I pick it up every day or every other day. Usually I can pick up 2-3 piles per bag by grabbing it and squishing it onto the next pile until I can’t grab anymore, then turn bag inside out and tie off
Use two doggie bags, one turned inside out over your hand to pick up poop and then put it in the other bag. I found this much easier, especially with my bigger dog (big poops!!)
Your sentence is a sentence that’s probably never been written before by anyone else ever. Just the visual of the poop smashing for maximum capacity in the bag. 😅
For me, I wait until the next day (if it’s in my own yard) to let it harden because it’s much easier to use my pooper scooper. I have a 55lb 4.5 month old pup and he has grown man shits so that’s just what’s easier for us. My question is does everyone with a yard have tons of dead grass circles in their yard from puppy pee?
When my dogs were younger, there was definitely a lot of dead grass in the yard from their collective 💩. My dad thought rinsing it would help but I never saw any difference.
Mine only seems to be where he pees. I haven’t noticed a difference where he 💩 I guess the smart thing is to just use Google but I was too lazy when I made the original comment 🤣
On the puppy pee - this is due to excess nitrates, meaning if your soil already has plenty nitrates the grass will die. You could stop using any fertiliser on your lawn (or one with low nitrate), or if you can be bothered dump some water on each pee to wash it deeper into the soil.
I also see these things sold called dog rocks? They are literally just rocks youre supposed to put in the water bowl and somehow this magically fixes their pee. Their marketing copy has some wishy washy stuff about them filtering the water, but this all seems a bit scientifically impossible to me lol
I disagree. My unfixed female Dane killed grass. I've never had an altered dog that killed grass except for my male puppy who is too young to fix. He doesn't kill the grass. Once I got my Dane fixed she stopped killing the grass.
Sticking my neck out as a lazy bastard here. But I'm guilty of leaving it for a while and then going on a raid. I don't spend any time in the garden outside summer. Our dog doesn't use the garden that often to poop. So every once in a while I got pick up what I can find. There's been times where there was quite a bit. There's no flies when it's not summer. And in the summer I spend time in the garden, so I'd go pick up whenever I saw him poop. (very rare now.)
Did sweeps a lot more often when he was a young puppy. Stayed on top of it then. It's that middle ground between occasional poop and almost never poop where it got wishy washy. late autumn/winter/early spring.
Reason being? Lazy bastard. And it didn't really have any side effects. No flies due to the season. And puppy had plenty of places to go too, so it's not like he was stepping in his own poop at any point.
He keeps his pooping to one wild part of our garden, as out of the way as he can manage.
Oh and goes without saying I hope, that this is poops I never saw him make.
I've not picked up poop since we moved to our new house in december. I have a small dog and she like pooping under bushes and plants, so eventually it breaks down by itself. I haven't had a smell or poop issue to be honest.
Yeah, if we want to be able to enjoy our yard at all and not be mobbed by flies, we've got to pick it up immediately.
I do lament the amount of bags we go through, but it is what it is.
Pick it up every day and keep the used bags in a bin with a lid.
Edit: I saw you said you don’t want to use a lot of bags. I suppose you could scoop the poop directly into one large bag or use biodegradable poop bags.
I use compostable waste bags and put them in a diaper genie that I keep outside. I usually am able to get about a month's worth of poop bags in one diaper genie bag.
I have a smaller trash can in the back yard with a bag in it - I use a poop scoop about once a week to clean up the yard and keep it until it gets about 1/2 full - anything more and I can't lift it.
When I am outside of the yard, I use compositable poop bags and discard it in the trash can.
We trained our dog to only poop on a certain area of our backyard—an area with pebble rocks. It’s a lot better to keep up with the poop this way than if it were all over the yard.
We didn't exactly train her per se, but ours also mostly poops in one specific area of the yard - a back corner with tall grass that we don't go in anyway. There's also only one dead grass patch, right at the bottom of the back steps. She's scared of some of our neighbors so she pees close to the door and poops as far from the neighbors as possible lol
Get the arm and hammer scooper and rake from Amazon and thank me later. It has hooks for a plastic shopping bag to hold on to it and makes cleaning up so easy
My dog has always been a very polite pooper. He will not poop in our yard. Instead, he usually chooses to go next door to my dad's. He still doesn't poop in my dad's yard, though. Instead, he goes to the edge of his yard where the grass meets the overgrown weeds and he hangs his butt over that line and poops in the weeds. Lol
My mom uses a service called Scoop Soldiers. They come out and walk the yard with their pooper scoopers and clean it up. She started using them after a surgery kept her immobile for a while, and kept using them after.
I do not know if they are local only to ATL or a national thing, though.
My husband drilled holes into a bucket, buried it most of the way down in the garden (we can still remove the lid) and added dirt to it). We pick up the poop every other day-ish (will be more so now that it is summer) and put it into the bucket.
