What do you do about dog poop in your backyard

[Deleted]

Let it pile up until your neighbor cleans it for you.

[cleo29]

We pick it up about once a week and chuck it.

[milosh]

I just nag my husband until he does it.

[HiC]

I pick up everyday.

[bonquiqui]

Growing up when we had dogs, my dad just used to pick it up every few days and throw it away.  

[pixelpassion]

I had a chihuahua/mini pin mix with absurdly small poop. It usually would disappear by the time we'd go out and clean it

[Jalapeñomel]

Twice a week with the pooper scooper.

Or hire the neighbor kid to do it.

[bonquiqui]

My dad legit used a shovel and a stick haha good times

[messykitchen]

I hire a a guy. But my Saint Bernard poops are probably about the size of Bailey LOL.

[RoxMonster]

We pick up her crap daily with a pooper scooper we have. It goes in its own small, tightly-closed garbage can in the corner of the yard, which gets taken out each week on garbage day. In the summer we try to pick it up every time she goes, so it doesn't start smelling. We do have a fairly small yard, and Rox likes to go to the bathroom in the same place, so it's easy to track down.

[pamela]

We used to shovel/throw away, but got tired of it and switched to feeding raw. Their poop volume has dropped dramatically and it disintegrates faster so it just disappears.

[Deleted]

Lol.

Yeah. You have to pick it up. Get a scooper. Even if it crumbles you can still get most of it.

[Deleted]

In the Spring & Summer when we use the backyard a lot, we pick it up daily. Fall & winter a couple times a week. We also have a small 5 gallon trash can in the backyard for poop, so we don't have to go far to pitch it. That goes to the curb every week, but our dogs are larger than Bailey.

[bonquiqui]

It was the 80's he did what he could lmao

[Deleted]

I pay a guy to come out every other week and clean the dog run. Totally worth the $12.

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[dcannie]

Oct 27, 2013 14:51:37 GMT -5 pamela said:

We used to shovel/throw away, but got tired of it and switched to feeding raw. Their poop volume has dropped dramatically and it disintegrates faster so it just disappears.

can you give me info (or send me to a good website) on feeding raw? what kind of dog do you have and what is the cost? what recipes do you use and how do you know they are getting enough/the right balance of nutrients? i would love to ease into feeding raw but the cost frightens me, as well as having no idea what/how much to feed each of our dogs. 

[cbwm1]

If we had in a fenced in backyard, you bet your ass we'd hire someone to pick up the poop for us.

However, we have a townhouse with a shared yard, so we pick it up every time he goes.

[isabel]

You weren't using a poop scooper?? How were you trying to pick it up?

When we had a yard, we picked it up once a week and tossed it. We would line a small trash can with a grocery bag, then toss the grocery bag in the big trash can.

[Deleted]

Dogs play fetch in the backyard everyday so the poop has to be picked up everyday right before we play. One of them is awful at not stepping on poop. Also my big dogs make big poops. I have mopped the entire house a couple of times because one stepped on soft poop and tracked it in the house

[jane6672]

This may be more effort than you're willing to invest, but could you train him to poop in one corner of the yard? Then when you let him out, he'd head there on his own to poop.

[puppyluv]

we have a stone area on the side of our house where they poop. i go out with the pooper scooper and a garbage bag in a bucket about every 2 weeks and clean it.

[zoidberg]

Oct 27, 2013 15:38:17 GMT -5 @tambcat said:

Oct 27, 2013 15:36:48 GMT -5 isabel said:

You weren't using a poop scooper?? How were you trying to pick it up?

When we had a yard, we picked it up once a week and tossed it. We would line a small trash can with a grocery bag, then toss the grocery bag in the big trash can.

The way you do it in a walk, with a bag over your hand! The poops are pretty small, but I think I could contain the crumbles better with a scooper.

I always used one of those scoopers with a little rake that comes with it. That works pretty well.

[mrsukyankee]

I pick it up every day as I watch him when he goes out.

[nomad100]

We use this

once a week.  we scoop it into a garbage bag and throw it in the trash.

With 2 larger dogs, we should probably do it a couple of times a week but that just doesn't happen.

[dixeedeluxe]

My dogs are small too so I get the crumbles. I clean it when we fo out there. I use a rubber glove and a bag.

When we get our forever house, I may look into those things you bury and pile poo in.

[pollyprissypants]

We pick it up once a week and use a bucket and small shovel. We just throw it into the woods behind our house.

[dixeedeluxe]

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[missmaddie]

We pick it up daily/when we're outside with DS now. Before he was old enough to play outside it would be weekly or so. Now he asks to run around put back all the time.

[thatgirl2478]

we let it pile up for 1 week, then DH goes out with a 5 gallon bucket lined with a garbage bag and picks it up.

[redheadk]

We have a service that comes once a week and picks it up (and takes it away!). DH was supposed to do it but it didn't happen very often.

It's easier if you use the right tools, fwiw.