If people aren't allowed to urinate in public, why do dogs get to?

If I'm walking barefoot down the street and I step in a puddle of urine I'm not going to give a damn whether it's a person's or a dog's. I'm going to scream like something that screams a lot, then I'm going to get mad. I might even shout out a cuss word. You know what I'm saying. Urine's urine. And stepping in it is disgusting.

Even with shoes on, a person could walk through a puddle of dog urine out on the street and end up tracking it on the bottom of your shoe into your own house. You might end up getting some stranger's dog's urine on your kitchen floor, and then just imagine if you had a toddler crawling all over the place, and who likes to lick things, like chairs, furniture, the kitchen floor...I shudder to think of the possibilities. But I digress.

I see two solutions to the problem.

I think we need to either

A) allow people to piss in the streets

or

B) ban public canine urination.

I'm going with B, of course. It's the human thing to do.

Whose side are YOU on?

Can anyone believe that were it not illegal that people would be forced in some way to endure the indignity of going where the urge required it??? If pissing were legal it would be encouraged much as paid public restrooms force the situation in large cities until in the heat in some quarters makes breath impossible... If it is illegal then people can demand some facilities, and if indignity is made legal there is no limit to the amount of humiliation the poor will be forced to endure... Civilization demands some niceties, like the baths of Rome... Leave to the young and ignorant to behave as savages, but do not encourage such behavior...

kickycan wrote:

If I'm walking barefoot down the street and I step in a puddle of urine I'm not going to give a damn whether it's a person's or a dog's. I'm going to scream like something that screams a lot, then I'm going to get mad. I might even shout out a cuss word. You know what I'm saying. Urine's urine. And stepping in it is disgusting.

Even with shoes on, a person could walk through a puddle of dog urine out on the street and end up tracking it on the bottom of your shoe into your own house. You might end up getting some stranger's dog's urine on your kitchen floor, and then just imagine if you had a toddler crawling all over the place, and who likes to lick things, like chairs, furniture, the kitchen floor...I shudder to think of the possibilities. But I digress.

I see two solutions to the problem.

I think we need to either

A) allow people to piss in the streets

or

B) ban public canine urination.

I'm going with B, of course. It's the human thing to do.

Whose side are YOU on?

Dogs aren't responsible for their actions

Humans are.

You seem to have seperated these two phenomena of pissing in the street erroneously.

In both cases of the banning of human and/or dog urination, you are, in fact, talking about the human responsibility for the occurence of both.

stevecook172001 wrote:

kickycan wrote:

If I'm walking barefoot down the street and I step in a puddle of urine I'm not going to give a damn whether it's a person's or a dog's. I'm going to scream like something that screams a lot, then I'm going to get mad. I might even shout out a cuss word. You know what I'm saying. Urine's urine. And stepping in it is disgusting.

Even with shoes on, a person could walk through a puddle of dog urine out on the street and end up tracking it on the bottom of your shoe into your own house. You might end up getting some stranger's dog's urine on your kitchen floor, and then just imagine if you had a toddler crawling all over the place, and who likes to lick things, like chairs, furniture, the kitchen floor...I shudder to think of the possibilities. But I digress.

I see two solutions to the problem.

I think we need to either

A) allow people to piss in the streets

or

B) ban public canine urination.

I'm going with B, of course. It's the human thing to do.

Whose side are YOU on?

Dogs aren't responsible for their actions

Humans are.

You seem to have seperated these two phenomena of pissing in the street erroneously.

In both cases of the banning of human and/or dog urination, you are, in fact, talking about the human responsibility for the occurence of both.

I'm not sure, but I think you're trying to tell me that you are one of those people who are on the side of the DOGS. Fine, you and the dogs go live in the fields where piss is everywhere and you can all be happy! And that goes for all the others of you on this thread that can't see simple reason!

Power to the PEOPLE!

Okay, well how about their owners have to follow them around with a shop-vac or a towel and clean up the offending urine each time the dog does his business? That way the dog gets to do what comes natural and the streets are clean! Problem solved.

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