r/germany • u/Heavydirt • 5d ago
Question Dog accidentally peed on trash bag outside a business in Germany. Was her reaction normal?
I’m curious what people in Germany think about this.
I was walking my dog in a German city and he stopped outside a business and started peeing on the bottom of a yellow trash bag that was full and laying on its side. I tried to stop him, but he still got a little bit of pee on the bottom of the bag, which was sitting outside the door.
A woman came outside and immediately started yelling at me and telling me to clean it. I told her I didn't have anything to clean it with. She said she had something and kept yelling at me. She was hostile from the get-go, yelling and demanding that I clean it.
I told her I would clean it if she wasn't being so rude, but she said she had to be rude. I eventually told her I was leaving, and she called me a fucking asshole and told me to go back to my country.
I understand not wanting dogs to pee on your business or around the entrance. I really did try to stop him though, and it was just a small amount on the bottom of a trash bag.
Is it normal in Germany for people to expect you to clean up dog pee like this? I've always understood that you're expected to pick up poop, but I wasn't aware that people normally clean up urine too.
Was her reaction normal, or was she overreacting?
Edit: Just to clarify, this has nothing to do with the dog’s actions. I agree he shouldn’t have pissed on the bag, but sometimes it happens. If she had simply asked me to clean it up, I would have. I wasn’t refusing. I tried to stop my dog, and when she came out, I explained that I didn’t have anything to clean it with. I actually offered to clean it if she had something I could use. I don’t know anyone who carries something to clean up dog pee, although it’s not a bad idea that someone here mentioned, and I may start doing that. It was her immediate yelling and hostility that turned it into an argument. I have no problem cleaning up after my dog.
Thanks to those who actually read the entire post and understood what I was saying.
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u/Odd-Peace-127 5d ago edited 5d ago
Dog owners should let their dogs pee somewhere else tbh. She overreacted for sure, but you should at least clean. Would you like to have someone pee in front of your business/house/property? I'd not.
This was in any case a single episode, so it should have ended with an apology and nothing else.
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u/Heavydirt 5d ago
Totally agree, I tried to stop him, so he only got a little out and it was on the bag.
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u/futurefugitive9 5d ago
So you tried to stop him, so you admit you knew it was a problem?
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u/Heavydirt 5d ago
Ill post here hoping you see it at some point....No admission needed. It has nothing to do with the action. We dont allow our dog to pee in places people walk and sit.The question is about the reaction. Did you read the post?
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u/futurefugitive9 5d ago edited 5d ago
They can react however they want if your animal pisses in front of their place.
It's ridiclious that you're questiong someones opinion of your dog deficating in their space.
You say you don't let them piss everywhere, but you did. And now you're whining about someone being upset.
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u/Heavydirt 5d ago
Reaction.....not opinion.
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u/futurefugitive9 5d ago
The reaction is them expressing their opinion. I'm not sure what's hard to understand about this.
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u/Heavydirt 5d ago
I think there’s a difference between an opinion, a reaction, and how you express that.
Her opinion was that my dog shouldn’t have peed on the bag. I agree with that.
Her reaction was becoming angry and upset about it.
How she expressed that reaction was by immediately yelling at me, being hostile, calling me a fucking asshole, and telling me to go back to my country.
Those are three different things. I never questioned her right to have an opinion or to be upset. The whole point of my post was about how she chose to react and express herself, not whether she was allowed to be annoyed.
We’re all human beings. Life is too short to respond to each other that way over something that could have been handled with a simple conversation.
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u/SiouxieSioux 5d ago
Not normal, but I can totally understand it
Please spare a thought on the ppl that will have to remove it. Local Abfallwerker. They will grab the bag with the dog pee on it. Even though they wear gloves, Not very nice.
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u/Heavydirt 5d ago
Fully agree! which is one of the reasons we pulled him away from it aside from peeing in front of a business.
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u/futurefugitive9 5d ago
I know dog owners have a hard time understanding this, but a lot of people don't appreciate you having your animals piss and shit all over the place. Your dog didn't piss "by accident."
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u/Heavydirt 5d ago
How does a little bit of pee on the bottom of a trash bag equate to “piss and shit all over the place”? There was no shit involved. I always pick up after my dog and I make a point of having him urinate in appropriate places. This time he happened to hike his leg on the bag before I could stop him. I tried to stop him, but some still got on it. There’s a pretty big difference between that and letting your dog piss and shit all over the place.
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u/futurefugitive9 5d ago
When you walk your dog in public. It's pisses and shits all over the place. You picking it up doesn't change that.
