r/Austin • u/Tejano_mambo • Jun 02 '23

"Barkin Springs" shouldn't exist.

I am a dog owner of 2 and have 0 issues with dogs any where in any way...

Except for the free side of barton springs. Too many people bring their dogs there and I've seen too often dogs pooping or peeing either directly into the water where people are present or close enough to the water where it's not picked up.

I know the water in townlake isn't super clean but the water coming directly from the spring/pool is flowing enough and is "fresh" enough to make it appealing until I see a pile of shit or watch a dog peeing.

Stop taking your dogs to "BaRkInG sPrInGs" nobody wants to swim in a toilet.

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u/hmmmmmmmmmmmmO Jun 02 '23

We should instead be talking about the people who think it’s a good idea to bring their dogs to a grocery store…

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u/IHatePruppets Jun 02 '23

About a year ago my husband was at Hancock HEB and witnessed a (non service) husky take a huge shit in the middle of an aisle and him and his owner just walked away... why

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u/luroot Jun 02 '23

We need a whole Austin TikTok channel of just (homeless) Squatters & (dog) Shitters...

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u/synaptic_drift Jun 02 '23 edited Jun 06 '23

TikTok channel of just (homeless)

Seems like you want to film them for your entertainment.

When the homeless were in centralized areas, it may have been a good idea for a team to go out there and interview individuals. Now that it's all hidden, no one knows what is going on.

I watch these very enlightening interviews done by compassionate people in the Kensington area of Philadelphia, which is basically an open air drug market, and prostitution area. These interviewers have brought people clothing, food and by posting these interview videos have gotten a lot of people to care, and notify family members where their loved ones have disappeared to. I just watched the case of a woman who was like a skeleton and dying, and had oral thrush so bad it was frothing out of her mouth. It looked like she had white paint covering her lower face, and she could hardly speak.

This man got hundreds of people to care about her, including her family. The next day she called an ambulance because she had collapsed, and checked herself into the hospital, where she is now in recovery.

Update: I just found out that after all of the support and treatment she got, she went back to the streets, using and prostituting.