What do you do with dog poo?

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That's collected from your garden?
We seem to be generating a fair amount these days with the little labradogs growing like weeds!
Small terrier poo's used to go in the normal bin just well bagged- is this ok?!
 
Our council take it as long as double bagged. They send our double bag reminders every year with the rest of the refuse collection info.
 
MissTyc said:
Our council take it as long as double bagged. They send our double bag reminders every year with the rest of the refuse collection info.
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This. Spoke to them about it one day and they said so long as it is double bagged and well tied, they don't care. We have 4, so I go around with the horse poo picker and then just slide two bags (one inside the other) over the end, tip in the poo, tie and put in the bin. Easy, mess free and never a problem. My dad used to put it down the outside drain, but I just can't bring myself to do that with 4 of them!
 
_GG_ said:
This. Spoke to them about it one day and they said so long as it is double bagged and well tied, they don't care. We have 4, so I go around with the horse poo picker and then just slide two bags (one inside the other) over the end, tip in the poo, tie and put in the bin. Easy, mess free and never a problem. My dad used to put it down the outside drain, but I just can't bring myself to do that with 4 of them!
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Ditto this :) FODC GG? Had the same conversation with them! Luckily mine mainly go in the woods where there is a 'flick it' policy
 
We have two chihuahuas. One hand full ( with tissue of course:) ) Flushed down the downstairs loo. Morning and night, hubby and I share garden clean up.
 
Lévrier;12860154 said:
Ditto this :) FODC GG? Had the same conversation with them! Luckily mine mainly go in the woods where there is a 'flick it' policy
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What so you don't pick it up you flick it?
 
Kaylum said:
What so you don't pick it up you flick it?
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People tend to flick it in our forest area as well ... No livestock, no children (well shouldn't be!) .... and nowhere to put bags. Now while I personally don't have a problem with walking for miles with a baggies, it seems like a lot of people can't be bothered and so when I walk my forest route I find "bag trees" where people have picked it up, bagged it, and then got bored and hung it off a tree! Flicked into the undergrowth it will be gone by the end of the week ... hung off a tree in a plastic bag, perhaps in a few months or years? So I tell people I'd rather they flicked it using a long stick so the path is never fouled ... and I have put up reminders that bags don't grow on trees!
 
Nothing worse than when hacking out, fuzzy perhaps takes a slight detour (spook) brushing rider into adjacent overhanging tree branch, rider gets exploded bag of fermented dog-poo explode onto them (happened to a friend of mine! Disgusting - she got liquid poo down her horses back a good half hour away from yard :mad3:
 
MissTyc said:
People tend to flick it in our forest area as well ... No livestock, no children (well shouldn't be!) .... and nowhere to put bags. Now while I personally don't have a problem with walking for miles with a baggies, it seems like a lot of people can't be bothered and so when I walk my forest route I find "bag trees" where people have picked it up, bagged it, and then got bored and hung it off a tree! Flicked into the undergrowth it will be gone by the end of the week ... hung off a tree in a plastic bag, perhaps in a few months or years? So I tell people I'd rather they flicked it using a long stick so the path is never fouled ... and I have put up reminders that bags don't grow on trees!
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I would love to know who these people are who are socially responsible enough to buy poo bags and pick the poo up, but lazy and irresponsible enough to think it is then ok to hang or fling those bags into trees. I just don't get it.
 
I have a poo/grass cuttings compost in one corner of my garden plus little dog enjoys a nice warm, straight from the bum poo nosh up every now and then *vomits
 
_HP_ said:
I have a poo/grass cuttings compost in one corner of my garden plus little dog enjoys a nice warm, straight from the bum poo nosh up every now and then *vomits
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I put poo from the mini's on the compost, but not the dogs. I don't want that going on my veg, lol :)
 
Little whippety poos goes in a separate pile near the compost at the bottom of the garden. Depending on how much is there, and time of year, I just cover it over with some soil. No mess, no smell, and no-one can walk in it!
I only bag up and bin if someone public.
 
I collect mine in the poo picker and put it in our hedge, we don't have a wheelie bin, just black bin bags from our kitchen bin, and double bagged or not I couldn't bear to have dog poo in my kitchen bin. yuck.

