I am so sorry to read this Hogweed,you have all my sympathy,I had people going past chucking cans,crisp packets and flag cartons over my fence,but not actual theft apart from kids taking a little stone bird off the bird bath at Halloween. As someone has suggested,perhaps if you could plant some prickly shrubs,not so appealing to pick off as a lovely Azalea.
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The worst for me is when they bag the poo but leave the poo in a bag! What is the point of that? I actually think it worse than leaving the raw dog poo.
We had a dog years ago (before poo bags were invented!) and he was taught to do his business in hedges or well off the beaten track.We had a large garden of which he had full use and we never found any doings where they shouldn't have been.If you have a dog there is no excuse not to train it to do this.
“Every day is ordinary, until it isn't.” - Bernard Cornwell-Death of Kings
Pyracantha, Berberis, Hawthorn, Mahonia on the boundary, and grow your nice plants on the inside. Hell mend them if they want to try getting into any of them then....
It's a place where beautiful isn't enough of a word....
I live in west central Scotland - not where that photo is...
Oh Hogweed, how rude 😠. I hope the shape of your azalea isn't ruined. I use a hosepipe to water out front, and he'd have been on the receiving end of a hefty blast on a jet setting if I'd caught him.
I've never seen a hanging poo bag, do people actually do that? Yuk! I thought the idea of "pooper scooping" was to take it home and dispose of it in the bin.
Surely someone somewhere must have been been proselyting the idea that hanging poo bags is a good idea. Because it happens everywhere and it's a terrible idea.
I think the idea the dog walkers have is that rather than carrying the bag with them all the way they'll hang it somewhere and pick it up on their return. It must have been shown on a TV soap opera at some point. Unfortunately, being half-wits some of them can only remember half the job. So, having turned their noses up at carrying the bags themselves they leave it up to the rest of us to do it for them.
“Success is the ability to go from one failure to another with no loss of enthusiasm.” Winston Churchill
If anyone is a dog owner you might want to check out 'biobags' which are similar to the food waste bags the council hand out but black and tougher. They're plant starch based and fully compostable so no plastic like normal bags. I'm not suggesting you shouldn't take them to a bin for disposal but I know a lot of people are trying to cut down on plastic use. I've been using them for a few years now and they're just as good as plastic bags.
They (actually I suspect it's mostly one person) throw the bags into the bushes where I live so they're hung up everwhere even high up in the trees. The area is used for outdoor education for young kids so someone has been tasked with clearing them all up. Signs have gone up asking the person to stop for the sake of the children but it still happens almost every day. Time to set up covert cameras and name and shame the person I think.
If you can keep your head, while those around you are losing theirs, you may not have grasped the seriousness of the situation.
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As someone has suggested,perhaps if you could plant some prickly shrubs,not so appealing to pick off as a lovely Azalea.
I live in west central Scotland - not where that photo is...
I've never seen a hanging poo bag, do people actually do that? Yuk! I thought the idea of "pooper scooping" was to take it home and dispose of it in the bin.