A Welcome Surprise--Plastic Bag Holders

On Saturday, while walking my dog, I saw that someone had placed a plastic bag holder on one of the gates on St. Johns Place...this seemed like a great way to ensure that people pick up after their dogs. I took a plastic bag, smiled, and continued on with my walk...later that day, I put a few plastic bags in the holder. All the while, I'm thinking "How long will it be before someone steals, rips off, or simply destroys the plastic bag holder..."

Well, on Sunday morning, I'm walking my dog, and the holder is gone...someone stole it! This would've been a great way to entice people to pick up after their pets... :?

yeah, these plastic bag holders are de riguer in many of the park slope dog runs...i missed the one on st johns and regret its life was so abbreviated. how disgusting that someone would choose to vandalize something that facilitates the removal of dogshit from street.

and, how disgusting and demoralizing it is that we even have to remind people or make it easier to be a responsible dog-person in prospect heights! after all, it does not seem like the plastic bag is a rarified commodity.

jeez

yeah, these plastic bag holders are de riguer in many of the park slope dog runs...i missed the one on st johns and regret its life was so abbreviated. how disgusting that someone would choose to vandalize something that facilitates the removal of dogshit from street.

and, how disgusting and demoralizing it is that we even have to remind people or make it easier to be a responsible dog-person in prospect heights! after all, it does not seem like the plastic bag is a rarified commodity.

jeez

wow - people will steal anything...

Something free that might work for holding and dispensing plastic bags is the empty tube from a paper towel roll. Plus if its stolen, no big deal. Oh, and it will be stolen.

is there a dog run anywhere in PH? You know, other than the park before 9am.

Subject: no PH dog run

there is no enclosed dog run in prospect heights. there is a small one in Cobble Hill ( i believe off Clinton), and there is a really nice large enclosed run in Brooklyn Heights (Columbia Heights & Vine...across from the north end of the promenade). that is really the premier one in brooklyn.

if you find out I am wrong, and there is one closer, we would love to know. we love the park before 9, but don't feel comfortable taking one of our dogs off the leash since he is fast & a curious george.

I think I passed a dog run in Park Slope on 4th Ave and named steet north of President. Looked small but enclosed if that's what you're looking for.

YAY!!!!
that was the holder that i put out on the sidewalk the other day when i was doing 'fall cleaning'.
at least it was put to good use for a minute :?

moufaisbad wrote: YAY!!!!
that was the holder that i put out on the sidewalk the other day when i was doing 'fall cleaning'.
at least it was put to good use for a minute :?

will you put another one out? It was really handy for the 10 hours it lasted.. I was walking around looking for a piece of newspaper when I happened upon it...it was like a mirage...

A dream of mine has been to make the empty lot on St. Marks between Vanderbilt and Underhill a dog park/run. If I win the MEGA MILLIONS this Friday, I am TOTALLY hooking it up!

I don't understand why you would need to go scrounge and find bags etc to pick up after your dog.
You know you are going to walk your dog.
You know your dog shits.
You know that you will have to pick up the shit.

So when leaving with the dog, also take plenty of paper, bags, etc to pick it up.
Problem solved, no?

grandzu wrote: I don't understand why you would need to go scrounge and find bags etc to pick up after your dog.
You know you are going to walk your dog.
You know your dog shits.
You know that you will have to pick up the shit.

So when leaving with the dog, also take plenty of paper, bags, etc to pick it up.
Problem solved, no?

Occasionally dogs will produce more (sometimes EXPONENTIALLY more) "output" than expected, or at times which are not normal for that dog.

Also occasionally a dog owner might have a hole in her pocket ( :oops: ), lose a baggie in the wind, etc. Baggie holders would be a great public service AND give people a place to recycle all their plastic bags.

i will have to chain it to the fence so it doesn't 'dissapear'.
8)
my problem with the poop is that i have a 'traveling pooper' (not to mention a BIG GIANT pooper) so sometimes i would need more bags than i have on me.
also it might act as a prod for those cleanly and thoughtful neighbors who wouldn't normally pick up the poo

moufaisbad - do you have that HUGE beautiful great dane on st johns between classon and franklin?

hahaha
no but he looks JUST like mine
he apparently got loose one day and was running all over the neighborhood. the guy at my deli was like "OMG!!! did your dog get loose last night?!?!"

Occasionally dogs will produce more (sometimes EXPONENTIALLY more) "output" than expected, or at times which are not normal for that dog.

This is exactly what happened to me, but I didn't have the time or desire to entertain the comment made by the person obviously trying to start a ruckus...Dog pooped once, I picked it up...he pooped a second time, a few minutes later, and I didn't have a bag. There are always plenty of Met Food Circulars littering the block, and I use one of those when this happens......i grew up in San Francisco, where its practically a federal offense not to pooper scoop...