I’ve noticed a trend recently, on both the greenway trails, and hiking trails around the Triangle.

People who take the time to pick up their dog crap, but then leave the dog crap in the bag sitting along the side of the trail.

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Today we were at the Triangle Land Conservancy Horton Grove Nature Preserve hiking for a little hike, found this.

I don’t understand. If it’s icky, they wouldn’t bother to pick it up at all, but picking it up and then leaving it there just makes things worse.

If you let your dog do it’s thing and didn’t pick it up, the crap would degrade and disappear before too awful long (I’m not condoning this, just making a point), but if you bag it, and leave it, it just gets nastier the longer it sits there and festers.

The only explanation I can think of is someone leaving it, thinking they’ll pick it back up on their way back through, which kind of makes sense, but there are several bags along the greenway closest to home that have been there for weeks.

If you’ve got a dog, just pick it up and toss it. It’s not that gross, I do it every single day with our dog.