How are you about picking up poop? Here’s my truth. I don’t pick it up in the yard.
I know. I know, it’s bad and I’m not going to make excuses except to say that my yard is big and it’s woody and brushy and dog poop likes to play hide and seek there.
We’re working on getting some trees down and bushes trimmed and hopefully all the leaves and ground cover picked up, then we will start working on one area of the yard for the dogs to poop in, which should make cleaning up easier.
Until then, well let’s just say we’ll tiptoe through the tulips when we walk up there. But siriusly, when I do find poops when I’m working up there, I pick them up.
When we go out for daily hikes I have my trusty poop bags clipped to my pants. I’m frugal, sometimes I pick up two or three poops in one bag. Because I roll that way. Other days, I tie the bags together to form the dog walker’s Chinese Star. And I always pick up the poop, unless Sampson goes so far in the brush that I’d have to Army Crawl to get to it, and then I leave it.
Sue me.
But SOME of the people who walk in our park can’t be bothered to pick up after their dogs. EVER.
The town even put up a poop station and a bunch of signs explaining WHY people should be cleaning up after their dogs.
Yeah, I thought that was overkill myself. (The signs mysteriously disappeared a week or so later.)
Now I don’t mind picking up my dog’s poop. They eat raw and trust me when the people who know poop tell you raw poop is different than kibble poop, well they aren’t just talking shit. They know their shit.
My dog’s poops are hard, in fact sometimes it looks like their pooping sand, that’s how hard their poops are. Don’t worry, they aren’t straining to go, I keep a careful eye on that, but they are hard. Whenever I get a Mr. Softy in there, I know someone has been eating something they shouldn’t.
My point is I have no problem picking up my dog’s nice, hard poop, but for some reason some other dog’s cold, squishy doo just makes me want to puke.
Saturday I walk into the park and what’s the first thing I see?
Yup! Somebody’s dog cranked a steamer right next to the poop station. Sirisuly, how much lazier could you be? If you were any closer your dog would have crapped in the container, but somehow you couldn’t manage to pick it up?
I wanted to put up a sign that said, “Hey shit for brains, you left your brains here,” but I didn’t have any paper.
Our entire walk I thought about that poop, and how horrible it was for these ass kabobs to be sitting there right next to the poop station. I knew I had to pick up the poop but I was gagging a little just thinking about it.
By the time we finished our walk, I had a plan. I put the dogs in the car and opened the window in the hatch, so they could stick their heads out to see what I was doing. **Note to self, next time you take the car in for service tell the dealer that those hydraulics on the window don’t work.**
I grabbed a couple of poop bags from the station and set one on the ground next to the colon cannonballs and using a stick rolled those keister cakes onto the bag.
I folded the bag around the toxic turds and using another bag, I picked it up. It was so much easier than picking up the soft and squishy park sausage with only one bag.
After I’d disposed of the shitsicles, I thought, I’d really love to know whose dog is doing this so I could gather all the park poop and dump it on their lawn. Isn’t that awful? Or maybe fill paper bags with it on Halloween and light it on fire on their front steps.
Well of course that idea is gone now since I put it on the internet, they’ll know who to look to should flaming bags of poo start appearing in my neighborhood.
Sirisuly though, there has to be a way to get through to people. Do you have any thoughts or ideas? Sugar does.
It’s great that the town made those signs … but there’s always those irresponsible dog owners. You might want to re-think on not picking up your dog poops on your yard. Lots of Golden Thanks for helping us spread #ScoopThatPoop and joining our hop. Lots of Golden Woofs, Sugar
Saw your comment and will add your post manually. Golden Woofs, Sugar
Raw poop is the best.
Oh, that sounds terrible.
But, really. I can let Silas’s dry for a day or two (only at home, obviously), then it’s just like picking up pieces of chalk. I’m feeding him a dehydrated food at lunch time which does bulk it up a little, but it’s still really no big deal.
Tell us how you really feel, Jodi. 🙂
I don’t pick up the poop in my own backyard. I’m a bad mom. I do shovel the chicken and duck poop off the back porch and dump it into the compost bin.
We love those poop bag stations you have over there. No such thing here but we are always armed and prepared with the bag lady in tow. Have a marvellous Monday.
Best wishes Molly
Ditto, Flea. 🙂 I feel the same way you do. And I get just as pissed off as you do when people are obviously lazy shit-for-brains. Are we related somewhere along the line?? 🙂
I don’t raw feed, but my girls don’t get kibble any more either. I switched them to Fresh Pet and noticed a substantial improvement after just a couple of days. The Fresh Pet is expensive as all get out; but they like it and they seem healthier as a result, so I’m sticking with it and homemade meals. Once I get my food dehydrator, I’ll be making more of their treats as well.
The poops from feeding raw is the best argument I’ve heard for feeding raw. I have noticed that the premium dog food produce a more “refined” poop, but I’m sure they don’t know how to market the food that way. 🙂
I agree with you – picking up my own dogs poop is bad enough, but I can do it…and do. But picking up some other dogs poop…just beyond my capabilities. But to do that right next to the poop station?? HUH???
