[Dave Combs]

With the snow finally gone and the yard looking nothing short of a mine field searching for some other ideas on picking up the stuff. Being covered in snow, having been frozen and thawed several times and now having the consistency of wet coffee grounds, has anyone come up with a good solution other than calling in the Army Corp of Engineers minesweeper operations?

 

[achiro]

With the snow finally gone and the yard looking nothing short of a mine field searching for some other ideas on picking up the stuff. Being covered in snow, having been frozen and thawed several times and now having the consistency of wet coffee grounds, has anyone come up with a good solution other than calling in the Army Corp of Engineers minesweeper operations?

This is a great question and one I have been trying to figure out for the "honey, if you don't clean that yard I can make your life miserable" statement that was made yesterday. Actually she only said something about cleaning the yard, the rest was in that look she gave me while saying it.

 

[Kenneth Niles Bora]

You blast um with the pressure washer into tiny fragments and then run over the whole mess with the bagger on the mower and they get sucked up with other yard debris. You kind of have to pressure wash the inside of the bagger afterwards. :shock:

 

[Misty Marsh]

I'm in the same boat right now, and it sucks! What I did was take an old tupperware bin, don't know thw gallons, but it was about 2 x 4 x 3 in size and drilled a bunch of small holes in the botton of it. Then I took a spade and started scooping it into the bin, of cource there was still some snow with the poop so after it was filled I let it sit in the midday sun and melt. The crap water leaked out the botton and I was left with the poop soup that I took outside of town in my trailer and dumped it in the ditch full of running meltwater.

 

[achiro]

poop soup

 

[Dave Combs]

I had a similar idea to Ken's, but using my riding lawnmower and dragging a section of 4"x4" with nails driven through it to break things up and decompose and/or use the lawn sweeper. My yard already has the potential this time of year to be a registered wetland so I try not to add any extra water if possible - not real sure of wanting to drive the tractor on it either.

 

[bmontang]

I just taught them to poop in the neighboor's yard!

Actually I am in the same boat I just cleaned it up the best I could and am hoping for serious rain to rinse the rest away.

My wife looked out in the yard and asked why that part of the yard is already so green and needs mowed -

 

[msdaisey]

I can loan you my old Chessie bitch - she'd have it cleaned up in no time flat! :roll:

 

[Josh Conrad]

CONCRETE :!:

 

[Guest]

The best way we've found around here... Is to put on vinyl/latex gloves and have at it. We pick up poop about twice a week here.

When the lawn guy comes, that does a lot of the work for us...

When you pick it up "clean" (get it all of the ground) the area stays fresh and never has an odor. Our kennels and yards never stink unless a heavy rain comes just before poop patrol. And then it may smell for a day or two...

The "nice" thing about gloves is you can pick up any consistency of poop. BUT if you have a nice sloppy pie, it can pretty much make you vomit as you pick it up. but at least you can pick it up.

When we do poop patrol, we pick up I'd say 4-5 buckets that are the standard kennel water bucket size. That's in a fairly large area (three separate airing yards) with about 30+ dogs. Now... I have my share of poopeaters, too, so they do some of the work for us. YUCK... Although I guess it evens out when it comes out the other end.

-K

 

[larrynogaj]

clean up

it's easy to see that for anyone with more than a couple of dogs, clean-up can be quite a task. I have just one, but I clean up on a daily basis rather than let it accumulate over a period of time. I find that just a couple of minutes daily beats a few a few hours later. Also minimizes stepping in the stuff, creating other problems.

 

[MaLabhuntr]

I pretty much take my three out to go and follow up with the scooper cause I have let it go before and there were piles all over the woods in my bakc yard. Thankfully I only have 1 that will use the lawn occasionally

 

[Lil Dikens Kennels]

CONCRETE :!:

The only way to go

 

[Guest]

CONCRETE :!:

The only way to go

Do you mean you let your dogs poop on concrete?

 

[Sabireley]

Pay a kid by the pound to pick it up. Give him a shovel and a bucket. Weigh the bucket first and make sure they don't put a bunch of dirt in there to increase the weight. I am sure there is some kid around who needs money badly enough.

Steve

 

[msdaisey]

CONCRETE :!:

The only way to go

Do you mean you let your dogs poop on concrete?

Mine would never go on it - they'd think it was their kennel. They'd bust a gut before they'd go in their runs.

 

[Dave Combs]

I can loan you my old Chessie bitch - she'd have it cleaned up in no time flat! :roll:

Kinda hijacking my own thread but this story is great!
Had lunch yesterday with the dog club sec, and as you would have guessed most of the conversation revolved around the mutts.
He tells me that he's talking to his sister the night before and she's driving through a metro area with her choco lab in a crate, in the rear of her SUV. She had just finished visiting a friend who also has dogs and this choco just couldn't resist eating all the poop she could while visiting. Well, she rushes off the phone and says she'll call him right back.
After 20 minutes she calls back and reports that she smelled poop and figured the dog had gas - rolls down the window and the smell gets worse. Then she hears the dog vomit in the crate and reports the stench as being unbearable - this is the point where she hung up the phone. Pulls into a new BBQ joint off of the highway, lets her dog out, sees and most importantly smells the mess point blank and proceeds to lose her lunch in the middle of the parking lot. Ended up throwing the crate into the restaurant's dumpster b/c she couldn't handle cleaning it out, puked a couple more times in the porcess and made the dog drink from several puddles before getting back in the car.

I just about wet myself with him telling the story.

 

[lennie]

Dave, the best way is to teach them to go somewhere other than the yard!

None of mine (4) will poop in the yard, they all run 70-80 yards to the field out back and go there....I don't scoop poop! :twisted:

It can have it's disadvantages as if you are traveling, they won't go anywhere but tall grass!

Someone Barry works with in the city started a pooper scooper service...He makes a nice additional living scooping peoples yards!

 

[Vertigo]

I really hate the poop job just as much as everyone else, so it gets done once a week on a good week (only two dogs). I took a large metal dust pan and bent the handle up and stuck a broom stick in it. (dustpan $5, broomstick free) It holds much more than what can be bought in the store. I use a small yard rake, one for getting in small areas, to get the poop in the pan. Works great, and much cheaper than Pet$mart.

 

[Paul Stuart]

You blast um with the pressure washer into tiny fragments and then run over the whole mess with the bagger on the mower and they get sucked up with other yard debris. You kind of have to pressure wash the inside of the bagger afterwards. :shock:

EEWWWWWWWWWW!!!