Dog $hit rant

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Ok, can we please stop with the hatred of dogs and dog owners? Maybe there are less responsible dog owners in the district, but where I live people clean up after their dogs and no one goes around ranting about how evil and gross the animals are. I am sorry that this happened to you OP, people should clean up after their dogs (and contrary to the belief of this forum, a majority of them do!)but the intolerance towards dogs and their owners is just as disgusting. Please don't raise you children to harbor this much contempt towards animals and their owners.

Yes poop is gross, I was a preschool teacher I have cleaned up other people's children who were covered in poop! That is kinda the job, kids are messy and they get into messy things-I had a whole class once obsessed with animal poop so we made identification cards- deer poop, raccoon poop (looks surprisingly like dog poop!) when my class stepped in this kind of poop I couldn't to blame the animals or the park ranger for not keeping them off our playground, and definitely not the kids. I sorta would hope moms to be like us preschool teachers, when things get crazy and messy you have to laugh it off and roll with it, instead of going on a dog hating tirade and buying overpriced floor mats.

NP. it isn't about dogs. it's about the lazy, entitled, self-absorbed dog owners who aren't considerate enough to clean up their dog's sh$t. It's about the fact that these stupid dog owners don't care that someone, a child, an adult, another dog, will step onto that dog sh$t. And it's the fact that you can't go a single day without seeing some dog sh$t on the ground. It's disgusting and offensive. You're asking people to laugh off the laziness and offensiveness of these dog owners? There's no parallel with your preschool kids or to raccoons who poop - they don't know better. Same can't be said for those dog owners who don't pick up their dog's sh$t. They're just rude and inconsiderate.

I never said it wasn't rude for dog owners to leave shit, chill out. It is the rage that I am uncomfortable with, it is inconsiderate but it shouldn't affect the way you see and treat EVERY dog owner and every dog. I likened it to my preschool experience because quite literally- shit happens but it doesn't mean you should lose your cool and act like an ass.

OP here. I'm mostly over this last shit, because it was fairly dry and cleaned up relatively easily. The shit that prompted the $130 expenditure was far worse.

But Pre-School teacher PP, what you're saying is just wild. It's great that you have a positive attitude toward the excrement of all species. Although, unlike you, I would seriously discourage children from handling it for health reasons, your willingness to cheerfully clean anything that comes out of any orifice from anyone/anything, at anytime, and anywhere is laudable. As a mom, I clean what I must, but when someone deliberately takes advantage of this, I'd say it's quite reasonable to be pissed.

I like dogs well enough at a distance and appreciate that they bring joy to a lot of people. But I absolutely do think dog owners simply fail to notice the extent of the biological byproducts their animals produce. The hair, the smells, the sliminess-- there's a lot that they don't notice and what they do notice doesn't bother them. I can't imagine that the poop my kid stepped in wasn't noticed, but I do imagine the owner/ walker thought it wasn't a big deal because dogs are so cute and everyone loves them. I think it's something of a PSA to let dog people know how profoundly gross contact with their animals and the stuff that oozes out of them (or is shed off of them) can be for those of us who choose not to keep animals. Please, all of you, make sure your pets and their biological byproducts don't get "all up in our business" (I like that-- thanks!)

[Anonymous]

Preschool poster here, I never said cleaning up poop, vomit and blood was fun but it was part of the job. Handling it with grace is the part that is hard and that is what hope parents try to do as well. I used to say to the kids "it isn't fun unless you get messy!". Of course we tried to encourage children not to touch animal poop but I think you know how it goes, 4 year old walks up with poo in hand and I have to role with it! I am sorry the dog owners in your neighborhood suck OP. Bottom line they should be cleaning up after their dogs.

[Anonymous]

I feel for you OP, it's just plain gross and rude.

That said, I do see the kid/dog parallels, though not just in the poop arena. =D Parents of poorly behaved kids often defend their lack of parenting by saying "they're KIDS, that's what they DO" when little Buford is crawling under tables at restaurants or shrieking in the movie theatre, thereby putting the onus on the rest of us to just deal with it. How many parents have kids who have trashed/semi-trashed/disrupted a display in a store, a book shelf at the library, the table at a restaurant but don't bother to tidy up? Instead they hustle out the door leaving the mess for others to deal with. Pet parents do the same. They let their dogs bark for hours on end and then say, "That's DOGS, they BARK" when someone complains. Or they leave their dog poo around for others to deal with or clean up, hustling away from the steaming pile in a cowardly, entitled fashion.

Both parties are wrong, lazy, and inconsiderate.

[Anonymous]

The worst are the individuals who bring their dogs to our gorgeous new turf field, next to an elementary school on Capitol Hill, in the early morning hours to let them run off leash and poop. I have brought my kids to play soccer at this field and seen giant piles. I saw on a neighborhood blog that someone confronted the owner and they cursed back at them.

How absolutely horrifying for you, poor delicate soul.

grow up. you live in a world with dogs. don't like it? move far far into the woods. pretend that dogs don't exist.

but until you do that, we all live together. i have to deal with your snotty, loud, rude, kid? you deal with my dog.

