I would hope people wouldn't leave a plastic bag of dog s*** on the street for ANY length of time!! If you can't take care of your dog, get rid of it!!

I would give it back to it's rightful owner.......

I think what you do is perfectly reasonable, and if you left it in front of my house, and I found it before you came back, I would add it to our collection from our own dogs and not think twice about it... but...

There is always a but. Considering we live in a community of 80,000 grumpy old people that live only to find things to have hair fires about, I would suggest a belt bag, fanny pack, something to put the poobag into until you get home. This is coming from someone with 2 large dogs. Our dogs believe it is their constitutional right to poop on walks. So, we pick it up, in a bag, and carry the bag in one hanging from our belt until we get home.

It is a small price to pay to help relieve tension. Of course, there are those that will then complain about my dogs walking on the edge of their lawn, or peeing on a fire hydrant, etc. There is no way to make all 80,000 grumpy old people happy.

Funny, for my first year, I mowed my own lawn, and never, not once did I find poop in my grass. NEVER. Maybe you ****ed off a dog owner?

Well, to start, I lived in a neighborhood with horses walking across my property and pooping for 10 years, and not once did I complain to the horse owners. We had acreage and a pond and people found it to be a convenient shortcut or a nice place to ride in the shade of our woods during the summer. We had a colloquial term for each other - "neighbors".

And a$$holes tossing trash out of their windows - literally trash bags and Burger King bags - onto my property as they drove by was much more troubling than horse poop.

My wife and I got a 5-mile walk around our land picking up bottles and other trash before we could mow it every week. Good clean exercise! LOL.

As far as the worst things that can happen, read the headlines almost daily now mass shooting kills 11 years olds sitting in their car, dozens wounded and some killed in clubs, on and on. On the verge of a nuclear exchange with N. Korea or Iran, Russia is threatening military action against people it disagrees with. 25% of children in the United States go to bed hungry. People in the villages dying from golf cart accidents, often in the roundabout. . And on and on. Remind me which of those is less bad than dog poop?

And yes, I am a dog owner. And yes, I pick up after my own dogs. I would NOT be surprised to find that at one time I stopped to talk to a neighbor while on a walk and one of my dogs pooped behind my back and I left without knowing it. OMG! Call out the National Guard - it's DOG POOP!

Wonder if the deer pick up their poop, or the coyotes only go in the fields around the villages, or the squirrels and geese, and bears and turtles, and alligators, and lizards, and ... well, you get the idea,

Ever go swimming in the ocean? I grew up in Ft. Lauderdale and spent most of my life swimming on the reefs off the coast - millions of fresh pooping and peeing in the water I was swimming in - OGM! Eeeewwww...

Seriously. Grumpy old people.

i just put it in the street and it will go down the street

I once had a dog. It is very common if you’re going to be walking past the same spot shortly in a circuit to leave the poop bagged and get it on your way back by in a few minutes

Yep. Up north I found that people who walked their dog and didn’t find a place to put the bag close by, so they would leave it on public property and pick it up again when they were coming home. They did not want to walk around with it. So I just left it. I have not found anything on my lawns so far. :)

I don't have a dog in The Villages. I wouldn't restrict it anymore here than I would have one in an apartment building. Yes, I am a dog lover and have had dogs many years of my life. I have also trained dogs to go exactly where I wanted them to go. A disciplined dog is a happy dog and confident dog. I love dogs....actually I love most animals.
As for their manure not being good fertilizer, well that is a matter of specifics. When I mentioned it above, I was referring to the thread where someone was complaining about their yard being brown and dead and was asking for advice. Guess it went over a few heads, possibly due to a lack of interest in that thread and less folks reading it. Now, the reason you do not use "meat-eater" manure for fertilizer is mainly confined to vegetable gardens. I don't know where you come from, but chicken manure is used in a lot of gardens. And they will eat worms, insects and small lizards when give a chance. In SE Asia, rice paddies were often fertilized with human excrement.
When I was young, I had a couple of large dogs and I thought about how I was going to dispose of their manure, coming up with a decent solution. I gathered the piles and composted them, later using them around my flowers and bushes. Ever used bonemeal in your garden? Bonemeal is made from animals.
Sorry you didn't get my tongue in cheek response. I did not take into consideration that not everyone reads all the threads. It would be impossible to do so without using a large quantity of time.

`I totally agree with the poster who said that if the person went to the trouble to bag it, they likely accidentally dropped it. That has happened twice to me and I have backtracked until I found it. One time I got home and discovered I didn't have it and drove the golf cart around the neighborhood looking for it.

