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Am a new dog owner and have a question about poo picking!

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Notalone · 21/07/2009 20:09

I am a volunteer dog walker for my local rescue home but of course the inevitable happenned and we fell in love with one of the dogs so we are now the proud owner of a rescue collie x. So far everything is fab bur he is very fussy with his food and won't touch complete dry food without having a can of dog food mixed in with it. However this is sometimes making his poo the consistency of custard and it is horrible to collect. He usually goes in our garden but today he left the biggest pile on the pavement I have ever seen and I only had 2 bags so needless to say today was messy and horrible.

So my question is until we find food that suits him, how do I poo pick. I know it seems like such an obvious question but the usual hand in poo bag and pick up just isn't working and I am reluctant to buy a poo shovel unless I really have to because my PIL have one and it is the most horrible thing ever.

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Bella21 · 22/07/2009 10:03

Haven't read all of this so apologies if I'm repeating anyone, but have you checked that he's fully wormed and that you are not overfeeding - both can cause runny poos.

Eukanuba is a good dry food and not too expensive. All dried foods are hideously expensive in small bags but really cheap in big bags. My gsd x lab works out at about 90p a day, and she's on Royal Canin which is probably the most expensive.

Best of luck

Molesworth · 22/07/2009 10:13

I like the newspaper idea (thanks tortoise!). My ddog is also on Naturediet: it has sorted out his sensitive stomach and eliminated the toxic farts. It is pricier than some other dog foods but still only works out at about 70p a day for my medium-sized dog.

Another dog owner told me that dry food is (counter-intuitively) more likely to produce wet poo than wet food and ime that does seem to be the case.

Re: the teeth issue, I give ddog raw bones and other chewy items to keep his teeth clean. I did buy a dog toothbrush and chicken toothpaste from the vet (), but I don't bother with it because it's so hard to make contact with his teeth.

MadameCastafiore · 22/07/2009 10:17

Make sure you are not over feeding and go with the dry food - it is nutritionally balanced so that they do not create so much waste - in poo form!

I wouldn't go with weaning off and will probably be slapped down for saying if the dog is hungry it will eat dry food and get used to it.

Piglet111 · 22/07/2009 13:55

I put my dog onto food by this company pero

recently i took her off it and regret it, her poops have gone awful and she's lost condition in her coat so she's going back on it. I use the labrador life cos she's a lab but they do ones for other types of breeds and ones suitable for all. I think they're great and reasonably priced

Bella21 · 22/07/2009 14:22

Live yogurt good too - in small quantities

Icantbelieveitsnotbitter · 22/07/2009 15:14

We give our sensitive tum'd boxer a complete dry mix (sensitive) - but we soak it in boiling water to make it more palatable for her.

If she ever gets a poorly tummy she's given plain boiled rice for a night, then half rice half complete soaked mix and then back to her soaked dry mix.

Her poop is almost pleasant to collect - perfect solid nuggets that don't even leave a splodge on the pavement !

There's no harm in weaning her off her tinned food - dropping a 1/4 tin every 2 nights or so.

Blondeshavemorefun · 22/07/2009 18:32

whats wrong with a pooper scooper?

we have a green shovel that i use in the garden

notjustapuppymum · 22/07/2009 18:46

Notalone - in the meantime whilst you are still having to pick up runny poos ... there is a product available called Poo Freeze!! Yes...really...there is...it's a spray can and freezes the poo solid so that you can pick it up easily!
It's sold here among other places www.amazon.co.uk/Poop-Freeze-Spray/dp/B000Q6J2YS
You really can buy something for everything these days...

10stonedog · 23/07/2009 10:59

Can I just say, as a dog, that the pleasure of taking a seriously large dump is often marred by you lot fussing behind us with your plastic bags, your pooper scoopers, your freeze-a-turd spray, etc. etc.

If we did that to you, you'd go fecking ballistic.

A little privacy and dignity - please

Blondeshavemorefun · 23/07/2009 13:10

rofl@10 stone dog

i am so impressed my monster can read and type with his big fat paws!!

shame he cant pick up his own poo

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Notalone · 23/07/2009 17:06

ROFL 10 stone dog. You do of course have a very good point. The trouble is that I offered you a lovely private bush to poo behind, some nice grass in a field with no-one else around and a nice secluded footpath. Of course, non of these were good enough for you. Oh no, you choose to do your business on a busy main road outside a house where the occupiers are sat in their front room watching you take your pleasurably seriously MONSTROUS dump!

Fairimum - the CSJ sounds good and is not too expensive. However our dog is not a working dog and the people at the rescue centre advised us not to give our dog working dog food as it would be the equivelant of giving a child blue sweets. Is this true?

Poofreeze sounds weird but good. I must investigate this phenomenon further lol

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Notalone · 23/07/2009 17:11

PS - the resuce centre wormed the dog but I am unsure if we are overfeeding. We may be as we tend to leave his food out for him to graze on during the day as and when he gets hungry. The rescure centre advised us recently (as another poster did) to feed him at a set time and then remove the food after half an hour if not eaten so we may do this too

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RumourOfAHurricane · 23/07/2009 22:21

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Bella21 · 23/07/2009 22:26

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spugs · 24/07/2009 07:04

Its because pets has the best threads

Blondeshavemorefun · 24/07/2009 08:33

shine - least we have fun over here

espically my humping hound- he is having lots of fun

ps - back to thread

the gardener came yesterday and cleaned up 5 piles of poo around our several acres of land before he could cut the grass

as he and mr blondes will tell you, there is nothing worse than mowing over shit, dog, cat or fox as it all comes flying up in the air in thousands of pieces!!!

Mutt · 24/07/2009 08:36

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Blondeshavemorefun · 24/07/2009 08:56

generally not no - db does it in morning before i get there and i scoop up the lunchtime poo (not really in my job description, but if i dont then kids cant play in garden)

but

db is away, and i left the house early yesterday to take to tennis club,so was a bit of poo about that i was going to clear up when i was back from dropping off at tennis iyswim

and came back and found gardener there (not his usual day) mowing the lawn - he had also emptied the paddling pool that we filled up wednesday

Mutt · 24/07/2009 08:58

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Blondeshavemorefun · 24/07/2009 09:01

db - darling daddy boss

im a nanny

Bella21 · 24/07/2009 11:03

Blondie - you can get giant vacuums for poo picking fields for horses

Not a wind up - I promise.

Blondeshavemorefun · 24/07/2009 12:07

link please

i am also temped to get some freeze spray for his poos and possibly would use on his balls as well

Haribosmummy · 24/07/2009 13:51

link here

Haribosmummy · 24/07/2009 13:52

Oh and a link to the vacuum poop-picker-upers

[http://www.paulhelpspaddockvacuumsales.co.uk/paddockvacuums.html here]

bella21 · 24/07/2009 13:54

here

x post!