Pick Up Poop Bags

Nunchucks

In my neighborhood many dogs poop on my lawn (some on leash, some off) and the majority of handlers pick up after them. I still don't like it given the residue that remains. If I see it happening I open the door and ask, "Excuse me, but do you let your dog do its business on your OWN lawn!?" Last week a young woman watched as her leashless dog ran up on the lawn and let fly with a pretty good mound. The clueless owner looked around for a few moments as if to see who might be watching and then casually walked away. It was caught on a webcam as I await her return!

I see poop bags, new and months old, on pretty much every trail in Santa Barbara. I think most dog owners are fine but some just don't care about properly disposing of it. They are happy to leave poop bags everywhere.

id love it if people did this also. I mean you bagged it...... you allllllmost followed through, just one more step.

The Poop Bag People clearly aren’t thinking things through. By the same logic it should be OK to put an empty beer can or a dirty diaper in a brown bag, tie it up and leave it on the ground.

I try look at the positive side, that usually people who do this are intending to get the bag on their way back and just forget. I have done this at Hendry's a number of times, so now I draw a big line in the sand to remind myself. I am immune to the side effects of carrying a full bag by volunteering at the local shelters- there is so much poo there that you just stop caring about the smell. So recommend this to the people that are offended by the pearls dropping out of their precious pups. If you are intentionally leaving these bags behind and don't intend to pick them up, it is littering subject to a high fine. In some countries in Europe, they are willing to do DNA testing on the poo to prove it is from your dog. I think that was usually done to unbagged droppings though.

It is important that those who don't have dogs know that the majority of those with dogs who walk those areas, myself included, bag our dog's poop and leave at the side of the trail , not under people's feet, and are responsible owners taking our dog on good runs without having to carry crap around with us. We pick the poop up on the way back and throw in the garbage. But we are often there for at least an hour or so giving them and ourselves good exercize. Many of us, including myself, pick up more than one bag of poop because we understand when someone forgets and there isn't one of us that hasn't forgotten. If we all didn't care and just left all of our dogs' poop there, you would see close to 100 bags a day which is absolutely never near the case. Tons of people take their dogs there regularly and the fact that the trail isn't filled with bags shows you most of throw them away and most of the ones you are see are people still on the trail or beach who haven't come back yet. If people really didn't care, you'd just see tons of dog poop not even in a bag. Now, what should we do about the bike riders there who ride too quickly through walkers and who do the jumps and hills so fast that they come out onto the trails almost hitting walkers they do see until they are on the other side flying 100 miles an hour?

I hate it when I see abandoned poop bags. I've seen them with in feet of public trash cans. I live downtown and walk all over the place with my dog. Never leave the apartment without poop bags and paper towels in case the challenging poop. And I farging carry my bags till I find a garbage can. Sheesh!

This is the same mentality as wearing a mask below the nose.

What I find real disgusting is when I'm at the beach with someones dog off leash taking a shit and the owner is either not paying attention are doesn't give a f***.

Welcome to north LA...should have kept it 90 miles away

Dog walkers drop the bag on the side of the trail. With the plan to pick it up on the way back. The system works. Sometimes people forget to grab the bag on the walk back.

The solution is the City/County should out more trash can along the paths, on the Douglas Preserve, etc. Then people will be less inclined to drop their bag if they only have to walk a short while to a trash can. Right now, trash cans are often miles apart.

If this really seriously bothers you, just carry a large bag and collect the small poop bags. It won't hurt a lot. It will then allow you to feel superior.

When you go backpacking, it is considered proper etiquette to dig a cat hole for the waste, and carry the soiled paper with you for proper disposal. Sometimes that can be for more than a day. If my dog poops, I put it in a little bag - sometimes two for a good seal - and carry it with me for proper disposal. Leaving it by the side of the trail is very easy to forget, and being in a plastic bag, it won't ever even degrade and you're also adding plastic to the environment. No snarkers, not saying don't put it in a bag; I'm saying carry it with you. Your dog, your responsibility.

Homeowners don't exactly appreciate people putting the smelly bags into their trash cans, either, so I think the proper etiquette is to carry the output from Precious back to your house. The only time I will do it is if Marborg is coming to pick up that day.

At least if you just kick it into a hedge, the poop biodegrades. But encased in a plastic bag leaves this forever when you dump it behind. Even worse is dumping the plastic poop bag in someone's green waste can which the owner then has to fish out before the green waste truck comes. At first I thought it was just few clueless persons who dump their plastic poop bags, but the reports are now universal. What goes on in their brains - virtue-signal by picking up the poop; then their brain short-circuits by dumping the poop bag for someone else to clean up. What else do people like that do in the rest of their lives, if this is their inbred value system?

I agree with "The idea of bagging it and leaving it "for later" is still not OK. its your trash, take it with you."

It's also NOT OK to put the bag in someone else's trash can where it could sit and stink for up to a week.

It’s simple: Dog owners should never “leave it to get later” because they obviously forget! Or bags of poop are falling from the sky. Trash it in a Marborg trash bin. Simple.

When I see them "hidden" for alleged later pick up, I put it back in the middle of the sidewalk so they don't forget. And they never come back to pick them up. Agree, it is your poop. Keep it under your control at all times. Or at least kick it raaw into the hedges were it can bio-degrade, rather than entombed forever in plastic.

Your dog, your poo, my yard is not your loo.