BS: Walking a dog on wrong side of sidewalk

Subject: RE: BS: Walking a dog on wrong side of sidewalk
From: Backwoodsman
Date: 26 Nov 14 - 01:53 PM

I choose the red bin with the picture of a dog on it. If there isn't a red bin around I take my dog's shit home in its little bag, and dispose of it in the bin which we keep in the back yard specifically for that purpose.

Subject: RE: BS: Walking a dog on wrong side of sidewalk
From: Ed T
Date: 26 Nov 14 - 01:51 PM

dog poop in a tree 

Subject: RE: BS: Walking a dog on wrong side of sidewalk
From: Steve Shaw
Date: 26 Nov 14 - 01:36 PM

Most of those little plastic bags, containing once-lukewarm dogshite, are to be seen suspended from tree branches round here, like forlorn little scrota, abandoned by disgruntled castrati who have just discovered that the operation can't after all be reversed. Of course, the average dogwalker looks round, left, right, back, front, up, down (a drone could be watching, you know...) to determine whether his dog was spotted shitting by anybody. If it wasn't, he's in luck, and can reserve his potential spare scrotum for another day and just sidle off. Well, let's put it this way: if I ever owned a dog (and I'd rather hack off my own privates with a rusty machete), you'd never catch me handling a vile little warm bag o' turd. And I certainly wouldn't even think of going within a yard of the lid of one of those nasty little doggipoo bins, at least not without a pint of Dettol in my back pocket. Dog owners? You don't know where they've been...

Tell me, dogwalkers: when you are disposing of your little shitbags, do you choose tree branches on the right of the road or the left?

Subject: RE: BS: Walking a dog on wrong side of sidewalk
From: Backwoodsman
Date: 26 Nov 14 - 01:30 PM

When I was an active glider-pilot, I always found,mas a right-handed person, that left-hand turns were easier to fly than right-hand ones. Often wondered if a left-handed person would feel the opposite way?

Subject: RE: BS: Walking a dog on wrong side of sidewalk
From: Ed T
Date: 26 Nov 14 - 01:09 PM

I have read that people who are lost in the forest tend to walk in circles-but whether the circles are more clockwise or counter, (and if it was determined by where you were from or other factors) was never mentioned.

Subject: RE: BS: Walking a dog on wrong side of sidewalk
From: Backwoodsman
Date: 26 Nov 14 - 01:06 PM

Fuckin' predictive text again!

Petro........Petrol

Nihilist....(WTF.).......Whilst

Effin' Apple crap!

Subject: RE: BS: Walking a dog on wrong side of sidewalk
From: Backwoodsman
Date: 26 Nov 14 - 01:04 PM

LOL Topsie!

Dunno about motor-racing, me being the antithesis of a Petro-Head but,nihilist most horse-racing tracks are anti-clockwise, I believe there are a few in the UK which are clockwise (but don't ask me to name them - I'm not a follower of the Gee-Gees either!).

Subject: RE: BS: Walking a dog on wrong side of sidewalk
From: GUEST, topsi[d]e
Date: 26 Nov 14 - 12:35 PM

Don't worry, I wasn't going to 'beef' about it.

I wondered whether people who are right-handed AND right-legged, probably the majority, might find it easier to veer slightly to the left as they run round.

Incidentally, do motor racing circuits vary in different countries in accordance with the roads? And then there are horse races. Do they all go round the same way?

Subject: RE: BS: Walking a dog on wrong side of sidewalk
From: Backwoodsman
Date: 26 Nov 14 - 11:31 AM

Topside? Grrrrrrr! F***ing predictive text! TOPSIE!!

Subject: RE: BS: Walking a dog on wrong side of sidewalk
From: Backwoodsman
Date: 26 Nov 14 - 11:29 AM

Topside, athletes all over the world run anti-clockwise. It's a proven fact that better times are achieved anti-clockwise than clockwise - thought to be something to do with the position and alignment of the human heart (according to a TV programme I watched a few years ago).

