Our dog only ever does her business in our garden, so we collect it up in a pooper scooper using a nappy bag and put it in the outside dustbin.

Once a week my husband empties the outside dustbin into the rubbish for the bin men to collect.

We only have a small garden and I have noticed the bin has started to smell and attract flies :rolleyes:

Has anybody got a better solution?  What do you do?

Bag it and bin in to our dustbin for the bin men :)

If she only does it in your garden maybe you could flush it down the loo?

You could bag it and take it to the local tip. i did hear that dog waste put down the loo can cause blockages because its not the same formation as ours, not sure how true that is though :)

We here (Bristol city Council) are advised by the council to double bag dog and cat waste to put out for the bin men, but Herbivore waste (Rabbits, guinea pigs etc) can be composted.

I just put it into the wheelie bin in the carrier bags I use when poop scooping the garden.

Not sure I'd like a week's worth of dog poo in my bin -bagged or not I'm really lucky as I have a doggy bin almost opposite to my house which is regularly emptied by the council (?) so I just bag up what's in the garden and drop it off each day. Not sure what I'd do if it wasn't there---probably flush it down the loo

It's two weeks here, but their poo isn't that smelly as they don't get tinned food.

Two weeks here too.  I have a dedicated bin for my dog poo with a thick bin bag in it, and every poo is picked up in a nappy bag (so pretty cheap!) and popped in there, then the bin bag is tied shut and put in the wheelie bin on collection day.  After taking some other bags out and putting them back in on top so it doesn't frighten the bin men :D

It's really the only way I can deal with it, with four big dogs.  Pain in the rear though, weekly collections would be much better :(  And a lot less smelly and fly-attracting.  Luckily for me I have a little shed I keept my bins in, and with the weather getting cooler the flies are (ahem!) buzzing off now :p

Well, I decided to do some googling, and found out some interesting info here:

http://www.bbc.co.uk/dna/h2g2/A11998461



Has anybody actually tried the buried dog waste decomposer?

It's less than useless.

I agree,completely useless.We had one when we had just one dog and it couldn't cope.I pick it up from the garden now every day with degradeable poo bags and put them in the outside bin.

From that site:

>Buy a worm farm. Yes, you can put dog poo into a worm farm, but you'll also need to supply it with newspaper. Don't add poo to the farm for a few days after any sort of medication, especially worming tablets.

This made me chuckle. Could just imagine the proud worm owner scratching his head at the instant mortality of every worm in his carefully tended worm farm.

Bagged and binned here. I use biodegradable bags.

M.

sometimes the toilet but mostly bagged and binned in baby nappy sacks

Dont see why putting it down the toilet should be a problem? I wouldn't carry it through my house, as we only have an upstairs loo. I am lucky because I have a manhole on my garden path, for the sewer. I lift it & drop the poo in, as soon as the toilet is flushed it gets flushed away. Must admit we are very lucky where I live, I pick up on paths even in the fields, but if my dogs choose to do it in the middle of the fields I leave it. What really makes me mad are the people who pick up in bags but then leave the bag full anywhere & everywhere! People also annoy me at dog training, there are a number who don't fasten the bags up, the smell of the bins is enough for you to keel over!

Just read the link, will have to train the dogs to wee on their poo, it degrades quicker.

Oo, that bag thing irritates me too Beardy.  I saw a rather fetching purple poo bag dangling from a tree branch the other day What on earth is the point?

I do leave bags when I'm walking the dogs, but always in a spot that I'll be passing on the way back to the car park so I don't have to carry it around, as the dogs usually go within the first minute or two.  If they go somewhere I won't pass I'll carry it, and rarely I'll leave it there if I know I'll be back the next day (usually when I've forgotten my cheapo rucksack for carrying stuff :D).

Another thing that's annoyed me recently is people who've moved one of my bags.  A couple of weeks back I cleared up after Soli, and dropped it to pick up on the way back - when i passed the spot at the end of the walk it was gone.  Completely, never did find it - and a couple of days later it happened again, only this time I found the back thrown into some brambles.  Had great fun getting that one back.  It does annoy me though - I always make sure to leave them well out of the way of the trails so people don't stand on them (unless they're shimmying around a tree trunk :p).

Makes me laugh if I leave my wheelie bin out overnight after emptying....and find a couple of someones poo bags in it :D cheeky beggers...;)

Actually my dog warden told me to do that, as the bins belong to the council and if the bins are in reach without trespassing then he advised we were OK to deposit in them.  I was moaning at him at how few poo bins there are in the Bristol city council area, but how good the neighbouring council are where every patch of grass near flats, car parks etc has one.  Was also told it was OK to put poo bags in public waste bins.

Dogs usually go when out on walks so we bag it and put it in the council bins for dog waste.  On the odd occasion when they go in the kennel run, it is bagged and put into the bin.  The bin is lidded and hosed out, and disinfected weekly, same as the kennel run.   Their poos are not really smelly though, and I can't say we've ever had a problem with smells or flies, even in very hot weather.

we are very lucky in that we back onto a big park,and dog loos dotted about everywhere,so I put all poo into bin liner over course of the day,then when its dark,carry it to one of the big poo bins,this works well for us,we did use to put it down the manhole,but this is better all round
Wendy

we've got an ENORMOUS cess pit  ( was once part of a working farm) so it all goes down there and the whole thing gets emptied once every 2 years ( just stand down wind )

Yvonne

Bag and bin, a small plastic bin with a liner in ,then on bin day i transfare into wheelie bin.

Sheila.

well I am shocked!! :O :P
I tried the 'dog toilet' buried in the garden, USELESS!!
I bag a bin, but have been doing it secretly at night as someone told me the bin man would sue me for dispposing of doggie poo in wheelie bin! :D :D
Now I don't feel like a criminal now I know most people are doing it!!! :D :D

Bless, you, I was never really sore until I got it in writing when the recycling started and they spelt out what was allowed in which bin/box

Just inside our back door is the utility area with a toilet off, so I shovel (use small coal type spade) up any dog poo in the garden and flush down the loo. When I'm out dog walking I use nappy sacks & deposit in council doggy bins.

Yep, if out on walks it gets bagged & goes in dog bins or failing that litter bins, from home it goes in the wheelie bin (I just don't inhale when I open it ;) ). Only slight problem - there are NO bins of any description on out usual walk so I end up bringing it back and gathering bags of dog poo in a pile outside the front of the house, and transferring them to the wheelie bin once a week when I bring it round from the back....