Disposing Of Dog Poop

[ethandron]

For those of you who have a pet dog, if/when it poops in your garden, what do you do with it when you've picked it up?
We had a golden retriever sixteen years ago and for the life of us we can't remember what we did with it. As we're getting a new pup it seems a good idea to find out in advance how to dispose of its poop in an environmentally friendly and considerate way.
Thanks.

[Chipchopper]

What I do, is lift the lid off the sewer inspection cover with my two 'T' shaped handles, slide it back, then drop the poop into the gully. job done!

[Tilly2]

I put it in a plastic bag and put it in the bin.

[Old_Geezer]

I asked something similar about pet mess in a previous thread, only to be told that it gets left to turn into dirt, apparently.

[ethandron]

OG, if we did that we'd disappear under all the cat, hedgehog and dog poop although I'm hoping once we get our new pooch it will at least deter the cats so there will be one less thing to deal with.
Chip, you reminded me that's what we used to do, getting a bit old now for lifting lids that heavy.
That was one solution we'd thought of Tilly, I wondered if there were any regulations about putting it in the normal bin.

[Cloverjo]

I don't have a dog but I looked after one for a couple of weeks recently.
OH suggested we just leave the poo on the lawn to decompose, but it started to grow mould or something horrible on it so I then thought it best to pick it up, tie it up in bag and put it in the bin.

[Tilly2]

We have been putting our dogs' poo in the bin for the last 34 years. No one has every checked our bin to see what's inside it.

We use biodegradable poo bags with handle ties.

[wolf63]

I posted this a couple of years back - not sure if it will help you

http://www.theanswerbank.co.uk/Competitions/Question1347732.html

[THEMOTLEY1]

I not sure about that wormery, I have 2 Rotties, a JCB would be of more use

[woofgang]

I have tried the dog loo things that are supposed to digest the poo several times but even though I followed the instructions to the letter, it never worked. I pick it up in a bag and put it in the bin with the rubbish...to me its no different from people who use disposable nappies.

[ethandron]

Another memory has been jogged.
We bought a 'special bucket' thing with a lid, which you buried in the ground. The poop was put in and supposed to degrade and kind of dissolve, and leak out of the holes in the bucket, into the ground. All that happened was we ended up with a bucket full of nasty poop which still needed disposing of.
The reason I queried about the normal bin is that these days it seems a lot more rigorous about what goes in each different bin and I wondered if dog poop isn't allowed..although how anyone would check I can't imagine.
Thanks for all your answers.

[anneasquith]

Double baby nappy bags , in the bin .

[Khandro]

I used to put it down the toilet, poop is poop no matter whose.

[jubieanna]

Into a poo bag and then out with the rubbish

[woofgang]

ethandron, that was the dog loo thing I tried many times and no it never worked. I don’t think there is anywhere in the Uk where disposable nappies are banned from bins and people with a colostomy are told to double bag their waste, which is not, cannot be, biodegradeable, and put it in the household refuse bin.

[ethandron]

You're absolutely right of course Woofy, thanks.

[Sycamore3House]

I used to bag it and then put it in the dog poo bin at our local park as it was close by.

[wildwood]

Because of the diet, normal dog poo doesn't decompose out in the open like from cows and horses. It needs the microbes like in a sewerpond to digest it and turn it into more suitable components. Burying it does the same thing, only it takes longer.

The biodegradable bags seem the most sensible solution to me.

[EcclesCake]

A friend of mine scoops the poop in her garden and flushes down the loo. For some inexplicable reason this really makes me cringe:-(

[rockyracoon]

My dad does that when his dog poohs in the garden. It makes me gag.