Dog owners get your s#@t together!

For anyone who frequents the many walking trails and other local amenities in the area, the sight of little bags filled with dog poo thrown into bushes, shrubs and along paths will be one they know only too well.

For some time now the practice has been increasing, and it would appear the level of frustration felt by some at the blatant disregard for public spaces has reached its peak.

Indeed, that frustration led one lover of the outdoors and the local area to highlight the issue this week when he shared an image of bags he had collected in a short space of time near the Hell Fire club.

Known as the Cave Dweller on Twitter, he explained to Echo.ie that the fact people are bagging the dog dirt and then throwing it away makes no sense as the bags become a bigger hazard as the accumulate.

He said: “If these people are not going to bother binning the bag of poo then why don’t they just let their dog do their business wherever they want, at least it’d be compost within a few weeks, and there’d be potentially millions less plastic bags around the place.

“You see it pretty much everywhere, from traditionally more well-to-do areas to working class places, there is no discrimination when it comes to brown!

Hellfire Club, Dublin. Cleaned up tons of same at Dodder Day on Sat last. If you’re NOT going to bin it, then leave it to rot, DON’T BAG IT! pic.twitter.com/qlHHnhdAHh

— Cave Dweller (@acloudonastring) April 24, 2017

“It just makes absolutely no sense whatsoever. I really think these people would do the earth a favour if they’re not going to bin it to just leave the poo  where it is as it’ll disappear into the ground fairly quickly, whereas when they bag it, the thing just stays around for potentially years.

“It drives most people mad, but there must be a reasonably large amount of dog-owners who do this.”

It seems the problem is not just in Ireland either, with an MP in England raising the issue in the House of Commons in March where she asked for the public to adopt a ‘stick and flick’ method when it came to dog poo rather than bagging it.

Conservative MP, Anne Main said the countryside was becoming a dumping ground for bags of dog poo, which could be seen hanging from branches of tress, bushes and railings.

Rather than dumping the bags in the wooded areas, Ms Main asked the public to use a stick to move the dog dirt into the bushes.

So, what do you think? Is it just dog owners being lazy?