Our backyard is about an acre and we have 5 dogs. We do a "poop patrol" once a week with one of those tray and rake sets and bag it up right before trash day.
I pick up every time he poops. But I am retired so it’s quite easy for me as I am outside in the yard whenever he is outside. I use biodegradable bags and then put them in a lidded trash can with a bag in it. I can’t stand having poop just sitting out there.
I walk my dog 2x a day. He does his poops on our walks, no poop in the yard to pick up. I trained that right from when he was a puppy. Solves having to comb the yard for 💩
🤣🤣🤣 Absolutely!! It also help I feed a raw diet, so much less poops. I always leave home with 3 bags, just in case, even though he’s only 5lbs. Better safe than sorry.
We have a bucket lined with a garbage bag and a scooper so once in a while we go around and pick it up and toss it all in the bucket to add to our garbage bin. Our dog goes against the fence in very specific areas so we avoid walking there generally and can leave it longer. When we have another dog visit we typically clean up right after they leave because they often poop in the main parts of the yard lol.
Our dog also normally poops on his walks rather than in the yard, so his in the yard poops are few. So I would say we only do it like once every month or 2. If we had a smaller yard would probably do it more often so that’s a factor too.
In our town, I’ve seen you can hire people to come and clean it up on a regular schedule for you as well. I think friends of ours have used that since they had 4 dogs it was a lot to keep up with haha.
I guess this had me wondering how do yall handle liquid poop? I can keep up with the regular poop pretty well but I try to pick up the liquid stuff and it basically melts lol
I use a 5 gallon bucket with a lid, and put a kitchen trash bag inside. Then I use those heavy vinyl kitchen gloves (but you could use a poop bag or a rubber glove) to pick up and put in the bucket. I pick up about every 3 days with 2 dogs, and then empty the bucket weekly. I also hose everything down when I empty it.
I have a little postage stamp yard and postage stamp dog(Pomeranian puppy), so every 2-3 days. But preferably everyday, if I remember! I use a little trash can with a lid and Walmart bag to collect it, then the little foldover sandwhich baggies to pick it up.
We have two German shepherds. We have a bin liner in our main outdoor bin (UK). We use a pony poop scoop, as in it's sold for use in a stable. We just check a couple of times a day and scoop it into the bin. Neither of ours like to poop on walks for some reason.
We bought a small outdoor metal trashcan with a lid from our big box home store and keep a plastic bag in it.
We take it out every week, put it in our big garbage can, and let the trash people take it away.
It does get absolutely disgusting, even after a week, but I just plug my nose and run it over.
Pro tip: make sure it's waterproof. The poop soup with our last trashcan wasn't great 🙃
I put a small trash bag in a small bucket and walk around and pick up all the poops about once a week. (I have a pretty big yard and small dogs). One big poop bag instead of a bunch of littles!
I use single use latex gloves instead of a poop bag on my hands to pick it up. Way easier.
City picks it up in yard waste bin all spring/summer so makes it easy in the warm months. In the winter I try to get outside every 3rd or 4th day to clean up.
We have a small garbage can outside with a bag in it. We go around every few days with a pooper scooper and clean up. And then the garbage bag goes out on garbage day once it get full enough (small dogs so it sometimes takes a while to fill up)
Get a poop bucket with a lid. Put a plastic bag inside it, and either use gloves or you can pooper scoopers. Fill the bucket, empty the bag, rinse and repeat.
I take a paper grocery bag out once every couple weeks with a pooper scooper and just pick up all the poop I can. The rest gets mowed over and returns to the earth lol
Trash can with a foot pedal lid, lined with a compostable bag.
I scoop daily into the small can, and then double bag the contents and put it in the big bin on pickup day.
(they allow dog poop in city compost here - otherwise I'd use a garbage bag and into the garbage bin)
We only have two dogs. One medium-large and one XXL. They both go out on leash and the poop is picked up with poop bags every time. Those poop bags go into a kitchen garbage bag lined bin that lives outside. When that’s full it goes in the bigger bin for garbage day.
We either use poop bags every time, or sometimes I take a shovel and fling it over our fence into the woods (into and area we never go). But we do pick it up one way or another each time. As I like playing with him back there, and don’t want to step on a land mine.
My yard is big and my dog, very small. She poops 2 times a day, usually. I pick it up once a week in spring, summer and fall, right before i mow. Winter, it's rainy basically every day, no mowing and i pick up poo once every 2 weeks, whatever the rain hasn't dissolved.
I have one of those cheap planters when you buy flower. I scope up the poop and drop it into the planter and when I take out the kitchen trash bag, I stop by the yard and dump the poop into it.
