Amen.
And I'm a dog owner, and nothing irritates me more than seeing the bags of dog shit everywhere.

I'll add my signature to that.

I only pick up after my St Bernard at the park. Anywhere else and y'all better watch your step, cousin. Fear not, I always leave a sign that reads FREE DOG SHIT.

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Hayley, BAGS of dog shit? You mean people are actually going to the trouble of putting shit into a bag and THEN leaving it?

Co-sign.

Aestro, yes this does happen.

That's why when in the woods I leave my dogs biodegradable paper bags far out away from the trail zone. You can help the environment in more than the expected ways. My dog is always on a leash when we're not in leash free zone and he is trained.

I'll take bag-leavers over non-baggers any day. (Not that i forgive the former for being such half-asses.) And i'll take both of them over the sloppy-baggers: those that pick up the shit so artlessly that they smear it all over the place, leaving a bigger and grosser hazard than it ever was before.

I just got my first smart phone not too long ago, so now that i've got a decent video camera, i've vowed to record any non-shit-picker-uppers in the (non-)act, print a couple of stills of the perpetrators, and then post them around the neighborhood. This has to stop. Please join me in my vow. We could start a web site even: 'Poop-headed Portlanders', or something. 'PDX Poop-leavers'.

And @ rich: Many times i have fantasized about doing something similar to what you mentioned: Slyly watching one of these people walk away from their steaming pile, then swooping in and bagging it myself, then stealthily following them, and then, when they finally reach their car or house, i would rocket that bag right onto their front door, or right onto the crack that separates the front and back door of their car, so that their dog's fresh, mushy shit gets way up in there, into all the little cracks and crevices. Then i would run away, laughing and cackling, yelling "TAKE YOUR MEDICINE, YOU INCONSIDERATE SHIT-LEAVER!! AAAAAGGGHHHHHHHH!!!!"

That is my fantasy -- not sleeping with Marisa Tomei or winning the lottery, but flinging warm bags of shit at inconsiderate peoples' property.

If only they could invent robot dogs whose poop is already encased in plastic.

Bagging the dog shit is clearly the biggest hurdle, so it's baffling to then see the bags on the ground instead of in a trash receptacle. I've heard someone argue that they just find it inconvenient to carry the bag with them until they find a garbage can, to which I've no understanding because it's not only in a bag, but it's also your responsibility? Don't want to bag it? Don't want to take the bag to a garbage can because it's out of the way? That's fine, but then don't own a dog.

One of my neighbors likes to deposit shit bags on our lawn. It's like they really hate us, but can't get the dog to actually shit ON our lawn, so they pick it up and move it over to our property. Fuckin' weirdos. They're even halfassed about their halfassedness.

Leakey, those "bio-degradeable bags" are greenwashed bullshit. Throw your dog's shit away you lazy bastard.

I do it becuz am not lazy, you schmuck. My bags work.

then there's the bagged dog shit that ends up in my recycling can. WTF, like that's better?