Why do the Spanish love dog turds so much?

[Jim]

Don’t worry about that we do, and I’m not saying every Spanish person is innocent, I just get peeed off when it’s easy to blame the country folk, when in fact the tourists are as bad or even worse

Must be a lot of Brits taking their dogs to Paris.

 

[denisejoe]

I thought the French were getting better is much cleaner if dog mess than 10 years ago

 

[chaser]

I think that it is the UK folk who hang their dog shit in bags on posts.... Why do folk do that?

I asked this question on another thread but no one could come up with an answer, it's more trouble than leaving it on the ground so why do they go to the trouble.
Has anyone on here ever hung dog shit on a tree ,if so why?

 

[chaser]

I asked this question on another thread but no one could come up with an answer, it's more trouble than leaving it on the ground so why do they go to the trouble.
Has anyone on here ever hung dog shit on a tree ,if so why?

Thinking about this , it's too common to just be a one off ,it's everywhere, is it some sort of signal to other dog folks, or even come to think of it, doggers

 

[Jim]

I thought the French were getting better is much cleaner if dog mess than 10 years ago

As a frequent visitor mid summer last year it was as bad as I've seen it for a while.

It's dangerous to generalise and of course there are always exeptions. But I agree with Northernraider. In my experience the culture of picking up after your dog hasn't really caught on in mainland Europe anywhere near to the levels it has in the UK. while plenty don't bother, dog poo bins in the UK are never empty for long.

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[Coastal Cruiser.]

Always remember walking along the river in Dinant and this older very well dressed lady watched her dog have a dump right on the grass where people from the restaurant were sitting on tables having a meal, she didn’t even look embarrassed just walked off!!
Even if we are abroad and walking the pups in the woods we still pick up

 

[monzer]

Round here the dogs have auto camo functions in their backsides so the turds blend in to any background. You really have to keep your eyes down in hi-res scanning mode so as not to have a 'squishy event'.
For tonight's fun, can you spot the 'land mine' ?
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Do I win the Bluetti super 2000 now?

 

[chaser]

Always remember walking along the river in Dinant and this older very well dressed lady watched her dog have a dump right on the grass where people from the restaurant were sitting on tables having a meal, she didn’t even look embarrassed just walked off!!
Even if we are abroad and walking the pups in the woods we still pick up

Heaven forbid anyone thinks I am standing up for dog people, but were the people sitting at the tables bothered, in France it's just the norm.

 

[Minxy]

I might add that our dogs will never crap on a pavement, needing a patch of grass even to pee. I don't know why, perhaps its a border collie thing.

Our Tazzy won't even poo on normal grass, oh no she has to mooch round for ages, in and out of shrubbery, long grass, you name it, just to find the right spot ... which of course isn't so she had to have another wander to find a better spot. Sometimes she can take 5 mins or more, often when it's ruddy raining so I get drenched.

She's always done it, I put it down to when she was a pup and her first owners likely telling her off for pooing on their lawn so she's learned to do it elsewhere ... sometimes she just won't do it at all so when we let her out again later she does a 'manic' reccy before she almost explodes.

 

[Minxy]

I thought the French were getting better is much cleaner if dog mess than 10 years ago

They have poop collectors in some parts of France ... An adapted motor scooters that has a large vacuum cleaner on the rear with a long tube!

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[Minxy]

I asked this question on another thread but no one could come up with an answer, it's more trouble than leaving it on the ground so why do they go to the trouble.
Has anyone on here ever hung dog shit on a tree ,if so why?

We did give you an answer, likely hung there to be collected on the way back after their walk, assuming they return that way and remember to pick it up.

 

[Rudski01]

I asked this question on another thread but no one could come up with an answer, it's more trouble than leaving it on the ground so why do they go to the trouble.
Has anyone on here ever hung dog shit on a tree ,if so why?

Never, we have a few different circuits where we live if one of ours decides to crap where it’s not suitable to flick then we pick up and place on the wall for the return leg, unfortunately we see bags thrown over into the fields, stuffed in the dry stone walls and just left full stop where they picked it up, they ain’t coming back for it cause it’s still there days after.
One of my farming mates has a footpath through his land from the campsite, they don’t bother picking up but prefer to remove a stone from the wall and place on top of the turd, not a happy farmer when doing his rounds replacing said stones to find them covered in shite

 

[chaser]

We did give you an answer, likely hung there to be collected on the way back after their walk, assuming they return that way and remember to pick it up.

Yes I did see your answer, and yes that may explain a few but there are far too many of them about for it to be the only answer.

 

[GeeCee]

Much the same as any British street really, problem is that here in Spain the dog crap is usually British dog owners that can’t be bothered here to pick up their crap

Might be true where you are but we've just spent 3 weeks in remote Spanish villages with barely another Brit in sight and every where we've been there pavements have been littered with dog shit. I like the Spanish, I really do but I think they need to put laws iin place to stop the dog littering.

