They are inconsiderate.

I can understand laziness on a park trail but I'm in a subdivision with houses crammed tightly together and people let their dogs out to walk themselves in here to poop and piss everywhere in people's yards and to dig up stuff in their (my) garden. It is this type of person that really gets me steamed. Makes me want to go into their house and take a dump on their living room floor.

You can join the conversation on the Animal Debates forum.

Here is a link that might be useful: Picking up after your dogs

It's laziness and ignorance.

We just had this conversation with one of our neighbors who rides his bike through the neighborhood and lets his dog go in people's yard. We were walking our pups and Amos went in the road (even though he had gone in our potty yard just before leaving). DH picked it up and put it in the bag we carry with us. The neighbor said, "Who do you think would care?" DH and I both said, " We do, we don't appreciate people letting their dogs go in our yard or in front of our house. We'd appreciate the owner cleaning it up!" DH and this guy are friends and play tennis together all the time. Somehow he hasn't gotten the numerous hints. BTW, his dog is very well behaved and stays right with him, even not on a leash, but I have seen her dump a couple of times on the road. I think next time, I will give him a baggie!

We live in a smal condo complex and most people pick up after their dogs, but soem do not, which frustrates me. Yrs back, grew up in a smal cdn city. My dadf acvtually made the paper because he picked up after our dog!,lol A neighbor who wrote a weekly piece for the newspaper, mentioned that he was one of a few who picked up the mess and gave him a big bravo zulu! lol I just got an aewsome deal on Ebay for dog bags!! 1000 dog bags (good size, scented, handles) for like $26 including shipping!! Was paying $10 for 100 at Petsmart!

I frequently find giant turds right in the middle of the sidewalk and I know who's doing it. This lady and her husband come over from the next sub over and let their dogs poop in front of our sub then leave it there. At the very least can you not just kick the turd off the sidewalk for goodness sakes? I've been in situations where I thought my boys were empty and didn't have any baggies or paper or anything and if it's right in someones yard I kick it into the storm drain at least or we go right home and I drive back and get it.

Yes....got caught recently w/out anything (I use a few sheets of newspaper; rolled up prior to use makes the dog-free hand feel engaged lol). Found a damp piece of junk mail to use, then when darling Lola had a rare second round, thanks to a dry food meal, I helped myself to the plastic sleeve off a newspaper delivery. It wasn't raining and I figured the householder would rather be turd-free, if indeed they thought at all. A lot of houses here have paling fences along the front and the public areas are demarcated. Some folk maintain that area and others never see past the fence. Loll chose one of the neat ones. Dung beetles most months of the year do good work on breaking down neglected poos. We are actively discouraged from allowing this material into the storm drain system. I guess only a few times a year does a dog poo in our front garden area....now that my dear ex-neighbour is ex and her dog passed on. 'Not my dog!'
Sorry to ramble, I don't know the answer to the question!

I don't understand, I thought it was the law to pick up after your pet. Here in Calgary, it is, and I have never seen anyone break it yet. We very rarely see animal piles anywhere around here.

Maybe some new by-laws are in order, then for a while, have a "By-Law Bob" keep an eye on things for a while. Once people are made an example of, other law breakers are usually more compliant.

Laziness.

In our community it has been cause for a VOTE as to whether or not to allow dogs on the beach between Memorial Day and Labor Day.

Very sad, because it ruins a good time for those of us who are willing to pick up dog crap. sigh

quirky, that's the point. There's nothing stopping the US from copying Canada for once :D. Canada has their messy, inconsiderate pet owners as much as the U.S. does.... they just decided to put in a by-law to help with the problem. There are many cities in Canada that still doesn't force their citizens to clean up, it just so happens that Calgary does.

I was just trying to say that no matter how easy a town/city makes it for pet owners to clean up after their pets, they don't always do it. Sometimes it takes a bit of force (a new by-law that is enforced for a while at least) to make them do what they're supposed to.

I'm a big Flames fan. Sister is in Calgary, another in BC and parents in Saskatoon. Its a law here( DC area) as well to pick up after ur dog,but it still happens, just as there is laws against speeding or murder!! lol

There's signs all over the park here that say "It's your doodie!" (verbatim) and mentions the fines if you don't do your duty and pick up the doodie. So I guess what it boils down to is you are in Canada and I am not thus you will not have dogpiles and I will. And that's the way it is. And you have healthcare and I don't. And that's the way it is. And you have some other policies and laws I would pay to have but alas, I don't because I'm in the USA. And that's the way it is.

So enjoy it. Just enjoy all your cleanliness and lack of trash and hypodermic needles in the streets and robberies and driveby shootings and your standardized use of the metric system and your legal 4 GPF toilets and all the import albums that I can not get here for any amount of money and just romp around in all the pretty snow. Not fair about the snow situation either. Freaking freezing outside here but do we get snow? Noooo.

Phew I feel better now thanks.
Happy holidays!

Wow, quirkyquercus, how refreshing to see an American who really appreciates Canada. Usually we get teased about snow in July, and "monopoly money". And of course, that pompous jerk Bill O'Reilly thinks that HE knows better than Canadians how to run their own country.

I've actually lived in the US for 15 years, but I still miss Canada. The US has been very good to us, and I'm not complaining, but I guess you always have a soft spot for "home".

We have to take the bad with the good.

If pet waste is not picked up, it will be a bacterial contaminant of bodies of water such as rivers and even the ocean as the runoff from storms carries it to these places.

I always remember once when my 3-year old fell down on a parkway and put his hand right in dog poop which had not been picked up. It sure made me mad!

One could make the same argument about the poop from wild animals. There's a lot of wyldlyfe out there just pooping away ya know.