**PUBLIC WARNING** Please do not let your dog’s poo on farmer’s fields, especially when you see them like this! This is winter food for the cows!!!! You may possibly cause Neosporosis / Abortion of calves which could even lead to a cull. Farmers work hard all year round to look after the cows.
by PoppedCork
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Having just seen a reckless dog owner do exactly this, I think this warning is timely.
Can you ask them to stop destroying our waterways with cow shite?
Dangerous to humans too. A child could go blind if the accidentally got their hand in dog poo and put their hand to their eye. People just let their dogs poo anywhere and don’t clean it up.
Whenever and wherever your dog takes a shit, pick up and bin it / take it home. Don’t hang the bag of shit in a tree like a cunt.
What happens with the fox faeces that would be common in fields like that?
Growing up we had a small 1/2 acre field we’d let the local farmer cut for us once a year and he’d leave these.
We’d make them into wee grass huts and all but one day I was caught short and had to shite in one (the one my brother built) and I blamed it on the dog when he came back into it to build a wee chair for himself.
If any cows were injured from eating my shite I can only apologies but I promise, I only ever did it twice, maybe three times.
I didn’t know that. Thanks for sharing.
OP, just as a little behavioural psychology fact, telling people not to do something because it “will cause this preventable issue” isn’t actually as effective as you’d think it would be. (E.g. get solar panels because it’s good for the planet, or, separate you plastics for better recycling)
What’s normally more effective is to portray how many people already behave in the way you want them to. In this case, erecting a dog poor bin at the entrance to the field/path with a sign saying “96% of dog walkers use this bin to dispose of their dog poo on their walks”. Maybe even supply free poo bags. This way, people won’t want to be the odd one out and will prefer to act the same way everyone else does to fit in.
Similarly if a salesman knocked on your door selling solar panels they’d be better off saying “8 of your neighbours have installed solar panels this summer and we just wanted to check in and see if you were thinking the same?” Rather than “did you know after 18months you will have recouped the cost of the solar panels and be contributing to a better carbon footprint for your country?”.
Every little helps of course, but if you ever find yourself in a place of power for behavioural change, social proof (saying how many other people already do a thing) will be much more effective.
Tried to explain this to someone trespassing with a dog, and they looked around bewildered “but theres no cows in here?”…
Should people really be walking through working fields like this?
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