S/O What is it about disposing of dog poop in your trash can that upsets you

[Anonymous]

The problem is that bags of dog shit, or really any sort of loose trash, end up at the bottom of the trash can and stay there until the owner has to fish them out and dispose of them properly, in a trash bag. The trash guys don't reach into the bottom of the can to get all the loose stuff out, as you are damn well aware. Throw your dog shit bags in your own trash or in a public receptacle, like a civilized non-asshole.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:at this point i'm sure OP is just trolling to get reactions and not taking any answers seriously.

That's not true. That's why my last post was more of a just, I guess some people just care and some don't. Like the PP who asked if I had noted the exploding bag problem for example...I get that I suppose but once again I have said how I never even look in my trash can really, so while yes that is gross, I don't think I'd notice if it happened to me. The concept of washing my trash can out is like...I have never washed a trash can out. The city provides them where I live, I use them to put the trash out, I put them back. There is really no time in my life I spend looking inside an empty trash can and speculating on the source of smells. Its a dirty task and I try to not spend too much time or energy completing it.

Yes, we get it- you are a laid back dog owner who is too awesome to spend any time thinking about mundane things like trash (ew! smelly!), and everyone else is an uptight ninny with a stick up her ass and a garbage fixation. Seriously, let it go. No one is impressed.

My responses have been WAY less angry and mean and hostile than the other side and I said up front I didn't do this and was just wondering why it was a hot button issue. My feelings about this have NOTHING to do with being a dog owner as I have repeatedly said that all the other things people are throwing out wouldn't bother me anyway. You all just seem to be SUPER resentful of the fact that there are some people out there who really don't think too much about their outdoor trash cans.

[Anonymous]

Because it's stealing.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I put my own dog's poop bags in our own trash. First of all, it stinks. Secondly, the trash guys are sloppy and the poop bag occasionally winds up in the street in front of my house. Other times, the poop bag remains in the bottom of the trash can because they didn't shake it out. I'm pretty sure my neighbors would be upset if that happened to them and they didn't even own a dog.

My trash guys won't empty the whole can into the truck. They pull out the bagged garbage rather than pick up the can so the poop bag stays in the can forever and eventually breaks and the poop gets mixed with rain. It wouldn't bother me if the trash guys emptied the entire can into the truck but that doesn't happen.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Unless you live in an apartment and have to let your dog poop on public property (definitely not private), there is no reason your dog needs to poop while out for a walk. Walk your dog before you feed it or after it has already pooped. The purpose of the walk should be for exercise, not pooping and peeing all over the neighborhood and killing the greenery. The majority of dog walkers I encounter are not exercising their pets. Rather, they are walking at a snail's pace while their dogs pee on everything in sight to mark territory.

You do not have a dog, especially a male dog, if you think you can control when they poop/pee.

+1. That's not how dogs work. Once I learn to speak dog I'll be sure to tell them not to pee or poop in your yard. Fwiw we always pick up our dog poop and dispose of it at our house.

True. One of my dogs hates pooping in our yard and saves it for our walk.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I put my own dog's poop bags in our own trash. First of all, it stinks. Secondly, the trash guys are sloppy and the poop bag occasionally winds up in the street in front of my house. Other times, the poop bag remains in the bottom of the trash can because they didn't shake it out. I'm pretty sure my neighbors would be upset if that happened to them and they didn't even own a dog.

My trash guys won't empty the whole can into the truck. They pull out the bagged garbage rather than pick up the can so the poop bag stays in the can forever and eventually breaks and the poop gets mixed with rain. It wouldn't bother me if the trash guys emptied the entire can into the truck but that doesn't happen.

Pp again - I should add that it just annoys me when people put poop in my can but I don't get white hot angry about it -- which it seems like some of the pps do. I'd be fine with people putting poop in my can if they opened up one of the garbage bags already in there, tucked it inside, and tied it back up.

[Anonymous]

My neighbor won't take her trash can away from the curb after it's been emptied. She leaves it there and carries trash to it from her house. It is ugly. We live in a neighborhood where the homes start at $1.2M.

She is a runner so I don't think she is unable to move the trash car down her long driveway and out of my sight. I just think she's weirdly lazy.

So, she also hates dogs. This thread has given me the bright idea to put my dog poop bags in her trash from now on.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Unless you live in an apartment and have to let your dog poop on public property (definitely not private), there is no reason your dog needs to poop while out for a walk. Walk your dog before you feed it or after it has already pooped. The purpose of the walk should be for exercise, not pooping and peeing all over the neighborhood and killing the greenery. The majority of dog walkers I encounter are not exercising their pets. Rather, they are walking at a snail's pace while their dogs pee on everything in sight to mark territory.

You do not have a dog, especially a male dog, if you think you can control when they poop/pee.

+1. That's not how dogs work. Once I learn to speak dog I'll be sure to tell them not to pee or poop in your yard. Fwiw we always pick up our dog poop and dispose of it at our house.

True. One of my dogs hates pooping in our yard and saves it for our walk.