I CANNOT believe someone’s dog pooped right by the poop station and they didn’t even bother to clean it up! What is with people? How can they be so lazy…and so unkind to let the park be a mess of dog poo?!? Thank you for scooping the abandoned poop. You are a Scooper Hero!
*high paws*
Oz
That is one of my pet peeves too! Grrrrr, it infuriates me when I see a station full of free bags, with unscooped poop nearby. The bags are RIGHT there! Plus they are FREE! C’mon humans! It doesn’t get any easier than that!
Hugs,
Pepper
I love those signs! That’s a fabulous idea! Some people are just ignorant and refuse to be courteous and pick up their dog pooh. Totally beyond me. Hell, I even pick it up in my yard! I don’t want it laying there collecting critters and stuff. Ewww…
There is something extra gross about another dogs poop… I don’t know what that dog ate or where it’s behind has been!! I love the signs the town made and it obviously wasn’t over-kill if you still found a pile right next to the clean up station.
hahahaa You are sooooooo funny! Made me smile while waiting for Princess to come home! I can pick her up after 3pm, I’ll keep everyone posted later
I love the shit for brains imaginary note you wanted to leave. That really says it all. We live in an apartment complex, and there’s a sign about picking up poop so as not to spread disease. There is usually a poop right at the base of the sign! Nice. People are pigs. That’s all there is to it.
Thanks for the scoop on the poop !
Wow, I’m a moron. I entered the blog hop mistakenly thinking it was the Monday Mischief hop. So sorry!
Also, I agree. Picking up other dog’s poop makes me gag a bit too. I’ve picked up my friend’s dog’s poop because she thought it was too gross and I wanted to show her how it was done. Thank goodness I kept a poker face and she never knew how close I came to vomiting. 😉
OMD! Mom and I are laughing so hard, you just crack us up! That is about the worst, leaving poop on the ground below the poop station, really! Your yard looks more like a forest, no wonder you don’t poop hunt there, who would?
OMD, lol! Okay, so you may not be the most congenial ambassador for scooping the poop, but you’re certainly the funniest!
I don’t love picking up my dogs’ poop, but it’s part of having them and I just do it. It’s neither here nor there. They do most of their business in our backyard and I do poop patrol at least once, sometimes twice a day. But picking up the poo of other dogs is just SO disgusting. I don’t know why. It’s all about familiarity, I guess. Kind of like we don’t have a problem wiping our own bums, but no one wants to wipe someone else’s bum. Unfamiliar poop is just gross! I admit to not being a good Scooper Hero because I have such a hard time dealing with the poo of other dogs. I love that you prodded that poo around with a stick rather than just grabbing it with a bag. You were that determined not to touch the stuff, even through a bag. I wholeheartedly understand.
Really? Right next to the poop station? OMD!!! I just don’t get it. It’s one thing if you accidentally ran out of bags or if the poop is out of reach. But a completely different story if the POOP BAGS ARE RIGHT THERE! Wow. Amazing.
Ugh in my city neighborhood there is poo EVERYWHERE however this seems to only be the case in the less wealthy neighborhoods in wealthy neighborhoods its picked up/ I dont get it cleaning up after your dog is free. AS for the laziness of not picking up right next to the station you are right that is beyond lazy!!!
urban hounds
PS-saw your comment about if large dogs are allowed on the path and nyc subway the answer is sadly no because the dog must be in a carrier like a zipped close stroller or a carrier bag
Some people are just lazy, we always scoop are poop.
Sheba.
I think making it a fine and having someone handing out little tickets for people who don’t pick up after their dogs would do the trick–They have people who spy on those without hunting/fishing tags, why not this too?
LOL you did a good deed in the park. I don’t understand why people cannot pick up with supplies right there!
Jodi I’m holding my sides laughing right now…I have never seen so many ways of saying dog poop before and each of them is priceless…You did the best you could but if the owner is as dense as it seems you may need a bigger hammer to get the message across
You got a big yard! Lucky dog. So much play space!
Too funny. Loved the signs. Too bad they disappeared. 🙂
if it prevents me from stepping in it, I will gladly pick up someone else’s dog poop! I can understand why you don’t in your yard because it is so large. I would probably do the same.
Wow! You have a big yard! OMG-don’t tell anyone but I just throw ours over the fence 🙂 Not in anyone’s yard-just the woods, my husband told me I need to start throwing it in a different area because we can’t get out of the back gate anymore-whoops!
This seriously made me laugh out loud! You are a much better person than I am, because I would have snuck it to their doorstep by now and left it en flambe before I wrote this post!
Jodi, you crack me up. You talk just like me and have the same terminology. I like how honest you are and tell it how it is! Thanks for the laugh today!
You have a good excuse not to pick up poop since it hides in your beautiful yard
Benny & Lily
Ha, ha. Necessity begets creativity. I like your method for picking up the cold poopsicles (funny, spellcheck says that is not a real word).
Wow, that’s a lot of signs – glad they’re informative though. I’ve seen many people leave dog poop right next to the poop stations and it’s just silly. The army crawl comment made me laugh out loud! Thanks for joining the hop!
Good for you Jodi…I don’t think I could bring myself to pick up after some a-hole’s dog. We have a park like that, with poop stations, and have seen the same exact thing…right there next to trash can.
I mean – WTF? How lazy can you be.