. I am very busy looking after a young family and working full time. The tiny amount of hours left in a week to myself are for enjoyable activities. People need to clean up after themselves and be responsible.

Whilst looking after my grandchildren and then working weekends to make up time I engaged them during our visits to the parks in cleaning the play areas before engaging in play. They still have those habits. I have children, grandchildren and great grandchildren plus a great many nephew and nieces and on and on, they have all been influenced and are a positive force I am very proud to say. I am not asking that you go on a crusade just bend down pick a little little and deposit in bin I observe that many will step over rubbish on their own doorstep, weird

 

[Macbear]

If I witnessed that my response would be classed as provocative to say the least.

As would be my response to the types who think it acceptable to lob their used dog bags into trees overhanging footpaths. We have such a track on the way to our allotments, fortunately wide enough to allow vehicles. Thankfully, the majority of dog walkers show consideration.

 

[pargyle]

They do that so if being watched they appear to be good guys but once out of sight slyly drop said bag, I have watched motorists when parked open their door just enough to dispose of rubbish beneath the car so as not to be seen. Unacceptable.

It's fair to say that I bag up our dog's poo and when we do an 'out and back' walk as opposed to a circular route I will leave a bag of poo hanging on a branch or tucked into a fence on the way out and then collect it for disposal on the way back.

I know my regular route down the side of the Titchfield canal and this morning I was disappointed to see that some antisocial dog walker had bagged up some poo and had thrown it into the midde of a bramble bush ... it was not there yesterday morning so it was either last night or prior to my walk this mornng. There was clearly no intention of them returning to get it as it was totally inacessible ... what is the matter with these people ? It just winds me up ...

 

[rossbyjove]

Shouldn't that be dilating?

I don't really want to think about that !

 

[jenkinsbrynmair]

many years ago my sister, who lives on the 'main' road was daily finding a fresh hoo normous dog turd deposited by their front gate in the morning as she set off for work, so one day my brother in law (who drove the bin lorries at the time) took a late start but still got up early and sat in the bedroom window on turdwatch. He found the culprit (we had guessed who it was -he was notorious and actually proud of refusing to clean up after his dog.) who only lived a few doors up, so Mike quickly went downstairs picked up the still steaming growler (he was wearing his full council PPE including gloves) and followed him home, knocked on the door and just handed the turd back.
It never happened after that.

 

[Gilberdyke John]

many years ago my sister, who lives on the 'main' road was daily finding a fresh hoo normous dog turd deposited by their front gate in the morning as she set off for work, so one day my brother in law (who drove the bin lorries at the time) took a late start but still got up early and sat in the bedroom window on turdwatch. He found the culprit (we had guessed who it was -he was notorious and actually proud of refusing to clean up after his dog.) who only lived a few doors up, so Mike quickly went downstairs picked up the still steaming growler (he was wearing his full council PPE including gloves) and followed him home, knocked on the door and just handed the turd back.
It never happened after that.

Perfect!

 

[Sutty]

I used to have a house on a corner plot with an open drive. I was getting almost daily dog turds on the lawn next to the drive. One day sorting through cupboards I found a large bag of very out of date chilli powder. This got sprinkled all over the lawn. Problem solved! I felt sorry for the sniffing dog, but if I couldn't educate the owner, I could certainly educate the dog!!