I always have a "poopey" bag with me when I am out with my dog. There is no excuse for not cleaning up after one's dog!

We need to get rid of the geese first

Tex, it's people like you who ruin it for other dog owners. If this doesn't get fixed, I will move to pressure the park to disallow dogs, period. Mentor has a dog park for dogs. I like to go there with my children, and the dog poo is just the most disgusting thing. Goose poo is no where near as gross.

I was at the park yesterday afternoon and the paved areas were free of dog poop, but plenty of geese poop. Also, a woman and her child were feeding the geese with bread which makes the problem even worse.

A few bad dog owners ruins it for everyone. I see dog poop all over MOL and Mentor and it upsets me. Plus I think people think it might havebeen my dog. Pick it up people, comes with owning a dog!

this goes along the same lines as how come in public bathrooms people pee all over the seat...the answer is because in public settings a lot of people become lazy and leave their mess for someone else to clean up. another example is when people go shopping for clothes, pick up a neatly folded shirt look at it, and throw is down without folding it back. this mentality will be very hard pressed to change.

Sorry Nancy, thats the world we live in. And just because you or I dont agree, its still never stoping. You still need to explain thing to your kids that you dont approve of.
And yes the goose poop sucks, but they deserve to be there. we need to Control what we can control (our dogs) and live with what we cant control.

I find it halarious, as I am always at Bellflower Park, and watch the dog owners allow their pets to go right next to the sign that says they need to clean it up and they just walk away. I say just ban pets in these parks. There is a thing called a ordinance / law that pet owners need to abide by and they let their pets go right on the sign posting it. As with any other ban, there only is one because a few cant or wont do the right thing, i.e. Texting while driving, driving drunk, littering, etc, etc.....Clean it up or get ready to be banished to the dog park only.,..As far as Geese, maybe Mentor should pass a law saying they need to carry bags and clean up after themselves...lol...But they havnt except for the dogs so abide by the law and do it...

I agree with Grossed Out! Dog crap is the most disgusting thing. In Beijing, and other large cities in China, people are no longer allowed to own dogs, period, because they couldn't/wouldn't abide by the law to bag the crap. It is unhealthy beyond words. I have a neighbor who walks their dog all over the neighborhood because he doesn't want it to crap in his yard, but allows it to crap on everyone else's yard. I live on a rather short street, and he's the only one who walks his dog on it. So, everyone has seen him do it with no shame. My husband tried to talk to him and he said he's lived here longer then anyone and he's never picked up their poop and he's not starting now. I sent him a curt letter informing him if he walks that animal on the bottom half of the street, his dog would surely eat the chocolate ex-lax I peppered my lawn with and crap all over his house. Amazing, he hasn't walked his dog down our part of the street in months. Good riddance. I hope they ban dogs from the parks.

I would like to add that I use Veterans Park all the time, riding my bike or hiking. I for one don’t mind the poop no matter where it came from; unless it came from the humans, lol. To me it is just a part of the obstacles that the park brings. Poop is bio- degradable, no? I get more upset with the ever growing littering in Mentor; to me is the litter box of Lake County.
I do think that it could pay for it to have a park ranger watch people at Veterans Park and give those that litter or not take care of their dogs a ticket. I say that the fine should be for these people to have to clean the park for like a month, then and only then may they appreciate the problem.
Feeding the geese has always been a problem. Yes it is nice to feed the geese; I like to feed the geese, I use whole corn though. The geese that get feed all year around do not have any incentives to fly south. They then don’t teach their young how to fly south and there we are, no geese flying south for the winter.
God bless and I hope that you all have a great 4th of July.
Karl.

Please close this issue.