Horse Poop

When you walk a dog you are required to pick up its poop or face a fine (although I never see any cops or anyone else monitoring this law, but I do see dog owners picking up dog poop, which, when you think about it, is hilarious). Why is this not true for horses too? I understand the rule about dogs. Forty thousand dogs or so pass through the Boston Common on any given day when the weather is nice, and they do their business. If no one picked that shit up, the park would be overrun with dog feces. This would not be pleasant for the casual park goer. No one enjoys stepping in dog poop. Well maybe a few people do, but they aren't friends of mine.

A little side note here to all you dog owners. When you pick up your dog's poop, what do you do with it? Do you take it home or throw it in the trash at the park? If you take it home do you throw it in your trash or do you flush it down the toilet? Are there rules about this? What if you throw it in the trash at home and then don't take out the trash for a week? Your place would smell like dog poop. No one would want to visit you. What if you left it on the kitchen table?

"Honey, what is the bag of brown shit on the counter?"
"Oh, that came out of Oscar's butt."

Good times. If it was me, I would take my dog's poop and sling it against the doors of my enemies. That's just me though. Maybe it's a good thing I don't have a dog. Well, a good thing for my enemies.

Anyway, there seems to be no requirement for picking up horse poop. Granted, there are not as many horses wandering around pooping as there are dogs, but horse poop is enormous in comparison. It's like a mountain of poop. There is no not seeing a horse's poop and therefore accidentally stepping in it as there is with dog poop. So horse poop has that advantage. But horses seem to poop very often when they are taking a stroll through town. You can figure out where the horse was going by following its trail of poop. Not that I have ever done this. I get it that the person who is riding the horse (usually a cop) would have to get off the horse every couple of minutes to pick up the poop, and a plastic bag wouldn't be sufficient. You would need some sort of large barrel (maybe just a bucket if you were going a short distance). Maybe there should be another person with the specific job of picking up after the horse. Can you imagine that guy telling someone about what he does!? He would have to lie to everyone. It would have to pay a decent amount, right? I mean, who would want that job!?

It seems to be that if the animal is domesticated, be it dog, cat, horse, or human, the shit should be picked up if the shit was in a place where a good number of people pass through. That's just my opinion though.

Note: for this post I was going to take a picture of the giant heap of horse poop I see in the Common on the way to and from work everyday, but I didn't have the balls to take a picture of horse poop in front of other pedestrians. You win some, you lose some. I apologize to the readers. I did find that sweet picture of a horse above though. So there's that.