To want to burn our puppy poo garden

Do your children ever go outside, walk down the street, play over the park or go anywhere?

There are germs everywhere and your children are at no risk in playing in their own garden of being contaminated by your dogs poo unless they are picking it up and eating it or rubbing it in their eyes!

Your dog doesn’t need to be tested at the vet, but you do need to seek help for this severe and completely unnecessary worry about your children playing in your garden.

Why isn’t your husband reassuring g you that there is NOTHING ago be concerned about at all if you are picking the poo up?

Make a doggy toilet area - clean up any stray poos from when someone inevitably lets him out but doesn't take him to the toilet pen - worm regularly whilst a puppy (I don't think it necessary as an adult unless you feed wild caught game, have cats that go out (source of fleas = source of tapeworms) or otherwise go places your dog may catch fleas (flea treat your house annually, flea treat the dog if you see signs of fleas, this puts the majority of the chemical treatment on the house not the dog).

The chances of toxocara canis from tiny smears of dog poo in the soil are absolutely minute.

The eggs need to be in the poo (ie the shedding host needs to have not been wormed for some time/be eating wild caught meat - unlikely for your dog. Likely for a fox, cat, hedgehog.) - that poo then needs to sit on the soil at a consistent temperature and humidity for a week or two...too hot and dry and they won't activate.

If you're picking up straight away or even the next day, the eggs won't be activated.

So the risk is not zero, but it would not be zero if you didn't have a dog at all. As long as you worm appropriately, keep the garden clean and tidy, encourage the kids to wash hands before eating, not smear mud etc in their faces/eat mud... everyone will be fine.

The biggest risks for us are sandpits where cats crap, these often sit nice and moist and damp and kids often shove sand in their mouths or play in the sand and put fingers in mouths..

And eating wild caught game (rabbit, duck) that has eaten the eggs from a more hospitable environment (damp leafy riverbanks, woodland etc), that has not been cooked enough to kill any encysted worms.

Seriously don't worry. My family have had dogs forever and no one has suffered because of the dog poo. You're being responsible, just let your children enjoy being children, no need to keep them inside.

This.
Is it really fair on your puppy, who will already be picking up on your anxiety?
For now you're fixated on poo and worms, but puppies are also active, playful and destructive.
Is the inevitable mess/destruction of a playful puppy going to set you on edge and restrict the puppy from normal activities as he grows up?

Maybe send the dog back to the breeder if it’s such an issue that you won’t let the kids in the garden. Not fair on the dog or your kids.

do you have help with your mental health issue?

Train using a word. no pee or poop unless on command with the word. Then only say the word when they’re in the designated spot. It’s how guide dogs are trained

Maybe you weren’t ready for a dog

Have your children never played in a park, anyone else’s garden? Did someone own the house before you? Did they ever have a dog?

You need to take a deep breath, otherwise you are going to be taking your poor dog to the vet every other day, restricting your DC and passing on your fears to them

How do people train dogs to go in one spot?

its still going to be in I would - like you - guess the millions OP. Obviously no one wants their children to roll around in dog shit but you’re picking up after your wormed dog, which is completely responsible. Train the dog to poo in only one bit and pick it up as you are doing. You’re doing everything right as it is; it’s your OCD that’s telling you you aren’t.

If you can prevent, do so. It’s not easy even when you’re vigilant. I had two dogs and somehow someone always stepped in it and they were walked daily. So having a dog means you’ll always dog poo in your life. The good side of it is the love you get from your dog and you back. Having a dog is wonderful for people with children to have in their lives. Dogs are great

Op, think about the absolute millions of families with dogs. How many of them do you realistically think have had some sort of life changing event happen because the dog shat in the garden?

Children with dogs usually more healthy than those without.

Can train for them to go in a certain area but worming dog is best thing to do.

Dogs can have disgusting behaviours, you are going to have to steel yourself!

Start immediately with a toilet area for the puppy, it makes life SO much easier.

if you have the money you can buy a proper little fence thing. If not an old playpen or just some cheap garden centre fencing/edging. If MUCH easier to train them if there's something to go into rather than just taking them to one spot.

try not to worry about what's already there, it's highly unlikely ti make any of you unwell xx

try to enjoy your puppy!!

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No and generally no. I say "generally", as I am childless, but I have no idea if any random children use my garden when I'm out. If they do, that's their tough luck, as both my gardens are fenced & gated.

There’s bound to be smears and bits left on the grass, I wouldn’t like that either op. Definitely train DDog to just go in one area then the kids will know to avoid the toilet!