guilty of leaving the bag on the ground.
If I'm doing an out and back I leave it where I will remember and pick it up on the way back.
I have on occasions pocketed the bag and forgotten I have it when I haven't seen any bins.
Walked all around a Lake district village complaining of its drains cos I had a bag in my coat pocket under my nose.

I live in the middle of the countryside too, I've picked up my fair share of horse poo having owned horses for donkey's year, and stepped in a few cow pats, BUT, that's not offensive to me coz they don't eat meat!!! It's a different ball game with the nasty bacteria found in dog sh*t, which could kill my dog, stink my car out, make a kid blind, or make me sick if I happen to get some on MY hands by picking up my dog's ball!!!! GRRRRR pick it UP!!!!!!! I'd like to eradicate parvo too, which would be sooooooo easy if EVERYBODY picked up their dog sh*t!

I've trained my dogs to poop in the hedge, but sometimes they slip up, then I flick it with a stick, or if we are somewhere where I can rinse my boots, then I kick it into the hedge. I don't pick up at all, even on the beach, because I consider the pollution caused by the plastic poo bags to be worse than the contents, so if below the tide line, I bury it in the sand.

Biking along the canals, I just flick it into the canal with a handy stick. Being raw fed, their poos are nice and small, dry and very flickable!

I hate to see poo bags left on the ground/hanging in trees/on bushes etc. Fair enough if you always remember to collect it on your way back, but definitely not alright if it is left there for any length of time. Far better to flick dog poo to the side of the path out of the way or into a bush etc with a stick or the side of your boot. At least poo biodegrades unlike plastic poo bags.

I live in a remote part of the countryside and so don't often need to pick up poo on walks, but if my dogs do happen to go on a track or footpath then I always kick it off to the side or into bushes etc.

how ridiculous! Seriously?!!!

How could dog poo kill your dog? mine eat other dogs sh*t all the time and are still alive.

I have to say it doesn't bother me people leaving it in rural fields/woods much at all. If I'm walking off the beaten track, I expect to get muddy, maybe tread in sh*t & for my dogs to roll in sh*t. If I'm in a public park, at the beach or indeed walking in residentual areas, that is a totally different kettle of fish. Dog poo should be picked up 100% of the time in those places. Luckily with all the busybodies and curtain twitching old folk, most people do seem to pick up 95% of the time in those areas around here.

Because that's how dogs get parvo, worms, and any other bacteria the shi**ing dog has got or is carrying!!!!

QUOTE "Canine parvovirus is carried by dogs, many of whom show no symptoms themselves. The virus is also shed in the diarrhea of infected dogs and can subsequently survive in the ground and the outside environment for a very long time - even several months."unqote

Surely, everybody knows how parvo virus is contracted??????? If people didn't leave sh*t around, we wouldn't have the bladdy disease! And YES parvo can and does kill even a vaccinated dog like mine!

Yup! we lived in a small village for about two years n no one picked up after their dogs (except me, apparently, was told this by someone in village). It was pretty disgusting and often saw folk walking past trying to scrape dog s**t off their shoes.

Parvo is very rare in adult dogs to the best of my knowledge.

Worrying about bacteria is a human issue, not a dog one. My dogs eat sh*t of various assortments, rotting things, dead things, all the time...all bacteria and germ ridden...they are dogs!

As for worms, a dog could pick up worms through eating any type of faeces.

That's contrary to the words that came out of my vet's mouth last year when she said "parvo is pretty rife in this area", and that is why I worry!

Worrying about bacteria is NOT just a human issue, dogs can contract e-coli, salmonella, campylobacta and just about everything else that's rife with bacteria and it makes them very sick indeed, you've been lucky, just be thankful!