Poo problems

I live in an apartment complex and one of the ground rules for living here is that you’re supposed to pick up after you dog.  Now Shiloh has a thing about privacy and so prefers to go in the woods to poo (perhaps he thinks he’s a bear…or the pope?)  When he’s in the thick underbrush I refrain from picking up after him because:

1. The highly unlikely possibility someone would walk there and step in it
2. He’s a small dog and creates correspondingly small poo

When he gets the urge to poo in public however I always pick up after him (I haven’t kept track but I suspect he does that sometimes when he just wants to see me carry around a bag of crap).

About a year ago, I noticed a lot of people getting large dogs and walking them around and they all seemed to have one thing in common (other than having large dogs and walking them around that is):  none of them were picking up the huge dog patties their pooches were leaving everywhere.  It was getting so bad that I wasn’t able to walk Shiloh in our regular circuit and we had to go further afield in order to find a ‘poo free zone’.

Now, our current bathroom area has been invaded by a husky who produces massive poos right in the areas people are most likely to walk.  The owner used to just open up his door and let his dog out (attached to a leash) making it go to the bathroom within six or eight feet of the guy’s door.  I always thought that was kind of gross but since I never needed to get within eight feet of his door it didn’t really bother me.  Now that the weather is getting better, the owner is willing to walk distances up to 20 or 30 feet from his door and let his pooch relieve itself in a wider area. The owner doesn’t even pretend to make an effort to clean up after his dog.

Now, Shiloh and I have to relocate yet again.  I’m starting to feel like some small Gothic tribe getting pushed around by the Huns during the migration period.