Thread: Trivia and other useless but interesting items

Originally Posted by Pedro_The_Swift

dont see many white ones these days...

Neither does Ron by all accounts.

Originally Posted by p38arover

I have that problem with dog droppings in the backyard - and I’m
always barefooted. Why does it always squeeze up between one’s toes?

Lucky you did not sit down on the grass

That would have been the height of Ron's bad luck, Paul. Tread on a fresh-ish Dog Turd, slip over & come to rest on his 'arris also in said Dog crap, whilst dressed in his new Fletcher Jones strides.


I could hear Mrs Ron now..... "FFS Ron I can't even trust you to feed the fishpond without you buggering yourself & your new togs up. Get back inside & get changed, we are are due at the Smiths in half an hour & you can't go smelling like dog ****".



Apologies Ron, my brain works in strange visual ways sometimes.

Originally Posted by Bigbjorn

Get rid of the dog. No place for dogs in suburbia.

We are on dog 56 from Guide Dogs.

Originally Posted by p38arover

I have that problem with dog droppings in the backyard

Thats a good sign the dog needs a few more walks.

Ours is down the park at least once a day,where it deposits them with precision in the scrub along the edge of the park.
Very rarely do i see one in the yard.

Dog number 56, is a fantastic effort.

We wouldn't be able to do it,SWMBO wouldn't want to give the dog back,it was bad enough when we had the pups,she wanted to keep them all

Originally Posted by scarry

Thats a good sign the dog needs a few more walks.

The dogs are trained to toilet before going on the walk - they are told to "quick, quick". Don't forget a blind client can't see where the dog has defecated in order to pick it up. They don't want the dogs doing it in the street.

If they need to toilet when out, the dog will do it in the gutter (if there is one). I was once walking a dog and I didn't understand why it want to get off the footpath into the gutter. I had it explained to me later.

Originally Posted by scarry

Dog number 56, is a fantastic effort.

We haven't puppy raised that many - just a couple. We do temp care now. Usually after a dog is trained and prior to it going to a client, or if a client goes on holiday and can't take the dog, or goes into hospital, etc. We could have them for weeks or even months.
The dog we have now will become a court support dog at Penrith Local Court - when the courts reopen. We've had her since July last year (and we had her previously when her puppy raisers went overseas for 5 weeks).

We've had a mum and her 7 pups, too, for a few weeks.

Here, everyone with a dog is encouraged to take it for a walk on a regular basis.

Should the dog deposit a dropping, the person walking it then has to gather it up in a special bag supplied by the councils, and then transfer the bag to a bin.

At almost every dog walking route there are supplies of the bags and a bin. Ordinary rubbish bins along the way can be used too.

The streets, verges and nature strips are a lot cleaner than they were some years ago. Every dog owner/walker carries a supply of bags, and you can get little caddies that hold a couple of bags and that clip on to the dog lead.

At home when we had dogs, we used to do a patrol every day or so with a shovel and clear the paths and lawn. The dogs would prefer to use a bit of grassed/ bare dirt out of the way, but would start using other areas if access to a clear place was denied. i.e. a bit of mown rough grass would be used over a neat lawn.

Ron your solution is simple. Have the Council lay 20' of gutter/Kerbing in your back garden & you will never go tits up ever again but you may possibly trip over the bloody kerbing so what you need is a Guide Dog.


Oh hang on, this is where where we came in.