I saw something that really ticked me off this afternoon on the mall. Father and daughter were walking their two labs, black and chocolate, on the mall. The black lab is 10 months old (puppy or no?), and while they are walking in the middle of the mall the black lab just starts peeing as he/she walks, the owner (father) looks back and just keeps walking with the dog. Curb your effing DOG!
This is the culprit:
That larger than life sign clearly says clean up after your dog, you jerk. That puppy put like half a gallon of pee in the middle of the downtown mall. How effing rude! If you see the owner, yell at him. I am tired of dog owners that have no control of their pets. Maybe Scowly will pee on you next time.
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Dude, what do you want him to do, go home get a hose and spray down the bricks? I agree that it’s rude for a dog to pee in the middle of the sidewalk, but it’s not like the dog took a dump and he turned the other way. Pee happens, man. Suck it up. Not litterally of course.
Nice pics Scowlz. I have to agree with Gobbler on this one. I don’t think the guy carried a towel to wipe the dogs piss and all, but I’m sure if it took a dump, he/she’d pick it up and stuff it in their pocket. This will help keep the stench out of the Downtown Mall trash cans.
/One of the reasons why my only pet is a fish.
Yep, I’m with the guys above. Loosen up, or stay inside where dogs can’t pee.
I don’t know if B’yo can place Scowly on the board, or by the dog?
Dude sorry… Couldn’t help it.
Sorry it “ticked you off” Next time l’ll use Cbob’s yard
Is this a joke? It’s pee. It will evaporate.
@6 I agree. It’ll evaporate and not stain the Downtown Mall carpet.
“Maybe Scowly will pee on you next time”
Ummmmm…. not into that. thanks though.
but if you step in it thinking its water because you don’t expect to step in pee in a downtown pedestrian area, then go home and walk on your carpet…isn’t that kind of gross?
I piss on the Downtown Mall all the time
@9 How close do you live to the mall? Pretty sure your shoes would be nice and dry by the time you hit your doorstep. Besides you probably stepped in spit, birdshit, motor oil and countless other “offensive” substances on the way. Eez why we have doormats and most, I repeat most carpet is not white.
/wearing crime scene booties over my shoes from now on.
Is this a Virginia thing?
Why, do you have white carpet
Potentially….and where can I get some of those booties?
@5 There are clearly signs marked. Even if you’re a dog and can’t read - it explicitly prohibits the pee/poop position.
@ 4 You were saying?
/so sorry.
@14. Don’t know where you can get the booties downtown, but it’s a wonderful idea to start “The Bootie Store” in one of the vacant spaces for lease. Potential earnings dude.
@16. lMAO. Thank you sir. Excellent work as always.
@15 For all your CSI bootie needs.
Peeing while walking is quite pleasurable. We should be applauding this dog’s hedonism.
@19 Don’t let the students see those, of all the annoying trends, this one could be the worst. Right up there with the double polo popped collar look
By the way, I prefer not to use the interweb for my bootie needs
/tees it up
While I can understand the dog taking a pee, if I were the owner I wouldnt just ignore it. If I turned around and saw it I would at least try to walk my dog off the beaten track to let him finish. To ignore it and keep walking is not only rude but mean for the dog, let the poor thing get to one spot and finish it. I wouldnt want to pee and walk at the same time
double polo popped collar look
You think so small, Cortez the Killer… count em and weep.
i agree with lisa. Perhaps if the owner had disciplined the dog it would have had a different outcome…I mean dogs can hold it in mid stream until they are on grass no?
@23 gahhhhhhhhh!
You have to pee? bad dog….. WTF?
I always encourage my dog to pee on the Bank of America building- (late fees my ass)
Yeah, if it were my dog, I would have at least turned around and said, “oh darn, my dog has tinkled on the mall, oh what shall I do?” I’d raise my hands in a confused jesture, make a disgruntled face. Shake a finger at the dog, and turn around and keep walking.
I bet the dog had been trying to find a spot to go for a while and the Owner just kept draggin it along, oblivious to the dog’s needs. Dogs like to pee on stuff, where there are good smells, having to pee and walk is little like having to go in a portapotty, something you just have to do to rid yourself of the painful bloat that too much pee is causing.
