Am I The Only One Who Doesn't Let Their Dogs Take A Public Dump?

[~Shepherd~]

They can wait until they get home as far as I am concerned, or wait until I give the go ahead.

[LuvMyCav]

I always have poo bags with me - if they need to go, they can go, I don't have any problem with it.

[♪♫LMBC♫♪]

How do you stop them?

I just take some bags.

[Guest Tess32]

Did you buy butt plugs for them?

[indigirl]

Umm how do you stop them? Shove a plug up thier butt? Unfortunately if my dogs have to go then they have to go - thats what poo bags are for! Ive yet to find a way to stop them lol.

[gspx3]

And what would you do if you were at a trial/show/any event all day (or even all weekend)??????????????

[oakway]

You just take bags along and do the responsible thing and clean up after them.

I do it at dog shows and every where else they go.

[Kelly_Louise]

Thankfully Sasha very rarely poos in public (maybe 5 times in the 2 years she's been with us) and doesn't like doing it... and if I see the inevitable crouch - I try to just tug her along (like I haven't noticed - especially when there is people around). However, if she's persistent - I ALWAYS carry poo bags. Just in case.

[Kelly_Louise]

I figure I wouldn't like someone telling me to hold it if I really needed to go

[ellz]

I actually find that a bit cruel. When you've gotta go, you've gotta go.

Plastic bags were a truly wonderful invention really!

[W Sibs]

I don't know how to deprive Emmy of having an audience when she does her number 2... whenever we are at the shops, she makes sure that people are around watching when she does it.

I do carry poo bags too.

[mackenzie11]

our eldest dog goes for a walk b4 he has his breakfast, and has never pooped in public,

[whiskedaway]

Akira generally does not toilet on lead. We never made a big deal out of training that, she has just always preferred not to. She is starting to learn a toileting command, though, because when I take her to work for the day, she has to toilet on lead because the yard isn't fenced. She has also always preferred not to toilet when out, but she's starting to grow out of that. I just make sure I carry bags.

[Red Fox]

There are certain times/places when I dont allow it - two doors down from our house on our way home, in front of the outdoor dining area of the local hotel at lunch time, tiny nature strip in the middle of a busy road... in those cases he can wait a few minutes longer until we can reach a more appropriate area.

Not hard to stop, just say "no" when I see the change in his posture that signals he wants to go and keep walking, then when we reach a place where he can go I stop and let him

I carry bags so 99% of the time he goes when he needs to and I just pick it up. Wouldn't make him hold on for long unless absolutely necessary, it must be uncomfortable.

[ellz]

There are certain times/places when I dont allow it - two doors down from our house on our way home, in front of the outdoor dining area of the local hotel at lunch time, tiny nature strip in the middle of a busy road... in those cases he can wait a few minutes longer until we can reach a more appropriate area.

Not hard to stop, just say "no" when I see the change in his posture that signals he wants to go and keep walking, then when we reach a place where he can go I stop and let him

I carry bags so 99% of the time he goes when he needs to and I just pick it up. Wouldn't make him hold on for long unless absolutely necessary, it must be uncomfortable.

Exactly.

I've been known to fast track it down the road dragging a sniffing dog with a puckering bum so that he doesn't drop at an awkward or inappropriate place but that's about it.

What's easily deposited is just as easily collected by a hooman hand in a plastic bag!

[poodlefan]

I figure when a dog's gotta go its gotta go.

That said, only two of my dogs tend to toilet on walks. I carry poo bags and have a special "dog walk" bag the collection goes in.

[~Shepherd~]

None of my dogs have ever needed to crap in the middle of an oval, I make sure they get their morning and evening poo time and know if they dont.

If they dont go, and we are out all day, I will show them an appropriate place, pull out my bag and off we go.

ETA, First sentence was a bit of a lie, Charlie did briefly hence my aversion to the public pink ring

Edited October 18, 2010 by Chewbacca

[Kirty]

Three out of my four don't usually go when we are walking. But devil dog Champa goes 99% of the time. He doesn't even stop, just keeps on walking while he drops his load. No amount of correction will stop him. I then have to track back 20m picking up all the deposits. Blurgh! Pia tried to go in the middle of CBD when we went in for the rally but thankfully a quick correction stopped her. We were on our way home anyway, so we stopped at a park on the way home so she could go there.

[~Shepherd~]

Three out of my four don't usually go when we are walking. But devil dog Champa goes 99% of the time. He doesn't even stop, just keeps on walking while he drops his load. No amount of correction will stop him. I then have to track back 20m picking up all the deposits. Blurgh! Pia tried to go in the middle of CBD when we went in for the rally but thankfully a quick correction stopped her. We were on our way home anyway, so we stopped at a park on the way home so she could go there.

Charlie used to, but she did it because she enjoyed it, then started waiting til we went out to do it. 3 sessions and she learnt to suck it up.

[poodlefan]

Exercise stimulates the gut - I figure seeing as I'm exercising them, its a bit unfair to ask them to hold it.

I don't let the boys pee on people's gardens though - that's more marking behaviour.