‘Plastic bags swinging from branches’: how Britain’s canine waste nightmare grew even worse | Dogs

I’m sorry, did you simply say… Yes, timber adorned with little black luggage (different colors are available) filled with canine excrement.

Oh no! I do know these timber; we have now them in our park. It’s disgusting – why do folks do it? Emma Powell of Keep Britain Tidy informed the Telegraph that the rise has one thing to do with canine walkers not wanting to the touch the bins, having grow to be extra conscious of germs through the pandemic. “There is this element of revulsion and disgust because they are overly concerned about bacteria,” she stated.

So the baggage get hung or flung as a substitute? And that’s not revolting or disgusting in any respect! Well, fairly.

I think about that is primarily an city challenge? Afraid not. The different day within the New Forest, a ranger named Naomi picked up 63 poo bags inside 400 metres of the automobile park – which has a bin.

I wager that’s not what Naomi signed up for, to be a human pooper scooper. And there are severe ecological points, too. “If left, it may harm wildlife and livestock, pollute our waterways, impact soil ecology and wild plants, or just spoil someone else’s day!” @newforestranger wrote on X.

To be truthful, there may be lots of crap on there today. Stop it. “Please #BagItBinIt,” the publish continues. “The ‘bin it’ part is essential – bags kill animals.”

And the person who left it there most likely calls themself an animal lover. There is a darkish irony there, I assume. Kingley Vale nationwide nature reserve close to Chichester has additionally been declaring how canine waste can have an effect on delicate ecosystems – chalk grasslands in its case. It has shared footage of hanging luggage and even issued a “plea from the trees”.

“Don’t hang your poo on us! We’re not some kind of sick scatological Christmas trees.” Actually, a litter picker in Evesham named Laura Van Toller made the identical connection, rewriting the 12 Days of Christmas with the road “Six dog poo bags hanging in a tree”.

Very good. She additionally identified that when canine walkers depart luggage of poo across the place, “they are doing more harm than if they had just left the poo”.

If solely somebody – Keep Britain Tidy, say – had a pleasant little slogan to assist us bear in mind. Guess what? It does: “There’s no such thing as the dog poo fairy.”

Noooo! We received’t inform the youngsters, promise.

Do say: “Hashtag bag it bin it #BagItBinIt.”

Don’t say: “How old were you when you stopped believing in the dog poo fairy?”