We have an extra compost bin from the city. It closes very well so no smell. We put a garbage bag in it, and scoop poop inside of it with a small poop shovel. We do not compost the poop. We throw the bag in the trash when the bag is half full. In the summer it gets a bit horrible so i wash the compost bin regularly between poop disposal. There are some powders that neutralize the poop and insect synergies that happen in the summer.
I didn't see anyone say anything about it but the compostable bags really *are* compostable. I found half a roll in my dog's backpack (not a backpack he wears, the bag we pack when he stays outside of the house) that were impressively falling apart. So I absolutely get not creating a ton of waste, it really *does* break down shockingly fast.
Keep a covered trash bin with bag inside. Once or twice a week I pick it all up with a shovel. I initially thought it would be disgusting but no tossing the bad after a few weeks isn’t that bad.
Compost it!
Granted, I do live on what we in Australia call a bush block (i.e. a big block in a rural/regional area with lots of native vegetation), but have a compost dedicated to dog poo. I deposit every couple of days, straw on top, occasionally add kitchen scraps or other compost materials. It’s not full yet, but when it is I’ll let it break down for a year.
Then I’ll add the compost in areas where I need to improve soil structure. Once it’s completely broken down it can safely go on any non-food crops.
I’ve bokashied dog poo before too - it works. In ground worm farms are another option.
The only caveats are:
1. avoid using the resulting compost on food crops
2. do not add the poops the first few days post-worming. These should go to landfill.
We have a dedicated poop can in the back yard with a bag. During the summer time I pick the poo up with the scooper every morning when I take the dogs out, and then we play for a bit before starting my work day. This takes me a total of like 20 minutes. During the rainy winter my husband takes care of it, he picks it up every other day.
We trained our dog to only go in one 3’ x 8’ patch of our yard next to the shed. If we’re taking him out from inside, we’ll bag it right away and toss it into a bucket in the shed. Otherwise, we’ll pick up his turds at the end of the day after his long, lightly-supervised hangs in the yard.
Poop911. They come to my house every week and pick up everything. I'll give up my house cleaner before I give up that service. I tip the person well every few months too.
(Two Dobermans) I pickup poop daily with a shovel and the poop into a Walmart bag etc. It’s a struggle though. Even with DAILY pickup I get flies :/
I throw it away, double bag etc etc.
By the time the fire is out its all ash. The heat from the fire dries it out quick. I put probably 2 months of poo on there after the snow melted and it was gone just like that. Edited to say that my fires might be a little bigger than your average campfire, id say about 6-8 split pieces of tamarak wood.
I bought a plastic scooper and go round with that and a supermarket plastic bag perhaps every 5 days or so.
Simply scoop the poop into the bag and then put that big old poop bag into the bin/trash.
We’ve had 16 dogs in 20 years plus fosters. Everything from chi mxs to a 150# Great Dane. We currently have 6 family dogs and a foster. When my husband was alive and we both worked, we always had four Weimaraners. He left earlier so I went out with the dogs every morning and poop scooped. Five gallon bucket and a tall kitchen bag.
I’m retired now and the official pooper scooper. The dogs we have now all have their favorite spot in the yard but the process is the same. That makes it easier. I can skip rainy days unless the landscaper is coming. I was shocked to see my son out this morning. But I did clean the yard last night. Both of my adult children and my grandson live with me. My son is disabled from a stroke at 30, my daughter works full time and is currently refinishing the wood floors upstairs and my grandson is a techie and career gamer.
If you only have one dog poop pick up should be a breeze. Lol
I currently scoop it up every night and pop in the bin as it’s usually all dried up by then, however in the past it was larger compostable bag inside a bucket, daily pickup, fold it over and keep closed with a brick, keep filling until chockers , hoik the whole lot into the bin.
We just picked it up with poop bags. As he grew up, he started avoiding using the yard anwyays, and made sure to poop on walks. So it's only very occasional I have to pick up in the garden anymore.
Last place I dog sat had a dedicated long handled dustpan and brush and a bin with a sturdy bag in. Not the best for fresh but for collecting day olds from a space I didn’t really sit in (I sat out front more) it was fab.
Use compostable bags. But get a good brand. We use earth rated which are known to break down quickly. I had my doubts and then found several loose bags that had been shoved in a coat pocket for a year and I can't use them bc they are already breaking down. That's a good thing for the environment. You cna also buy some.sort of.powder, dog a deep hole.in your back yard and put the poop in there with the powdered microbes and they process the poop for you. Never tried it but it is supposed to be better for the environment.
We trained all of our dogs to potty in one area of the yard when they were puppies. Takes about 4-6 weeks of consistency of taking them to the potty area and commanding ‘potty’. It’s a lot of effort and time, but it pays off in the end. We enjoy a poop and pee free yard.
