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Post by aussie on Feb 21, 2010 15:41:40 GMT
that they pick up after their dogs so there must be millions of ghost dogs walking around fouling footpaths all over the place because there is so much dog poo everywhere! Either that or a very large proportion of dog owners are liars! Every sinlge one of them says that they clean up after their dogs, well I walked about 200 yards to the supermarket this morning and there where, with no exageration, 15 piles of sh*t on the footpath just on one side of the road, well they weren`t there yesterday when I walked up there which would indicate a very high volume of liars, oops I meant dog owners, not cleaning up after their animals, take a walk up Westlands lane between the school and our ground and have a look around on the floor and you`ll see loads of it as dog owners feel they can let their animals off the lead there and pretend to not see there dogs foul, I can perfectly accept the odd pile of poo because you can`t expect a blind person to clean up after their guide dog but an aerial view of the footpath would look like it has been scatter gunned by excrement! There just aren`t that many guide dogs around! I awiat the dog owners on here to have a go at me and claim they all pick up after their dogs, I do accept there are quite a few dog owners that do pick up after their dogs but if 50% of dog owners pick up then there must be a hell of a lot more dogs around than one actually sees to leave the amount of mess around that there is! I recon it`s closer to 1 in 10 people clean up after their animals and the rest just don`t!
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Post by stefano on Feb 21, 2010 16:10:50 GMT
that they pick up after their dogs so there must be millions of ghost dogs walking around fouling footpaths all over the place because there is so much dog poo everywhere! Either that or a very large proportion of dog owners are liars! Every sinlge one of them says that they clean up after their dogs, well I walked about 200 yards to the supermarket this morning and there where, with no exageration, 15 piles of sh*t on the footpath just on one side of the road, well they weren`t there yesterday when I walked up there which would indicate a very high volume of liars, oops I meant dog owners, not cleaning up after their animals, take a walk up Westlands lane between the school and our ground and have a look around on the floor and you`ll see loads of it as dog owners feel they can let their animals off the lead there and pretend to not see there dogs foul, I can perfectly accept the odd pile of poo because you can`t expect a blind person to clean up after their guide dog but an aerial view of the footpath would look like it has been scatter gunned by excrement! There just aren`t that many guide dogs around! I awiat the dog owners on here to have a go at me and claim they all pick up after their dogs, I do accept there are quite a few dog owners that do pick up after their dogs but if 50% of dog owners pick up then there must be a hell of a lot more dogs around than one actually sees to leave the amount of mess around that there is! I recon it`s closer to 1 in 10 people clean up after their animals and the rest just don`t! Horse poo is a bigger problem in and around Ivybridge ... and they NEVER pick it up  |
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Post by chrish on Feb 21, 2010 16:56:50 GMT
Nothing worse than dog shit. I quite like dogs but I'm not going walk around after one picking up it's warm crap.
I remember back in the Paris days. At 4pm everyday in the Quartier Montorgueil they powerhosed all the dog crap into the gutter. The streets were clear but the powerhosing "refreshed" all the old dog crap still in the gutters. A slightly overpowering whiff it has to be said.
