Surprise, surprise, I have found another topic I find myself shaking my head at. People are looking to ban all plastic shopping bags. Before you start ranking and raving, hear me out. I understand that plastic bags are sitting in landfills and we do need to find a viable solution to this problem. However, have the people trying to ban the bags thought about what this ban will do? How might one clean up after their dog without a bag? It’s bad enough that bags are basically everywhere, you often see them blowing down the street like tumbleweeds, and a number of people still choose to leave it as it lay, so to speak. So if you make it more difficult to find a bag what do you think people will start to do? I’m not that bright and I figured that out in about 3 seconds.

So before you ban plastic bags do you really want to live in a world of crap? I can guarantee that if people have to go out and purchase a biodegradable bag, most people will not clean up after their pet. Not to mention, they are expensive bags. I purchase these bags but I am intelligent enough to know that many people don’t have the means to do so. If you really want to get rid of plastic bags how about you pay for those pet bags to be readily available to people? Or spend your efforts letting people know these bags exist and maybe more people will purchase them and then the number of supermarket bags used will decrease. But to just eliminate them all together is creating one problem to eliminate another.

So all of you politically correct people that have the solution to everything, how do you suggest we clean up after our pets? Don’t say a paper bag because I will use one, light it on fire and throw it on your porch. Often times I run out of my biodegradable poop bags or one of my dogs has an active colon and I have to reach for a shopping bag. What is a person to do if there are no shopping bags to reach for? Scooping it up in your hand and carrying it home is probably the most environmentally friendly way to handle it but sorry, not happening. It’s bad enough I can’t manage to keep the poop off of my hand even when using a bag. Side note, my husband can clean up after three dogs while carrying a cup of coffee and wearing gloves and never gets any on himself. I, on the other hand, try to pick up one poop and I look like I just came out of a mud wrestling tournament except with a stronger aroma.

Don’t get me wrong, I am all for saving what is left of the environment but sometimes some of the ideas people have just aren’t practical. I am also very tired of this group of people dictating what needs to be done and if you speak up against the idea, once again you are a hater. Encouraging or enlightening others is wonderful but let’s not force beliefs upon others unless you have a solution to the problem. Take away the bags, it’s going to be a poop show. I guess the only positive to come out of that is that it’s biodegradable.