As for public health stuff, leptospirosis can be transmitted through the urine of dogs but also raccoons and cattle. Combined with the fact that there is probably campylobacter, giardia spores and worm eggs all over the place makes a pretty good argument for taking your shoes off either in a mudroom or right when you get in the house, rather than walking all ove rthe place, especially if you have little kids who canstantly have their hands in their mouths.
/Can you say zoonotic disease?
@28: Hahaha
@29: I can. BEAVER FEVER!
I’ve been told that dogs usually don’t develop the need to pee on stuff if you neuter them 5-6 months. I don’t know if that’s completely true, but my dog was neutered at six months and has never tried to “mark” something. He’s also trained to do his business in grass beside a specific building before we hit the mall. We don’t hit the mall bricks until he’s done something in that area. It works for us.
Since the dog in question was young, perhaps the owner has recently adopted him and hasn’t figured out his routine yet. Now, if you see this guy every afternoon with his dog doing this, I’d understand being a little annoyed.
By the way, can I share my own pet peeve that’s related? People who bring their 8-15 week old puppies to the mall to show them off. I can’t tell you how many times I’ve asked someone how old their puppies was down there and heard “ten weeks!” in response. A ten week old dog hasn’t had the vaccines to protect it from diseases and really shouldn’t be on the mall. They’re cute as all get out, but keep the puppies home until they have all their shots!
@23 b’yo, is that the only popped-collar picture you can find? jeez, how many times do we have to see this guy?
Cortez is newish, and you knew what you were in for. Tired of it? Don’t click. Sheesh.
/i will, however, refrain in the future, even though he is one of my favorite date rapists.
Why’d you post the picture of the dogs and not the owner? I don’t want to be racist, but man, to me, all black labs look alike.
As do goldens. The poor dog wasn’t the culprit, it was the owner.
It’s one thing to make a point, it’s an altogether ‘nother thing to make your point with conviction. Out the owners!
Or not. To me, this isn’t that big of a deal, as others have said. But next time, PICTURES! Of PEOPLE!
let’s be serious. how many of us haven’t peed on the mall?
mk.
im peeing on the mall as i write this
in soviet russia, the peeing writes on your mall.
dammit that’s the same thing.
just peed..
Just done did it
Lost about 5 liters.
/Feel so relieved!
bastards. until I get one of these peeing on the mall will be horribly awkward. another way boys win, girls are left to fend for themselves downtown at night.
/not to trivialize violence issues. it’s late people.
dude, if you think dog walkers who let their dog pee while thay walk are offensive…(at least there are apparently posted signs against such behavior)…
try working on the mall late night, any night and cleaning random vomit, pee, and/or passed out person. which is actually favorably to puking and surly drunk person.
but i would still prefer a pissing dog on a lease which will be leaving my tiny part of the world i play nanny too.
i hear you, but a raise your toast.
cheers!
leash.
but who knows?
a leash may be ultimately preferable to a lease…
Dog leasing has spread to Charlottesville?
I’ve always thought naughty=good. Maybe I’m thinking of very, very naughty.
dog pee? really? i cant think of about ten things i would like to not see on the mall, and dog pee is not one of them. also a dog owner, hard to make them NOT pee.
you could also watch where you step, i know i do. just a thought.
I would be embarrassed if my dog decided to pee on the bricks, but let’s be fair to the dogs, there’s really no “grassy area” on the mall. the whole thing is bricks.
that said, if I were to complain about pee it would be the stuff running across the sidewalk on west main from people peeing on the wall outside the ABC store. but I step over it, and then life goes on.
let’s find something else to gripe about, or has charlottesville become one big rant?
The secret to getting a dog not to pee on the mall is to either pee on the dog, or mark your territory by peeing on the periphery of the entire mall. I started at Five Guys 6 months ago, and I’m up to Splendora’s.
And I hate to ask it, but what exactly is Scowly peeing out of? He appears to be peeing angular urine or hay.
I believe that is a rather sensitive subject for Scowly
@ 47 Yeah, kinda weak, I agree. It was either a quick rip with pen tool or Google image searching “urine stream”… and neither were particularly appealing options. Ah well. So it goes, so to speak.
No no, not weak, I didn’t mean to come across that way. It’s awesome. There are not nearly enough urinating mascots these days.
@50, there there Tuffy, soon we will have a family of peeing mascots. b’yo only touched the tip of the iceberg…yellow pee is so 1985, hot pink is definitely the rage.