We don't have too many poos in the garden most are out on country walks, where I use the stick and flick policy, or the 'dogs done it under the brambles and no one will go in there' policy.
 
From the garden down the outside loo, picking up with toilet paper and not a large bundle. If on walks in the village I pick up and double bag and put in black bin. Or flick under a hedge if out in the country.

I just HATE seeing bags of poo hanging on trees or thrown in the hedge - yuk.
 
The Fuzzy Furry said:
Nothing worse than when hacking out, fuzzy perhaps takes a slight detour (spook) brushing rider into adjacent overhanging tree branch, rider gets exploded bag of fermented dog-poo explode onto them (happened to a friend of mine! Disgusting - she got liquid poo down her horses back a good half hour away from yard :mad3:
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That's the worse thing I have heard in a long time .
I dig the dog poo into our muck heap .
 
never-ever on the muckheap....what about the veggies?

mine is bagged as soon as it is done and then in the wheelie bin.
 
_GG_ said:
I would love to know who these people are who are socially responsible enough to buy poo bags and pick the poo up, but lazy and irresponsible enough to think it is then ok to hang or fling those bags into trees. I just don't get it.
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I actually do this sometimes when I walk my parents dog but ONLY if I am doing a route that involves coming back the same way. I just leave it somewhere out the way to pick it up on the way back, just saves me having to carry it round for the whole walk . I would never leave it there and if I ever do forget I will always come back to get it.
I personally don't see a problem with this PROVIDING that you actually do pick it up on the way back, it's better than leaving it in the middle of the path and someone ending up treading in it.
 
Clouds said:
I actually do this sometimes when I walk my parents dog but ONLY if I am doing a route that involves coming back the same way. I just leave it somewhere out the way to pick it up on the way back, just saves me having to carry it round for the whole walk . I would never leave it there and if I ever do forget I will always come back to get it.
I personally don't see a problem with this PROVIDING that you actually do pick it up on the way back, it's better than leaving it in the middle of the path and someone ending up treading in it.
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So...you don't do it. What I and the other poster refer to is people who do this and leave it there. You don't, so you're not doing anything wrong :)
 
From the garden - double bagged and in the wheelie bin
Out walking - bagged and in a bin (dog poo bin or otherwise) or stick and flick.

I can't stand people bagging it and leaving it hanging on a tree forever more - just makes no sense, worse than not picking it up in the first place in my eyes!
 
_GG_ said:
So...you don't do it. What I and the other poster refer to is people who do this and leave it there. You don't, so you're not doing anything wrong :)
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I just saw this and it sounds really rude...sorry. It was meant as 'so you don't do it', not as 'so, whatever, blah blah'.

Just needed to clear that up :)
 
If on a garden / mown area / park / anywhere anyone might possibly step in it - bag and bin, either a council dog bin or my own wheelie bin.

If 'off-road' then my dog generally goes in the rough anyway. If needed I stick & flick. Don't see any point in putting biodegradable matter in a non-biodegradable bag unless it is needed.
 
Goldenstar said:
What veggies ?
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we have a veg patch that we dig rotted manure into...and friends also use our muckheap for their gardens.
it`s all lovely well rotted and is good to return something to the soil.

the last thing any1 would want would be to be gardening with dog sh$t
 
_GG_ said:
I would love to know who these people are who are socially responsible enough to buy poo bags and pick the poo up, but lazy and irresponsible enough to think it is then ok to hang or fling those bags into trees. I just don't get it.
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There are so many who love to decorate the local hedgerows with dogshat bauble bags. It annoys me beyond belief, irresponsible idiots. It's a monthly routine to go down to well used footpaths and pick them off the hedgerows - how is that fair, all the responsibility of maintaining access on our land and the added fun of picking up after every litter bug in a 20 mile radius.
 
I used to put it in the compost bin until someone pointed out you can't then use it for compost as it has bacteria in it! Stupid me. Now I dig a hole in the garden and when nearly full, cover it with soil. Then dig another and repeat.
 
Pick it up bag it take it home since when has it been ok to flick it it's pure laziness no wonder everywhere looks like a dogs toilet.
 
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