Dog poo
I’m currently at home in LA on my last day of a 4-day. I’ve been down here attending the Microsoft PDC (Professional Developers Conference) which was interesting.
My parents live in a townhome community of about 20 or 30 homes gated into our own little bubble. The houses here are nice but one thing that lacks are yards (front and back) from any home. It’s not a big deal since we still have our concrete walkways.
I was walking around this morning when I was started by a huge rottweiler (i think) that seemed to be confined to someone’s 8×10 porch space (?). First of all, the barking almost made me crap my pants. Secondly, I don’t see what these people are thinking having a dog that 1) lives in such a confined space, 2) doens’t have a yard to run in (it was sitting on concrete steps) and 3) has a dog that obviously barks in an area where homes are fairly close together. What were these people thinking?? I hope they were dog sitting for the day.
What finally prompted me to write about this were the 2 or 3 piles of dog POO I saw on the said walkways!! What is up with THAT?! First they have a dog in an environment that I think is not fair for a dog (AND the neighbors) and now there’s dog POO right smack in the middle of the walkways?! Granted, the said poo may not have beloned to the said dog.. said..sed..zed… but these two events, which happened directly on the same walk, really annoys me. Don’t people think?!
While we’re talking about poo, here’s an amusing link from last week when Bush made a surprise appearance at the UN to talk about a terrorism issues. Apparently he doesn’t really know how their protocol works:
US President snapped requesting ‘bathroom break’
September 17 2005 10:02 am | What's the deal with.. ?
September 18th, 2005 at 4:15 pm
This reminds of the time I took my dogs to the vet and right after we came out, this Lab took a poo on the walkway outside before he went in, which the owner neglected to clean up. Gross. Then this lady (I think a store owner) walks out of the store next to the vet’s office, sees the poo, and then of course, logically looks at me, holding two dogs not too far away. Augh. What to do in this situation?? I mean, I don’t particularly enjoy picking up poo, especially not another dog’s poo – not MY responsibility, plus, I was sans poo bags. But I recognized the futility of insisting, “That’s not from us, I swear. Really.” Anyways, she cleaned it up, all the while muttering to herself while I stood there mutely and uncomfortably. Damn you, owner of the Lab! A pox on all your houses for putting me in this situation!!
September 18th, 2005 at 11:06 pm
It’s like a scene out of Seinfeld except that in Seinfeld episode you’d somehow run into this person in a completely different situation and your reputation as dog-poo leaver would somehow work against you.
September 20th, 2005 at 11:31 pm
This just reminds me of Provence. Shit + Shoe = Result of Bryan’s Law. If they can spay and neuter a pet, can they “de-pooter” them too? That would be great. Or maybe they can just give all pets colostomies while they’re doing the reproductive surgery. Then all pet owners would just be responsible for emptying the bag attached to the side of their pet. You may think this is gross, but isn’t it just as gross to pick it up with your hand on the ground with a baggie? Methinks so. Instead you could just have this disposable/attachable pet colostomy bag. Unlock and toss into the trash…attach another bag…whalaaa! No shite on the ground. Happy community. No glares from people.
September 21st, 2005 at 9:36 am
Or we could legalize “intimate hunting” with pets that poop on the street. –poop– *BLAM*!
September 22nd, 2005 at 5:45 pm
Awwww…what a cute puppy! Abooogeeboogeebooooooo!
(Strokes puppy’s fur and hands him a milkbone.)
*poop* –> “click-click” –> *boom!*
Now I have a great business idea. You know those shit-catchers that you see on horses in populated areas? For example, in Disneyland they would have those bags under the horse’s ass that holds a load of crap. We could sell those for dogs and other pets! We can call it the “Canine Crap Catcher!” Genius I say, genius.