iks says:

Stepping on dog poo is a nightmare. Especially when you are wearing your favorite shoes. Lets hear it for LASSIE!

Kacey Akpoteni says:

This topic is spot on. This issue is one of my bugbears at the minute. By the way it’s not just in London, it’s here in Birmingham too! Everywhere you go you find dog poo. Every morning when you come out to get into the car, you find it on the street. There were some ‘smart alecs’ who thought to use the snow as a cover up. During the snowy days, anytime the ice went, the splatter of poo will be there in all their glory. We are actually thinking about getting a CCTV for that reason alone. Thankfully my next door neighbour has bought one and my husband with his IT wizardry installed it for them and made sure our frontage will be seen in the view. So we are waiting to catch the culprits and yours truly will be sending some dog poo post through some letter boxes. Watch this space.

louise says:

Purchase a foghorn and whenever you see a dog ready to foul our footpaths blow it ! Hard and strong…. But seriously i never seem to catch a culprit .I think we should put baby poo everywhere and see what happens !

Jo says:

Totally with you on this. I have had too many terrible moments when I think my son has got mud on his trousers only to discover it is dog poo! Love the dogs, just wish that their human companions would get their act together! LASSIE!!!

Natalie at Mommy on Fire says:

I am reading this at such a timely time!!! I just spent TWO HOURS cleaning up dog poo in our back yard (all of the snow just melted!) and before my children could go outside, I needed to “de-poop” lest they all walk through it then track it all over our house. After spending two hours doing this and filling 25 plastic shopping bags full o’ poo, I had to laugh to read your post.

This completely disgusts me – I can’t imagine not picking up after my dog. Yuck. You are correct – I would have been so annoyed and yes, this is unacceptable. Love the LASSIE idea!!!

Thank you SO SO much for wishing my Meemo a happy birthday! And all the way from London? She was thrilled. It means so much to me that you took the time to do this. Thank you so very much.

LOVE your blog. I’ll be following you!

Mesina says:

I am all for this Uju!! We are a proud family of two beautiful dogs and would never dream of taking them out without doggie doo bags to put our shit into! I can’t stand dirty streets, as a dog owner I just don’t get people who don’t scoop their poop. Honestly. It’s gross.

So I’m all supportive of this campaign!!

CLEAN UP YER SHIT!!
♥♥

Nky I says:

hear hear!!

gigi (MUMSROCK) says:

Hell yeh – we hate it, detest treading in it, get obsessed walking by it and irate when it’s done at our blooming gate.

We salute you!

Holly says:

I’m an x Londoner. In the village I now live in a vigilante spray paints round all fresh poo to embarass the owners and alert the rest of us. Not very enviromentally friendly but enormously helpful to me and my girls!

Good luck LASSIE!

Michaela Field says:

For the first time in my life I was incensed enough to contact the local council about this very topic only a month ago. After doing what has become a regular obstacle course on the school drop off and pick up I found the islington paper on my doorstop when I got home. There was a telephone number specific to dog fouling. I picked up the phone. Instead of getting through to someone who could help me on this matter it went to an operator who had no idea who to put me through to. After being on hold for a long time, put through to 3 different departments and been cut off I phoned back to go through the same problem again. The answer I got was that someone could come and remove the offending article but no-one was interested or empowered to deal with the problem of this being a daily occurence. In other words I got no-where so, this topic is very important and needed in giving the said council a kick up their rear ends!

Marsha Moore says:

Love, love, LOVE this campaign – brilliant idea. Nothing makes me angrier than going on a pleasant stroll through my neighbourhood… and have to dodge piles of poo from lazy pet owners along the way.

Best of luck with this!

Lucy says:

Having counted 24, yes 24, lumps of it on my short walk to my daughter’s nursery I also emailed Islington council about it – also to no avail. I’m now part of an action group in my street to try to stop this disgusting practice. Unfortunately, the one time I tried to tackle someone I caught walking away from their dog’s mess I was told she ‘didn’t want to pick it up’, looked me up and down and walked off with no shame apparent. I’ve been too intimdated to tackle those with their ‘status’ dogs. It will be an uphill struggle!

Georgina Machray says:

I have a friend who was so infuriated, he scooped up a dog pooh as it’s owner was about to walk off and leave it, and smeared it on the dog’s back. Unfortunate for the poor mut, but I think it taught her a lesson… Not that I’m condoning this sort of behaviour, but it really does get me so riled up, I can almost sympathise!

Hot Cross Mum says:

My toddler is a dog poo magnet. He steps on it EVERYWHERE. It makes me feel physically sick so am totally with you on this one. Also, cats are just as bad and keep pooing in my garden. Grrrrrrrrrrrrrr.

Melissa B. says:

When we first moved to DC, stepping in the dog doo was a regular part of my day. Now, we have pooper-scooper laws, and things are much more pleasant. SITS sent me by, and I’m glad they did!

1 Day, 2 Day, Birthday, Seuss Day!

A Modern Mother says:

Do we live on the same road? I recently wrote about poo too.

Faye says:

About time someone spoke up! I am so sick of trying to wash the buggy wheels in puddles because some lazy dog owner hasn’t cleaned up after their dog! But saying that there should be more dog litter bins around too.

Mhe-Lhanee Benito says:

Hi Uju! Thanks for stopping by at my blog… Sorry to hear about your Shit and Run incident. Every owner should be responsible for their pet. Unless its a stray dog, which I doubt if it was….