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Post by merse on Feb 21, 2010 17:23:57 GMT
Horse poo is a bigger problem in and around Ivybridge ... and they NEVER pick it up  They're luckier than I was as a kid.................. Where we lived in Aller Park a fruit and veg man used to come around once or twice a week with his gear on a horse and cart. My late father used to insist I went out after them with a bucket and shovel and I wasn't to come back until the bucket was full of horse shit for his compost heap.......................it's a real producer of award winning rhubarb by the way so if you like rhubarb ~  There was so much shite used to come out of that beast I used to call it "Chocolate" (the horse not the poo!), I don't know what it's proper name was, but come to think of it the old coster monger bore a passing resemblance to Albert Steptoe! |
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Post by merse on Feb 21, 2010 17:39:02 GMT
Nothing worse than dog shit. I think all dog owners should be forced to strap a skateboard to their animal's back and take them out turned upside down so they don't drop their crap all over the place. In this day and age I don't see the need for the dirty habit of sharing one's home with an animal although I admit a dog is a useful accesory if you want to mug people at cashpoints. Can't really say I'm an animal lover unless you can bet on them or eat them, although as kids we did have a pet tortoise until mum threw it out in one of her more eccentric moods for not talking to her!  |
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Post by jmgull on Feb 21, 2010 18:33:39 GMT
Not sure i should admit that i'm the proud owner of a very lively 9 month old beagle  . As someone who grew up with dogs and married a girl who's family is on the same side of the fence as merse ......absolutely loathed the smell of 'em, it took me 13 years of married life and a grand or two to have wooden floors in every downstairs room before she would agree to letting me have him. Love him to bits, he's part of the family, a great guard dog and true friend.....he's also pretty clean too. Aussie....is right though, a hell of a lot of dog owners don't clear up after their dog. I take Alfie up to Armada park every night, a popular dog park and you see loads up there.......it does my head in because it gives responsible dog owners a bad name. The other night i challenged a woman who had just walked off.....leaving the evidence, so i asked her why? "Ran out of poo bags" she said, so i offered her one as i always take a couple. "No thanks i only ever pick up "solid ones" she said  |
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Post by frankfurt gull on Feb 21, 2010 19:56:58 GMT
chewing gum, spit on pavements and shop windows, greenbacks, vomit, used condoms, urine in great quantities, excrement, unfinished portions of greasy fish and chips and cigarette ends are all left around the town centre by dogs every weekend!
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Post by stefano on Feb 21, 2010 19:58:33 GMT
chewing gum, spit on pavements and shop windows, greenbacks, vomit, used condoms, urine in great quantities, excrement, unfinished portions of greasy fish and chips and cigarette ends are all left around the town centre by dogs every weekend! Sounds like Germany is a shocking place! |
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Post by longeatongull on Feb 21, 2010 20:50:22 GMT
"Ran out of poo bags" she said, so i offered her one as i always take a couple. " Another good subject you have started Aus. I have always had a dog around the house--(imho as well as great Company for the wife when I am away also the best burglar alarm!!). Our council has just announced they are not supplying anymore "poo bags" as it will save them £5k a year and they have also been informed that residents are using them as sandwich bags .....they are quite scented so heaven knows what the cheese and onion tastes like ;D |
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Post by Dave on Feb 21, 2010 21:32:53 GMT
You just never know what topics are going to be started here on the TFF and while this is one I did not expect, the subject of dog mess on our streets etc does upset a lot of people. There is nothing worse in my mind than getting it on your shoes and if Carol suspects someone has walked in the house with it on their shoes then what happens next makes me angry. Not angry with Carol I should add, but she will then go around on her hands and knees and with a cloth and a bucket of hot water and disinfectant, scrub every carpet in the house both upstairs and downstairs. Even if I tell her no one has been upstairs with their shoes on it won’t matter and it will take her well over an hour before she is satisfied she has covered every single inch of carpet.
It’s been a very long time since I ever owned a dog and in the days I did it was accepted that you got the dog to the kerb and let it do it there as long as it was not on the path. I would not own a dog now and simply because I would not want the job of picking its muck up.
Its not just dogs and cats that can be house trained and people who come to my home are amazed to learn that Cleo my double yellow crowned Amazon parrot is 100% fully housed trained.
She is 12 years old now and could live until she is 80 and some family members have already been fighting who is going to get her when I die, but excuse me I’m still very much alive and hope to be a bit longer yet.
When we got her as a baby her wings had been clipped and she could not fly and when she had her first big moult I let her grow all her flight feathers back and then she was soon flying around our home. Those that do come to visit us know they have to make sure they know where Cleo is before they open any outside door as should she ever get out she will simply die as she won’t find any food she can eat, or some nice bird of pray will get her.
