Perhaps giving my age away somewhat but I am just curious if anyone knows when this dog “poopie bag” thing actually started and became such a big thing?
As a kid growing up on eastern Long Island back in the early 1970s there was no such thing as a “poopie bag” for your dog. Just the thought of such a thing back would have been repulsive to most people.
I do remember though, as a kid, finding some doggie poop along the roadway or a path in the woods scooping it up into a sandwich paper bag with some friends and then placing it on “that neighbor’s” porch, lighting the bag with a match, ringing the door bell and running away
I digress.
It seemed just as many people owned a dog back then as they do today but I guess that depends on where you live. You are either a dog lover or your are not. Somehow it seems cats are so far “exempt” from any poopie bag requirements, perhaps its because they dig a hole first and then cover it up
As I remember it though back then, we lived on a dead end street surrounded by woods. You didn’t routinely “walk” your dog. Rather, you just let him go outside when they stood by the door looking at you to go out (they knew). They always eventually came back home sometimes in 5-10 minutes and at other times in a few hours
(There really weren’t any Pit-Bulls, Rottweilers, Bull-dogs, German Sheppard’s or Dobermans in our neighborhood wondering around- yes I love all animals just saying these “security type” dogs tend to breed fear in others largely due to movies, the media and living in dangerous neighborhoods).
They were the same days that you pretty much only took your dog to the vet if they were God forbid hit by a car (never happened to us) or for their rabies shot every few years. A dog “license” was essentially unheard of back then. Its ironic though, back in those days your dog lived anywhere between 15 to 20 years before you had to bury them in the backyard
Today I think the average life span of a dog is 11 years, along with their bi-annual vet visits, all sorts of medicines, shots, surgeries, vaccines, neutering while a puppy and let us not forget choosing from the over 400 different brands of dog food most of which borders on pure poison. Actually dogs-pets have an annual revenue in the US of a staggering 62 BILLION dollars...a virtual jack pot ( See,
https://www.franchisehelp.com/indust...8-cost-trends/ ).
Anyway, I guess if you live in an over-crowed small close spaced area you can’t just let your dog out only because there is really no where for the dog to go frolic, poop, pee and be a dog
For me personally, and for my Golden Retrievers, the simpler answer to all this “poopie bag” stuff is to not be in such areas because I have still NEVER EVER picked up my dog’s warm poop in a “plastic” bag to pollute the oceans with
Father made dog poop as a natural part of this earth for thousands of years and after a rain it just naturally blends
I do have respect for others though and as a kid (or now) if we ever saw our dog start to poop on the neighbors lawn we would stop him immediately and if by chance nature won out before then, we certainly would go and pick it up, after it cooled off of course, that is just simple manners
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