General Chat

The parasite that can, sometimes, cause blindness, is roundworm.

Our vet had a theory that intestinal worms might be necessary and the great prevalence in human intestinal cancer was due to the lack of intestinal worms.

Earthworms eat barkers eggs. It doesn't hang about long on the ground.

I think we may be back to square one Maggie. If it is left there, others may tread in it. If that became the general consensus we would be knee high in it, judging by the increase in dog ownership.

My dad called horse dung 'doofers', because it will 'doofer' the garden.

In the New Forest, dog owners are requested not to bag dog poo and leave it hanging in trees (long degradation).
If you're too lazy to pick it up and take it to your car (no dog poo bins), much better to leave it on the ground for the dung beetles.

Roger that, Ann, Dermot.

Thankfully we don't get many 'Orses round our way, OR keen gardeners ;-)

(pictures man in flat cap armed with bucket n spade lurkin in the bushes waiting for a wayward 'Orse)
:-D

It seems that irresponsible dog walkers believe they can do what they like, particularly when nobody is looking & little will be done about it.

I would never have needed to clean up my horse's poo Bob. The local gardeners had always removed it by the time I came back. :-) You say it's messy, but it's easier to get off your shoes than dog or cat poo and doesn't have the health risks as has been said. Also, it's more visible so you are not as likely to step in it. The worst areas for dog poo around here are the nature trails. Some people are only responsible when they can be seen I expect. :-S

Quite likely, we do,


but .......... but its just as messy on your carpet


I thought that it was just inconvenient to get off the 'igh 'Orse to clear up.......

Because horse poo doesn't carry parasites that can blind people, Bob. That's why people should clean up after their dogs - or cats for that matter.

'The most dangerous liars are those who think they are telling the truth'.

why is it considered ok to let yer 'orse do what it likes, where it likes with no recrimination?

talking of which

some time ago, I was sort of reliably informed that when"travellers" peg their 'orses out on a chain/rope the 'orse will eat the grass first, around the perimeter of the circle, and THEN, that will be his pooing area . leaving the inner part clean, for eating...

???? was I being told a porky? I wonder.......

This is developing into a very informative & educational thread.

We live near several FC forests and when walking there we often see poo bags hanging from trees. We are on the committee for our local community woodland and our advice is to "stick & flick" off the paths and into the trees (making sure it is into a place where nobody will walk), where it can degrade along with the fox and deer poo.

People really should clear up after their dogs when walking in fields. Dog poo contains substances that if ingested by cattle (and research is also showing probably by sheep) can cause them to abort. Even if there are no animals in the field, the grass may be used as animal feed.

We always clean up after our dogs in the park and one of our dogs cleans up after humans - she collects the plastic bottles left lying around so we can put them in the bin.

I did read on another thread somewhere. somebody said that if they are going for a circular walk they often hang the poo bag on a branch and collect it on the way back. My thought was..... How do they know which bag is theirs?

Out area on the pavements is not too bad at the moment, the Parish council did have a big purge which seems to have eliminated most of it. don't know about footpaths off road though.

However, the UK practically smells of roses when compared to pavements in Tenerife where they don't seem to be able to stamp out the problem. The South being worse than the North but both not good. And Spain wasn't too good either when we visited last year.

I'm glad to see ( and I didn't think I'd be googling THIS today lol) that there are suppliers of biodegradeable bags made of natural ingredients which will compost in as little as 45 days :-)

I am amazed that some form of -- chemical Sprinkle--hasnt been done that if caught out while walking a dog it could at least disvolve the nasty mess or kill off the nasties it carries .......why are dog owners reluctant to use their own bins to dispose of their dogs dirt,,,,,,,,and want councils to provide bins and pay someone to empty them....dog owners wouldnt want the smelly nasty job,,,,,the good responsible dog owners outweigh by far the thoughless ones.

Exactly Rose :-D

I am always amazed when I see little bags of poo left in hedges, gutters etc. FFS either don't pick it up at all, or take it home and put in your own dustbin if there are no bins on your walk :-S

Following on from Graham and Dermot....In environmental terms, when walking dogs in the countryside at least or area where people don't go much, isn't the dog poo much less of an issue than the plastic bags to put it in ? One degrades quite quickly the other will be there for hundreds of years.

You could always hang the bags in trees, like everybody else ;-) :-D

You have a bin at home, don't you?

It's no good bagging dog poo if we don't have bins to dump the waste.