Hi Everyone,

I have 2 dogs and obviously when they go for a poo i pick it up in a bag and put it into a bin in the back garden. The thing is lately there have been loads of flies around the bin, it doesnt help when the bin men only come every 2 weeks! Just wondering what people do with their poo? I have been taking it down to the rubbish dump every other week cause it really starts to smell.

Anybody have any suggestions/advice?

Many Thanks

We put ours in a plastic bag then take it to a local dog bin.

Do you mean the little ones that are in parks etc? I dont know where the nearest one is! Have to find out thank you for your advice.

Or what about picking it up in a little bag, then find a clothes peg (for your nose!!!! ;) ) and flush it down the loo when you get home?

The poo in the garden gets flushed down the loo. The poo picked up on walks goes in the special bins in the village.

Sorry i mean the poo from the garden!

In a nappy sack, then into another nappy sack (usually the one I've used for 'picking up') and then into a small sealed bin in the garden, then into the household rubbish just before it's collected......  This method has been approved by the council - it's the 'double bagging' that counts ;)

Double bagging... I'm too tight to use two nappy bags for one t*rd... I think I'm just about to get a visit from the council poo police - he-he!

You know, my mum gets too embarrassed to carry a bag full of dog poo when she looks after my doggies. She actually takes a little gift bag with her and drops the tied up nappy sack in there. If she ever gets mugged, I'd love to see the expression on their faces when they open their present!

Flush most of it away - the rest goes in my own dog bin kept in an outhouse until refuse collection due (weekly where we are).   Mine rarely "go" on walks as I mainly use public park land for exercising them and prefer they don't use that for a toilet - but I always carry poo bags for accidents and when necessary that's deposited in bins in the park.

Regards, Teri :)

We bag ours up and put in the household rubbish

I have two dogs as well but my boy will not poo in the garden ever. We've never discouraged him (in fact, I would prefer it) but he always goes in the first few minutes of his walk in the densest bushes he can find, well away from people and other dogs. For some reason, he is very shy and will not go if anyone is watching. Just one of his many foibles.

Puppy goes anywhere and everywhere. I bag it (usually in biodegradable poo bags) and chuck it in the wheelie bin. Bin is emptied once per fortnight and a company comes around to clean it and put a fresh bin liner in it. There is never much problem with odour and I have a bigger problem with flies around the compost bin than the wheelie bin.

Hi ShaynLola, 

>he always goes in the first few minutes of his walk in the densest bushes he can find

That made me laugh - my first male (sadly no longer with us) was very particular if "caught short" on his walks - he always had to find a bush and then he'd reverse into it :D  It was so funny to watch - aw, bless, it makes me miss him all over again :(   He was quite a guy.

Hi Teri

Hooray!! My boy is NOT the oddest dog ever, then. That is very reassuring :D Mind you, it's their little quirks that make them all unique and I wouldn't have him any other way :)

When out on walks, (I try to make sure that they have emptied themselves first, but doesn't always happen) Why oh why, do mine always make sure that they have an audience before even entertaining the idea? :rolleyes:

Walking happily down the road/across the field, walk for maybe a mile with nothing, person/people approaches from distance and as they get closer, up goes the tail, crouch position assumed and hey presto, aren't I a clever boy/girl Out comes my industrial sized bag and the clear up begins, but I always feel embarrassed and could happily swing for them (not literally). Yes.......I know it's perfectly natural.......yes, dogs will be dogs.........but still.

I always bring said bag home and deposit in bin. Garden poos go into the cess pit with a very large shovel. Albeit I dropped the shovel down there a few weeks ago and a very unimpressed OH had to retrieve it :D :D

When out on walks I use nappy sacks - my bitch always waits for grass to go on, even if she has to wait hours the silly mare but my boy will 9 times out of 10 go in the garden, he unfortunately finds it impossible to stand still and poo, he walks and poos in a half crouched position - honestly what a twit!  So if he does go outside it takes me ages to pick it all up as it's in small bits all over the place LOL :D

When in the garden I put the poo in carrier bags then in a black sack - normally get a few carriers in the black sack before putting it in the wheelie bin - that stops smells :)

Ours gets recycled, I'm afraid :) We have a large horse field at the bottom of the garden and the bit near us is a large mass of brambles etc. Our poo bucket contents get thrown over the fence into the brambles.

Are we naughty or is this just being environmentally friendly ??

Daisy

My two Spanish boys also do the reverse into the heges bit too :d  It's a bugger when there are nettles down there too and you're trying to pick it up!

I think that is environmentally friendly Daisy.  My garden isn't really big enough but my friend, who has a very big garden has a small area of shrubbery, where the children are aware not to go :), where her, very large, dog's poo is deposited.  It soon breaks down, if you dare to have a peek in there there are only ever a dozen or so to be seen the rest just being merged into the soil and the humous from the shrubs etc.
I bag my dog's up and put in the wheelie bin.  This is only emptied every fortnight but I guess it has a good sealing lid because there is never any smell from it or the other food waste in there for the same length of time nor any flies.

Depends , if they poop in my yard i pick it up in a bag and toss it onto my neighbours roof. He has a cocker that always poops in my backyard (partially fenced) and he never picks it up. I've adressed him and he still does it so pelting poop at his windows and roof is how i get back at him.I should take some pictures of his roof shingles with baked on poo. If i'm walking further from our house i pick it up and toss it into the closest public trash bin.

lol Manny :-D

ROFL @ Manny :-D

Mine usually go on walks so it's picked up in nappy bags and deposited in the doggie bin.  When they do go in the garden, again in a nappy bag and deposited in the bin.  We always have a bin liner in the bin and it's lidded.  Never had a problem with smell.

