Why don't New Yorkers pick up their dog poop off sidewalks???

I'm from the South also, but I've never had to deal with the dog poop. I live out in the country so dogs just run around were they want to and poop. I've never seen any on the sidewalks in the city ether. But I understand were your coming from, I wouldn't want to have to side step dog poop ether. I know you don't think this is funny, But I had to laugh at your experence of having to dodge this poop everyday.

I am an ex New Yorker, although not from the Big City, just upstate. I smiled when I read this rant and you can rant away anytime about New York.

On the lighter side of things, NY is a piece of crap state anyway so maybe they are letting their dog poop elevate the value of their properties.

I don't think there should have to be a rule against it, should be common sense that everyone cleans up after their dog.

Yes, I NYC it IS the LAW that you scoop the poop and not leave it all voer the place. I don't know which borough you live in but I have been all over the city and seen people cleaning up after their dogs. You can get a ticket and fine if you don't. If the problem is bad in your neighborhood you can call 311 and they will put you in touch with the right place to complain and get someone to come to your neighborhood to enforce the law. You should also contact your local Sanitation Depoartment, they are the ones with the authority over this matter. New York is a great City filled with woderful considerate people, please don't judge the entire region based on your "crappy" experience (pun inteneded LOL).

well i live in the country areas of califorinia but i to have seen this in the bigger cities. you are right people just dont care about it. it is like they walk there dog just so that they dont have to pick it up in there house. i also think your right about the law about picking it up. I know there is in sacramento and LA. In sacramento people pick it up all the time. you rarely see it anywhere. unlike the homeless population. who should be fined for doing the same thing and not picking up after there selves.

I had lived in this city in Virginia, and if you had a dog you had to pick up behind your dog, and there was not Poop laying around, where I use to live, but I have move away from there since then, they have rebuilt where I use to stay, they may still have that rule posted, because the new Apartments they put up are very nice.

If I didn't have a brassy area for my dog to poop in, I wouldn't have a dog. Then again, I would pick it up regardless. Where I live it is a law that you have to dispose of it.