Dog mess

[Retribution03]

Why do dog owners not clean up after their dogs?I know a lot do but out on a ride today and was on a bit of a track and got mess on my front wheel because someone didn't clean up after rover now they may think oh its not on a public path so we didn't need to but this is a place people walk and with kids.i am a dog owner and even if we go to the woods if my dog fouls on or near the tracks I pick it up(if it's in the overgrowth that's different as if you are going to try walk through that you have a screw loose lol )those that allow it in the street should be made to go back and pick it up with bare hands.

 

[TissoT]

make sure you buy a ticket for Wednesday lottery ...

 

[Drago]

I'm a dog owner and religiously pick up his doo doo's and dispose of them properly. I can't undertand this craze for hanging bags of dog mess on trees and bushes. Some kind of mating ritual?

 

[slowmotion]

Any of it white????????

 

[mr_cellophane]

What about horse owners who never clean up after their horse !

 

[Cuchilo]

The local dog owners around here like to pick up the poo and bag it so it isn't on a disused road and throw it over the hedge into the allotment where kids play and people are dealing with food . I'm looking forward to catching one of them so I can go past on my bike and slap a bag of shoot around their head as I pass

 

[wintergreen]

I quite often take my dog out riding with me. When we get somewhere quiet I put her down and let her run along while I ride. Being a responsible owner I always pick up after her.
Today as I stopped to pick up her dog egg I happened to stand in another dogs mess. I didn't notice until after I got back on the bike and found the mess was stuck in my cleats and had found its way into every nook and cranny of my clipless pedals.
Needless to say I wasn't very happy when it came to cleaning it all once I got back home,

 

[Profpointy]

Does anyone understand (not condone obviously) the reason for the hanging plastic bags of shoot on a tree?
Being too lazy to pick it up is easy to understand - it's just laziness, don't care about others, but to go to all the trouble of gathering it up into a bag, then carefully hanging it from a bush - why ?
I just cannot fathom the reasoning - and it's common in all parts of the country - so there mush be a reason, however bonkers.

 

[wintergreen]

Does anyone understand (not condone obviously) the reason for the hanging plastic bags of **** on a tree?
Being too lazy to pick it up is easy to understand - it's just laziness, don't care about others, but to go to all the trouble of gathering it up into a bag, then carefully hanging it from a bush - why ?
I just cannot fathom the reasoning - and it's common in all parts of the country - so there mush be a reason, however bonkers.

I can only guess its the absence of litter bins that makes people throw the bags into bushes. Many times I have ridden or walked miles with a used bag before finding somewhere to dispose of it. This of course is no excuse, just my thoughts on why people may throw the used bags.

 

[guitarpete247]

A couple of years ago we went for a ride on the Cloud Trail near to us. When we go back to the car and loaded the bikes a woman arrive to walk her dog. It laid an egg and she walked off leaving it for other walkers and riders. We made a comment to her that it needed to be be picked up but she ignored us. I just hop she trod in it, or someone elses just before getting into her car.
Quite a few years ago a friend told me that his son came back in from a ride on his MTB. He was wearing a hoody. When he took it of a barkers egg dropped from the hood. Not having mudguards, it seemed, that he'd flicked it up from the back wheel and caught it in his hood. Another reason for mudguards .

 

[Profpointy]

A couple of years ago we went for a ride on the Cloud Trail near to us. When we go back to the car and loaded the bikes a woman arrive to walk her dog. It laid an egg and she walked off leaving it for other walkers and riders. We made a comment to her that it needed to be be picked up but she ignored us. I just hop she trod in it, or someone elses just before getting into her car.
Quite a few years ago a friend told me that his son came back in from a ride on his MTB. He was wearing a hoody. When he took it of a barkers egg dropped from the hood. Not having mudguards, it seemed, that he'd flicked it up from the back wheel and caught it in his hood. Another reason for mudguards .

I'd have been inclined to scoop it up carefully and leave it on her car windscreen so she remembers to pick it up.
...or maybe the door handles

 

[Accy cyclist]

I never get dog dumps(touch wood)on my tyres because i cycle on the road. Road cycling might have its dangers,but canal paths,shared cycle lanes,pavements etc have the dog crap problem.

 

[raleighnut]

I quite often take my dog out riding with me. When we get somewhere quiet I put her down and let her run along while I ride. Being a responsible owner I always pick up after her.
Today as I stopped to pick up her dog egg I happened to stand in another dogs mess. I didn't notice until after I got back on the bike and found the mess was stuck in my cleats and had found its way into every nook and cranny of my clipless pedals.
Needless to say I wasn't very happy when it came to cleaning it all once I got back home,

Now that's when you need a jetwash.....................and a pair of safety glasses

 

[AndyWilliams]

I rode through dog mess once, was on my wheels, frame, my top and my face, I used all my water cleaning my face.
Uncomfortable 20 mile ride back to car, then 30min drive home to jump in shower. Then wash bike.

 

[up hill struggle]

those that allow it in the street should be made to go back and pick it up with bare hands.

there was a fella that worked with my brother came in one day giving off that while walking his dog up a country road the night before dog decided to take a dump on the grass verge, just as he was about to walk off he heard a car pull up behind him & turned to find a police car, police rolled down his window & told the fella if he takes one more step away from the dogs craps he was being issued with a fine.

fella gave off saying it was a country lane & was covered in cow s##t away but the the police man wouldn't budge & after admitting he had no bags to pick it up was forced to pick it up with his hands after which the police man said good lad, may be next time you'll remember to bring a bag with you, started to laugh & drove off leaving the fella standing there with two hands full of dog s##t.