The weather is warm – mid-60ºs – and I just cleaned 16 lb of dog poo from my backyard.
Submitted by Stephanie and David on March 11, 2012 - 4:14pmI just had to tell someone who understood. For dogs that stand a foot high, they can sure generate a lot of fertilizer.
Yikes! That is a lot!
Is that for one week? I have to use a giant black garbage bag for my yard clean up every week, and that's only half of it! If I picked up everything in the pastures from my dogs, I would need more than one bag!
Lovely topic of conversation. But ya know, I totally get where you're coming from!
Amy and Sophia
Lol wow I thought I was the
Lol wow I thought I was the only one who had that problem. I moved from Phoenix, AZ to Colorado a couple years ago and have wondered how people keep their yards clean when it actually snows enough to bury it for a couple months at a time. I figured there must be some secret to uncovering the poop-cicles that I have to learn before I get in trouble for just leaving it out there haha! Good to know it's not just me:)
It was for about three weeks.
We had a little snow, but not much. Today was in the 60s and there may be rain (!) tonight so I was doing in when I could. In the winter, we dig out a small poo area for the bulldog so her poo space is limited and it's easy to find. They don't tend to go in the deep snow areas for that. This year has been record mild (today is usually in the 30s for a high and below freezing at night) and I wanted to get to the poo before it started to stink and sink.
In real winters, the poo freezes solid so it's easy to pick up.
There are also poo picking up services that get buzy at the end of the winter cleaning the yard from four to six months of poopies.
I'm no expert....but
What good does the food do in the yard?
I knew how much poo I was pickin' up, but I just thought Bulldogs poop a lot. When I started feeding raw, I saw a lot of that
"food" was ending up in the yard and not on the dog.
I looked into raw, but was scared till the morning one of my boys wouldn't get up to eat. He got to where he hated the dog food. And it was higher in price than raw, and gave them yeast and yucky breath. The yard full of poo was just the tip of the icberg.
Also they won't drink as muchwater as the dog food is dried, fresh meat has water in it.
But anyway that's why I feed raw, but I also stay at home so I have the time. And I used to not.
Steve
Mean people still suck
Totally agree!
Audrey poops maybe 5 times a week, and the raw poops are much smaller, harder textured, and turn to dust all on their own in a very short time. Huge bonus to raw feeding!
Cathy and Audrey
very true...i usually took
very true...i usually took him for a walk even in the dead of winter...we would go 10-15 mins max
around the block...which as much as i found it a drag then...i have nothing to pick up now!lol
that's a nice balance no? lol
i hear ya there - snow gone "SURPRISE!" pooo pooooooo
nm
omg! If I don't clean our small yard weekly the place turns into
land mine city.
Fatboy aka Stinky :)
I remember those days
So I just decide to start taking them to the field where the deer sleep. Since they ate all my flowers they can sleep in my dogs mess. Oh the pay backs.
Karonelaine
I'm thinking elephant
I swear there is an elephant sneaking into our yard at night. The good news is that he usually sticks to one corner to do his business.
Nakina