Well, with us, or maybe with my dog. But I guess I have to take the responsibility.
What do you suppose these signs say? Yep. Those are "Clean Up After Your Dog" signs. The one has been in the lot next to us for a couple of years now. I sort of wondered why they decided to put it up next to my house but decided that since the signs had been put up here and there around the neighborhood that no one was targeting me. But the second one...
This was nailed up on a tree directly across from my front door last week. Do you think someone is trying to tell me something?Let me defend myself. I DO clean up after my dog and always have! Tetsu and I take Choco for a walk at least twice a day and I carry a little shovel with me when we go. Our walk route is along the fields and in the forest and we rarely walk within the neighborhood just because all the dogs make so much racket when we go by. When Choco does her business I dig a hole at the side of the road or in the forest and bury it. I do not just leave a pile for someone to step in. If Choco left a present in front of someone's house, obviously I'm not going to dig in their garden, I'd take it home; but since we're out in fields... However, someone doesn't think burying is enough. I'm supposed to carry piles home with me, thus the signs.
Ok, ok. I admit, I haven't been carrying my bag along with my shovel. I shall change my ways. Obviously there are different whistles we feel we need to blow. I get burned up about people who leave plastic bottles and cans along the roadside. Dog waste, well, that will eventually go back to Mother Earth. But others find my lack of sensitivity to the situation unforgivable so now I've got signs staring at me.Choco and I want to be good citizens so I have a nice little bag now to carry on my walks and I hope my neighbors will forgive me.
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Oh my -- though I have to agree with you about simply burying it if you are in fields and forest areas. It won't harm the soil -- might even help it.
I wish they'd put some of these signs around Paris, try convincing people to clean up after their dogs.
I echo what Tonya says - France was worse than the UK and that's bad enough. I think you're probably more environmentally friendly burying it than putting a plastic bag in your rubbish bin and it going to infill sites or incinerators. It might be nice if people said something politely and pleasantly to your face if they have a problem with it rather than sticking signs up so pointedly!
Have to laugh, sometimes people here put the "filled" bag hanging from the dog's collar. EW!
I have a little plastic case that holds a small roll of biodegradable bags and hangs on the lead. It does two thing - never lets me forget a bag and is very visable to all the neighbors! I got it at Petsmart in the states...
Sorry someone has decided to make you and Choco their target...
France (well the Dordogne - well Perigueux actually) is beginning to clean up its act LOL. Doggy dustbins with plastic bags placed in strategic places and special street cleaning scooters with a pooper scooper which sucks up said mess and then sprays the smelly spot with air freshener. Funny to watch, but a good idea.
Oh, how I'd love to have one of those signs to put on my neighbor's fence! Their two BIG dogs do their thing on our lawn several times a week.
So what's the big deal about burying the do-do out in the woods? Sounds like a good idea to me.
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