Comment on When Horses replace electric is the circle complete?

HikingVet@lemmy.ca ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

• FlyingSquid@lemmy.world ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  You do need a shovel for afterward though.

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  • HikingVet@lemmy.ca ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Maybe not on the street if you plan accordingly , but yeah at some point you are going to need one.

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    • WashedOver@lemmy.ca ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      On local shared hiking trails they make dog owners scoop up after them with plastic bags so it can be flung into trees further down the trail, but with the horses they can just do their business where ever they want on trail. Some sections get pretty covered in it.

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      • QuinceDaPence@kbin.social ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        There's a few reasons for that. One is obviously the having to get off the horse to deal with it but also dog poop smells way worse and doesn't degrade the same as horses does. It really doesn't take that long for horse poop to turn to pretty much dirt.

        -someone who's shoveled or mowed over my fair share of both

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      • HikingVet@lemmy.ca ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        On the multi use trails we have locally there are people who ride horses, but I have never seen horse shit on the trail while biking. though I have seen the dog poop bags on the side of the trail. on the hiking trails I see dog poop bags everywhere, would be happy if they threw it into the woods (without the bags, because even if they are designed to breakdown, that only in specific industrial compost heaps)

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    • FlyingSquid@lemmy.world ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      And you’ve got to empty that bag. Gross.

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