Neighbors that don't pick up dog waste how do you feel?

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You might laugh, but many "country" neighborhoods, where people own horses, require that you clean up after your horse.

Literally clean up after it goes on a trail? I have to say trail riding would be a lot funnier seeing riders hop down to bag up the poop. We have laws on where your manure/compost pile is but the day our unpaved,no lines,road has to have horse poop pick up pigs will fly:p And none of the great trail systems we have here require it either.


of course we pick up around the barn(I think I am the only one in the area who cleans the pasture-only because my dogs will eat it all) and its no pigsty but when you ride for miles who is going to walk back with a shovel and throw it in the manure pile?

There is actually a no animal sign at many of our beaches-I guess to cover both horses and dogs:p I have to admit riding a horse on a beach is nice but I didn't think they allowed it most places.

If I was ever told to pick up the horse poop I think I would move. I couldn't imagine getting up for a couple hour ride and then having to rewalk it all to go pick up poo. I know some of the horse communities employ people to do it but they have some money to blow and are really big on prettiness.


I did know a crazy cat lady who had so many her kids did cat poop duty in the yard-that is a scary thought.
 

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LOL. Not on trials. If you ride in the road or across someone else's lawn. ;)
Good-I was a little worried I must really be from some small hick town if other places pick up horse poop while out riding.

The first barn I ever boarded at had people there 24/7 doing poop duty-it was nice and then again it was a barn and there is nothing wrong with poop sitting for a bit. The barn I board my gelding at now is thankfully right in the middle. You clean up after yourself if on the property but almost all our riding is on the trails at the barn,or at the local parks. If we warm up in the arena we can clean up when we get back and its no big deal.
 

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In regard to horse ****, unlike dog ****, it isn't dangerous...horse **** is natural and if deposited on soil fertalizes it. If deposited on hard ground, it barely takes any time at all to break down.

Dog **** on the other hand takes YEARS to break down, unless you feed raw. If you don't believe it, put a dog **** in an out of the way place in your yard and leave it...it'll still be there weeks, months, years later. So if your dog shits it the woods, it will sit there festering for years, possibly infecting the local wildlife population with a nice dose of toxocara canis.
 

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Dog **** on the other hand takes YEARS to break down, unless you feed raw. If you don't believe it, put a dog **** in an out of the way place in your yard and leave it...it'll still be there weeks, months, years later. So if your dog shits it the woods, it will sit there festering for years, possibly infecting the local wildlife population with a nice dose of toxocara canis.
Honestly I am much, MUCH more worried about the local wildlife population infecting my dog with something. Rabies, canine and feline distempter are all rampant in the local raccoon population. Also, the lepto vaccine does not protect against local strains.

Anyway, unlike wild animals, my dog is kept wormed so they are not catching any worms from him. If you want to see a scary parasite, try googling Baylisascaris procyonis
 

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In regard to horse ****, unlike dog ****, it isn't dangerous...horse **** is natural and if deposited on soil fertalizes it. If deposited on hard ground, it barely takes any time at all to break down.

Dog **** on the other hand takes YEARS to break down, unless you feed raw. If you don't believe it, put a dog **** in an out of the way place in your yard and leave it...it'll still be there weeks, months, years later. So if your dog shits it the woods, it will sit there festering for years, possibly infecting the local wildlife population with a nice dose of toxocara canis.
Um?

I have a large back yard, so we don't pick up much, and I can tell you the poo doesn't sit there for years decomposing. We do feed a higher quality food though.

But even when we fed crap food, it still didn't take that long.
 

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Um?

I have a large back yard, so we don't pick up much, and I can tell you the poo doesn't sit there for years decomposing. We do feed a higher quality food though.

But even when we fed crap food, it still didn't take that long.
I have to admit back when we fed pedigree it dissolved pretty quickly:p We don't pick up in the yard much unless its right were we walk and there are no giant mounds of poop. It can't take that long.
 

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dog poo does not take years to dissolve. Coupla weeks, maybe.

I've apparently got a new neighbor who thinks he doesn't have to pick up his dog's doo... I never had a problem before, but now I'm finding big dog piles in MY front yard, my neighbor's front yard, and on down my usual route. If I find said owner, I will start stalking him with my biodegradable poo bags. It's just incredibly rude not to pick up your dog's poo if it goes on someone else's property or where people walk. Here, it is a city ordinance to pick up after your pet.
 
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In regard to horse ****, unlike dog ****, it isn't dangerous...horse **** is natural and if deposited on soil fertalizes it. If deposited on hard ground, it barely takes any time at all to break down.

Dog **** on the other hand takes YEARS to break down, unless you feed raw. If you don't believe it, put a dog **** in an out of the way place in your yard and leave it...it'll still be there weeks, months, years later. So if your dog shits it the woods, it will sit there festering for years, possibly infecting the local wildlife population with a nice dose of toxocara canis.
Ummm ...dogs don't have everlasting robo-poop. :confused:

Like other posters, we also have a huge backyard (more than an acre) and we don't always pick up when they go there either, since it is our own property and the dogs generally only use one corner. It's completely gone in a couple (as in 2) weeks, unless it rains in which case it's gone immediately. And no, we don't feed raw. :rolleyes:

If you want to see a scary parasite, try googling Baylisascaris procyonis
^^^ True, very nasty parasite, that!! Also transmissible to humans. Sure hope the wildlife infected with that one (usually racoons) don't have everlasting robo-poop. :yikes:
 

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When my dogs go in our back yard we always pick it up almost daily. But being a raw feeder it would dissolve in a few days if left. The reason I prefer to pick it up is that the dogs might step in it while playing and then bring it in the house between their toes or something. If out in the bush my dogs sometimes go but they will hide in very thick dense bush so I leave it as no one else goes around. As for picking up horse **** we used to get off and pick it up from the trails because people would walk the same trails , walk their dogs there and sometimes had kids with them, so it was a matter of courtesy. We didn't drag it home, we just kicked it to the side bushes or pushed it with a stick. We also were the only ones to pick up our paddocks and pastures to keep it cleaner for the horses and keep flies at bay. And to keep our dogs from eating it as they thought it was a delicacy for some reason. We were told it was good to let them eat it but somehow I never did get used to the idea. Now I'm finding out that all dogs love the taste of manure.
 

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I get very annoyed when I find dog poop in my yard. I thought it was from my immediate neighbors dogs because I saw her letting one lift it's leg on the tree in my yard once, but it turns out it wasn't her dogs but some little brown dog that one of my other neighbors let's run loose to poop wherever it pleases. Still no idea who it belongs to :/
 

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y next dog neighbor's mini poodle was always getting out and used my yard . No big deal . When Ollies goes out fron with me he usually goes into my side garden which is fine . Once he went in the neighbor's yard snd when I went in to get a bag , I never could find it ! Wish they would poop some red flags too !
 

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