Dog owners who don't pick up their dog's poop bags are... poopy.

What's up with some dog owners who leave their poop-filled plastic bags on apartment buildings' lawns, and on sidewalks?

What about those dog owners who let their charges relieve themselves behind bushes, on lawns, and flower beds of private property (residential buildings; townhouses, houses, high rises and the like), hoping no one is seeing them, so they don't have to pick up after their dogs?

As someone who has owned a dog previously in a much larger city than North Vancouver, this behaviour is abhorrent and smacks of privilege. If your dog has pooped, here's what you do: you pick it up with a plastic bag and throw it out at a park garbage bin or at another appropriate place. It doesn't matter if you have to walk a few more blocks. Be considerate towards your neighbours!

There are, on average, at least a handful of dog owners who walk in front of the cared-for lawn (with flowers and tree shade) of my apartment building twice daily (early mornings and evenings). These irresponsible owners let their dogs defecate on our lawn (the same lawn where some of my neighbours' kids and grandkids would like to play, but can't, because of dog feces). And, without fail, at least half of those owners won't pick up after their dogs... unless they see one of us residents staring at them from our windows.

We've put several signs asking dog owners to not let their dogs on our lawn, but they didn't care. Some of them would literally walk ten to twenty feet onto our lawn so their canine companions could do their business.

It's not the dogs' fault. But so help me God, I hope one day these same dog owners will sit on dog poop at Victoria Park.