I think your friend is out of step! 😄

Subject: RE: BS: Walking a dog on wrong side of sidewalk
From: Ed T
Date: 26 Nov 14 - 09:10 AM

Walk as you wish, as you see fit, but most walking safety advice I have seen does not support your approach, Topsie.


walking 


Again, safe walking 

Subject: RE: BS: Walking a dog on wrong side of sidewalk
From: GUEST, topsie
Date: 26 Nov 14 - 08:51 AM

On a lighter note, there was an account on Radio 4 a while ago by someone who had moved to Paris, and was surprised to find, when he went jogging in the park, that everyone else seemed to be running in the opposite direction. He was running round the park clockwise, while the French joggers were going anti-clockwise, as if going round a French one-way system or traffic roundabout driving on the right.

Subject: RE: BS: Walking a dog on wrong side of sidewalk
From: GUEST, topsie
Date: 26 Nov 14 - 08:43 AM

Try walking along an unlit road at night where there are no pavements, and then tell me it is safer to face oncoming traffic. That way you are blinded by the traffic coming towards you, and if you try to gat out of the way you don't know if you will be climbing onto a bank or falling into a ditch.
Walking on the same side as the traffic you know when a vehicle is coming because of the lights, which also light up the side of the road so that you can see where to get out of the way until it passes you.

Subject: RE: BS: Walking a dog on wrong side of sidewalk
From: Ed T
Date: 26 Nov 14 - 08:31 AM

""I believe... cyclists should be seen as pedestrians...do the same, but of course they don't.""

Where I live bicycles are required to, generally, to follow the rules of the road for motor vehicles-and are not considered pedestrians. So, yes cyclists do drive on the same side of the road as motor vehicles, and nit on sidewalks.

I believe most recommended safety practices for pedestrians walking on streets (where no sidewalks exists), is to walk facing traffic. I see no firm rules for pedestrians on sidewalks, beyond courtesy and common sense.

Subject: RE: BS: Walking a dog on wrong side of sidewalk
From: McGrath of Harlow
Date: 26 Nov 14 - 07:56 AM

Regardless of whether we are accompanied by a dog, does the side of the pavement on which we walk vary according to the side we drive on? I've never noticed.

If there's no pavement of course you are supposed to walk facing oncoming traffic. I believe deal cyclists should be seen as pedestrians are do the same, but of course they don't.

Subject: RE: BS: Walking a dog on wrong side of sidewalk
From: Musket
Date: 26 Nov 14 - 07:42 AM

Butler?

Peasant. We have a dog walker for walking the dog. The butler answers the door, puts toothpaste on my brush and irons my Times.

(Bloody true sadly, that first bit. Mrs Musket is out up to 14 hours a day and I am either sat on my arse at home (today) or in London all day, returning home at 10.00pm (yesterday for example.)

I do get to pretend to be part of the proletariat first thing in the morning though, and if he has been a good boy, last thing at night rather than being kicked up the garden. We take him for long walks at weekends too.

All told, he is a lucky little boy. Far luckier than when he was a racer, judging by the damning BBC documentary recently about cruelty in the greyhound racing world.

Subject: RE: BS: Walking a dog on wrong side of sidewalk
From: GUEST
Date: 26 Nov 14 - 06:41 AM

I say! Letting the side down! That's what the butler's for!

Subject: RE: BS: Walking a dog on wrong side of sidewalk
From: Backwoodsman
Date: 26 Nov 14 - 06:00 AM

A person? WTF?
APE!

Sorry matey, won't get there tonight - my jet-setting international executive wife is in Brussels, so I'm on dog-duty (appropriately enough! 😄). Next time though (complete with iPad! 😃😃😃😃😃😃).

Subject: RE: BS: Walking a dog on wrong side of sidewalk
From: Musket
Date: 26 Nov 14 - 05:55 AM

Aye, we had a coursey when I was knee high to a whippet too. The turbary is a road along a ditch, dyke or drain. Here on The Isle of Axholme, we have millions of the buggers and they are officially called as such. For the record, the alleged greyhound is exercised mostly around The Stockholes Turbary.

