Elsa and I are just back from the park where we had to watch almost every step we took due to the huge amount of dog shit everywhere. Honestly! This has been a problem forever but it definitely seems to be getting worse. What are people thinking? Maybe they think that with everything else going on in our world, “what’s a little shit?” How about this? On our small slice normalcy (out for a walk), it would be nice not to have to step over dog crap.
I get it, everyone forgets, runs out or misses a bit once in a while. But COME ON PEOPLE! I have on occasion run out of bags; frantically scouring the depths of my walking pouch to no avail. I’m horrified when it happens but I will return, and I do. I get in the car, go home and come back with bags to pick it up. No I’m not a dog shit hero, I just have integrity and know right from wrong.
I have also picked what others leave behind. I use to run my dogs at a field beside a school and cringed at the idea of people not pick up where kids were guaranteed to be walking. There was a garbage can right at the gate so I’d pick up what other k9 guardians left behind and toss it. I do not appreciate having to pick up after others; in fact it pisses me off big time but it is the right thing to do.
These days there is too much to pick up. AND don’t tell me you ALL don’t have bags. Most parks and paths have poop bags dispensers; but you cannot rely on that, you have to carry your own. I almost always have several rolls in my walking pouch (that is unless I run out). I try to check my supply before heading out and I keep a good stack of them at home. There is no reason not to have bags with you; whether you buy them or grab a few extra from the dispensers, keep them on you. I have a roll in my car, a couple in my pouch and even keep a few in my training pouch for when clients forget theirs when we are out training in public.
I just got a new supply of poop bags from ED Ellen Degeneres (www.edbyellen.com) at HomeGoods the other day. As far as I’m concerned the cost of poop bags is an essential item when you have dogs. I know many folks who think that purchasing poop bags is not something they want to do but everyone that lives with dogs should.
I’m tired of writing and talking about YOU who don’t pick up shit. You know who you are because you don’t pick it up. You are one of those who pretend not to notice that your dog is taking a dump, the one who scours the park to see if anyone witnessed before walking away. You are the night walker who thinks it’s okay to leave it in the night, a cloak of secretive darkness. Nope, not okay to leave it. And you know who you are because you are the irresponsible one who lives dog shit lying around for others to deal with.
I don’t care what your excuse it, it is just that, an excuse. Stop making excuses and PICK THAT SHIT UP.
Don’t want to pick up shit? Don’t get a dog.
It is as simple as that.