What do you do with the poo?

[MiddleClassProblem]

For years we have been bagging it up and putting it in the bin. Often try to get a few in one bag to reduce the bags used. I’m fed up of it and would like to be more environmentally friendly.

My mum has always dig up holes and buried it in the garden but our garden is mostly lawn and backs directly on to a house so doing it at the bottom of the garden wouldn’t be pleasant for them.

Considering a wormery. Anybody have one?

Anybody have any other ingenious disposal techniques?

We used to bag & bin (last dog died 9 years ago).
I've read recently (getting a puppy on Friday) that people pick & flush.
Not sure yet ...

Bag and bin - but the bags are biodegradable

The drain our toilet flushes into is in the front garden so I just put it in there

Our loo is upstairs. I’m not sure I want to take it through the house lol.

You can buy biodegradable bins you bury in the garden. So, you bury it so the lid is ground level, pour in a solution and pop poo in.. there’s a scoop etc for you to put it in. The solution degrades (sp?) it and it goes into the ground. Is this the type of thing you’re thinking of? We did have one but it got dug up when our garden was landscaped (by a big digger and straight into muck away truck in other rubble), and we’ve not had a chance to get a replacement yet.

Do you have to move it when if fills up?

Not heard of it. Was thinking of a wormery so it would be a container above ground but looking for different ideas.

We have a ‘poo toilet’ that fits on the outside waste pipe, just scoop it up and it gets put in there and flushed down with the hose. It is amazing!

www.doggybog.com

Love the name too! Doggy bog tee hee

re the burying in garden bin option

I misread as "do you have to move when it fills up". Which is a bit extreme, and less desirable for the buyer.

😂 we’re only just moving into the house. He’s a large breed too. He’d cost me a fortune in stamp duty!

No you don’t empty, the solution breaks the pop down to liquid and it goes into the ground.

What's the solution?

Our loo is upstairs. I’m not sure I want to take it through the house lol.

You don't take it upstairs - just lift the lid on your external drain and pop it down there where all your house sewage goes.

Mine gets bagged up and straight in the wheelie bin.

I would like one of those buried composting thingies though.

We have a wormery. It works brilliantly, we have 2 husky crosses and it has been a godsend not having to bag and bin every day. I have a worm phobia.. hate them so my husband set it all up! I just scoop the poop and pop it in the wormery. There are no smells and it isn’t filling up so I assume the worms are doing their job! You just have to dispose of their poo a different way (bag and bin) for a week or so after you worm them as apparently the worming medicine will kill the worms.. which sounds obvious but I never realised the poop worms were the same as the stomach worms.

You don't take it upstairs - just lift the lid on your external drain and pop it down there where all your house sewage goes.

I have no idea where this is. Surely it all goes underground out to the main sewage line??

a Doggie Toilet? That is such a cool idea.

Our dog poos outside at the park/woods, we scoop and put it in the council dog poo bin. We buy bio degradable poo bags.

I have no idea where this is.

Most properties will have a large drain cover somewhere which gives access to your sewerage system if it got blocked. [though I think some end up covered beneath extensions etc.]

I have a sort of home made earth closet. An old bucket and alongside it a tub full of soil. I shovel the poo into the bucket and cover with some soil, continue until the bucket is full, then bury the contents. We don't have many spare spaces for burying, like the OP, but I usually manage to find somewhere at the back of a border. It never seems to smell, and all seems to have rotted down by the time I empty it. It does need to be kept dry though, so I have a lid for it.

We're lucky in that we just scoop it and chuck it as far as we can over the fence and into the field.

This might be me being silly asking this question but is all animal poo the same?
Can it all be put into compost or is it only horse poo that is suitable for composting?

At the moment we bag and bin but the bin smells so so bad

UnFucking, no - the poo of animals who eat a vegetarian diet is suitable for composting, but the poo of animals who are carnivores is not. (As I understand it.)

You can compost it. You can compost all types of poop.

Our dog mostly poohs out and about so I wouldn't bring it home to put it in the toilet. I do however use all the plastic wrappings that would otherwise go in the bin, so frozen pea bags, bread bags, plastic envelopes that come with the post (plastic ones -not paper - I'm not that dedicated). I seem to be the only person out and about that doesn't buy poo bags.

The composting issue seems split:
www.gardeningknowhow.com/composting/manures/dog-waste-in-compost.htm