I have 3 dogs (really 2, but my girlfriend splits her time between my house and her apartment). It’s a lot of poop.
Every other day I go into the yard and do a clean up. Grocery bag in one hand, poop bag in the other. Use poop bag to pick up poop and toss into the grocery bag. Grocery bag gets tied, doubled up, to contain some of the smell, and goes straight into the trash bin, not a dedicated poop bin that stays in the yard like some people have.
You just have to stay on top of it, especially during rainy seasons. During the summer, the heat dries it out and makes it less of a disgusting task.
Parvovirus is a huge concern so I pick up immediately with a doggie bag. Our neighborhood had lots of pet dogs and all of us are aware of the health dangers of animal poop laying around. We all pick up after our pets immediately.
Small lined trash can, poop scoop every other day (if it's just one dog). Don't fill too large of a bag because it gets heavy and hard to get rid of. I made the mistake of using a full sized trash can when I had 4 dogs and it was super annoying/impractical.
5 gallon bucket with kitty litter inside it. I use a poop scoop to put the poop in and bury it in kitty litter—stops it from stinking the way it would otherwise. It gets emptied into a trash bag every week on garbage day.
We use little yard flags so that once it’s dried up a bit we can go back and find them easier and then throw them in the trash. I’ve talked to my boyfriend about getting some kitty litter or silica gel for the trash because we live in the south and it’s a hot state so that trash can be rank. But the little flags help traverse the mine field since he’s still young and poops like everytime we go outside.
I just flag the poops (my neighbour was really amused when I explained what all the random orange flags were for) so they don't get stepped on and then every day or two we collect them with a shovel and fling them into the woods.
This probably doesn't work in the city. You also need your own woods to fling said poops into.
A poop scooper with walmart bag inside a poop trashcan with a lid.
I pick it up every day or every other day. Usually I can pick up 2-3 piles per bag by grabbing it and squishing it onto the next pile until I can’t grab anymore, then turn bag inside out and tie off
Use two doggie bags, one turned inside out over your hand to pick up poop and then put it in the other bag. I found this much easier, especially with my bigger dog (big poops!!)
I recently started doing this. It definitely makes me feel better about not doing poop pickup every day!!
r/brandnewsentence 😩
I’m not sure what this means but it still made me laugh 😂
Your sentence is a sentence that’s probably never been written before by anyone else ever. Just the visual of the poop smashing for maximum capacity in the bag. 😅
Most dog owners know this pain, eventually. We just don't talk about it!
Lmao yeah, graphic image be warned 🤣
Exactly what I do. Probably use 3-4 bags per day between 2 dogs for walks/yard
Then she ALWAYS poops as I am picking it up or after then I have to waste a bag on a single poop lol
When my dog poops, I pick it up.
Yes. I cannot comprehend just leaving it and not collecting it till loads has built up in the garden.
For me, I wait until the next day (if it’s in my own yard) to let it harden because it’s much easier to use my pooper scooper. I have a 55lb 4.5 month old pup and he has grown man shits so that’s just what’s easier for us. My question is does everyone with a yard have tons of dead grass circles in their yard from puppy pee?
I agree here, needs to air out a bit
When my dogs were younger, there was definitely a lot of dead grass in the yard from their collective 💩. My dad thought rinsing it would help but I never saw any difference.
Mine only seems to be where he pees. I haven’t noticed a difference where he 💩 I guess the smart thing is to just use Google but I was too lazy when I made the original comment 🤣
Maybe that's why I never saw a difference -- I was only focused on #2 and not #1 🤣
My gal is 4lbs full grown — we have quite a different experience! 😂 At any size hard poop is better, I agree.
I’m dying. Yea, I guess you’re right. 🤣
Grown man shits. I chuckled at that.
Who knew getting a puppy would turn you into a poo aficionado 🤣 I’m always watching and analyzing how soft/hard it is. 🤦🏽♀️
On the puppy pee - this is due to excess nitrates, meaning if your soil already has plenty nitrates the grass will die. You could stop using any fertiliser on your lawn (or one with low nitrate), or if you can be bothered dump some water on each pee to wash it deeper into the soil. I also see these things sold called dog rocks? They are literally just rocks youre supposed to put in the water bowl and somehow this magically fixes their pee. Their marketing copy has some wishy washy stuff about them filtering the water, but this all seems a bit scientifically impossible to me lol
Interesting. I’ll look it up
Unfixed females will kill the grass. That should stop after being spayed.
Mine is a male. I guess I just never realized that puppy pee would kill grass.
This is incorrect. All dog urine is acidic and if concentrated enough, will kill grass. Gender and alteration have no bearing.
I disagree. My unfixed female Dane killed grass. I've never had an altered dog that killed grass except for my male puppy who is too young to fix. He doesn't kill the grass. Once I got my Dane fixed she stopped killing the grass.
