OT 60's & 70's

[harry]

ISTR there was lots of dog shit everywhere in both decades. Now they make people pick their dog's shit up. Pity they don't make horse riders do the same.

[Brian Gaff]

That would be a little difficult. Actually, I as a blind person used to get away with dog shit, but I'm not sure if its still the case. Nobody makes a dog shit homing beacon for us as far as I'm aware. Horses? If you cannot see horse shit to avoid it then you need glasses. I suppose you will want to fit nappies to Foxes and Badgers as well soon. Brian

[DerbyBorn]

"Brian Gaff" wrote in news:najsip$hm3$ [e-mail]:

Surely a dog can be trained to shit in the owners garden and then be taken for a walk as a reward. Neighbour of ours did this and they had a dogcrap composter thing buried in the garden.

[NY]

This looks like the start of the perennial discussion about white dogshit and why you don't see it any more...

[whisky-dave]

Well yes, but the difficulty is 'training' the owner not the dog. That's why you need fines and other formns of encouragement for the humans.

[Tim Lamb]

In message , DerbyBorn writes

Apparently not. Hence the expression *dogs don't shit on their own doorstep*. They prefer to add their contribution to that left by others, usually well away from home.

[Tim Lamb]

In message , NY writes

Bones?

[The Natural Philosopher]

Of the dogs I've known personally, some will crap in the garden and some won't. None ever crapped where other dogs had crapped, from choice

[Bob Martin]

WIWAL my father rushed outside after the milkman or baker had been(*) in order to get the horse-shit for his tomatoes.

• both used horse-drawn carts, of course.

[ARW]

Is it just me - but has anyone here ever seen a police dog have a crap in the street?

I have seen them bite a few people and seen them spending a lot of time barking at people but I have never seen one have a crap in the street.

[ARW]

Because it is not shit. It is manure.

[S Viemeister]

My Grandad did that - for his roses.

[bert]

In article , DerbyBorn writes

I tried one of those - useless. Maybe something to do with the heavy clay soil. I've had dogs for over 25 years. If you feed your dog a decent diet (not the commercial crap) then they produce very little shit. Picking it up is no problem as it is at body temperature. Picking up the wrong bit which is stone cold is awful.

[bert]

In article , Tim Lamb writes

Foxes in my version.

[Tim Lamb]

In message , bert writes

This side of London, it is usually an insult along the lines of... even a dog doesn't shit on his own doorstep.

[fred]

The horse drawn carriages in Vienna have a collection bag suspended under the horses tail. This is quit common in large cities I.M.E.

[S Viemeister]

I remember seeing that in Philadelphia, many years ago.

[Tim Streater]

Could someone organise one of these for Woddles? Only under his gob, rather than his arse.

[charles]

and in Bruges - but not in Killarney -where it smells

[michael adams]

Looks like Oscar Wilde is back in town.

michael adams

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