Dog Loo

[Apariah]

Does anyone know if it is possible to get a garden "composter" for dog mess rather than put it in plastic bags?

[ummmm]

Depends if you want it composting.

We used to have a sunken bucket type thing that dog mess was swept into. Similar to an old caravan toilet. It couldn't be composted though...

[paddywak]

I think I last saw one advertised in one of the betaware type books

[TonyV]

yes lot's available just google pet waste composter and see what suits your budget / requirements

[wolf63]

What about something like this?


http://www.dogpoowormery.co.uk/


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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y43KgpTESAA

[woofgang]

I have tried this system three times now and never managed to get it to work despite following the instructions implicitly. Each time I ended up with a smelly fly infested hole.
Years ago i knew an old bloke who lived in a house with no connection whatever to any drains. When he moved into it as a young man, he taught himself about human waste management by composting. Basically he did a three pit system and used loads of earth on each layer as he filled the hole. even just for him, it took up quite a bit of room in his garden.
so basically my answer is yes but it may not be worth the effort.

[Apariah]

Thanks for all your replies. I'll give them a go.

[boxtops]

I don't understand the compost concept - for the garden, you shouldn't put protein in your compost bin - and dog poo is full of meat waste.

[Baldric]

Not something I would attempt to do, given the output of those two in my Avatar, it would have to be ginormous!!

[Old_Geezer]

And can you train cats to use it ?

Or better still train them to go to your bathroom and sit on the seat to go ;-)

[Brinjal]

I think you can OG but they tend to have trouble with the flush. :)

[corylus]

Years ago our half Siamese/Mog cat used to wee in our toilet bowl, we could hear this during the night and initially thought it was our little son!

And we used to have a sunken bin in the garden for dog and cat faeces, it seemed to decompose in there eventually as I remember.

[woofgang]

boxy, the reason that you shouldn't put protein in the normal compost bin is that it takes longer to rot down, can be smelly, needs different bugs and circumstances to rot down from vegetable waste and is more likely to attract vermin. As i said, the bloke I knew who managed all his human waste that way was something of an expert. Houses are not now allowed to be built without some form of waste disposal system. The bloke was pretty old when i knew him, the local council could have acted under its by laws to stop him, but as they had never had any complain from his neighbours and there was no public health issue (smells vermin and so on) and he was pretty old, they had decided to be kind and sensible and let him live out his final years in peace in his own home. The only thing that needed to be sorted was having carers often enough to empty his commode into the right pit. Normally a chemical toilet would have been put into the house but the chemicals would have trashed the composting function.

[CatGirl4]

I'm not sure if i saw one of these on zooplus,maybe petsupermarket.I believe you bury some kind of container,then perhaps put chemicals in at some time.Sorry i'm a bit vague,i'll go and see if i can find one now.

[CatGirl4]

Hello again just been on pet-supermarket.co.uk,there's a product called Good Boy Clean Green Dog loo.Hope this helps.