It's a dog. You train it.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Unless you live in an apartment and have to let your dog poop on public property (definitely not private), there is no reason your dog needs to poop while out for a walk. Walk your dog before you feed it or after it has already pooped. The purpose of the walk should be for exercise, not pooping and peeing all over the neighborhood and killing the greenery. The majority of dog walkers I encounter are not exercising their pets. Rather, they are walking at a snail's pace while their dogs pee on everything in sight to mark territory.

You do not have a dog, especially a male dog, if you think you can control when they poop/pee.

+1. That's not how dogs work. Once I learn to speak dog I'll be sure to tell them not to pee or poop in your yard. Fwiw we always pick up our dog poop and dispose of it at our house.

True. One of my dogs hates pooping in our yard and saves it for our walk.

It's a dog. You train it.

You obviously know nothing about dogs, and I mean Nothing.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Unless you live in an apartment and have to let your dog poop on public property (definitely not private), there is no reason your dog needs to poop while out for a walk. Walk your dog before you feed it or after it has already pooped. The purpose of the walk should be for exercise, not pooping and peeing all over the neighborhood and killing the greenery. The majority of dog walkers I encounter are not exercising their pets. Rather, they are walking at a snail's pace while their dogs pee on everything in sight to mark territory.

You do not have a dog, especially a male dog, if you think you can control when they poop/pee.

+1. That's not how dogs work. Once I learn to speak dog I'll be sure to tell them not to pee or poop in your yard. Fwiw we always pick up our dog poop and dispose of it at our house.

True. One of my dogs hates pooping in our yard and saves it for our walk.

It's a dog. You train it.

Seriously? The dog always poops on the median strip on Pennsylvania Ave where I pick it up immediately and later put it in a public can. You think I need to train her to poop in the yard first? Because of all those people who walk down the median strip who might touch a blade of grass that once had poop on it? Yeah, the National Park Service is always following us around warning us about that.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I put my own dog's poop bags in our own trash. First of all, it stinks. Secondly, the trash guys are sloppy and the poop bag occasionally winds up in the street in front of my house. Other times, the poop bag remains in the bottom of the trash can because they didn't shake it out. I'm pretty sure my neighbors would be upset if that happened to them and they didn't even own a dog.

My trash guys won't empty the whole can into the truck. They pull out the bagged garbage rather than pick up the can so the poop bag stays in the can forever and eventually breaks and the poop gets mixed with rain. It wouldn't bother me if the trash guys emptied the entire can into the truck but that doesn't happen.

Pp again - I should add that it just annoys me when people put poop in my can but I don't get white hot angry about it -- which it seems like some of the pps do. I'd be fine with people putting poop in my can if they opened up one of the garbage bags already in there, tucked it inside, and tied it back up.

Do you honestly think that someone lazy and inconsiderate enough to put poop in your can is going to open up an existing bag and tie it back up? Dream on!

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:at this point i'm sure OP is just trolling to get reactions and not taking any answers seriously.

That's not true. That's why my last post was more of a just, I guess some people just care and some don't. Like the PP who asked if I had noted the exploding bag problem for example...I get that I suppose but once again I have said how I never even look in my trash can really, so while yes that is gross, I don't think I'd notice if it happened to me. The concept of washing my trash can out is like...I have never washed a trash can out. The city provides them where I live, I use them to put the trash out, I put them back. There is really no time in my life I spend looking inside an empty trash can and speculating on the source of smells. Its a dirty task and I try to not spend too much time or energy completing it.

Yes, we get it- you are a laid back dog owner who is too awesome to spend any time thinking about mundane things like trash (ew! smelly!), and everyone else is an uptight ninny with a stick up her ass and a garbage fixation. Seriously, let it go. No one is impressed.

My responses have been WAY less angry and mean and hostile than the other side and I said up front I didn't do this and was just wondering why it was a hot button issue. My feelings about this have NOTHING to do with being a dog owner as I have repeatedly said that all the other things people are throwing out wouldn't bother me anyway. You all just seem to be SUPER resentful of the fact that there are some people out there who really don't think too much about their outdoor trash cans.

Wait, I'm confused. So you're saying you DON'T think about your outdoor trash cans? I just want to make sure your position is clear.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Unless you live in an apartment and have to let your dog poop on public property (definitely not private), there is no reason your dog needs to poop while out for a walk. Walk your dog before you feed it or after it has already pooped. The purpose of the walk should be for exercise, not pooping and peeing all over the neighborhood and killing the greenery. The majority of dog walkers I encounter are not exercising their pets. Rather, they are walking at a snail's pace while their dogs pee on everything in sight to mark territory.

You do not have a dog, especially a male dog, if you think you can control when they poop/pee.

+1. That's not how dogs work. Once I learn to speak dog I'll be sure to tell them not to pee or poop in your yard. Fwiw we always pick up our dog poop and dispose of it at our house.

True. One of my dogs hates pooping in our yard and saves it for our walk.

It's a dog. You train it.

You obviously know nothing about dogs, and I mean Nothing.

I've been able to train dogs to do this for over 20 years. It's really not difficult if you pay attention to cues and set boundaries.

[Anonymous]

Only leave flaming bags of dog poop on the doorsteps of people who don't want you to use their cans. Problem solved.

[Anonymous]

Pride of ownership extends to trashcans