Here, we seeing you tonight?

Subject: RE: BS: Walking a dog on wrong side of sidewalk
From: Backwoodsman
Date: 26 Nov 14 - 05:55 AM

Why not? You pick the shit up with your hand in the bag, then turn the bag inside-out and tie it. No shit ever touches the hand (unless you're a clumsy a Person!). 👍

Subject: RE: BS: Walking a dog on wrong side of sidewalk
From: Ed T
Date: 26 Nov 14 - 05:27 AM

Never shake the right hand of a right handed dog walker, especially if he/she has a small plastic bag in it. ( big bag if the dog is a Great Dane, or a Newfoundland).

Subject: RE: BS: Walking a dog on wrong side of sidewalk
From: GUEST
Date: 26 Nov 14 - 03:40 AM

Turbary? There's a song about that! How dobyou cut the sriff?

Regards

Subject: RE: BS: Walking a dog on wrong side of sidewalk
From: Backwoodsman
Date: 26 Nov 14 - 03:29 AM

Wow! A Turbary! That's a new one on me (but then I'm a council-estate lad born and bred, my mum almost died of apoplexy when I told her I was buying my first house!). :-)

My dad always called the footpath (or that daft 'sidewalk' that the colonials call it) the 'Coursey', which I've always assumed was a corruption of 'causeway'.

Subject: RE: BS: Walking a dog on wrong side of sidewalk
From: GUEST, topsie
Date: 26 Nov 14 - 03:24 AM

When two dog walkers meet and wish to shake hands it must be more convenient to have the dog on the left.

Subject: RE: BS: Walking a dog on wrong side of sidewalk
From: Musket
Date: 26 Nov 14 - 02:48 AM

The first part of the Turbary (you have sidewalks I have a Turbary, live with it) the drain is on my left, and the final part is on my right. The alleged greyhound needs to shit in the waste weeds at the drain edge. Otherwise, I get a poop bag out rather than a "good boy" gravy bone.

Subject: RE: BS: Walking a dog on wrong side of sidewalk
From: Backwoodsman
Date: 26 Nov 14 - 02:21 AM

There is no 'wrong side'.

I always walk placing myself between my dog and the road - if I'm walking the footpath on the left side of the road, the dog is on my left, if im walking the right-hand footpath, he's on my right.

It's common-sense Road Safety.

Subject: RE: BS: Walking a dog on wrong side of sidewalk
From: Ed T
Date: 25 Nov 14 - 08:49 PM

There is no wrong side in China 

Subject: RE: BS: Walking a dog on wrong side of sidewalk
From: Ed T
Date: 25 Nov 14 - 08:47 PM

The wong way 

Subject: RE: BS: Walking a dog on wrong side of sidewalk
From: Ed T
Date: 25 Nov 14 - 08:45 PM

The right and wrong way in India 

Subject: RE: BS: Walking a dog on wrong side of sidewalk
From: Ed T
Date: 25 Nov 14 - 08:39 PM

""If you are right handed..when you wipe your ass do you use your right hand or your left?""

Subject: RE: BS: Walking a dog on wrong side of sidewalk
From: Ed T
Date: 25 Nov 14 - 08:34 PM

Pitbull dogs walk on whatever side of the sidewalk they want.

Subject: BS: Walking a dog on wrong side of sidewalk
From: gnu
Date: 25 Nov 14 - 08:19 PM

Here in Canada, we drive on the right hand side of the road and we walk on the right hand side of sidewalks (go ahead and discuss what a sidewalk is). Soooo... our dogs should heel to the right and not to the left. I feel that the strict rules at dog shows regarding heeling to the left are antiquated and an affront to all colonies that drive cars and walk dogs on the right side of public travelways.

Unless you own a beagle, of course. Then, all bets are off. I suppose Corgis could be exempted as well, but for different reasons.