 

[SIFTA SAM]

I asked this question on another thread but no one could come up with an answer, it's more trouble than leaving it on the ground so why do they go to the trouble.
Has anyone on here ever hung dog shit on a tree ,if so why?

To teach it a lesson not to do it again?

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[Minxy]

Perhaps the dog owners aren't the ones hanging the bags up but squirrels who think they're some new continental type of nut!

 

[busby]

Walk down any path in any village in Spain, or a park, or a green space, and guaranteed you'll see dog turds every few yards. Never understood why the Sapnish tolerate this. Do they have some kind of dog turd fettish?

Same in UK but mainly in winter,,probably because of the dark mornings and evenings,,it's not so bad in the summer..So many owners take the dog for a poo not a walk.BUSBY

 

[busby]

As a frequent visitor mid summer last year it was as bad as I've seen it for a while.

It's dangerous to generalise and of course there are always exeptions. But I agree with Northernraider. In my experience the culture of picking up after your dog hasn't really caught on in mainland Europe anywhere near to the levels it has in the UK. while plenty don't bother, dog poo bins in the UK are never empty for long.

Probably because of the number of dogs in the UK.. Weird during Covid we saw so many dogs whilst out walking, don't know where they all are now because we don't hardly see any.BUSBY.

 

[ChrisL]

It's not only dogs and not only Spain, I had the misfortune of finding a large deposit of human faeces in a phone box in Commercial Street London, it was so big they must have saved it up for a week, i've seen people squatting up against the wall that surrounds Fez in Morocco and also seen human faeces in streets in India, I know people can be caught short but surely there is somewhere more hygienic they could find.

 

[Steve and Denise]

We have a dog and always clean up after it
But on our time in Spain I told two French dog owners to clean up their dog shit off our plot and get their dog on a lead, they did say sorry! I replied you will be if it happens again
I then reported to two guilty owners plot numbers to the site.
Funny every dog owner tells you they clean up well obviously not, it’s not surprising that camp sites are going dog free

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[mofurt]

I think some pick up when they are being watched, then dump on a tree or wall once no-one is around - waiting for the poo fairy to do the final clean up.

We have a little back attached to the lead that holds poo bags, and also is somewhere to put full bags if there isn't a bin to hand. Probably wouldn't work too well for a big dog, and because we so rarely use it (on our usual walk we are never more than a few minutes from bins or home so just carry the full bags) we do occassionally get caught out and forget to empty it - which is pleasant the next time we use it

But this talk about Spain (not having been there for many years) - is it white and dried out on their pavements, like we used to have in the 70s over here?

 

[Northernraider]

Don’t worry about that we do, and I’m not saying every Spanish person is innocent, I just get peeed off when it’s easy to blame the country folk, when in fact the tourists are as bad or even worse

I can't recall ever seeing a Spaniard or a French owner ever lifting a poo, many times I've had to dodge standing in several other dog shits in order to pick my dogs up , I often wonder what is the point , especially when sometimes I've had to carry it for ages before finding a bin. I don't think anyone ever said tourists don't leave crap but it's illegal in the UK so most responsible owners are used to picking it up so they do it instinctively but in every other country I've visited I've seen far more of it than in UK

 

[jumartoo]

I can't recall ever seeing a Spaniard or a French owner ever lifting a poo, many times I've had to dodge standing in several other dog shits in order to pick my dogs up , I often wonder what is the point , especially when sometimes I've had to carry it for ages before finding a bin. I don't think anyone ever said tourists don't leave crap but it's illegal in the UK so most responsible owners are used to picking it up so they do it instinctively but in every other country I've visited I've seen far more of it than in UK

I HAVE seen Spanish picking up poo from their dogs. I remember the times because they are quite an uncommon occurrence.

Spain has strong rules about poo and pee, but no-one is ever there to implement the rules. The same with, I'd hazard a guess, about 90% of their rules.

 

[dickydo]

Also do not forget it is not that long ago that the British were terrible also

 

[Bramidan]

I’m in Turkey at the moment. I always pick up at home so it’s second nature to pick up here, bins ( not specifically dog bins) are numerous and frequent.
The locals do look at me strangely especially as there are a few street dogs roaming around, I guess they take the view that people don’t pickup after the street dogs so why bother.
I guess I’m old school, it’s your dog take responsibility, if you can’t don‘t have a dog.

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[Northernraider]

I’m in Turkey at the moment. I always pick up at home so it’s second nature to pick up here, bins ( not specifically dog bins) are numerous and frequent.
The locals do look at me strangely especially as there are a few street dogs roaming around, I guess they take the view that people don’t pickup after the street dogs so why bother.
I guess I’m old school, it’s your dog take responsibility, if you can’t don‘t have a dog.

It's even worse in Morocco, most times there are no bins , the locals look in sheer horror when you pick it up ,some even gag ...and then you have to carry it around because litter bins are non exsistant

 

[Rapido925M]

Outside our apartment block in Marbella.

Gordon

(May only apply to dogs capable of reading Spanish )