Dog Muck

Someone at Braunston has had a great idea - each patch of dog muck is marked
with a ring of yellow spray paint on the ground.
You can then see where not to step, and also it hopefully reminds careless
dog owners where they've left it, and might make them leave less in future.
Could we encourage this to become more widespread (the marking, not the
muck) - a job for Scouts - or maybe for boaters - it isn't a messy job.

Robin Smithett

"Robin Smithett" <robin@deletesmithett.co.uk> wrote in message
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> Someone at Braunston has had a great idea - each patch of dog muck is
marked
> with a ring of yellow spray paint on the ground.
> You can then see where not to step, and also it hopefully reminds careless
> dog owners where they've left it, and might make them leave less in
future.
> Could we encourage this to become more widespread (the marking, not the
> muck) - a job for Scouts - or maybe for boaters - it isn't a messy job.

I don't know what the property owners would think, BW etc.

I'm in favour, and can we spray the dogs' ar$e$ as well ?

Beeky

BTW I don't think "careless" is the adjective for the owners. Selfish,
anti-social, ignorant, disease spreading yes. But they allow their dogs to
cr&p on the public paths deliberately.

Spookily, I today read in BW's plan for the future, that in 2003/4, one of
their environmental targets is to reduce dog muck.
Strangely, dog muck is one of the most common aspects of the waterways that
I don't have pictures of in my library!
Robin

>I today read in BW's plan for the future, that in 2003/4, one of
>their environmental targets is to reduce dog muck.

The Shrewsbury & Border Counties IWA Branch did its cleanup campaign on
the Audlem flight this year. Actually we found hardly any litter but
were surprised to find a number of instances where people had picked up
their dog muck in a plastic bag - then thrown the filled bag into the
hedge.

--
Peter Brown
(n/b Nimrod)

In news:bg6at5$ca$1@news6.svr.pol.co.uk,
brian <brian.holt@harnser.**business.co.uk> typed:
> Didn't the question also come up "When I were a lad all dog s**t dried
> white, why don't it do that now?"

Serious answer - dog sh*t will dry white if a dog is fed mainly on
bones, particularly lamb/mutton bones. I suppose therefore that the answer
is that dogs don't eat as many bones as they used to when you were a lad!



Bob

Hate to think what some of them do eat. Toffee?

Robin Smithett

>No, it is caused by the dog eating the marrow.
Thanks for answering a question I've wondered about for years!

"brian" <brian.holt@harnser.**business.co.uk> wrote in message
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> "Chris N Deuchar" <chris@deuchars.co.uk> wrote in message
> news:16gvjvow3oil0.komkrmswlndt$.dlg@40tude.net...
> > On Fri, 25 Jul 2003 20:45:27 +0100, Kevin Maslin wrote:
> >
> > > In news:3f211c97.0@entanet,
> > > Robin Smithett <robin@deletesmithett.co.uk> typed:
> > >
> > >> Someone at Braunston has had a great idea - each patch of dog muck
> > > is
> > >> marked with a ring of yellow spray paint on the ground.
> > > Good idea, but not very photogenic, eh Robin? :-)
> >
> > C'mon, we had this thread about 3 years ago and decided that all
> > dog food should contain additives that would make the end product
> > fluoresce when you shone your torch on it on the way back from the
> > pub. That way it looks 'normal' in daylight.
>
>
> Didn't the question also come up "When I were a lad all dog s**t dried
> white, why don't it do that now?"
>

A straw poll around the office came up with the answer that poodle poo is
always defiinitely white!

Debbie