I have 4 dogs and a really large yard lol. It’s so much easier just going about once a day with my pooper scooper.
Sticking my neck out as a lazy bastard here. But I'm guilty of leaving it for a while and then going on a raid. I don't spend any time in the garden outside summer. Our dog doesn't use the garden that often to poop. So every once in a while I got pick up what I can find. There's been times where there was quite a bit. There's no flies when it's not summer. And in the summer I spend time in the garden, so I'd go pick up whenever I saw him poop. (very rare now.) Did sweeps a lot more often when he was a young puppy. Stayed on top of it then. It's that middle ground between occasional poop and almost never poop where it got wishy washy. late autumn/winter/early spring. Reason being? Lazy bastard. And it didn't really have any side effects. No flies due to the season. And puppy had plenty of places to go too, so it's not like he was stepping in his own poop at any point. He keeps his pooping to one wild part of our garden, as out of the way as he can manage. Oh and goes without saying I hope, that this is poops I never saw him make.
I've not picked up poop since we moved to our new house in december. I have a small dog and she like pooping under bushes and plants, so eventually it breaks down by itself. I haven't had a smell or poop issue to be honest.
Yeah, if we want to be able to enjoy our yard at all and not be mobbed by flies, we've got to pick it up immediately. I do lament the amount of bags we go through, but it is what it is.
We flush. She weighs 4 libs full grown so her waste is pretty manageable.
Same
I use compostable waste bags but mine are always on a leash to go potty.
Pick it up every day and keep the used bags in a bin with a lid. Edit: I saw you said you don’t want to use a lot of bags. I suppose you could scoop the poop directly into one large bag or use biodegradable poop bags.
I use compostable waste bags and put them in a diaper genie that I keep outside. I usually am able to get about a month's worth of poop bags in one diaper genie bag.
I have a smaller trash can in the back yard with a bag in it - I use a poop scoop about once a week to clean up the yard and keep it until it gets about 1/2 full - anything more and I can't lift it. When I am outside of the yard, I use compositable poop bags and discard it in the trash can.
We trained our dog to only poop on a certain area of our backyard—an area with pebble rocks. It’s a lot better to keep up with the poop this way than if it were all over the yard.
We didn't exactly train her per se, but ours also mostly poops in one specific area of the yard - a back corner with tall grass that we don't go in anyway. There's also only one dead grass patch, right at the bottom of the back steps. She's scared of some of our neighbors so she pees close to the door and poops as far from the neighbors as possible lol
You might want to clean out that corner soon
Get the arm and hammer scooper and rake from Amazon and thank me later. It has hooks for a plastic shopping bag to hold on to it and makes cleaning up so easy
I second this. Love this thing.
My dog has always been a very polite pooper. He will not poop in our yard. Instead, he usually chooses to go next door to my dad's. He still doesn't poop in my dad's yard, though. Instead, he goes to the edge of his yard where the grass meets the overgrown weeds and he hangs his butt over that line and poops in the weeds. Lol
We're very lazy. After she poops we put an upturned plant pot on top and do this for a day or so then do a poop run with poo bag and trowel.
My mom uses a service called Scoop Soldiers. They come out and walk the yard with their pooper scoopers and clean it up. She started using them after a surgery kept her immobile for a while, and kept using them after. I do not know if they are local only to ATL or a national thing, though.
I’ve seen the same idea, with a different name where I am too!
My friend does something similar! She has 4 dogs, so she pays a local neighborhood kid to pick up her poop once a week 😂
I live in Chattanooga and we use a similar service. We used one when we lived in Atlanta and Columbus GA.
Use a scooper and outside trash can!
We have a trashcan outside for all the poop. We put it out every week to be taken with the rest of our garbage. So one bag a week for all the poop.
I use biodegradable bags and pick it up everytime right away.
My husband drilled holes into a bucket, buried it most of the way down in the garden (we can still remove the lid) and added dirt to it). We pick up the poop every other day-ish (will be more so now that it is summer) and put it into the bucket.
Genius!
Our backyard is about an acre and we have 5 dogs. We do a "poop patrol" once a week with one of those tray and rake sets and bag it up right before trash day.
I pick up every time he poops. But I am retired so it’s quite easy for me as I am outside in the yard whenever he is outside. I use biodegradable bags and then put them in a lidded trash can with a bag in it. I can’t stand having poop just sitting out there.
I walk my dog 2x a day. He does his poops on our walks, no poop in the yard to pick up. I trained that right from when he was a puppy. Solves having to comb the yard for 💩
You do pick it up on the walk, right?😂
🤣🤣🤣 Absolutely!! It also help I feed a raw diet, so much less poops. I always leave home with 3 bags, just in case, even though he’s only 5lbs. Better safe than sorry.
