Is it just me? - using my bin for their dog poo

Yertiz replied on 26/03/2016 09:41

Posted on 26/03/2016 09:41

I'm beginning to wonder if I am really becoming a grumpy old man and just wondered if it's just me?

We live on a corner of a busy road and have a lot of dog walkers taking their pets for walkies past out drive.

Yesterday, as I was looking out the window I spotted a young, 20ish female with her pooch at the top of the drive with a poop bag in hand, great, I thought a caring owner. The thing that rattled my cage was that she then promptly opened our Black Dustbin that was out for collection and deposited her dogs do-doos in our bin!!!

I went out to speak to her and asked her why she was using our bin, her reply was "it's a bin!"and I was being a nasty old man for questioning her right to do this.. They obviously live in the area as I have seen them pass every day but I was gob smacked by her comments.

We have been dog owners in the past but I would never have dreamed of using someone elses bin to put any droppings in. Still can't believe it really.

My question is, is it me getting old??

EmilysDad replied on 27/03/2016 08:56

Posted on 27/03/2016 08:56

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And dog poo ins are provided on selected lamp-posts, and are separately emptied by the council......

Likewise ..... then it all goes to landfill with the contents of the grey bin ..... I asked! Cool

tombar replied on 27/03/2016 10:10

Posted on 27/03/2016 10:10

The family who live in a house not far from Bugs Towers occasionally put things in our bins if theirs are full. They never actually asked if they could, just started doing it. I don't mind as, with children, they generate more rubbish than we do.

I must admit though to feeling a bit prickly the day I saw them picking strawberries from the bushes beside the North Lawns.........

Bugs

Give an inch and they take a mile...

Cornersteady replied on 27/03/2016 10:32

Posted on 27/03/2016 10:32

The family who live in a house not far from Bugs Towers occasionally put things in our bins if theirs are full. They never actually asked if they could, just started doing it. I don't mind as, with children, they generate more rubbish than we do.

I must admit though to feeling a bit prickly the day I saw them picking strawberries from the bushes beside the North Lawns.........

Bugs

Give an inch and they take a mile...

I think Bugs should sack his gamekeeper

IanH replied on 27/03/2016 10:57

Posted on 27/03/2016 10:57

 

 I wonder if people would be happy if their bin was used as a toilet?Wink 

There's a difference between someone crouching over a waste bin and a bag being deposited Corners Laughing but at the end of the day, would it change my world, no I don't think so but the OP has a right to his opinion and be grumpy Smile.

Well, that would be an interesting sight (so long as it wasn't our bin!) Laughing

volvoman9 replied on 27/03/2016 14:30

Posted on 27/03/2016 14:30

In a scenario like the one described i would have no objection at all.Better in the bin than in the hedge or somewhere else.

peter.

ValDa replied on 27/03/2016 19:41

Posted on 27/03/2016 19:41

My friend has a holiday home in Abersoch, where all rubbish has to  be in large black bin liners.  If there are no bin liners in then the bin isn't emptied.

People taking their dogs for a walk often use her bin to pop in their 'offerings'.  The problem is that they can sit in the bin, building up, unless someone is using the house and putting in black bin liners.  The number builds up and eventually one bursts - and it is a most unpleasant job to remove all the packages, put them in a bin liner, and clean out the bin.  Worst of all is that there is a proper 'doggy bin' just at the end of the lane, about fifty paces away!

She has written, in large letters, all over the bin - No dog poos please - and yet everytime we've been down there recently there must be twenty or more bags of poo!

DORMAN12Q replied on 27/03/2016 19:55

Posted on 27/03/2016 19:55

A friend of mine had the same problem until he pop rivited a hasp and staple to his wheelie bin and padlocked it shut.

 

nelliethehooker replied on 27/03/2016 22:00

Posted on 27/03/2016 22:00

A friend of mine had the same problem until he pop rivited a hasp and staple to his wheelie bin and padlocked it shut.

 

Bet the bin men were happy with that!!Wink

ValDa replied on 28/03/2016 06:56

Posted on 28/03/2016 06:56

A friend of mine had the same problem until he pop rivited a hasp and staple to his wheelie bin and padlocked it shut.

 

A good idea in theory, but not in a holiday home, where you might leave after a  weekend and not be there when the bin men arrive to empty the bin.  However, a combination padlock with the number given to the bin men team could work!

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