I agree with you! If a person is not responsible to care for a pet, they should not own one.

dog poop
 

[There are idiots amongst us who are too priviledged to pick up poo
AND Iit's not their job either. There are soo many people who follow the rules to not ruin it for everyone-dog people with no problem taking it with them.Our dog pooped on the neighbors lawn and my husband had to carry our dog-and when we got home HE WENT BACK TO GET OUR DOGS POOP. Whom ever left that is an idiot=just remember that

Leaving Dog Poo
 

I was with my grandson a few months ago to get the mail. When I walked past the trash barrel I noticed a poo bag sitting on top of a bush near it. I often do pick up a stray piece of litter when I see it because it is so rare to see it in The Villages. So, I thought, what a goof the person was for missing the trash container and leaving the poo on top of the landscaping so I picked up the bag and tossed it in the trash, got my mail, and got back into the cart to glance at what mail I had received. To my pleasant surprise, I saw a man with his mail in hand and a small dog on a leash come from behind the mail building. He stopped by the trash bin and was looking around it. He even began sifting through the bushes near the trash bin. I have to give him credit that he really was searching almost desperately for that bag of poo. By that time, my grandson and I were chuckling so much we had smiles on our faces all the way home. We knew we had learned a valuable lesson to not make hasty assumptions. :)

That is deflection. This is the villages. For better or worse we live on top of each other.
As far as your previous life. Why did you choose to move here? I have a friend who bought 140 acres in North Carolina with his brother.

Before moving here, we never looked at it but there was an island for sale several acres with what sounded like a nice house and it came with a herd of wild horses. It was a million bucks. I think even owning your own island you would pay tax to someone. As king of my island, who could I complain about or to?

Dog Poop
 

Yea they should pick it up, but they probably didn't because they didn't want to walk around with it. Observe to see if the person does it again and if they do, take a big dump in a clear plastic bag and leave it on their doorstep. For better effect, skip the plastic bag. Suggest the same for those that throw cigarette butts out their car windows.:1rotfl::a040:

I moved here because we were 30 to 45 minutes from the nearest hospital. EMTs would take 30 minutes to get to us, and 30 minutes to get to the nearest hospital. And I am 71 and expect to need an EMT in the next 5 to 10 years.

Living on top of each other doesn’t mean we can’t be civil and considerate of each other. If anything it should encourage us to be more considerate.

10000% Agree with you!
 

I 100000% agree with you. It's like if I posted I found a soda bottle, food container, a brush, whatever. Pick it up, throw it away, don't post it, no one cares, and move on. Someone just took their last breathe today, that to me is a more important.

I've done that
 

I've done that as well. Leave it, and grab it on the way back.

The person that did that is no worse than the hayseed I saw ****ing behind a tree on Pensacola #8 a few weeks ago.

Both are class A losers. 😡

Even more amazing is the limited number of bathrooms on the courses in a retirement community. A Retirement Community!!!!!.........the home of weak bladders. :ohdear:

I can't tell you what I would do if I e er saw someone throw that down. I hear alot of people throw in sewer. Probably a service dog owner. They get to do whatever

First thing I noticed here was a bathroom on 5th hole on executive course

I see lady ever morning on her walk picking up trash that was dropped by villager’s, I don’t see her posting on here complaining about it?

Hey,
I have a idea. Why don't we start doing what I've done, well since this whole picking up your dogs poo and bagging it began. Decades ago.

Have your dog go in your own yard before your walk begins.
What a novel idea. It's really easy to train any dog to do this, even if they have been doing it on there walks since they were a pup.
Disclaimer...... My current dog is a Great Dane. :22yikes:

Yes, most 9's have one...............but the point is, seniors have issues, had surgery, can't always wait. Have some compassion.

lmao! you sound like me. i once marked the spot with a stick to make finding it easier :1rotfl:

At least he went behind the tree!

I find it interesting that 5,668 people viewed a string about poop, myself included. Use the bag of poop for your flower bed.

I took a part-time job as a starter on a county club golf community, so I could golf for free. It wasn't an over 55 community, but the members were old, nonetheless. The CC laid us off in the summers when members headed back north. One fall, when we came back for the next season, they had added a bathroom between the 4th and 5th holes. The next summer they added one between the 13th and 14th holes. We decided that one could tell the age of the members, by the number of bathrooms a course had.

I walk about a mile to my mailbox most days with my dog. I do my best to make sure my dog does not use people’s yard as a toilet. I have large fenced in CYV my dog relies himself 95% of the time. There is a corner of a golf course on our walk to PO we do stop at and if my dog poops I pick it up and take it home. On one occasion when I went to collect the mail I realized I must have dropped the poop bag. Fortunately on my way back home I found it on the sidewalk. It was a total accident that I corrected and that may have been the case that happened here.