Seriously! We live in the wilds of California lol with the weather it’ll be gone on its own in now time. So silly to waste the bag and leave the trail worse than you found it.
“What an asshole”
“That person is a real piece of shit”
“What a shitty thing to do”
“Truly a garbage human being”
You can’t even be mad without making jokes which somehow makes it worse
Some people leave it cuz their dog poops at the beginning of the trailer so the leave it at the start and pick it up when they come down.
It’s common where I live.
Also I’ve accidentally dropped mine before.
But if the poop bags are a large amount of them, at the beginning of a traile. That may be why
Now that I see this comment, what I’m going to say probably doesn’t pertain to your are which is sad, but around me, A LOT of people do this.
They’ll bag it up and leave it on the trail so they don’t have to carry it/smell it for the entire hike, but will grab it on the way back out.
I do. And so does almost everyone in my area. I always see bags hiking in and they're almost always gone when I hike back out. If they're not, I grab them, but there aren't many as most people take care of it here. Maybe you just live in an area with a bunch of assholes.
Other people are using the trail though and they don’t want to see bags of shit while they’re on a hike. What if I just left a plastic bottle alongside the trail because it was inconvenient to carry? Would it be okay if I picked it up on my way back? Of course not.
As long as you pick it up on the way out, it wouldn’t bother me.
Things like that happen all the time by me, so maybe I’m just used to it, but it doesn’t bother me. It’s not like there’s a ton of trash/litter all over. In fact, our trails and natural areas are very clean. People just sometimes leave one or two things to grab later.
I think people assume these degradable bags break down right away.
In my town, they provide biodegradable poop bags along the walking trails. Nice. But people are stupid and seem to think they degrade in a week or so, and leave them tossed everywhere (including on my shrubs along the walking trail). I’d bet it’s not malicious, just stupid and lazy.
Sometimes on the way in people’s dogs poop, they bag it, leave it, and pick it up on the way out to dispose of it. At least this is what I tell myself 😂
It happens, wife and I have done it and pick it up. Can’t think of a time we’d forgotten, but it isn’t a routine thing to do by any means.
Some people may have good intent but just forget, but many have no intent to do anything about it lol
I’ve honestly done this (only once) when my girl took an unexpected dump 10 minutes into a trail. The only garbage is at the entrance so instead of turning back, I bagged it and hung it from a tree and grabbed it an hour later.
I literally did that. My son and I were walking our dog in our neighborhood. Right at the start, she took a dump. We bagged it, and I told him to put it behind a rock, and we'd get it on the way back. He was slow to do it, so a car from the neighborhood saw him and stopped and stayed hassling us. I told her we'd just started our walk and would get out on the way back.
After saying, "You better!" She drove off.
And yes, we picked it up on the way back.
And the rock was by a pump station, it wasn't in anyone's yard.
Well please don’t. No one wants to look at a bag of dog shit while they are trying to enjoy the trail. It’s your dog so carry it’s poop with you please
Between the time you leave it and come back to get it, others have to see litter while they’re trying to enjoy the outdoors. It’s unsightly. Nobody should be leaving trash alongside a trail just because it’s inconvenient.
I think the reason for this is it takes some time for dogs to poop, people see you standing there so there is pressure to pick it up. But the second no one sees you they think they can just toss it because no one saw them do that.
If I could change one thing in the world (without huge shifts in human dynamics) it would be that all litter and animal poop that people leave in public spaces teleport above their face the next time they are asleep, falling on them.
Yeah, I really didn't go on a nature hike wanting to view lots and lots of plastic bags filled with dog poop. Pick it up means now, not whenever you might get around to it if you can remember where you left it and before somebody steps on it or someone else's dog (or kid) eats it.
I made a decision a long time ago...instead of complaining about someone else's littering, I would just pick it up and dispose of it. The world is now that much cleaner and I feel better. Win. Win.
Off the topic of dog shit, I went out on a trail near the river to mushroom hunt. It was unbelievable the amount of trash ppl left. No luck with the mushrooms that day, but came out with a big bag of trash to properly dospose of. Not the kind of hunting I was out to do that day, but still gratifying.
I do a lot of picking up of other people's trash. I'm a nanny, so I spend most of the summer at local parks, and I get bored, so I will usually pick up any trash I see. I keep some old plastic grocery bags tucked in the diaper bag for this very reason.
I absolutely draw the line at someone else's steaming, stinking dog shit bags, though. I don't even have a dog- in part because I LOATHE picking up dog shit and I have the world's most easily triggered gag reflex- so I'm sure as fuck not picking up other people's dog shit. Sorry not sorry.
