I'ts just a load of s***

[DavieB]

A 'tiny dog poo' could turn a kid blind. Horse poo won't.

Also, the most dog poo is deposited in inhabited places, often where people run and walk, and kids play - like parks and pavements. Horse poo is generally dumped in rural areas, where few people are walking, and it washes away fairly quickly when it rains.


Horse poo is pretty harmless stuff - as harmless as mud. In fact, given the stuff sprayed on some crops, possibly less harmless than mud....

Still stinks and attracts flies on hot days. Id be more annoyed if I stepped on a horse shoot than a dog one lol, although Id imagine I would see the horse shoot!

Oh and police horses definitely drop it in inhabited places


On the blindness bit, is it not worm eggs that cause the blindness, I remember this made the newspapers but I dont think it is all that common. Do horses not get worms?

 

[mad despot]

Heh, actually I was trying to be witty!

 

[Arch]

On the blindness bit, is it not worm eggs that cause the blindness, I remember this made the newspapers but I dont think it is all that common. Do horses not get worms?

As far as I know, the particular worms that cause problems to humans are not the sort that horses get. There are far more zoonoses (diseases transmissable to humans) that dogs have, then horses - in fact I'm not sure horses have anything they can transmit to humnas - fleas possibly, not even sure they get fleas... Horses have a very different digestive system to us, which means that internal parasites can't cross the species.

Pigs, being the most similar domesticated animals to humans in terms of digestion, carry the most zoonoses. That's why pork must be well cooked, and probably why it's taboo in Judaism and Islam. Also, both dogs and pigs aren't averse to eating human faeces, making cross infection even more likely.

 

[Ben M]

I can;t say that I noticed much manure on the path when I cycled on it in March.

Am planning a ride along it in the next fornight or so (knee allowing), hopefully it isn't too bad then

 

[Captain]

Ride round it, and find something important to worry about.

I used to ride a motorbike and had endless annoyance with horse riders and there equestrian faeces.
The road I used to frequently ride along was also commonly used by horse riders (I still dont undetrstand why), and they shouldnt have taken that road ever.
it was a B road with no verge and all blind corners or over a rise - or both. I was always pissed when there would be droppings littering almost the entire lane and the only way to avoid it was to get onto the wrong side of the road.
To me thats dangerous.

I think there ought to be some kind of rule such as no horses on small roads or bridalpaths only, but then there is no way to do it as that would be reducing a lot of peoples rights to exercise there animals.
Maybe treadmills are the way forward?