What do you do with your dog poo?

[JP_]

The last time I had a dog, my dad just threw the poo over the fence - there was waste land (we called it The Spinney) next to the house. But not an option now, without seriously upsetting the neighbours.

So, I started putting puppy poo in the bin, wrapped in kitchen towel. Wife says that stinks. So now use puppy poo bags and put straight in the dustbin.

But seems wasteful. Does anybody successfully bury it? Or is that just too much trouble? Or something else?

 

[Mottie]

Where would you bury it? If you do, you should use biodegradable bags. We just use scented nappy sacks. Bag it, bin it.

 

[JP_]

Where would you bury it?

Dunno. somewhere down the bottom of the garden. But sure we'd soon run out of places!

 

[SpecialK]

Pick it up with toilet paper and flush it down the loo?

Dog poo bags and in the bin is the best bet...

 

[JP_]

I think there are rules against flushing it, as the treatment process is for human waste only, and dogs have different bacteria.
At least, that's what I read briefly this morning on one website. I reckon standard poo bags straight in the main bin will do it. He poos outside, so silly to bring it inside!

 

[Munroast]

we not only house trained ours but also garden trained them, so ours have never went in the garden, we have a wooded area out the back so presumably they go in there?

 

[Ihavenojob]

If the dog goes in the garden it gets picked up with a scented nappy sack. I then take it when we go for a walk and put it in the dog pooh bins provided at the park.

 

[ic1927]

Our neighbours dog shat in our garden yesterday, the wife said to get the shovel and throw it over the fence into their garden. I don't see what that achieved though, I've still got sh*t in my garden and now they've got my shovel.

 

[Lazzy]

toss it up on the nearest tree branch, that's what some of them do. prob what tr_n_y do with his cat poop

 

[IT Minion]

You can get dog poo compost bins, but it seems like more trouble than it's worth to me.

We use poo bags that are put in a small bin outside for the poo to be accumulate. Then into the black sacks each week.

 

[JohnD]

if you have a garden, you can plot a trench. Each day you drop the day's takings into the open trench, then cut another spadeful and dump it on the muck you have just deposited, to cover it, and to open the trench for the next day. Soil bacteria and worms will decay the material. Preferably make the trench deep enough that a future gardener planting bulbs with a handtrowel will not encounter unrotted material. This is tidier than digging individual holes, and it is easier to see where you are working.

 

[ReganAndCarter]

Exchange the dog for a cat. Never know where ours goes. Hopefully in the miserable tw*t's garden two doors up.

Great animals. Self cleaning and walking too.

 

[Deleted member 18243]

Can it be treated and used as biodiesel?

 

[The Samaritan]

This thread proves my point that dog owners need to be licenced and the license reviewed every year.

Reading through the posts most are not really aware of where to put their dog mess and I guess most people are not.

LL's in certain boroughs have to pass a fitness test and they pay for this licence and it is renewed every x years they have to prove they are aware of certain things. So why not do owners?? Last few days several serious attacks on children and at least one death.

Part of the dog owners licence should include how to treat a dog, what to and not to do, your duty to clean the dog's mess, give the dog a nice home be aware of safety re people around you and dog must be insured for medical expenses as well as public liability insurance etc. This would safeguard the dog
from many woes and when the public is attacked, some die, some are injured for life physically and/or mentally, cover their costs and injury - all should be part of a licene for dog owners, IE be a fit person, able to afford insurance for vet and liability and demonstrate they have enough money to feed the dog etc and be a fit person to have a dog licence.

Many thanks

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[Harry Bloomfield]

You can get a vented based plastic bin with lid, which you sink into the soil for it to rot down. Here we have a 50 yards of waste land to the rear and a nature reserve to the right. I use an Poundland thingummy for picking up things from the floor without having to bend down, to which I added some sheets of alloy to make the grippers, more of a scoop. That picks up the pile, so it can be launched over the fence. Some years ago, I paid £10 for one made for the job, but the adapted £1 version is better.