how poopy is your park?

[amyk]

i cant go 10 feet in any direction in my local park without seeing a dog poo. i think the majority of people clean up after their dogs, but there's a few who use the park as a free pooping ground so they dont have to clean up after their dogs waste at home.

there's these kids who have a lab and they seem to take their dog to the park twice a day, probably for a poop so the dog doesnt poo in it's own yard. i think the majority of the park poo is from this one dog.

i like to bring my dogs to the park everyday, but it's gross. and the sidewalk is dangerous to walk on because of broken glass.

is this the norm? im thinking to contact animal control, but i guess they cant do anything unless they have a bylaw officer witness the offenders?

~Amy

[Joey.E.CockersMommy]

We don't go to the dog park all that often - but on our walks its every 10 feet I see a nice bomb - maybe they think since its a country road no one will notice .

[les]

OMG ... the park near my house sucks!! The worst part is it's the reason we bought this house .. we literally back onto a huge double field park area and I can actually go through my gate into the park.

It's not so much the poops that I hate (although I do hate that alot) - it's the broken glass! You have it on the street - - we have it in the park! In the grass, on the baseball diamonds and half the time you can't see it!

The first time my pup stepped on it she needed 7 stiches in the pad of her foot! We wrote a letter to the paper and reported it to the police (who really don't care about stuff like that!) and basically nothing happened.

In the past year and a half I've had 4 cut feet because of the glass so we stopped going out there about 3 months ago - funny how my vet visits stopped too.

I'm just waiting for some kid to fall on some of it and get hurt - then maybe the town will see it's a big problem.

And the poop - what is it with people who say ... "oh I forgot a bag" and I've seen them multiple times and they ALWAYS say that. I always say really sweetly, "oh I have an extra one so you can pick it up"

People for the most part suck

[LM1313]

My city passed a law saying you have to pick up after your dog or you'll be fined. Now it's much less poopy!

~LM~

[HunterXHunter]

The parks near my house doesn't really have a poop or glass problem, but it does have a garbage problem

There's a empty water bottles, cans, cigarette boxes, juice boxes etc. every 10m or so. And because Hunter loves to pick these things up and tries to get me to chase him down for it (that's how he initiates play at home sometimes, although it's with his toys and not garbage), I've stop letting him run leash-free for the past 3-4 weeks. He seems sad too, because whenever we go there now he just sits down and looks at me with an expression that says "why aren't you taking off the leash!?"

People suck...

[TinkerbellB]

We've got an off leash park near the river by our house and it doesn't seem to bad. It's the getting there that's the problem. There's poop on people's yards, on the green space near roads and (if you can believe this) on sidewalks. It's gross. Our girl doesn't seem to like to go to the bathroom anywhere outside our backyard!

[kayla]

There is a path along the river I walk down which is full of poop, glass and garbage. But then there is an enclosed off-leash dog park and this is very clean, I don't think I've ever even seen a poop in it despite being a dog park!

[Lissa]

I can't seem to go anywhere (whether its a dog park, a school field or the sidewalk) without seeing poop, garbage and glass. It always seems worse as the snow melts, like people think that the snow will cover and decompose everything by spring!! It disgusts me!

The dog park that I frequent is awful...I would guess that less then half the people who go actually poop and scoop...The city is always threatening to close the park because so few people help to keep it clean!

[jessi76]

We don't have any "dog" parks, but our regular parks/camping grounds/hiking trails are full of crap (literally, and trash, glass, etc...)

and walking on my road means being careful not to step in HORSE poop. yup, horse poop on the street. makes the dog poop seem like a small problem.

needless to say, my dog's LEAVE IT is quite good now.

[kayla]

mmmmm horse poop, kayla's idea of a yummy snack!

[wdawson]

hahaha kayla........i take my dogs on a trail that horses use.......and i end up chasing the dogs to take those meadow muffins of them

[Lump of Kohl]

My pup is litter trained just so I don't have to walk around with a bag of poop(that and then I can complain when other people don't pick up after their dog). Then again he is only 8lbs and its not that bad when I do...