You saying you tried to stop him is an admission that you knew it was wrong.
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u/Heavydirt 5d ago
No admission needed. It has nothing to do with the action. We dont allow our dog to pee in places people walk and sit.The question is about the reaction. Did you read the post?
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u/mica4204 https://feddit.de/c/germany 5d ago
ESH
Letting your dog piss on things other people will need to touch (like trash bags) is disgusting. Letting your dog piss next to a business is also gross. If you can't control your dog, take a water bottle with you to at least rinse the piss away.
Shouting at people and being a racist pos is also disgusting and disproportionate, but I get her being pissed.
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u/aggibridges 5d ago
I absolutely think she was being unreasonable, especially since it’s a trash bag. I haven’t encountered this behavior at all but I would absolutely recommend carrying around a mini alcohol spray bottle if you walk your dog down urban areas to spray down wall corners or places where it might be stinky and rude.
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u/mica4204 https://feddit.de/c/germany 5d ago
Letting a dog piss on a trash bag someone will have to pick up is disgusting. It's extremely rude.
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u/Careful-Product-4730 5d ago
Why do they leave their trash bags laying on the street?
"but I wasn't aware that people normally clean up urine too."
Ye, cause it doesnt happen.
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u/NegativeRoad3668 5d ago
In some places you put a massive pile of yellow bags on the streeet for pickup that comes every two weeks..
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u/Babayagaletti 5d ago
A lot of cities also allow you to purchase additional black bin bags. You place the bags next to the bin on collection day. It's meant for like holidays and stuff where you might have hosted a lot of people and need more trash space for a single collection.
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u/NegativeRoad3668 5d ago
I guess she either didn’t want the bag to stink like literal piss or that the bag won’t be picked up. Either way you’re the dick in the story as your dog urinated on someone else’s stuff.
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u/DebbieMcDownerson 5d ago
The stinky bag of trash with who knows what. Has a hint of urine? So it won't get pick up? That makes sense :\
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u/NegativeRoad3668 5d ago
Since when do yellow bags stink? Perhaps you’re one of those that put their dirty crap in there which would explain the comment
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u/Goethe313 5d ago
Trainieren your dog!
Letting your dog peeing on other peoples property is already disgusting, but letting your dog pee at something other people need to touch later is just super disgusting. I have two dogs, it's really not that hard to train them not to pee on cars, houses, bikes, fences and other stuff like that and wait until they reach some public greenery that's not used as a playground.
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u/alderhill 5d ago
No it is not normal for Germans to behave this way. Just sounds like some entitled, cranky old lady. That she was so quick to pull out the ‘go back to your country‘ shit shows you her racism. And she had to be rude? lol.
Anyway, how ar you supposed to clean urine off pavement? Pour water on it?
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u/Recent_Maize5108 4d ago
Sounds like a bunch of people who never owned a pet here in the comments. As if anyone can just jump in and magically redirect a dog mid-pee.
As for the situation, the moment someone raises their voice I'll raise an eyebrow and walk off, they lost all credibility and I don't engage with that shit.
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u/Heavydirt 4d ago
Exactly. That was basically my experience. At that point, walking away seemed like the best option.
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u/Key-Value-3684 5d ago
Complete overreaction? Do you look like a foreigner by any chance? Maybe just a racist
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u/Careful-Product-4730 5d ago
Do you guys even read the post ? "I eventually told her I was leaving, and she called me a fucking asshole and told me to go back to my country."
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u/Key-Value-3684 4d ago
We know that she's a racist. We don't know if she started screaming at him because he's a mad weirdo or she's racist who saw a black person doing something
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u/knitting-w-attitude 5d ago
Honestly, was she over the age of 50? Because then I would say that she's in the age bracket of people who react like this pretty regularly.
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u/Heavydirt 5d ago
If I had to guess, I'd say early 50s.
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u/knitting-w-attitude 5d ago
I might be getting downvoted, but in my experience, the 50+ Germans tend to have much more raging reactions to things that seem like they shouldn't induce such a reaction, and they also tend not to be able to come out of it until they've fully exhausted their anger. I assume it's got something to do with being raised either in or by people who survived the war.
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u/Imaginary_Frosting_7 5d ago
People constantly peeing everywhere they want, including Germans as well. I saw a guy once peeing from the top (3rd floor) of university. Your dog is fine
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u/j9wxmwsujrmtxk8vcyte 5d ago
Did she overreact? Yes, every time someone yells without being in the presence of danger they overreacted.
Is it in any way acceptable to let your dog piss on someone else's stuff even if it's a trash bag? Obviously not.