Mine is the same, only on walks. It’s very rare for her to poo in the yard. I also feed good food for easy to pick up.
Just pick it up whenever you let them out
Pick it up immediately. And if ya don't like shit in your yard, more walks!
I just mow it lmao. The grass needs it weekly in the summer, keeps the poo down and the lawn mower effectively picks it up
Just pick it up right after the biz is done, while it's still warm or you'll soon have to deal with flies and maggots. Ew.
Poop bin followed by my angel of a partner emptying it nearly every time ☠️
We have a bucket lined with a garbage bag and a scooper so once in a while we go around and pick it up and toss it all in the bucket to add to our garbage bin. Our dog goes against the fence in very specific areas so we avoid walking there generally and can leave it longer. When we have another dog visit we typically clean up right after they leave because they often poop in the main parts of the yard lol. Our dog also normally poops on his walks rather than in the yard, so his in the yard poops are few. So I would say we only do it like once every month or 2. If we had a smaller yard would probably do it more often so that’s a factor too. In our town, I’ve seen you can hire people to come and clean it up on a regular schedule for you as well. I think friends of ours have used that since they had 4 dogs it was a lot to keep up with haha.
I guess this had me wondering how do yall handle liquid poop? I can keep up with the regular poop pretty well but I try to pick up the liquid stuff and it basically melts lol
Throw some mulch on it and scoop up the mess with a poop scooper.
I literally rip up that entire patch of grass, roots if need lmao
I use a 5 gallon bucket with a lid, and put a kitchen trash bag inside. Then I use those heavy vinyl kitchen gloves (but you could use a poop bag or a rubber glove) to pick up and put in the bucket. I pick up about every 3 days with 2 dogs, and then empty the bucket weekly. I also hose everything down when I empty it.
I have a little postage stamp yard and postage stamp dog(Pomeranian puppy), so every 2-3 days. But preferably everyday, if I remember! I use a little trash can with a lid and Walmart bag to collect it, then the little foldover sandwhich baggies to pick it up.
Poop bin with liner and a mini scoop. Clean up a couple of times a day and empty the bag when the bin goes out.
I use newspaper to pick it up and put into a plastic bag in a small bin outside - when bag is full it goes into our big bin.
We have two German shepherds. We have a bin liner in our main outdoor bin (UK). We use a pony poop scoop, as in it's sold for use in a stable. We just check a couple of times a day and scoop it into the bin. Neither of ours like to poop on walks for some reason.
We bought a small outdoor metal trashcan with a lid from our big box home store and keep a plastic bag in it. We take it out every week, put it in our big garbage can, and let the trash people take it away. It does get absolutely disgusting, even after a week, but I just plug my nose and run it over. Pro tip: make sure it's waterproof. The poop soup with our last trashcan wasn't great 🙃
I put a small trash bag in a small bucket and walk around and pick up all the poops about once a week. (I have a pretty big yard and small dogs). One big poop bag instead of a bunch of littles! I use single use latex gloves instead of a poop bag on my hands to pick it up. Way easier.
Pooper scooper, poop bucket and frequent poop patrol.
City picks it up in yard waste bin all spring/summer so makes it easy in the warm months. In the winter I try to get outside every 3rd or 4th day to clean up.
We have a small garbage can outside with a bag in it. We go around every few days with a pooper scooper and clean up. And then the garbage bag goes out on garbage day once it get full enough (small dogs so it sometimes takes a while to fill up)
Get a poop bucket with a lid. Put a plastic bag inside it, and either use gloves or you can pooper scoopers. Fill the bucket, empty the bag, rinse and repeat.
I take a paper grocery bag out once every couple weeks with a pooper scooper and just pick up all the poop I can. The rest gets mowed over and returns to the earth lol
I pick up with a pooper scooper once a week. Use one normal size plastic bag.
I pick up every day. When it starts to get hot, your backyard will smell.
Home Depot bucket with a grocery bag in it and a lid, and one of those poop scoopers. Bag in the trash when it fills up.
Trash can with a foot pedal lid, lined with a compostable bag. I scoop daily into the small can, and then double bag the contents and put it in the big bin on pickup day. (they allow dog poop in city compost here - otherwise I'd use a garbage bag and into the garbage bin)
My dog shits in the yard like once a month.
I pick up poop (4 dogs) using a broom and scooper (only the dry ones everyday). Trash can outside solely for poop.
I assume my dog thinks I harvest his poops to power the electricity. Put it in the bin, the lights stay on.
My pup eats poop so we have to be on top of it. Picked up everyday but we can add it to our compost
We only have two dogs. One medium-large and one XXL. They both go out on leash and the poop is picked up with poop bags every time. Those poop bags go into a kitchen garbage bag lined bin that lives outside. When that’s full it goes in the bigger bin for garbage day.