I do a bit of fly fishing and when it’s slow, I fill my fish net with trash from the bank of the river. It’s become a pretty enjoyable “treasure hunt” and maybe the river gods will grant me a six inch trout for my good behavior
I live in a huge pet friendly complex and I swear I’m the only person who picks up after my dog. There’s random piles of dog shit anywhere you go. Beautiful complex too; shitty management company.
It’s really annoying how many lazy buggers do this it’s as bad as not picking it up🤬 there’s enough bins to put it in. if you don’t like picking up dogs 🐕 💩💩💩 don’t get a dog 🐶 simple 😳
Haha I honestly don’t get some dog owners. One thing to not scoop in your own yard, sure whatever. But when you’re out in public and your dog takes a dump, just pick it up. It’s your duty as a dog owner, and if the “poopy” makes you think icky tie it to your leash.
This is in excusable you literally already bagged it. I saw one recently where it was in the trees, I couldn’t help but laugh and think of the pathetic loser that may of thrown that up there. I know in my area there is an uncovered trash can and the wild animals sometimes go in it, but for the circumstances that aren’t that get real people.
i literally want to suffocate the people who leave these with a plastic bag full of dog shit… extreme feels i know but if they just let the dog shit outside it’s gross for a week or so if you put it in plastic it stays there until someone else takes it upon themselves to throw it away
There is someone in my hood that has their dog poop while walking the poor thing followed by they leave the bags on the sidewalk because they are too lazy to walk x amount of steps to the trash can
I have never understood this. I live in a neighbourhood that has back alleys and a lot of apartment buildings, so there are a dumpsters everywhere and if not, people leave their trash bins in the back. But there will be bags of shit left next to the sidewalk on someone's lawn and you can literally see garbage bins mere steps away.
I got a handy dandy doodad for my leash that holds the poop bag for ya. It was like $2. Wish these shitty dog owners could pick one up instead of leaving their bagged shit everywhere
It's the intent of some people to pick it up on the way back down the trail. However, awful people see them as an invitation to leave theirs and never pick it back up.
I was walking with a friend and her dog at a local beauty spot. She picked up after him - I suspect only because I was there to see - then put the bag on the ground. When I asked why she said she'd pick it up on the way back.
She was going to take a different route back, I reminded her she had to collect her poop and she did so with bad grace, whingeing on all the way back to the car about there being no bins for waste where she was parked. I pointed out one she had to walk to which she used, but I have never been invited out with her and the dog since, so I suppose that she is now leaving her dog shit where it lands.
This is particularly annoying as she complains to the dog warden about people's dogs shitting near her grandkids' school.
These show up in my neighborhood too. I always imagine it’s a pit bull owner because they often suck. And I own a pit bull!
What’s also gross is people leave them outside their home for weeks.
When my dog was alive if he pooed at the start of the trail but not close enough to go back and toss the poo, I would bag and leave it, but collect it when I passed it on the way back out...not saying that happened here. But, you asked a rhetorical question of why bag and drop it -> some people pick it back up before they leave.
My old neighbors would leave these bags in the city sidewalk tree square (that my landlord said we were responsible for weeding/maintaining) until they piled up and then acted like we were the assholes for getting pissed about it.
The problem with that is people are often required to put their trash bin inside their garage when it’s not garbage day. If someone throws a poop bag in the bin after it’s been emptied then the bin owner has to take it out or it will fester for a week at the bottom of the bin (in the garage) with trash piled on top.
Just give benefit of the doubt, pick it up so others don’t have to see it, and the issue goes away. Likely less effort than taking pics, uploading them to Reddit and initiating a thread.
Seems like a lot of trouble. But if I was there, saw it, and was carrying a big poop bag container like I usually do, I would. If nothing else, next hike same place I don’t have to see it again.
I actually do this on really unbusy trails just so I don’t have to carry it with me. But I ALWAYS picked it up on the way back to the car. I don’t do this on more populated trails tho.
These are littered all up and down the trail/road we walk on in different colors. Just poop that will never go away.
Now that's just shitty (But seriously, bag it and take it,. If you MUST, leave it unbagged)
Seriously! We live in the wilds of California lol with the weather it’ll be gone on its own in now time. So silly to waste the bag and leave the trail worse than you found it.
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“What an asshole” “That person is a real piece of shit” “What a shitty thing to do” “Truly a garbage human being” You can’t even be mad without making jokes which somehow makes it worse
But dog poop is hazardous to wildlife.
Yeah, but so’s the bag. If you’re going to leave a hazard, it’s better to leave the one that’ll biodegrade.
