NBR: dog owners come in

GracieMaeLovey · June 2011

So I went to turn the sprinkler on this afternoon and was hit in the face HARD by the stench of dog poo. It was offensive. DH is the pooper scooper- always has been- but for some reason I can't figure out his logic (or lack thereof). As it lay there in a shopping bag on this 100 degree day, I couldn't help but wonder there's got to be a better way. So, what do you store your dog poo in? Something's gotta give- we need a tight fitting lid...especially for the warm weather months. I'm thinking like a miniature Oscar the Grouch trash can with a lid.

RumbleLina · June 2011

You have to store your dog poop? What is the reason behind that?

We are lucky in that we have enough land that our dog foes into the weeds out of our landscaped lawn so we donot have to worry about scooping. We do have cats though and when that gets cleaned it just goes straight into the garbage can.

GracieMaeLovey · June 2011

AllysunC:

You have to store your dog poop? What is the reason behind that?

Welp, for lack of better terms, yes we store it. We keep our garbage cans in the garage and because our trash is only picked up weekly, tossing the poo directly into the cans is not an option. DH fills a bag in the backyard and just dumps into the trash on trash day. Make sense?

JamieSF · June 2011

Do you have a diaper genie?

JamieSF · June 2011

Or you could flush it down the toilet?

ribbicks · June 2011

GracieMaeLovey:
So I went to turn the sprinkler on this afternoon and was hit in the face HARD by the stench of dog poo. It was offensive. DH is the pooper scooper- always has been- but for some reason I can't figure out his logic (or lack thereof). As it lay there in a shopping bag on this 100 degree day, I couldn't help but wonder there's got to be a better way. So, what do you store your dog poo in? Something's gotta give- we need a tight fitting lid...especially for the warm weather months. I'm thinking like a miniature Oscar the Grouch trash can with a lid.

This is exactly what we do and then transfer to the big bin on garbage days. It works well for us!

RumbleLina · June 2011

Have you thought about composting your dog poo? I tried to search to see if I could find a container but all it brought up was dog poop composts and a public animal waste disposal system. It would get rid of you need to store it as well as throwing it in your garbagage and if you have a garden you would be able to use it for fertilizer.

hopedbell87 · June 2011

There is a thing called a doggy dooley or something. You put the poop in it and it puts it down into the ground. That way you don't have to scoop it, or store it in a shopping bag. Dog.com is what my BF said to go to.

Shanin8 · June 2011

We obviously have experience with this lol. We used the doggie dooley for a little bit. It didn't help that DH ran over it with the lawn mower and broke the lid He has also been leaving the poo in a plastic bag, lying on the patio, baking in the sun. Makes me want to vomit.

I was going to get a metal trash can with a lid. That is what my mom uses also. And btw, even if you did compost your doggie poo...you can't use it as fertilizer in a food garden, just a flower garden. No eating it!

liladelphia215 · June 2011

I'm bad. I have no idea why, but I am the pooper scooper here. DH will do it, only if I ask him more than once to. With DD and other house chores, I only get to it once a week. With this hot weather, it literally bakes the poo. By the time I get to it, it is dry, I bag it up, and it doesn't stink.

The downside: I have two dogs, and a small yard. A weeks worth of poo is a lot!

But if you are not into the lazy dog poo idea, I would say a mini lided trashcan may not be a bad idea - or you can take out your kitchen trash bag and put it in there and take it out to your big outside can if you have one. I'll do that on occasion.

christyp80 · June 2011

I don't have a dog (2 black kitties here!) but this whole post made me giggle. Nothing like reading about dog poop disposal options to make you grateful for a litter box.

GoMommy · June 2011

We use a plastic trash can w/ a lid and it works pretty well. Good luck!

GracieMaeLovey · June 2011

Great ideas, thanks! I especially like the diaper genie one Wink

I'm going to look into the composting as well as the the doggie dooley.

Wufroggy79 · June 2011

DH goes out about once a week to get them, and he scoops them into a plastic bag and then into our garbage containers. These sit outside until they are wheeled down to the street on trash day so the stench doesn't really bother me.

courtneyt13 · June 2011

I love all these ideas. We have two dogs and dog poop has always been an issue.

How are you guys going to handle your LOs in your backyard when they are mobile? I am worried about the dog poop even after we pick it up. Maybe this is something that I am worried about but isn't really an issue...

Jaylea · June 2011

We have one of the big Home Depot buckets with a lid, with the wire handle.

We pick up the poop with a shopping bag, put it in there (it's in the back corner of the yard, in the shade) and it stays there until trash day.

ETA - one of these:

TofuMama7 · June 2011

We're lucky that our current dog poops behind the bushes in the corner of our yard, but our dog that passed away (and was also 100 lbs) used to poop all over the yard and DH would bury it in a hole in the corner of the yard. You couldn't ever smell it and the plants over there grew very well. Smile

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