Attention Dog-Owners
Posted on | June 25, 2011 | 2 Comments
I’m not sure if I’ve said this before—it’s certainly something I’ve threatened offline.
Dog-owners: I am going to start carrying a disposable rubber-glove in my pocket wherever I go. When I see you out walking your dog and pausing to let that dog shit on the footpath, I’m going to pop on the glove, pick up the shit and smear it on your shoes. At very least, I’ll chase you and throw it at you.
If you’re going to keep an animal in a town or city, YOU are responsible for it. This means its shit too. Clean it up or control where your dog craps—I’m not crazy about dog-shit on grassy patches or in corners either but at least it’s a bit easier to avoid.
I’m going to encourage everyone to carry a disposable glove.
We will become a citizen army of shit-smearers and faeces-flingers.
We will reclaim the streets.
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Gerry Hayes
I mostly sit around all day and drink tea. Occasionally, I write stuff and send it to strangers so they can humiliate me and deride my efforts. Other than the self-harm to dull the shame of failure, it's not a bad life. Like I say, there's tea.
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Your post title got my attention. I am a dog owner. I couldn’t agree w/ you more. We’re always picking up our dog’s shit. Even when we forget the shit sacks, we figure some way of picking it up (twigs, leaves, brown paper bags that the Eastern European bums who occupy the park at night discard on the grass after finishing the cheap booze previously hidden within).
I don’t doubt it at all, Ellie. You’re neither selfish nor lazy. You are aware that the earth is populated by other people and you consider them. When I eventually go mental and start shooting at people from a high building, you’ll be on the ‘NICE’ list.