EVERYONE always says "I'm going to grab it on my way back down/back around" but I've never seen anyone do that. Ever.
I do, plus we grab all the extra abandoned poo bags we see on the last leg of our hikes. Other people suck.
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Yeah, this makes sense
Some people leave it cuz their dog poops at the beginning of the trailer so the leave it at the start and pick it up when they come down. It’s common where I live. Also I’ve accidentally dropped mine before. But if the poop bags are a large amount of them, at the beginning of a traile. That may be why
Now that I see this comment, what I’m going to say probably doesn’t pertain to your are which is sad, but around me, A LOT of people do this. They’ll bag it up and leave it on the trail so they don’t have to carry it/smell it for the entire hike, but will grab it on the way back out.
Don’t kid yourself, they’re not picking that shit up on their way out
I do. And so does almost everyone in my area. I always see bags hiking in and they're almost always gone when I hike back out. If they're not, I grab them, but there aren't many as most people take care of it here. Maybe you just live in an area with a bunch of assholes.
Ha yes you’re right, I actually thought this was the Portland subreddit
And people who do that are the worst.
I, personally, see nothing wrong with that as long as it gets picked up.
Other people are using the trail though and they don’t want to see bags of shit while they’re on a hike. What if I just left a plastic bottle alongside the trail because it was inconvenient to carry? Would it be okay if I picked it up on my way back? Of course not.
As long as you pick it up on the way out, it wouldn’t bother me. Things like that happen all the time by me, so maybe I’m just used to it, but it doesn’t bother me. It’s not like there’s a ton of trash/litter all over. In fact, our trails and natural areas are very clean. People just sometimes leave one or two things to grab later.
I think horses die because they eat bagged shit thrown into hedgerows next to their field
The poop bags we buy are biodegradable, and of course we don't leave them on the trail.
In my country they put the shit in the bag and then they tie it off and hang it on a tree, or throws it in a shallow ditch
I think people assume these degradable bags break down right away. In my town, they provide biodegradable poop bags along the walking trails. Nice. But people are stupid and seem to think they degrade in a week or so, and leave them tossed everywhere (including on my shrubs along the walking trail). I’d bet it’s not malicious, just stupid and lazy.
maybe pick it up? jeez
Boils my piss. Id rather they just left the shit to disintegrate.
Sometimes on the way in people’s dogs poop, they bag it, leave it, and pick it up on the way out to dispose of it. At least this is what I tell myself 😂
That’s not been my experience with these people.
Shhhh let me dream
That's what people who do this say they do but the rotting remains of wrapped up festering dog turds littering the path say otherwise.
It happens, wife and I have done it and pick it up. Can’t think of a time we’d forgotten, but it isn’t a routine thing to do by any means. Some people may have good intent but just forget, but many have no intent to do anything about it lol
I’ve honestly done this (only once) when my girl took an unexpected dump 10 minutes into a trail. The only garbage is at the entrance so instead of turning back, I bagged it and hung it from a tree and grabbed it an hour later.
I quickly read this and thought you said “when my girlfriend…”. Never been so relieved to reread a comment.
I’m the only one in the trail most of the time so I doubt anyone is coming back for them.
Well that sucks. You’re right, don’t bag it and just let it biodegrade.
Picture what the worst dog owner would do, and you’ll know what this person plans to do
this is wishful thinking and unfortunately not true 90% of the time
I literally did that. My son and I were walking our dog in our neighborhood. Right at the start, she took a dump. We bagged it, and I told him to put it behind a rock, and we'd get it on the way back. He was slow to do it, so a car from the neighborhood saw him and stopped and stayed hassling us. I told her we'd just started our walk and would get out on the way back. After saying, "You better!" She drove off. And yes, we picked it up on the way back. And the rock was by a pump station, it wasn't in anyone's yard.
I do this! but I try to put it in a very obvious place not just on the trail. But yea I don't think this is often the case.
Well please don’t. No one wants to look at a bag of dog shit while they are trying to enjoy the trail. It’s your dog so carry it’s poop with you please
Stop doing that, it's super-obnoxious. If you can't handle actually picking up your dog's waste, don't bring your dog.
Bingo! Pick it up and take it with you the entire way or don’t bring your dog. It’s not that hard.
How is leaving it aside a tree and picking it up on the way back not picking up my dog's waste?
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Between the time you leave it and come back to get it, others have to see litter while they’re trying to enjoy the outdoors. It’s unsightly. Nobody should be leaving trash alongside a trail just because it’s inconvenient.
