[Broken_Hippo]

I highly doubt this is true. I've never lived in a place outside of the developed world, but I also have never lived or visited a place where the sidewalks drowned in dog/cat poop and pee. In fact, I've never actually watched a cat pee on the sidewalk in places where it cannot be covered up, simply because that's not how cats tend to act.

Where are you getting your information from? How much have you traveled? What is your definition of city? Do you have some proof?

[superhuzza]

I lived in France for 10 years, virtually nobody picked up waste from their pets. Just wasn't a cultural norm. Not necessarily that different in Italy or Spain as well.

Maybe the attitude is changing now, I don't know.

https://www.theguardian.com/cities/2016/apr/12/why-cant-fren...

[Tobias42]

I remember noticing the same in Marseille about 10 years ago, but Paris for example was already quite different back then. Now I live in Madrid and not picking up after your dog is very much frowned upon, and you see very little pet waste in the streets.

[Enginerrrd]

To be fair, the French men also routinely pee on buildings and alleys in public. Your observations of Spain puzzle me though. I always found the Spanish to be exceptionally festidious people with remarkably clean streets.

[throw_away]

In Portland, OR, it rarely snows much, but the weeks when we do get a good storm, oh god, there's dog piss everywhere. & then you realize that people are probably walking their dog less now that it's all slippery & cold + that there's probably usually even more dog piss everywhere then what you can now see thanks to the snow.

[cultofmetatron]

spent a few months in Athens. Dog shit was everywhere. Greeks don't seem to be the type to pick up after their pets and it was incredibly gross.

I'm in kyiv now and despite seeing more dogs, I have yet to see any such droppings. I guess people are more fastidious about cleaning up after their animals in public places.

[neutronicus]

Well, "drown" is a strong word, but I see feces (of questionably animal origin) all the time in my US city, on the sidewalks and otherwise.

In my building we have to put trash bins out in the alley, and people always throw dog shit in those on trash day, too.

[Broken_Hippo]

In my building we have to put trash bins out in the alley, and people always throw dog shit in those on trash day, too.

I'm not exactly sure where else folks are supposed to put the dog shit except in the trash, honestly. I know people complain about putting shit in their personal trash cans, mind you, but folks are going to put it in a trash can somewhere, even if it is in their own home. And some of those are going to put their trash in the alley.

Do you have a suggestion that doesn't include putting the poop in the trash?

[neutronicus]

The city has public trash cans on the corner, with bags in them. So you throw your little baggie of dog shit in it, the city collects the bag, and the dog shit is gone.

My trash bin (large, wheeled, plastic variety that lives in an enclosure on the bottom floor of my building) is full of my domestic trash, in several bags, and is not itself lined with a bag. City comes, empties out my bin, it's now an in-theory empty plastic bin. Someone throws a baggie of dog shit in, it just goes to the bottom. It rains, and now there's a slurry of dog shit water in the bottom of my trash bin and it's there forever because my building doesn't have a hose for me to hose it out, nor is there a designated drain for collecting shit water, nor do the city trash collectors upend the bin into the garbage truck - they just grab the bags out and leave the shit-slurry where it lies.

So my suggestion is ... walk to the fucking city trash can literally a half-block away and throw your dog shit in there instead into a domestic trash bin with no bags in it.

Luckily I'm moving the fuck out of this building / neighborhood in December. Wonder what the other tenants will do when they realize no one is putting the building's bins out now...

[pinkfoot]

Yes, put it in a dedicated digester: a plastic rubbish bin with holes submerged into the ground. Add paper and water to get it going.

https://thebark.com/content/build-your-own-pet-waste-digeste...

[renewiltord]

So many Belgian cities. Dear God, after the rain, trying to pick your path through. Ugh.

And SF. And London.

[Bootwizard]

Well to be fair, in SF that's probably human poop

[renewiltord]

That's what everyone thinks but I looked it up and it's mostly dog poop.