Grrr cats

[silverclaws]

Decent people who choose to keep dogs accept their responsibility, their care of that animal and of its place in society.

So why do some dog owners go to the trouble and often the embarrassment of scooping up their animal's excrement, putting it into what I assume are purpose made bags, tying a knot in it and slinging it into nature where it may adorn fences, tree branches, bushes and any other part of nature that they obviously consider is a disposal point ?

Where may I add it obviously festers and changes in the closed environment that a bag with air in it is to become whatever possibly hazardous substance the poor sucker who has been charged with cleaning up the countryside has to deal with, never mind those others non dog owners and genuine responsible dog owners who have to view the situation and there think what they may about those that put the offence where it is.

How many responsible dog owners do we think has done the quick look around to see if anyone is watching and then tried to walk off without scooping the poop ? Has anyone seen a dog owner do the look around, ask yourself why they may be doing that. Finally how many responsible dog owners claim to have not noticed their animal take a dump, but if they had, they would have scooped the poop , and how many have got away with it ?

But to help all the canine lovers to show I am ever helpful regarding your problem ;

http://youtu.be/wUbVjIswSbg

Now, all you have to do is resist the temptation to chuck it where you hope others won't see it, because it is not a dog problem, it is a human problem, the dog is blameless.

I think all of the above spiel has been covered, at length, on here (perhaps in a different thread which, iirc, you were a part of too).

The points you make are old and tired and I feel, at this point, that you are just prattling on for the sake of it.

Which indicates to me you have no answer and therefore must accept the fact that with dog owners, responsibility is indeed a very rare thing, and of those that engage in such activities they are the genuine responsible dog owners enemy too, because all dog owners are being tarred with the same brush, because even those that scoop the poop it is thought sling it into trees, the evidence commits.

 

[IDB1]

Which indicates to me you have no answer and therefore must accept the fact that with dog owners, responsibility is indeed a very rare thing, and of those that engage in such activities they are the genuine responsible dog owners enemy too, because all dog owners are being tarred with the same brush, because even those that scoop the poop it is thought sling it into trees, the evidence commits.

The answers have already been made, I simply chose not to go on the discussion merry-go-round and go over them again.
Responsible dog ownership is a rare thing, nowhere have I said differently yet you sound like you feel I have.
Making your point now is empty since it's ground that has been covered previously and makes an observation that any reasonable person would not disagree with.

 

[dyna-ti]

Dogs are opportunist scavengers and their digestive systems cannot tell the difference in price of whatever they eat.
Food in = poop out and the more the dog is exercised the sloppier the poop becomes.

Cats on the other hand - from personal experience - are notoriously picky! Although if the owner doesn't come up with the goods they will improvise and go for birds in the garden, fish from the local canal, etc.

David

And yet their solid waste is still minging...

I dont think yours smells of roses either
So let us agree that all crap is smelly and undesirable

 

[Groundoggy]

Fundamentally though, why would anyone choose an animal that you have to walk behind scooping up it's doggy-doos every time you go for a walk?

...even worse - why would the owner of such an animal then decide to invent a non existent problem such as massive piles of cat dung polluting the earth just because they get their butt hurt over the idea of cleaning up after the animal they claim to love so dearly?

 

[Chopper the ex Copper]

Because cats aren't considered domestic animals by law, dogs are. That's a fact, the law says so. I gave up complaining about it as it did nothing except make the vein in my head throb so sold the dog and bought a load of cats on the basis that if you can't beat them, just give up and join the for a quiet life.

My neighbours on one side are a nice old couple with a cracking garden, and every spring I give them a couple of cans of cat repellant to sprinkle.

The other side do nothing about their noisy dogs, so I feel no guilt about my cats using their lawn a a toilet. He's happy. I'm happy. The cats are happy. Its a nice equilibrium.

 

[silverclaws]

I believe in a car you have to stop for a dog, but if you hit it, you have to report it whereas a cat you can quite happily smear it across the road and not think anything of it, because it is a cat and there not covered by road laws.

This as just got to be something to do with hoighty toighty and their hunting mutts somewhere as the basis for that law.

 

[IDB1]

Nope.. it's because cats, as stated very recently in this thread, are not designated as domestic animals.
It is also legal for a dog to kill a cat in its (the dogs) own space.
Cats that use my garden as a thoroughfare have learned to pass through quickly.

In my opinion, if anyone allows their cat to roam freely they must accept the possible consequences of that action.

 

[Akula]

I have to put up with dog owners sticking their dogs poop in a bag, then sticking it in my bin, stinking my bin out (ok bins smell, but not of sh1te.

At our last place we kept the cats indoors for two weeks to acclimatise them. They were gagging to check out the grounds and once allowed out eventually found themselves staring across the road at the two dogs that lived there. After about 15mins the cats were bored and went to find other stuff to sniff. An hour later the dogs were still staring at our gate

:roll:

 

[Neil]

In my opinion, if anyone allows their cat to roam freely they must accept the possible consequences of that action.

To be equitable, most dog owners seem to want others to at least have some consideration, when they encounter other peoples' mutts off lead, when they're cycling, driving, walking or whatever.

 

[dyna-ti]

Nope.. it's because cats, as stated very recently in this thread, are not designated as domestic animals.
It is also legal for a dog to kill a cat in its (the dogs) own space.
Cats that use my garden as a thoroughfare have learned to pass through quickly.

In my opinion, if anyone allows their cat to roam freely they must accept the possible consequences of that action.

Same must then apply to dogs them being far larger[for the most part] and considerably more dangerous.
Given they they are classed as dangerous and cats not are you saying firm action should be taken and in the instance of a dangerous animal killed on sight.If not either in a garden or on a lead :?