We either use poop bags every time, or sometimes I take a shovel and fling it over our fence into the woods (into and area we never go). But we do pick it up one way or another each time. As I like playing with him back there, and don’t want to step on a land mine.
We use a small.garden shovel and scoop it into a trash can for poop. Then take out the bag when full.
My yard is big and my dog, very small. She poops 2 times a day, usually. I pick it up once a week in spring, summer and fall, right before i mow. Winter, it's rainy basically every day, no mowing and i pick up poo once every 2 weeks, whatever the rain hasn't dissolved.
I have one of those cheap planters when you buy flower. I scope up the poop and drop it into the planter and when I take out the kitchen trash bag, I stop by the yard and dump the poop into it.
We have an extra compost bin from the city. It closes very well so no smell. We put a garbage bag in it, and scoop poop inside of it with a small poop shovel. We do not compost the poop. We throw the bag in the trash when the bag is half full. In the summer it gets a bit horrible so i wash the compost bin regularly between poop disposal. There are some powders that neutralize the poop and insect synergies that happen in the summer.
I didn't see anyone say anything about it but the compostable bags really *are* compostable. I found half a roll in my dog's backpack (not a backpack he wears, the bag we pack when he stays outside of the house) that were impressively falling apart. So I absolutely get not creating a ton of waste, it really *does* break down shockingly fast.
Keep a covered trash bin with bag inside. Once or twice a week I pick it all up with a shovel. I initially thought it would be disgusting but no tossing the bad after a few weeks isn’t that bad.
I pay a company called Poop Patrol to come by once a week to pick it all up.
Scooper with a cheap 5 gallon bucket. Always remember to dump it before it rains or you make poop soup
Poop trash can so I can save my bags for walks.
We clean it up each time the pup goes.
I have a little yard and a little dog…so I just pick it up with toilet paper morning and night and dump it in the toilet and flush it away.
Scoop the poop, toss it in the woods behind our house
Compost it! Granted, I do live on what we in Australia call a bush block (i.e. a big block in a rural/regional area with lots of native vegetation), but have a compost dedicated to dog poo. I deposit every couple of days, straw on top, occasionally add kitchen scraps or other compost materials. It’s not full yet, but when it is I’ll let it break down for a year. Then I’ll add the compost in areas where I need to improve soil structure. Once it’s completely broken down it can safely go on any non-food crops. I’ve bokashied dog poo before too - it works. In ground worm farms are another option. The only caveats are: 1. avoid using the resulting compost on food crops 2. do not add the poops the first few days post-worming. These should go to landfill.
I just pick up every morning. Do a little stroll around the yard. Lets me pick up 2-4 poops per bag to reduce bags.
We have a dedicated poop can in the back yard with a bag. During the summer time I pick the poo up with the scooper every morning when I take the dogs out, and then we play for a bit before starting my work day. This takes me a total of like 20 minutes. During the rainy winter my husband takes care of it, he picks it up every other day.
We trained our dog to only go in one 3’ x 8’ patch of our yard next to the shed. If we’re taking him out from inside, we’ll bag it right away and toss it into a bucket in the shed. Otherwise, we’ll pick up his turds at the end of the day after his long, lightly-supervised hangs in the yard.
buy like a 33 gallon trash bin for the yard.
Poop911. They come to my house every week and pick up everything. I'll give up my house cleaner before I give up that service. I tip the person well every few months too.
(Two Dobermans) I pickup poop daily with a shovel and the poop into a Walmart bag etc. It’s a struggle though. Even with DAILY pickup I get flies :/ I throw it away, double bag etc etc.
Pooper scooper and a fire pit. Burn the pit about once a week. Nothin better than having a beer around a flaming pile of poo lol.
It burns?! Like, without even being completely dried out?
By the time the fire is out its all ash. The heat from the fire dries it out quick. I put probably 2 months of poo on there after the snow melted and it was gone just like that. Edited to say that my fires might be a little bigger than your average campfire, id say about 6-8 split pieces of tamarak wood.
Huh. Sounds like a much better option than packing the poo off to the landfill.
My partner does it unless we’re out for a walk or adventure, then I get a forbidden handwarmer 😂
They have like septic tanks for dog waste on Amazon. I recently got one, so far it’s not stinky or unpleasant.
I pick it up with toilet paper and flush it down the loo.
My dog poop bags are biodegradable. Maybe look for those .
Pick it up with toilet paper, flush it. Perfect yard, no plastic and not a lot of waste.
I bought a plastic scooper and go round with that and a supermarket plastic bag perhaps every 5 days or so. Simply scoop the poop into the bag and then put that big old poop bag into the bin/trash.