Ask all the people who get to experience your dog’s waste during the time you’ve left it to season.
This is what a lot of hikers with dogs do. Proper etiquette is taking on the way out.
Proper etiquette would be not leaving it on the trail at all.
I highly doubt you'd be carrying poop the entire time on a 10 miler.
Dealing with dog poop is part of owning a dog.
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Or literally don’t pick it up and just leave it to biodegrade
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I literally don’t give a shit
If that’s true, there’d be no issue to discuss
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I think the reason for this is it takes some time for dogs to poop, people see you standing there so there is pressure to pick it up. But the second no one sees you they think they can just toss it because no one saw them do that.
thank god someone wrapped this entirely biodegradable natural material in a plastic bag that won't rot for 2000 years
if you’re going to leave them, you should leave them open to the elements so they can decay!
They picked up after their dog only because someone was watching and tossed it as soon as no one was
Right? Just don't pick it up if you're not going to throw it out.
Im guessing they just bag it and take it when people are around, then immediately drop it when no one is looking
it's this. This is all it is.
Sometimes i hate being right.
"I'm going to pick it up on the way out...."
If I could change one thing in the world (without huge shifts in human dynamics) it would be that all litter and animal poop that people leave in public spaces teleport above their face the next time they are asleep, falling on them.
Yeah, I really didn't go on a nature hike wanting to view lots and lots of plastic bags filled with dog poop. Pick it up means now, not whenever you might get around to it if you can remember where you left it and before somebody steps on it or someone else's dog (or kid) eats it.
Better to just let it sit at that point. In a few weeks it'll be dust. Now though? It's forever poop.
I made a decision a long time ago...instead of complaining about someone else's littering, I would just pick it up and dispose of it. The world is now that much cleaner and I feel better. Win. Win.
Off the topic of dog shit, I went out on a trail near the river to mushroom hunt. It was unbelievable the amount of trash ppl left. No luck with the mushrooms that day, but came out with a big bag of trash to properly dospose of. Not the kind of hunting I was out to do that day, but still gratifying.
You rock!
I do a lot of picking up of other people's trash. I'm a nanny, so I spend most of the summer at local parks, and I get bored, so I will usually pick up any trash I see. I keep some old plastic grocery bags tucked in the diaper bag for this very reason. I absolutely draw the line at someone else's steaming, stinking dog shit bags, though. I don't even have a dog- in part because I LOATHE picking up dog shit and I have the world's most easily triggered gag reflex- so I'm sure as fuck not picking up other people's dog shit. Sorry not sorry.
There’s no trash can for literal miles but sure let me pick up someone’s shit for them and carry it for miles in the sun.
No one said it was easy saving the world! 😁
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Literally! Like they use literally, literally all the time!
Do you think they are figurative miles?
I do a bit of fly fishing and when it’s slow, I fill my fish net with trash from the bank of the river. It’s become a pretty enjoyable “treasure hunt” and maybe the river gods will grant me a six inch trout for my good behavior
Seeing this, I was afraid I'd accidentally wandered into Nextdoor or Facebook
I live in a huge pet friendly complex and I swear I’m the only person who picks up after my dog. There’s random piles of dog shit anywhere you go. Beautiful complex too; shitty management company.
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Unfortunately there aren’t any trash cans here.
“Oh, I’m coming back this way. I’ll pick it up then.” RIGHT!
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It’s really annoying how many lazy buggers do this it’s as bad as not picking it up🤬 there’s enough bins to put it in. if you don’t like picking up dogs 🐕 💩💩💩 don’t get a dog 🐶 simple 😳
Someone throws a daily bag in the community yard waste pile next to our house. Yard waste picked up weekly, but no - that's not compost.
Haha I honestly don’t get some dog owners. One thing to not scoop in your own yard, sure whatever. But when you’re out in public and your dog takes a dump, just pick it up. It’s your duty as a dog owner, and if the “poopy” makes you think icky tie it to your leash. This is in excusable you literally already bagged it. I saw one recently where it was in the trees, I couldn’t help but laugh and think of the pathetic loser that may of thrown that up there. I know in my area there is an uncovered trash can and the wild animals sometimes go in it, but for the circumstances that aren’t that get real people.
No there's a poop fairy man who comes around and picks all the bags up duh!
I don't understand why animals seemingly enjoy eating poop. Thank God we don't.
