Police will fine us if we don't clean up after our dogs, so why do they not clean up after their horses?

Answer 1

They have city sanitation workers for that. :-)

Answer 2

Maybe the police don't clean up after their horses because they're trying to do their job, being police men. Someone probably gets paid to clean it up for them. How much do you wanna bet that if they did get off to clean it up your post would say "Why are out taxes going to pay the police who are wasting time cleaning up their horse's poo instead of doing their jobs and catching criminals?" And dog poo is much worse, and actually doesn't break down very easily, that's why people don't use it as manure.

Answer 3

Good question. I feel the answer is where the "droppings" are deposited. In the area I live, there are plenty of horse droppings in the road, but plenty of dog droppings on the pavements and on grass where children play. The latter is obviously a health issue, where as the horse deposits are not. Maybe this is an issue that could be taken up with local councils.

Answer 4

Feces are feces. All this stuff about horse poo being good for the ground and dog poo being contaminate crap is just manure!!!

Both excrete large numbers of bacterial in their feces and both if turfed will biodegrade. Makes me kind of laugh that people put dog crap into a plastic bag so the environment is saved from something that will biodegrade and the landfills are getting more and more cluttered with plastic dog poo bags that will never biodegrade! Stupid huh?

But I agree, if you have any kind of animal that you are in control of (don't know how this would apply to cat owners) so dog, horse etc... you should remove their feces if it is not on your property, it is common courtesy, and I bad all of my dogs poo.

There are arguements that it might be dangerous to get off a horse and collect its feces in which case fitting the horse with a tail bag may be the best method but it is unfair that dog owners are required to pick up after their pets and horse owners aren't, discriminates against dogs and their poo is 1/8 the size of a horses!

Answer 5

I suppose it might be that some dogs eat meat where as horses don't. The main reason for picking up after the dog is that in some cases small children have gone blind from handling dog poo, lovely kids! Horses poo has no harmful stuff in it as they mainly eat hay

Answer 6

I TOTALLY AGREE!!! I always clean up after my dog.

I used to live near a street that was frequently used by horse riders and so was also frequently covered in horse dung. One pile of poo deposited by a horse is very nearly the same size as my dog, and is far more messy, smelly and offensive than anything my dog could produce.

If any animal poops on the pavement it should be cleared up!!

Answer 7

Their horses are used in their line of work. They often must respond quickly, and if they are in the middle of cleaning up a mess, they might not make it in time. However, in a period of low employment, perhaps that is a job that we taxpayers should provide for someone.

Answer 8

Not only do I own dogs, I some times ride horses.
Dog crap is much more offensive and needs to be cleaned up on health grounds. Horse crap however can be lethal to motor cyclists. Imagine coming around a bend and hiting a steaming pile of dung in the wet. Not good
Clean it up !

Answer 9

Because they seem to think all their horses mess on the road were it is not against the law for horse mess or dog mess to be, so do as they do and have your dog do its mess in the road and I bet they will soon change the law.

Answer 10

The police are following the law. No horse rider has to pick up their horses mess.
Dog poo is bad, horse poo just looks bad.

Answer 11

I think the same I'm always tiptoeing through horse sh it, I do pick up after my dog, but not in the woods. Luckily my dog is fussy where she poos and I have trained her to use the toilet area section off in my garden.