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

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Op here. This thread has answered my question. There appears to simply be two types of people in this world. Those who care about the state of their trash can and those who don't. No one has given an example of something that, if put in my trash can, would bother me. It amazes me that people even care about a 7/11 coffee cup!

I suppose one of the things both sides has to live with is the existence of the other side...

Why wouldn't you care about someone's dog poop making your whole garage smell like poop, especially in the summer? It's part of your house. I don't understand why that wouldn't matter to you. My garage doesn't usually smell with regular garbage in there, but it always smells like poop when there is dog poop there. What is wrong with your nose that this wouldn't matter?

I said in an earlier pp that I don't have a garage and when I was a kid we didn't keep our trash cans in the garage because no one liked the smell of any trash. I think the garage issue is real, but not in my neighborhood.

Okay, now you've issued a challenge. Are you okay with all of these:

1. Used hypodermic needles
2. Used condoms.
3. Used tampons or pads
4. A dead animal.
5. That animal is a skunk.
6. (I deleted this one because it was too sad.)
7. An American flag.

I mean hey, it's just garbage.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:OP, I get that you are a dog person and apparently not all that grossed out by dog poop. However, how would you feel if some random person put stinky diapers in your trash? Would you like having your trash can smell like baby poo? When it is not your baby?

I legitimately wouldn't care because I feel like the grand total of time I spend near my trash can smelling is is like, at the absolute max like a minute or two a week. That's why I'm confused, I don't spend anywhere near enough time next to my outdoor trash can to even contemplate what specific products are producing what specific smells. I kind of have a hard time imagine the person who does.

LOL. You must have been raised to not mind the 2 minutes of bad smell per week. I prefer to not smell any gross smells from the trash can. And so, I double and triple bag things. I freeze things like bones, skins etc., that can stinkup the trashcan, in a ziplock bag and take it out on trash day. I rinse out my trash can with a hose and dry it before taking it inside the garage.

And I would be very offended if someone threw their dog poop in my trash. Now, if they double bagged it, put it in a ziplock bag and then put in a contractor grade trashbag and tied it so that not even one wiff of stench escaped, I would allow them to put in my trashcan when it was out on the curb, before the trash was picked, on trash pick up day.

Oh, and then I would also expect them to rinse out my trash can and Lysol it.

That's a lot of ziplocs to avoid a smell.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:OP, I get that you are a dog person and apparently not all that grossed out by dog poop. However, how would you feel if some random person put stinky diapers in your trash? Would you like having your trash can smell like baby poo? When it is not your baby?

I legitimately wouldn't care because I feel like the grand total of time I spend near my trash can smelling is is like, at the absolute max like a minute or two a week. That's why I'm confused, I don't spend anywhere near enough time next to my outdoor trash can to even contemplate what specific products are producing what specific smells. I kind of have a hard time imagine the person who does.

LOL. You must have been raised to not mind the 2 minutes of bad smell per week. I prefer to not smell any gross smells from the trash can. And so, I double and triple bag things. I freeze things like bones, skins etc., that can stinkup the trashcan, in a ziplock bag and take it out on trash day. I rinse out my trash can with a hose and dry it before taking it inside the garage.

And I would be very offended if someone threw their dog poop in my trash. Now, if they double bagged it, put it in a ziplock bag and then put in a contractor grade trashbag and tied it so that not even one wiff of stench escaped, I would allow them to put in my trashcan when it was out on the curb, before the trash was picked, on trash pick up day.

Oh, and then I would also expect them to rinse out my trash can and Lysol it.

That's a lot of ziplocs to avoid a smell.

Yup. I know. Please note that I also want them to wash and lysol the trash can after that.

If they agreed to all my conditions around trash can usage, I would let them use it, if they mowed my lawn for free during summer.

[Anonymous]

Haven't read all the posts but for me it's more than just the smell. Our trash can is situated in such a way that the trash collectors only remove the bags, they don't dump the can into the back of the truck. Bags of dog poop and other random items that are not in the large trash bags collect int the can the. I have to clean it. It's disgusting and I don't want to clean up after you.

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Dog owner here. You don't put things in other people's trash cans. And if someone isn't careful about dog poop disposal, it does get on the inside of the can and the owner of the can has to smell it/wash it.

I carry my well-wrapped poop home to dispose of - occasionally in my purse!