When she first started watching telly with me (she loves football) she would make a mess on my clothes, but I started timing how long it was she would go before making more mess again on me. Once I had a good idea how long she would go I would flick her off my shoulder and she flew back to her cage and would go inside and do one. It was then a case of telling her what a good good girl she was.
It did not take to long doing this before she flew back to her cage on her own when she knew she wanted to go and she never has had any accidents and its been years since she has ever made a mess on me. But even if one day she does have an accident, it will be a lot better to clean up than any dogs mess.
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Post by aussie on Feb 22, 2010 12:50:26 GMT
Cleo`s fine till someone rings you up then she gets jealous as hell and squarks her head off, she`s much better in person( so to speak ), I recon it`s your ring tone! |
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Post by The knight who says "nee" on Feb 22, 2010 13:01:44 GMT
As a responsible dog owner who always picks up after my dog - yes Aussie I'm the 1 in the 10 (!!) - i reckon we should introduce a licence to keep a dog.
Not only could this help solve the problem of mess but could also help with the problem of irresponsible people having aggressive dogs.
Get caught not picking up yellow card, caught again and your off licence removed no more dogs for you my friend. How many people would shirk the responsibility then?
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Post by aussie on Feb 22, 2010 13:34:51 GMT
As a responsible dog owner who always picks up after my dog - yes Aussie I'm the 1 in the 10 (!!) - i reckon we should introduce a licence to keep a dog. Not only could this help solve the problem of mess but could also help with the problem of irresponsible people having aggressive dogs. Get caught not picking up yellow card, caught again and your off licence removed no more dogs for you my friend. How many people would shirk the responsibility then? The one thing I did try too get across was that I`m not anti-dog or owner, I used to have a dog back in Aus and we had to have a licence that you payed the council for, difference is that we didn`t have chav`s back then who used dogs as weapons or bling and people had dogs becaused they loved them and they were a part of the family, treated as such as well, I am glad you are the one in ten (feel a song coming on ), problem is every dog owner says that, difference is I believe you! It`s like littering, quite a lot of people don`t think it`s that wrong and openly drop rubbish on the floor, I believe it might have something to do with a lack of parenting, there seems to be a generation of people who just don`t give a shit( no pun intended ) and if you dare confront them about their behaviour or lack of it then they get abusive, where as back a decade or two ago people would have felt embarrased at least to get caught littering or being responsible for their or their pets actions and or behaviour! Myself and other like minded parents are trying to bring our kids up instead of letting them bring themselves up, look at the difference in behaviour at the club with kids that are older teens compared to the younger ones (junior gulls for example) there is in my opinion a massive difference, before anyone goes p.c. mad at me I`m not labeling all of the older teens at the club with the same thing some of them are a credit to thier parents but I think you will know what I mean! The Junior Gulls had a day out over Paignton C.C. and they kids had to wait for the players to stop training, they were very well behaved and waited as patiently as kids can, they kept asking me when will they be ready and all they wanted was a ball to kick around while they waited, very proud of all the Junior Gulls! The "C" word song comes from a group of older kids in the Pop side that should be ashamed of themselves and their parents should be ashamed of them as well, I know I would be very niave to think that everyone in society is going to be perfect but it does actually help if people make a bloody effort! I think the whole thing missing nowadays is something we once called RESPECT! |
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Post by lambethgull on Feb 22, 2010 13:35:21 GMT
Whilst I wouldn't want it on my shoes, I don't wretch at the sight of horse crap. Dog turd is a different matter.
If dogs were fed proper food it might not be so bad, but who on earth wants to step in a stinking pile of Winnalot emited from a hound's anus - complete with intestinal worms and zoonoses ? The stuff smells bad enough before it's left the can.
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Post by aussie on Feb 22, 2010 13:40:13 GMT
What the hell are zoonoses?
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