Dog walking in the village

On Sundays you see lots of people walking their dogs in a special area of Washington Square. I'll try and get some video!

On Sundays you see lots of people walking their dogs in a special area of Washington Square. I'll try and get some video!

I knew someone with a great dane in a very small apartment. They said it was better than having a small dog in an apartment because the big dogs are more sedentary. If you are by christopher st there may be a dog run in the Hudson River Park?

West Village is a great place for a dog - you can take them walkign and running by the piers on the lovely remodeled West Side Highway parks...

The only thing you will have to be careful with is making sure you pick up the dog poop. There are places were fines are accessed if such is not picked up.

@hhusted are those fines even imposed? must ask the dog owners in my building for I see a lot of poop lying around especially in the winter months.

@uptowngirl: I talked to one dog owner who said when he took his dog out, one of those cops who walks the beat, saw his dog pooping. The cop waited and when she saw the guy begin to walk away, she met up with the guy and handed him a ticket. He told me he won't do that again. But overall, I think the signs are there just to scare people like a scarecrow is placed in a cornfield to scare birds away. it doesn't always work.

They will fine you if they catch it. But, there shouldn't need to be a fine. It's basically saying, "I have no manners or care for anyone else," when you leave your pet's feces on public grounds.

@JenMac well then they are a ton of NYers who are bad mannered and couldnt care a hoot about their neighbors.

@Uptowngirl: I second that, at least based on the comments by JenMac.

Yeah, well, what goes around comes around. Those neighbors will, most likely, end up stepping in another dog's crap and maybe they'll learn their lesson.

There is poop all over Park Slope - apparently I have a lot of bad mannered neighbors.

@JenMac and @NeverSleeps: I don't think they really care one way or another. If they did, they would act on it themselves. They are just a bunch of selfish pigs who think they are better than anyone. They believe they don't have to abide by the laws. They are ignorant. They believe that picking up dog feces is below them. The only way to wake them up if there was a camera posted on every corner and every so many feet that can scan a long distance, then when they start getting tickets in the mail for it, they would stop.

I can't stand people who don't pick up after their dogs. Yes, doo-doo is gross, but that's why we politely pick it up and clean it up rather than leave it in the street for others to step in. And it's perfect sanity as long as one uses gloves/plastic and washes one's hands afterwards - just like using the people-loo!

Woah, hhusted! Tell us how you really feel!

I have to say, I find NYC a lot better in the doggie-doo department than many other cities. Compared to the very canine-friendly Paris, for instance, NYC is a nightmare

ajadedidealist: so wait, you think NY has more dog poo or less? Im confused . . .

Yeah, I'm a little puzzled at what you mean, too, @ajadedidealist.

@hhusted I think it would be way to expensive for the city to install cameras on every street just to catch the dog-poo dodgers! We just have to live with the poo and learn how to dodge it.

@Uptowngirl: I know that. I was just making a general point stating cameras was one way to catch dog poopers. At least that was the only thought that came in my mind at the time. I believe what you say when you stated we just have to live with it. There will always be butt heads and a-holes in this city who do not respect others and only do what is convenient for themselves. I'm sorry for my attitude people. But I am a true southerner. I was born in the south and raised there, at least part time. I have only lived in NYC for about 10 years, off and on. I just can't get used to the way of life in NYC. I love the country too much. I remember the old saying my mother used to say when I was a teenager. She told me, "You can take the kid out of the country, but you can't take the country out of the kid." Now I understand what she was referring to.

hhusted: do you live in Manhattan? It kinda seems like a lot of the places we talk about (restaurants, neighborhoods, etc) you haven't been to. I just wonder how you can get used to the NY way of life if you don't do much in Manhattan?