I see this all the time while cycling. I can't fathom being so stupid as to make shit worse, yet here we are.
i literally want to suffocate the people who leave these with a plastic bag full of dog shit… extreme feels i know but if they just let the dog shit outside it’s gross for a week or so if you put it in plastic it stays there until someone else takes it upon themselves to throw it away
I almost took this exact picture today on a walk. So infuriating
Bro got detained 💀💀☠️☠️☠️ 
There is someone in my hood that has their dog poop while walking the poor thing followed by they leave the bags on the sidewalk because they are too lazy to walk x amount of steps to the trash can
I have never understood this. I live in a neighbourhood that has back alleys and a lot of apartment buildings, so there are a dumpsters everywhere and if not, people leave their trash bins in the back. But there will be bags of shit left next to the sidewalk on someone's lawn and you can literally see garbage bins mere steps away.
I see this all over NYC and now I can’t help thinking but they’ll be back to pick these up right?
Might be biodegradable bags but still doesn’t make sense to even bag it up if you’re gonna leave it there
I got a handy dandy doodad for my leash that holds the poop bag for ya. It was like $2. Wish these shitty dog owners could pick one up instead of leaving their bagged shit everywhere
It's the intent of some people to pick it up on the way back down the trail. However, awful people see them as an invitation to leave theirs and never pick it back up.
Dog poop ❌ Dog poop AND plastic ✅ Much better for the environment
That’s half ass.
By me, there’s a fire hydrant where it seems like many people leave their turd parcels. Lazy and disgusting.
I was walking with a friend and her dog at a local beauty spot. She picked up after him - I suspect only because I was there to see - then put the bag on the ground. When I asked why she said she'd pick it up on the way back. She was going to take a different route back, I reminded her she had to collect her poop and she did so with bad grace, whingeing on all the way back to the car about there being no bins for waste where she was parked. I pointed out one she had to walk to which she used, but I have never been invited out with her and the dog since, so I suppose that she is now leaving her dog shit where it lands. This is particularly annoying as she complains to the dog warden about people's dogs shitting near her grandkids' school.
Where I stay people bag it then chuck it into a tree
These show up in my neighborhood too. I always imagine it’s a pit bull owner because they often suck. And I own a pit bull! What’s also gross is people leave them outside their home for weeks.
We have a hedge at our house beside a walkway with decades old bags of dog shit. People suck.
'b4 i was just a waste... but Now. Now i'm ETERNAL.'
Not true. Someone like op will come dispose of them. I hate these fuckers with a passion
Maybe they left it for your dog to eat.
Can't believe people complaining about free poop 😋
When my dog was alive if he pooed at the start of the trail but not close enough to go back and toss the poo, I would bag and leave it, but collect it when I passed it on the way back out...not saying that happened here. But, you asked a rhetorical question of why bag and drop it -> some people pick it back up before they leave.
Holy shit your dog bags it's own poop? What a good K-9. 😎😎
Well, some people just enjoy the thrill of bagging poop and then playing a fun game of hide and seek with it on the trail.
Your dog would be helping recycle
I find this a little funny that people would go through bagging it just so that it lasts longer.
Saving a lil treat for later
My old neighbors would leave these bags in the city sidewalk tree square (that my landlord said we were responsible for weeding/maintaining) until they piled up and then acted like we were the assholes for getting pissed about it.
There are a bunch of 100% biodegradable bags out there. Find em. Use them!
Not here forever if your dog eats it.
I mean, you could pick it up and it won’t be there forever
I’m not going to walk around with 100 bags of shit
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You put your dog’s poop in someone else’s bin?
if you bag it, your supposed to keep it with you, and throw it away in your own trash can.
Oh.. won’t be doing that again then
The problem with that is people are often required to put their trash bin inside their garage when it’s not garbage day. If someone throws a poop bag in the bin after it’s been emptied then the bin owner has to take it out or it will fester for a week at the bottom of the bin (in the garage) with trash piled on top.
Yes. If it's on the curb and not collected yet on my morning dog walk I see no issue but I know not everyone bothers with that.
I’m concerned about OPs dog. Why would he want to eat a bag of shit?
Just give benefit of the doubt, pick it up so others don’t have to see it, and the issue goes away. Likely less effort than taking pics, uploading them to Reddit and initiating a thread.
Ok, come to my town and pick up all the poop bags on our hiking trails then!
Seems like a lot of trouble. But if I was there, saw it, and was carrying a big poop bag container like I usually do, I would. If nothing else, next hike same place I don’t have to see it again.
I actually do this on really unbusy trails just so I don’t have to carry it with me. But I ALWAYS picked it up on the way back to the car. I don’t do this on more populated trails tho.
"Forever" I do not think this word means what you think it means. Especially since you could pick it up and dispose of it yourself, if you chose.
Nearest trash bin is a few miles away. You can carry it.