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    Anonymous
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    I want to know why people think its okay to drop their bags of dog poop in other peoples yards or garbage cans.

    Let me educate you offenders.

    The Garbage can in my driveway is sometime used for recycling. When its empty and you add your blue bag it makes **** tea with the water at the bottom of the can.

    The Dump container in my driveway is used for clean construction debris. The people who sort the container do not want to be in contact with your dog poop.

    The fire hydrant that you try to hide your blue bag behind is actually on someones property. And I would believe they don’t want your donation either.

    The garbage bags in my driveway contain leaves to be taken to clean green. When you leave your little blue bag there, I have to pick it up and move it to the other side of the yard where the garbage can is. i don’t want to have to handle your dog ****.

    You have taken on the responsibility of being a dog owner. Take on the responsibility of being a good neighbor and take your poop with you.

    #656971

    angelescrest
    Participant

    If they don’t read the blog, then let’s hope by osmosis or karma that they get the message.

    #656972

    Morgan
    Member

    It’s only a matter of time before someone posts that “We either use your garbage can or leave it in your yard, your choice!”

    Typical, self-centered idiots.

    #656973

    Caduceus
    Member

    As fair as your argument is…

    It’s a rather trivial matter to get all ruffled over.

    Perhaps if you simply took out said cans only when they need to be used/picked up by the city you could avoid this problem.

    How you could prevent people littering in your yard without a high fence though, I’m not sure.

    #656974

    karen
    Participant

    How about the people who put their trash in the recycle container, or the yard waste container? Then my garbage man won’t pick it up because it’s mixed (and yes, he leaves it behind with a nasty note.)

    Still, at least someone is trying to pick up after themselves. I can’t stand the dog poo soup either. But it IS better than walking in it or mowing it up and finding it when I empty the bag!

    I’m actually more annoyed when people let their dog pee on my front gate. Why is it OK to let your dog pee on my walkway? Or my flowers by the gate? Or my car tires? Yuck!

    #656975

    JustSarah
    Participant

    Morgan – looks like it was just less than 30 minutes before Caduceus posted exactly what you predicted. And of course, that same statement is made every time this issue is brought up. I don’t have any pet (or even my own outside trash can, as I live in a condo building), but this issue does bother me. It doesn’t matter if it’s a “rather trivial matter”; it bothers the property owners, and for good reason. These *private* trash cans are not available for use by all just because they’re out by the street, and that’s all there is to it.

    On another tangent – I get so sick of people deciding what’s important enough to be bothered by. If something bothers someone, that’s how it is. It doesn’t matter if there are “bigger things” to worry about. There always will be. However, it doesn’t mean that the small things don’t bother us, too. For instance, I am bothered when my bus is late in the morning for no good reason, but that does not mean I’m not also bothered by bigger issues such as war, world hunger, and animal cruelty.

    #656976

    Caduceus
    Member

    My, my, someone is taking things personally!

    Regardless of Morgan’s political opinions and the responses they bring I think Morgan is a rather sensible person, so I assumed (God forbid) that perhaps Morgan is just getting a little tired of people doing this frequently and is letting it get farther under her skin then necessary.

    You can’t have a productive day AND prevent people from putting things in your garbage/yardwaste/recycling cans when they’re by the street. I.E. Standing outside all day guarding them with a stick or something.

    Solution? Take them away from the street when they do not need to be there.

    It isn’t a smart ass suggestion, it’s simply the logical solution to make joe schmoe dag walker carry his feces farther and Morgan wouldn’t get poo in her cans.

    And yes, it is a trivial matter. You can take that comment however you want, you can even assume I’m saying people who get bent over trivial matters don’t care about larger ones. I can’t stop you from being silly, the same way I can’t stop people from putting poo in Morgan’s garbage cans.

    You may as well get mad that the rain got you wet, when you voluntarily live in Seattle.

    #656977

    GenHillOne
    Participant
    #656978

    vincent
    Member

    Trash cans aren’t private property. They are issued by the cities waste management department and really once they are on the curb, all bets are off.

    This is why the cops can take your garbage without a warrant.

    This also pretty much exemplifies the meaning of the word trivial, people are complaining about the interior contents of their trash cans.

    #656979

    JustSarah
    Participant

    The point you are missing, Vincent, is that it is not o.k. to put one’s garbage into another’s garbage can without permission. Individuals/companies etc. pay for their own garbage service; this is why you will see signs on many public trash cans and dumpsters stating that dumping of one’s household trash is not allowed. Doing so can raise one collection bill while keeping the other below the weekly collection limit.

    And it’s important to draw the line between taking trash from someone’s cans and adding to it. If you don’t see the difference, I don’t know how else to explain it.

    #656980

    Caduceus
    Member

    We keep our garbage cans away from the street when they aren’t being collected, and I get up and bring them back to the house once the garbage truck is gone.

    It may not be the most fun thing to do, but I’ve never found anything in my cans that should not be there.

    It doesn’t matter to other people you’ve never met walking their dogs what you think is morally proper in terms of garbage cans. So unless you are going to keep a vigilant eye on your cans and confront these people you really have no other options besides continuing to make your life harder by leaving your cans there for no real reason, or just bring them onto your property; like in your backyard or what have you.

    #656981

    flowerpetal
    Member

    I am out of the house pretty early in the morning to walk my dog. More times than I can remember, I have righted wind blown garbage cans as well as recycle bins with their lids flung open by the wind. I often carry a plastic grocery bag for small pieces of trash on parking strips, and in yards close to the sidewalk. I do this because these are my neighbors and we try to live cooperatively in our neighborhood. Once in awhile I used to drop a bag of poo in a trash can if I had righted in and returned its other contents. On the other end of the day I have run down trash cans and lids before my neighbors got home from work, school or taking the kid to football practice.

    Because this topic has been rehashed for as long as I have been on the blog; more than a year; I have stopped dropping an ocassional bag of poo in someone else’s trash; even if the garbage truck is half a block away and approaching. And I stopped because it pi**es people off. I do this because these are my neighbors and we try to live cooperatively in our neighborhood.

    #656982

    PDieter
    Participant

    I’m thinking that HUD might be posting soon about the dog poo we just put in their can when they weren’t looking

    sorry wrong thread.

    #656983

    Anonymous
    Inactive

    Thank you all for your interest and suggestions.

    My garbage cans are located on my property with in my driveway not on the curb. the offender actually comes onto my driveway to drop his bag.

    As for you neighbors who pick up the garbage in the neighborhood form those blowing cans or whatever. THANKS and your are more than welcome to use my garbage can. Garbage is not Feces.

    #656984

    flowerpetal
    Member

    Garbage is the place for bagged dog poop; but not other people’s garbage. The dog owner’s garbage container or a public container as in the parks.

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