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Op here. This thread has answered my question. There appears to simply be two types of people in this world. Those who care about the state of their trash can and those who don't. No one has given an example of something that, if put in my trash can, would bother me. It amazes me that people even care about a 7/11 coffee cup!

I suppose one of the things both sides has to live with is the existence of the other side...

Why wouldn't you care about someone's dog poop making your whole garage smell like poop, especially in the summer? It's part of your house. I don't understand why that wouldn't matter to you. My garage doesn't usually smell with regular garbage in there, but it always smells like poop when there is dog poop there. What is wrong with your nose that this wouldn't matter?

I said in an earlier pp that I don't have a garage and when I was a kid we didn't keep our trash cans in the garage because no one liked the smell of any trash. I think the garage issue is real, but not in my neighborhood.

Okay, now you've issued a challenge. Are you okay with all of these:

1. Used hypodermic needles
2. Used condoms.
3. Used tampons or pads
4. A dead animal.
5. That animal is a skunk.
6. (I deleted this one because it was too sad.)
7. An American flag.

I mean hey, it's just garbage.

The American flag would be illegal and so that would upset me since I could be held accountable for your crime. The animal bothers me in theory I suppose but unless it was a skunk I honestly don't think I'd notice unless it was a skunk. Skunk smell you can literally smell for miles so is legitimately in a different category. The other ones don't bother me.

[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.

Bull! I speak from experience. My dogs have all died, but I used to walk my very large male and female dogs 45 minutes every morning before I fed them and again in the evening for another 45. Plus, I used to work for a boarding kennel and have cared for hundreds of dogs. Dogs are like babies, and a dog who eats on a schedule will poop on a schedule. You shouldn't free feed. Look it up. It's a fundamental step in house training.

And, yes, you can absolutely train dogs not to urinate all over the neighborhood. Make sure your dog poops and/or pees before you leave your property or the designated public area, and then go for your walk. Keep its head up with an appropriate restraint, making sure it's alert, and move briskly. Don't walk slowly, letting your dog sniff every bush. If you mosey and continuously stop to check your phone, of course the dog is going to mark. When you stop to cross the street, command the dog to sit, so it doesn't pee. The goal of a walk is to drain energy, and it's the owner's responsibility to discipline through setting boundaries. The dog will get more out of the walk.

The majority of dog owners lack common sense and don't understand dog behavior.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Op here. This thread has answered my question. There appears to simply be two types of people in this world. Those who care about the state of their trash can and those who don't. No one has given an example of something that, if put in my trash can, would bother me. It amazes me that people even care about a 7/11 coffee cup!

I suppose one of the things both sides has to live with is the existence of the other side...

Why wouldn't you care about someone's dog poop making your whole garage smell like poop, especially in the summer? It's part of your house. I don't understand why that wouldn't matter to you. My garage doesn't usually smell with regular garbage in there, but it always smells like poop when there is dog poop there. What is wrong with your nose that this wouldn't matter?

Some people are just dirty and don't care.

[Anonymous]

OP, did you read the numerous posts that state that those little bags often don't get dumped by the garbage collectors, and then they remain in the bottom of the can? And often they break open and the poo gets all over the bottom of the can, which I'm sure even you can admit is disgusting and should not be the resposibility of the can owner to clean out? It's really not that hard to understand.

[Anonymous]

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

[Anonymous]

My issue is that a lot of time the trash guys just grab the trash bags, instead of dumping the bin in the truck, so the dog bags stay behind and smell everything up.

Disgusting.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Op here. This thread has answered my question. There appears to simply be two types of people in this world. Those who care about the state of their trash can and those who don't. No one has given an example of something that, if put in my trash can, would bother me. It amazes me that people even care about a 7/11 coffee cup!

I suppose one of the things both sides has to live with is the existence of the other side...

This thread has answered my question. There appears to simply be two types of people in this world. Those who welcome the poop of strangers on their property and its smell in their homes and those who don't. No one has given an example of someone else's poop that, if I had to wash it out of my trash can, would not totally disgust me. It amazes me that other people don't even care about stranger's poop their can!

I suppose one of the things both sides have to live with is the existence of the other side...

[Anonymous]

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.

[Anonymous]

So can I empty my Diaper Genie in someone else's trash can then? That would be awesome!

[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.