My Jozi is like that and she will wait and wait for a walk before going so I end up using about 4 bags just for her.

That is so funny, your dh having to get the shovel out.

We women love the equality until such things happen, but then it's really good to have a man around isn't it ROFL. 

Hooray, my Mr Poo-In-A-Bush isn't the only weirdo around! Does anyone else's dog have to rev themselves up weaving back and forth before marking territory, then have to mark the same spot 3 times before moving on?? :rolleyes:

My Piglet has to scrape the ground, circle several times and then shove his backside against as high a spot as possible. Bagging poo that's been firmly stuck 15 inches up a fence isn't the easiest of tasks ...

Spy has this delightful habit of finding one of the following...stinging nettle, thorns, brambles, rose beds, prickley bushes...and reversing in as far as he can go. The other one he does is cock his leg and pee and poo at the same time. I live in hope he never has diahorrea during one of the latter moments.

In answer to the OP, I pick it up in nappy sacks and chuck it in the dustbin. It has a very heavy lid so the smell doesn't get out or it could be that Thanet flies are thicker than the average fly. LOL Did anyone else say that last bit in a Yogi Bear voice? :D 'Smarter than the average bear...'

OMG I need to get out more...

A Thanet girl :D

I brought Mars  first oldie up in Thanet :D

We lived at Manston and had regular walks on the beaches around us :D

Labs tend to poo where they want and when they want :D :D

We have a poo bucket which gets emptied in a bin liner every week in the wheelie bin. It is a lot lighter volume now Min is no longer with us and a lot less messy as the other two have solid small poos :D :D

I do love a conversation about poo :p

Lucy
xx

haha collies , just what i was thinking! Yogi and booboo are awsome :)

I also put mine in bags when picking up from the garden,and then into a carrier bag and pop over the field to deposit it into council dog poo bins,we have two one each end,Zanta is a bit like Shay if caught out she goes in the longest grass she can find and well away from paths.Always carry little bag with me incase she goes where people have to walk.

We don't half talk a load of s**t on this forum sometimes :D :D

LOL :D :D @ Shaynlola

:D Teri that's exactly what my old dog, Benji, would do! He always preferred to park his bottom on a small bush/shrub!
We also have a bin with a tight lid at the top of the garden, all the waste is double bagged, nappy sacks, then emptied into two carrier bags the night before bin day.

Puppys have the cutests look on there faces when they just stare into your eyes while squatting to poop. i love it!

We have a cess pit and just chuck it down there ( quite a lot with 6 dogs ) - it gets emptied once every three years - costs around £70 - no flies, no smells ( except when it's being emptied). I've always been a bit puzzled why it's suppposed to be better to wrap something thats naturally biodegradable in plastic where it'll hang around for the next 10 years LOL :D - maybe because we're so used to everything being 'shrink wrapped' ;)

Yvonne

Well, I use Nappy bags that are bio-degradable

Um... have you considered therapy?  ;-)  LOL

You could check out if there is a wheely bin cleaning company in your area, ours gets done every time it's emptied by a team of lads with a truck and high pressure hose - they even have their own water!  It was a waste of money before we got the puppy - now it's a godsend!!!! It never smells after it's been emptied & cleaned!

We have a wheelie bin cleaner too. He comes round once a month (he is here right now actually :-) ) and cleans the bin after its been emptied. It smells like bubblegum after he has done it!!! Much better than s**t!!! :D :D :D Well worth £3!!!

Hey, throw it in the neighbours bin then yours still smells better lol

I am only kidding

Hmm, I always thought it was illegal to put it in our sewage system??? Aren't there some parasites that survive our treatments??

Nothing worse than those that people put in there.

Sorry I don't understand your post Jeangenie?? Do you mean nothing worse than people that put their dogs poo in the loo??? Or something else?? Thanks, Dawn.

I mean dog poo has no worse parasites than those in people's poo. Sorry I didn't make myself clear! :)

Blimey, I didn't realise I was walking round with tape and round worm coming out me b*m HA HA!

Threadworm is very common, especially among children, and yes, people get tapeworm too. In fact they used to be used as slimming aids.

I agree that threadworms are common and usually picked up by children in the garden...However, tapeworm can and DO migrate in the body, usually through the gut into the liver and cause massive problems from the people that have them there!! I suppose the blindness caused to children through toxaplasmosis is nothing to worry about?? (have I spelt that right??)

I don't think JG was recommended the use of tapeworms :)  The point is, I think, that if our sewage system can cope with eliminating the danger of the parasites held in human poo it can equally deal with those of dogs.

I don't see your point, newfiedreams. For one thing, threadworms only affect humans, and are usually picked up in the home, not in the garden. I'm not suggesting that deliberate infection with parasites is a good idea! (Although recent studies suggest otherwise!) But the fact remains that many people do have parasites, and the sewage system can deal with it, so I can't see why dog parasites should be any different.

Ohh I understand what you mean...really it was just a question...I just don't find it a very satisfactory way of dealing with doggy doo!!! I'm just a bit of a purist! But I do disagree with the threadworm source...I believe it IS from the garden, usually with dirt under the nails and then ingested, with re-ingestion every time the bottom is scratched at night and the hand goes to the mouth (YUK)...and usually spread to the siblings...by the way, I've written a paper on thread worms! And yes, I know people have theories about how much healthier our guts were when we had the odd parasite inside! Crohns disease would be an example of this...the rise of it in children is being researched a lot at the moment, and that is mooted as a cause(the lack of parasites, that is!) My hubby says you can eat on our toilet, I'm a bit obsessive about cleanliness, there, I've said it...I've got a problem! I CONFESS!!! LOL Live long and prosper...may all the parasites be yours...I don't want 'em!