Around here you see people walking their dogs along the sidewalk and many people go with baggies in hand and when doggy squats and poops, they bag it up and take it home or toss in garbage. I have to really hand it to the people who have taken the steps to rid our streets and sidewalks of this by-product, which unlike several barnyard poops, has no redeeming quality, even if piled and aged.
As I was driving along and saw a person bag and knot a little package of poo the thought occured to me: never, not once in all the years that I have taken a dog to town on a leash, has my dog squatted and crapped. My dogs don't poop on walks because my dogs poop HERE, at home, where all dogs should poop. It occured to me that while poop scooping is good, it points to a bigger problem, people who have trained their dogs that the place to poo is OFF their own property. For many in-town dog owners, the whole point of a walk is an opportunity for the dog to go to the bathroom. My dog does his bathroom thing BEFORE being put on leash. We keep our poop at home.
This brings to mind another slightly related thought, diapers. When we had a baby in diapers and were at someone else's home we NEVER tossed a dirty diaper in anyone's garbage. We took our dirty diapers home with us and dealt with them here. Reason being that often people who do not have kids in diapers do not change their bathroom garbage frequently. And a dirty diaper hiding in the bottom of a garbage can for a week or more can cause frantic concern as a home owner searches, nose first, for the source of that ghastly stench! We felt it was our responsibility to inflict none of ourselves on other people if we could at all avoid it. So we never tossed a diaper. If our kid made it, it was ours to deal with. At home.
Which brings us back to dogs and people who walk their dogs for the sole purpose of poo happening while the dog is on leash. I think this points to bad social conduct. If a dog accidentally poops once in a while on a public sidewalk or grassway, that can be forgiven. But many of these scoopers are repeat offenders who would rather have the dog poop on public property than do it at home. SO while scooping would seem a social nicety, I think it covers a core societal disease that will eventaully erode this country and leave us open to foreign invasion and perhaps complete take over. Or not.
Does anyone else think this in-town habit of removing a dog from your property so it can poop, is kind of dirty and obnoxious? We used to dog sit for people and twice a day we walked the dog so it could poop usually on someone else's lawn! Why can't a dog be given a small, deisgnated poop spot at home on the lawn, which the owner can scoop and clean? Just seems to me the more civilized option. Random thought...I get them...I can't help it.
As I was driving along and saw a person bag and knot a little package of poo the thought occured to me: never, not once in all the years that I have taken a dog to town on a leash, has my dog squatted and crapped. My dogs don't poop on walks because my dogs poop HERE, at home, where all dogs should poop. It occured to me that while poop scooping is good, it points to a bigger problem, people who have trained their dogs that the place to poo is OFF their own property. For many in-town dog owners, the whole point of a walk is an opportunity for the dog to go to the bathroom. My dog does his bathroom thing BEFORE being put on leash. We keep our poop at home.
This brings to mind another slightly related thought, diapers. When we had a baby in diapers and were at someone else's home we NEVER tossed a dirty diaper in anyone's garbage. We took our dirty diapers home with us and dealt with them here. Reason being that often people who do not have kids in diapers do not change their bathroom garbage frequently. And a dirty diaper hiding in the bottom of a garbage can for a week or more can cause frantic concern as a home owner searches, nose first, for the source of that ghastly stench! We felt it was our responsibility to inflict none of ourselves on other people if we could at all avoid it. So we never tossed a diaper. If our kid made it, it was ours to deal with. At home.
Which brings us back to dogs and people who walk their dogs for the sole purpose of poo happening while the dog is on leash. I think this points to bad social conduct. If a dog accidentally poops once in a while on a public sidewalk or grassway, that can be forgiven. But many of these scoopers are repeat offenders who would rather have the dog poop on public property than do it at home. SO while scooping would seem a social nicety, I think it covers a core societal disease that will eventaully erode this country and leave us open to foreign invasion and perhaps complete take over. Or not.
Does anyone else think this in-town habit of removing a dog from your property so it can poop, is kind of dirty and obnoxious? We used to dog sit for people and twice a day we walked the dog so it could poop usually on someone else's lawn! Why can't a dog be given a small, deisgnated poop spot at home on the lawn, which the owner can scoop and clean? Just seems to me the more civilized option. Random thought...I get them...I can't help it.
Crap...this just keeps getting funnier and funnier. Uno, you need a scotch or something. Chill OUT, baby!! Jeez.
