If you aren't luck enough to live in an rural area it can be hard to find a place to chuck the inevitable. I have a compost pile for all the kennel "leftovers" and if you layer poop and staw or grass clipping with a bit of dirt it cooks down pretty fast. If you are in a urban or suburban setting you can always collect the droppings in a bucket but put in a a few good handfuls of dry peat moss when you add droppings and this will dry the poop out fast and eliminate the smell(and flies). Use a smallish bucket if you are inclined to be lazy so you don't end up with a 50 lb pail of poop. This way you can sneak it into the garbage and no one is the wiser(some municipalities don't let you put animal waste in the garbage). Or you can bury it.
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We use the plastic bags that the groceries are bagged in to pooper scoop.
We go out w/ 2 bags in hand and use 1 to scoop(turned inside out and over the hand like a glove) and the other to collect the droppings. Then we turn the scoop bag right side out, put the collection bag inside it and tie the top in a knot. This gets dropped in the trash(outside) and goes out w/ the collection once a week.The bags are free and it is a great way to recycle them!!( I also use them as liners for the waste pail in each bathroom!!)
Although I am surrounded by woods, I skeeve the flies and smell and want to get the crap as far away as possible from my home, and I don't have a great throwing arm!!! <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/laugh.gif" alt="" /> So this is the method that works best for us.
No one ever said life was supposed to be easy, life is what you make of it!!
After years of just using a shovel and a hoe to pick up the kennel I finally treated myself to one of those nice little pooper scooper pan and scraper sets - heaven! I wish I had bought one sooner as it is much easier on the back and much lighter and shaped better for "pick-up". Highly recommended.
Originally posted by nochim1: Well dang it! I just switched Heidi to Homemade raw- so I guess I won't be buying the dooley after all. Yeah, it's a yucky subject, but Cindy just saved me some $$ and I really like that. No more kibble bags around the house either though....
The great thing about the homemade diet though is that the poop is small and turns into chalk in about a day. So the dooley is kind of unnecessary for raw feeders anyway.....just use the plastic grocery store bags like Jeanette suggested or let the crap just disintegrate. If I only had one dog that's what I would do! <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/laugh.gif" alt="" />
Years ago, I had a huge Shep/Lab X. We tried making a poop composter. We dug a big hole in the back corner of the yard, and lined it with some cinder blocks around the top, and made a plywood cover for it. Unfortunately, we couldn't figure out how to get the poop to break down as quickly as the "composter" got filled. We tried putting grass clippings in, and ash, and compost and stuff, but it never really seemed to break down.
Now, we just use the baggy on the hand method, or maybe the shovel into the baggy. I have this great mini-bushel basket that has wire handles that are just the right distance apart to slip the plastic grocery bag handles over, holding the bag open so I can just drop the poop in with the shovel. When I'm done, I just tie the handles of the bag together, and drop it into the garbage can. I would love to have a composting system for dog poop that works, though. I don't like adding all that feces wrapped in plastic to the solid waste stream.
The problem with your home composter is probably that you didn't have enough air or water involved. People that are really into composting can tell you alot about how to work the piles. I am lucky I just wing the poo into the manure pile and it isn't a problem.
Anyway compost is kinda tricky to get cooking and keep from getting too "hot"(hot piles smell, good compost is virtually odorless) If I could remember the amounts of manure(dogpoo, vegetables) to dry organic matter(straw hay leaves grass) I would post it, but alas, the only thing growing in my garden is weeds this year.
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