We all have them but I am sure my triggers are a lot different than others.
The land owner, after the fact said "be careful of the dog piles" I guess "piles" would be a more civilized way of saying "shit". Of course they throw their piles of dog refuse near the corner. Years and years of dog "piles" thrown conveniently on the corner. Now I have noticed one thing through the years and it is the people may claim to not know exactly where their lines or corners are they darned sure know enough to throw cat shit and dog shit right where I have to look.
Try as I might I cannot understand the obsession that so many in this nation have with animals. I mean dogs.....now don't get me wrong, I kinda like dogs so long as they are someone else's problem. I don't want to have to clean, up after them, I don't want to take them for a shit, I don't want to have to feed or water them, I don't want to have to take them to the vet and I especially don't like to clean dog shit off my shoes after stepping into it while doing a survey.
I am giving serious consideration to a nuisance charge for having to deal with "crap" like this.
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I feel ya, Bro. ?ÿHad a job once where the poor dog on a chain had a 10-foot radius circle of accumulated droppings over a foot deep that was his entire world. ?ÿIt rained that morning then warmed up into the 90's while we were there. ?ÿGag a maggot!!!!!!!!!!!!! ?ÿThe stench at that property corner was unbearable.
I'd bet that a health official would have some official recommendations for that practice.
The other day we were at a place where my helper and me kept watch for piles as the aroma was very strong everywhere.
Turned out a neighbor has a large number of rabbits and other critters in cages and was making his own special liquid fertilizer mix in one of those liquid transport containers and had already fueled his garden area that sat ready for planting.
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I am giving serious consideration to a nuisance charge for having to deal with "crap" like this.
I feel your pain.?ÿ I had a gravity survey in northern Nevada in June.?ÿ Not Extreme hot, yet.?ÿ The big gauntlet for me that day was the bloated rotting corpse of a bull that had his final days of freedom with the cows.
The only trackable path for the atv and me was within 5 feet of this abomination that could be smelled down wind about 2 miles.?ÿ The gravity(see what i did there.. ;)) hit me as I approached within a 1/4 mile, I saw what I thought was?ÿ sparse smoke.?ÿ To my horror, I realized it was a cloud of flies. Hundreds of thousands, if not more.
Luckily, not in my first rodeo, I donned my goggles, a few bandanas, my rain gear and proceeded toward the mouth of hell to traverse to my work area.?ÿ The smell was so intense, I almost vomited in my "protective" gear as I rode past. The buzzing of the flies was a dull roar in a pitch that I'll never forget.
The "shitty" part was that was day one of 10 in that area. I washed my clothes every night to get that smell out.
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Other than that, dipping active sewer lines was the next worst thing I did a lot of for the company that gave me my first shot at real surveying. I learned the value of having two rods, and always see if the guy that has one also supplies the gloves, clorox etc.....?ÿ Carry on......
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I feel the pain. Once did a survey for a fairly large dairy farmer. Turns out he dumped at least a half dozen dead cows right on top of the section corner I needed. In August.
We had a dead cow on a powerline ROW that we surveyed in January. Fortunately, at least in that regard,?ÿit was the coldest week of the year but it still stunk. Of course, the first thing that occurs to me when there's a large dead animal in the vicinity of underground pipelines is "what killed it?"
Right now we have six months of accumulated of frozen dog crap thawing out. Not quite as offensive to the senses when frozen, but thawed out all at once and the stench will make your eyes water. It's enough to make me miss the snow, for a couple of?ÿmuddy weeks anyway.
What a great thread to read in the AM with a cup of coffee.?ÿ
Better yet.......just as you have bitten into a big ol' link sausage
There is a photo on Facebook of "lawn fudge" suggesting the next idiotic national challenge (Tide pods and condom snorting) be eating lawn fudge.
I feel ya, Bro. ?ÿHad a job once where the poor dog on a chain had a 10-foot radius circle of accumulated droppings over a foot deep that was his entire world. ?ÿIt rained that morning then warmed up into the 90's while we were there. ?ÿGag a maggot!!!!!!!!!!!!! ?ÿThe stench at that property corner was unbearable.
That's animal cruelty and should be reported. It's also a health risk to you. I'd probably walk off the job for both those reasons.
There is a photo on Facebook of "lawn fudge" suggesting the next idiotic national challenge (Tide pods and condom snorting) be eating lawn fudge.
God help us cause it is certainly possible for those millenial morons to do it.
On the job today and walking down the side of a paved road in a gated community is an obvious retired man taking his little designer dog for a shit.
If that is what retirement is all about I would shoot myself. When the highlight of your day is taking a dog for a walk so it can crap in someone else's yard then you might wanna consider your options.
It's a worldwide phenomenon. I've lived off and on in central Auckland, New Zealand, for the past 30 years. Back in those early days you'd have to play hopscotch on the footpath to dodge the dog mines. But in the past decade or so the bylaws that always existed have been well enforced and the pavements and parks are crap free - canine folk who walk a dog (and let's be honest they are taking the dog for a walk so it can birth a Richard-the-Third anywhere else but on their property) have to scoop that poop into a plastic bag and dispose of it in dedicated bins. It's the same in England and as far as I know, Canada, although my experience of that country is limited to 2 weeks in Vancouver, where they also have dedicated dog runs, parallel to the human footpath. Having said that, a relative of mine who lived in that city for 6 months said she once reprimanded a couple for letting their shittfer loose on the human footpath, and their response was for one of them to whack my relative across the face with a loaded plastic bag - so as always, it's a Catch-22 situation.
And even though we may be free(er) of the brown stuff, I suspect those dark patches on the footpaths and up the poles and posts, aren't all shadows.
It is difficult for me to express my thinking on animals but in my mind I feel like people in the U.S. have burdened themselves and complicated their lives with animals. They go through life like a robot and in many cases have put a dog on a higher level of value than a human. Their is a push to try and confer human laws for animals.
So anyway people get their animals and their fenced yard and they become a slave to a damned dog. They can't go anywhere without having to concern themselves with the welfare of a dog. Maybe I have not drank the kool-aid but I don't get the need to burden and compkicate your life.?ÿ
And horses, my god horses used to be working animals but I guess it is some collective mental illness but people have turned horses into pets. They rarely ride them and all they do is eat and crap. Horses are kind of like a pink flamingo and are just ornaments.
And horses, my god horses used to be working animals but I guess it is some collective mental illness but people have turned horses into pets. They rarely ride them and all they do is eat and crap. Horses are kind of like a pink flamingo and are just ornaments.
Richard, you made my point. Pink Flamingo Stables, that is so fitting. In South Florida you see pink flamingo lawn ornaments all over the place. It must be a law in some areas that you must have them planted in your yard. That's what a horse has become, nothing more than a lawn ornament to look at.
At least the plastic flamingos don't crap all over the lawn.?ÿ
back to the subject at hand.... you are aware, aren't you that there walks amongst us a soul who cleans his dog crap scooper in the his wife's dishwasher.....
Yes, and as I recall, the reaction from her indoors was something like this:
