Please don't let your dog turd on a public path for other pedestrians to smear all over the street grrrr -.-

don't fling poo bags in bushes or leave on the side of paths it look disgusting!

If your dog has issues and is likely to be a problem to other dogs and people leash it! Doesn't matter what the breed is or its size. A leash is your friend not your enemy!

Pick up after your dog!

Socialise whenever possible.

Don't let your dog charge at on lead dogs, it can be stressfull for both dog and owner why should another owner be left to control your dog?

Just try to remember dog walking is supposed to destress you and those around you not add to it.

Pick up your dog poo.........otherwise I am liable to do it for you and then follow you and present it to you in as public an area as I can find.

Especially when you are letting your dog cr@p a few yards from my back gate. Especially as I know where you live and it's literally round the corner. One day I will pick it up for you and post it back through your letterbox.

Funniest thing I have ever seen was one day when I was bending back up with a full poo bag which I always tie in a knot and put in my pocket. Ahead of me was a woman walking her child to school and just in front of her a bloke walking a dog. The bloke let his dog poo on the path, did that thing where they pretend they haven't seen what the dog has done by looking away and walking off slowly. She was a few steps behind him and said "Are you going to pick that up?" He blanked her and carried on walking, so she bawled "OI, DIDN'T YOU HEAR ME - ARE YOU GOING TO PICK UP AFTER YOUR DOG?" He walked a bit faster. She shouted again. And again. And all the way up the path for about a quarter of a mile until they were out of earshot about every few seconds with him frogmarching the poor dog as fast as he could without breaking into a run. They should give her a megaphone, employ her full time and get some of her friends to come too. It's disgusting round here - it's like poo bingo going up to the health centre.

I met someone like this when I was outside my work building in the city centre. He was walking a Springer spaniel and it pooed all over the pavement and he just dragged the dog off the pavement and across the road

I waved a plastic bag at him and said loudly "have you forgotten yours? Would you like to have this one?"
He then said "it wasn't my dog"! I replied "It was I just saw him do it"! He did then come and pick up after his dog whcih took quite a while as he had dragged it along the pavement whilst it was pooping

Yeah as a new owner I don't understand why people have a problem picking up after their dog, it isn't a big deal and it is part of the deal with owning a dog.

I was in a woods the other day and I had just heard, on the radio, advice from the woodland trust to operate a stick and flick policy. i.e. use a stick to flick it off the path into the scrub. However when I did I tossed the stick which was promptly retrieved for me so not a great idea IMHO.

I agree, most annoying and the owners all think its so funny when their little baby lunges barking at a larger dog, if the shoe was on the other paw it would be Big Bad Devil Dog German Shepherd or Rottie.

Sandra64

I second that.

recognize how dogs are playing and acting before you let yours of lead unless you can controlle how they play,

reason- i watch what dogs are doing in the park cause my dogs like to play rough
if there is confident dogs playing stupid games i let them off
but if there is even just one dog in a group that looks shy or nervous i keep mine on lead or at heel of lead till we are clear of the area

I'd much rather people flicked their dogs mess into the undergrowth than pick it up with a poo bag, tie the poo bag shut...........and then promptly dump said poo bag on the ground

My local Forestry Commission paths are just utterly littered with full poo bags!! At least poo bloody biodegrades

depends where you are.some places are known locally as off lead and relaxed, so not the place for 'iffy' dogs. i have one near me, so everyone goes wwith the flow. if your dog is on lead they expect it to be 'friendly' (generally) but ask why but dont necessarily do a full recall and put dog on lead, they just sort of gather the dog in and everyone politely works it out