[Anonymous]

Ellsworth Colbert, are you on this thread?

District man believed dog soiled lawn before fatal stabbing
http://www.washingtonpost.com/local/crime/district-man-believed-neighbors-dog-soiled-lawn-before-fatally-stabbing-friend/2012/03/15/gIQArphFFS_story.html

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

The worst are the individuals who bring their dogs to our gorgeous new turf field, next to an elementary school on Capitol Hill, in the early morning hours to let them run off leash and poop. I have brought my kids to play soccer at this field and seen giant piles. I saw on a neighborhood blog that someone confronted the owner and they cursed back at them.

How absolutely horrifying for you, poor delicate soul.

grow up. you live in a world with dogs. don't like it? move far far into the woods. pretend that dogs don't exist.

but until you do that, we all live together. i have to deal with your snotty, loud, rude, kid? you deal with my dog.

You are a very understanding person.

Maybe you could provide the PP with your location so she can bring her snotty, loud, rude kid over to crap on your lawn? It doesn't sound like you would mind, being so tolerant. Kids puke sometimes; maybe you'd also be OK with the kid puking and mom not cleaning it up? I hope this doesn't make you want to move far into the woods, where there are no kids.

Seriously, you are so tolerant--I wish everyone could be so understanding. I like dogs, but when I step in a pile of shit on my front lawn or in a public park, I want to find the owner and rub her freaking stupid face in it. I wish I could be as zen as you.

[Anonymous]

This is NOT a difficult problem to solve, at all.

1.) Take a picture of the happening.

2.) Be willing to submit the dog crap for DNA testing - commonplace these days. Be willing to pay for the testing. Less than $100. is nothing compared to the alternative.

3.) You can easily prove who and which dog.

4.) The party can be cited for not picking up in certain jurisdictions. Multiple offenses= worse fines and worse punishments.

This is not a big deal. There are plenty of antisocial people who want to put their responsibility on you. That is their problem. Make it their problem.

[Anonymous]

This is NOT a difficult problem to solve, at all.

1.) Take a picture of the happening.

2.) Be willing to submit the dog crap for DNA testing - commonplace these days. Be willing to pay for the testing. Less than $100. is nothing compared to the alternative.

3.) You can easily prove who and which dog.

4.) The party can be cited for not picking up in certain jurisdictions. Multiple offenses= worse fines and worse punishments.

This is not a big deal. There are plenty of antisocial people who want to put their responsibility on you. That is their problem. Make it their problem.

You can't prove "who and which dog" using DNA unless you have a sample of the dog's DNA to compare your results to.

[Anonymous]

DNA from the dog crap, idiot.

If you don't want someone to fine you, then pick up after your dog.

What these idiots don't realize is that by not picking up, they are screwing themselves.

Easy.

[Anonymous]

There are MANY companies making big money from these DNA tests. The tests are extremely accurate. I think it is a great idea. I would bet it was started from someone just like op. I guess you shouldn't p*ss off the wrong person.

You can call them crazy, I call them smart. They are profiting off people like the lazy ones who think they are making some sort of statement refusing to pick up. The statement, in reality, is I'm a dumb a**.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:


DNA from the dog crap, idiot.

If you don't want someone to fine you, then pick up after your dog.

What these idiots don't realize is that by not picking up, they are screwing themselves.

Easy.

Since we're apparently calling people idiots, you may wish to rethink your assertion that DNA from the dog crap is the only sample required before we come after you with more much-deserved name-calling.

Anyway, I'm OP, the dog crap was in a public space either on a sidewalk or in a tree box in one of the most densely populated parts of the city, and unless all the dogs from all the households within maybe a mile radius had DNA profiles on file, this just wouldn't give us any information we could use.

I hear that some smaller communities, like suburban home owners' associations, are starting to ask for DNA samples from registered dogs. This seems like a great idea to me, but there's no way it would get enough public support around here and it would really be a huge undertaking.

[Anonymous]

I totally agree that people who leave dog crap around are lazy idiots. I have a dog and I always carry a backup roll of bags attached to my leash to make sure that I can always pick up after her. I do think that the vast majority of dog owners are very responsible. I most situations it is just a few bad apples who ruin it for everyone.

I also think that this kind of behavior is not limited to dog owners. I was out at a restaurant with my SIL and my niece and my 18 month-old niece made a complete mess, a huge amount of food all over the floor around her highchair. When we were leaving my SIL just picked up my niece and started to leave the restaurant. She is normally a nice person and I couldn't believe that she was planning to leave this huge mess for someone else to clean up. I asked the waitress for some towels and cleaned up most of the mess myself. Again, most people would clean up after themselves, but it only takes a few self-centered people to leave a place a gross mess.

[Anonymous]

You can INDEED match it without having it on file. I will not tell you how because well, you are not the type of person I would want having this information.

Hence the label idiot, I suppose.