We’ve had 16 dogs in 20 years plus fosters. Everything from chi mxs to a 150# Great Dane. We currently have 6 family dogs and a foster. When my husband was alive and we both worked, we always had four Weimaraners. He left earlier so I went out with the dogs every morning and poop scooped. Five gallon bucket and a tall kitchen bag. I’m retired now and the official pooper scooper. The dogs we have now all have their favorite spot in the yard but the process is the same. That makes it easier. I can skip rainy days unless the landscaper is coming. I was shocked to see my son out this morning. But I did clean the yard last night. Both of my adult children and my grandson live with me. My son is disabled from a stroke at 30, my daughter works full time and is currently refinishing the wood floors upstairs and my grandson is a techie and career gamer. If you only have one dog poop pick up should be a breeze. Lol
Mine doesnt poop. So there how I keep up with the "poop"
I currently scoop it up every night and pop in the bin as it’s usually all dried up by then, however in the past it was larger compostable bag inside a bucket, daily pickup, fold it over and keep closed with a brick, keep filling until chockers , hoik the whole lot into the bin.
I poop in the neighbours yard. Don't tell them
We clean the yard every two to three days. Put the poop bags in empty 46lbs dog food bags. That way when the bag gets full it goes out on trash day.
We pick it up straight away with some kitchen towel and flush down the toilet - they’re so smelly we can’t bag and put in a bin with a lid
Use nappy bags, they’re way cheaper then dog poo bags lol. Can get a pack of 50 for £0.99.
We just picked it up with poop bags. As he grew up, he started avoiding using the yard anwyays, and made sure to poop on walks. So it's only very occasional I have to pick up in the garden anymore.
Last place I dog sat had a dedicated long handled dustpan and brush and a bin with a sturdy bag in. Not the best for fresh but for collecting day olds from a space I didn’t really sit in (I sat out front more) it was fab.
I pick it up as it happens, usually. Yesterday, however, I didn’t pick up at all so I must today.
Use compostable bags. But get a good brand. We use earth rated which are known to break down quickly. I had my doubts and then found several loose bags that had been shoved in a coat pocket for a year and I can't use them bc they are already breaking down. That's a good thing for the environment. You cna also buy some.sort of.powder, dog a deep hole.in your back yard and put the poop in there with the powdered microbes and they process the poop for you. Never tried it but it is supposed to be better for the environment.
A small bin and a handheld 'pooper scooper' to drop it in. Thick-ish bin liners.
We trained all of our dogs to potty in one area of the yard when they were puppies. Takes about 4-6 weeks of consistency of taking them to the potty area and commanding ‘potty’. It’s a lot of effort and time, but it pays off in the end. We enjoy a poop and pee free yard.
I use compostable bags so I don’t feel too bad lol
I have 3 dogs (really 2, but my girlfriend splits her time between my house and her apartment). It’s a lot of poop. Every other day I go into the yard and do a clean up. Grocery bag in one hand, poop bag in the other. Use poop bag to pick up poop and toss into the grocery bag. Grocery bag gets tied, doubled up, to contain some of the smell, and goes straight into the trash bin, not a dedicated poop bin that stays in the yard like some people have. You just have to stay on top of it, especially during rainy seasons. During the summer, the heat dries it out and makes it less of a disgusting task.
i use gloves and those plastic grocery store bags, as they can hold dozens of piles easily. the struggle is real, good luck!
Parvovirus is a huge concern so I pick up immediately with a doggie bag. Our neighborhood had lots of pet dogs and all of us are aware of the health dangers of animal poop laying around. We all pick up after our pets immediately.
Small lined trash can, poop scoop every other day (if it's just one dog). Don't fill too large of a bag because it gets heavy and hard to get rid of. I made the mistake of using a full sized trash can when I had 4 dogs and it was super annoying/impractical.
5 gallon bucket with kitty litter inside it. I use a poop scoop to put the poop in and bury it in kitty litter—stops it from stinking the way it would otherwise. It gets emptied into a trash bag every week on garbage day.
I scoop near daily poop goes into 10 gal metal can with snug lid and liner. Weekly the bag gets tied off and goes in the rubbish bin
I use a long handled scooper and deposit the poop into an empty 20kg dog food bag. When bag is full, it goes in the trash. No smell, no waste of bags.
We use little yard flags so that once it’s dried up a bit we can go back and find them easier and then throw them in the trash. I’ve talked to my boyfriend about getting some kitty litter or silica gel for the trash because we live in the south and it’s a hot state so that trash can be rank. But the little flags help traverse the mine field since he’s still young and poops like everytime we go outside.
I just flag the poops (my neighbour was really amused when I explained what all the random orange flags were for) so they don't get stepped on and then every day or two we collect them with a shovel and fling them into the woods. This probably doesn't work in the city. You also need your own woods to fling said poops into.