Dog Poodo you do with yours?

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The title was to be dog poo

The question what do you do with yours, at home in the garden? Ive been putting it on the muck heap but OH is a bit pee'd off about that.
We have a lot!
Normal household waste bin?
 
Bag it and put it in black bin if done in garden, bag it and put it in public bin if on a walk, or take it to nearest bin/home in car.

Used to have a muck heap at the old house.

At the house before that, we kept it in buckets with disinfectant then emptied down the manhole periodically with plenty of toilet-flushing and tap-running.
 
Actually yes we used to pop it down a manhole directly into a sewer drain at our old house then stick a few buckets of water to make sure it didn't block anything. Ill put it in the bin I didn't know if that's was acceptable!
I think the muck heap gets spread and dog poo is a bit grim, I'd just thought of it as the obvious place.
 
It goes onto the muck heap. We have quite a bit (6 dogs) but we have quite a few (7) ponies too and about 45 chickens so...!
 
Apparently you are not meant to put dog poo down human sewers because it doesn’t degrade in the same way as human waste? So it can’t go through a sewage works in the same way. Apparently. Allegedly. But I’m not a scientist.

I bag it and put it in the black wheelie bin to go to landfill.... where it won’t degrade because the council insist it is at least double bagged.... hey ho, maybe it will go to the incinerator now Gloucester has got one ?

I stick and flick on dog walks because I walk in forestry commission woods
 
I was only thinking about this the other day whilst walking my dog. With most places doing away with plastic bags for shopping to help save the environment, it suddenly occurred to me that by bagging up dog pooh, we are bagging up something that will degrade naturally, but putting it into something that won't! if that makes sense.
We currently use a larger bag in the garden and take to the nearest doggie waste bin every so often, and obv bag up in the small bags when out walking. However I only pick it up if it's on the path where people would walk. If the dog ventures into the verges or under trees or something I leave it as feel it's better for the environment than putting into a plastic bag, and it's not in anybody's way.
 
Levrier said:
Apparently you are not meant to put dog poo down human sewers because it doesn’t degrade in the same way as human waste? So it can’t go through a sewage works in the same way. Apparently. Allegedly. But I’m not a scientist.
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Well, we know better and do better now :o this would have been about 20 years ago or more.
 
I bought some biodegradable poo bags but they felt like normal plastic so unsure if I just got ripped off there anyway, then someone pointed out it was pointless putting biodegradable bags into plastic lines dog poo bins.
 
I have the biodegrable bags and even if you put it in the plastic-lined dog bins, it's still much better for the planet than the plastic - those plastic poop bags will take up to a 1,000 years to biodegrable and release pollutants as they do so. The biodegrable ones take three to six months.
 
I'm torn on the degradable ones, I keep meaning to look into them properly. Do they actually *degrade* or do they break down into increasingly smaller bits of plastic, which would actually cos a more acute evironmental issue...

I stick and flick depending on the habitat, and then bag and bin if required. At home it all gets bagged into one big bag which is then chucked in the wheely bin as and when.
 
Tinkerbee said:
I'm torn on the degradable ones, I keep meaning to look into them properly. Do they actually *degrade* or do they break down into increasingly smaller bits of plastic, which would actually cos a more acute evironmental issue...

I stick and flick depending on the habitat, and then bag and bin if required. At home it all gets bagged into one big bag which is then chucked in the wheely bin as and when.
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You can get starch/plant-based ones which are the best, because then they only release the CO2 that was inside the plant (so would be released in any case at some point) and then they decompose into organic matter rather than petro-chemical substances.
 
I collect the stuff in the yard and put in a plastic yard bag. In cooler weather, if we aren't getting much rain, I can use one bag a week. During the summer I use smaller bags and put in the county garbage can more often. Out walking it just depends. If we're in the woods I stick and flick. (this is the first time I've heard that term.) If we're somewhere it could be easily stepped it I bag it and put in a convenient garbage bag.
 
At home I don't pick up if in the fields. We have 2 dogs and really not enough poo to worry about! In the garden I pick up with a poo scoop and chuck it into an area of nettles/brambles etc which is fenced off and just behind our barn. If out and about I will bag up or stick and flick depending on location. I always use compostible bags and I have never agreed with plastic dog poo bags; that is just madness and although dog poo is utterly grim, it is entirely natural and biodegradeable. Paths with tons of poo on are vile and not safe for children so something has to be done with it in 'public' areas but where it is unlikely to be trodden on I think it should be just left. It's probably a good thing I don't live or walk my dogs in highly populated areas though...
 
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Pleased to hear no one does what my not too near neighbour does which is gather it all up and throw it over their back fence into the field. There a a heap about a foot deep running along their fence. My truly hated activity is walking the dog picking up or retrieving little black plastic bags from trees and the cattle field
 
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Pleased to hear no one does what my not too near neighbour does which is gather it all up and throw it over their back fence into the field. There a a heap about a foot deep running along their fence. My truly hated activity is walking the dog picking up or retrieving little black plastic bags from trees and the cattle field
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My neighbour does this....................totally disgusting habit in my opinion. At the back of our houses is spare council land. It's somewhat overgrown with bramble, weeds and the like. She shovels up the dog poo and flicks it over her back wall onto the bramble and weeds. Nasty practice, especially as every now and again council employees will come along and cut back the weeds and brambles.............ughhhhhhh.

Back lawn, pick up, double bag and bin in my wheelie bin. On a walk, single poo bag (nappy bag) and bin in a council poo bin or normal council bin. In the woods, flick or kick.
 
windand rain said:
Pleased to hear no one does what my not too near neighbour does which is gather it all up and throw it over their back fence into the field. There a a heap about a foot deep running along their fence. My truly hated activity is walking the dog picking up or retrieving little black plastic bags from trees and the cattle field
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Revolting cretins.
 
Garden or anywhere in public that is a path/maintained, likely to get walked in or grazed then it’s bagged and put in either my own or public bin.
If it’s in a rough verge / woods in countryside then I stick & flick or leave it, depending on location
 
windand rain said:
Pleased to hear no one does what my not too near neighbour does which is gather it all up and throw it over their back fence into the field. There a a heap about a foot deep running along their fence. My truly hated activity is walking the dog picking up or retrieving little black plastic bags from trees and the cattle field
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That’s absolutely rank! When my daughter was little we used to live on a estate with a big park and someone used to do that over their fence onto the grass surrounding the play area! Admittedly it was avoidable but so disgusting
 
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