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How do you dispose of garden dog mess?

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MadamePlatypus · 01/05/2006 20:36

I am dog sitting for my parents next month. They use various methods of dog mess disposal, from chucking it down the toilet to throwing it on the flower beds. We have been dogsitting for them for a few years, but now that DS is 2.5 and more independent in the garden I am more concerned about him accidentally playing with it and am wondering if there are any better disposal techniques.
What method do you use? I have seen a couple of government web-sites recommending that it is bagged and disposed of with ordinary household waste. I know that nappies are disposed of with the rest of the rubbish, but this still seems a bit odd to me.

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Nemo1977 · 01/05/2006 20:38

I have a dog and a 2.5yr old and I use a nappy sack and throw in with the normal rubbish in the wheely bin. Have always done this.

Milliways · 01/05/2006 20:38

My neighbours lift up drain cover & flush it into the mains sewer.

We had a "dog-loo" but it kept bunging. Now just dig it into borders.

1Baby1Bump · 01/05/2006 20:39

collect them all up into a carrier then chuck it with the normal rubbish, inside the black bag of course, with everything else.

dinny · 01/05/2006 20:40

Can't you just take him for a walk to do poos instead of in the garden? My mil's dog never craps except when out on a walk (and then she does the poo bin thing). Otherwise, I'd flush it down the toilet rather than put it in the rubbish.

Nemo1977 · 01/05/2006 20:41

funnily enough just mentioned this thread to dh..dont ask me why..lol Anyways he has just said that he throws it down the drain into the sewer too!

dinny · 01/05/2006 20:42

lol, train him not to shit on his own doorstep. Wink

7up · 01/05/2006 20:42

i flick mine with a hoe onto a muddy corner and collect it in a carrier bag, thats reminded me, theres a pile waiting to be bagged upBlush

RedZuleika · 02/05/2006 14:01

My experience of dog turds in the flowerbeds is that they don't rot down very quickly. They just tend to go mouldy, but retain their shape (I discovered this, incidentally, in the month after we had him, before he'd had his second lot of jabs and could go for walks). I therefore tend to scoop them up and put them in a refuse sack.

Nbg · 02/05/2006 14:09

We do the same as 1baby1bump and when the weather is warm we hose the "area" down to get rid of little bits.

jamese · 03/05/2006 11:05

We have 2 dogs so have loads of the stuff... We pick it up with shovels and put it into a normal black bin (with bag inside) and put it out with the normal rubbish..

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MadamePlatypus · 03/05/2006 20:21

Thanks for all your responses. I think we might be using a black bag, as it seems to be MN as well as government approved!

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cupcakes · 03/05/2006 20:29

The signs on paths near us ask you to train your dog to go at home, not whilst out on walks.

dinny - what do you do if there isn't a bin handy? We always end up having to carry a stinking nappy bag for the rest of the walk which then goes into our bin at home anyway.

RedZuleika · 04/05/2006 14:01

"The signs on paths near us ask you to train your dog to go at home, not whilst out on walks."

That's all very well - but doesn't take account of the fact that the exercise gets those little bowels moving in a way that pottering round the garden does not.

cupcakes · 04/05/2006 15:46

must just be my dog then Grin

Greensleeves · 04/05/2006 15:49

OMG I couldn't put dog sh*t down our toilet. Ugh. Or put it in the borders... Grim.

matnanplus · 04/05/2006 15:51

we had a dog run over the man hole cover so lifted it each day and hosed down the area.

friend puts down loo

in laws dog primarily did it on walkies and they bag and bin it.

sugarfree · 04/05/2006 16:25

By 7up on Monday, 1 May, 2006 8:42:13 PM

i flick mine with a hoe onto a muddy corner and collect it in a carrier bag, thats reminded me, theres a pile waiting to be bagged up.

PMSL@ 7up flicking her own poos around the garden.

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MadamePlatypus · 20/06/2006 13:22

Just incase anybody else is sad enough to be interested, there seems to be a CBeebies approved way of doing this!

On Come Outside Auntie Mabel disposes of Pippin's poo as follows:

  1. Put on Yellow marigolds
  2. With little plastic bag pick up poo.
  3. Deposit poo in household lavatory
  4. Flush
  5. Put little plastic bag in bigger plastic bag in bin. Tie bin handles
  6. Remove marigolds
  7. Wash hands.

Optionally you can then chat up some work men and follow the poo around the sewage system.

Luckily Pippin doesn't seem to suffer from diarrhea.

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DogMum · 23/06/2006 16:02

I agree that exercise gets them going. My dog does the first one at home in the spot we trained him to go on when he was a puppy (which I dispose of in a compostable nappy sack in the normal rubbish), but then he does a couple more out on his walks. I've got a little bag on his lead for poo bags. I like it because I can't forget to take it. Got it from \link{http://www.doghaus.co.uk/}

fattiemumma · 30/06/2006 17:42

i had a little bucket with a bag in it. i would put them into te bucket and then on our daily walks take the bag and put it in the Dog bins at the park.

at least that way i new it was going to be disposed of proerly.

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