Question for dog owners

polishmafia · 03-25-2014

We all love our four-legged, furry friends... but I have a question... and its about poop.

I went to the mailbox today and I noticed a homeowner's lawn across from my street. They have a big dog, and this dog has laid some serious brown landmines all over the lawn. Big terds litter the yard all over the place. It was unimaginable!

I understand that going out to clean up poops when its -30 degrees must be incredibly painful and cold, but what do you dog owners do when its 20 or 30 degrees out?

Do you go grab them with a plastic bag when its winter? Do you wait until the snow thaws to go and pick them up? I really don't know. Do the poops freeze into the snow cause they are warm and are unable to be picked up, or is my neighbor just fucking lazy?

I want to call the association about this homeowner and their brown stricken lawn cause it is GROSS, but I don't know if its common to wait until its warmer to pick up the dog's poop.

dsmreck · 03-25-2014

warm+poop=mushy poop+lawnmower<grenade poop@yourhouse.com

1QUICK4 · 03-25-2014

Some people wait until spring, we always had Dr. PooLittle come out year round haha

Maybe you could leave him a flyer http://drpoolittle.com/

dsmreck · 03-25-2014

that guy is a poo genius. who wants to do something when it can be done for you

**goodhart** · 03-25-2014

Back when I lived with my parents the neighbor dogs would usually shit in our yard, probably not like this guys yard the way it sounds but it was a fair amount. We'd just leave it all till it came time to mow the lawn for the first time of the year and mow it all in! Good fertilizer for the grass

Keep in mind my parents live on 4 acres so this was a riding lawnmower haha

A//// Guy · 03-26-2014

Pete they are lazy. I pick up rockys on a regular basis all winter, but its hard if it keeps snowing and covering them up. Once the snow melts and uncovers them, its easy to just take a shovel and dump them in a bag then throw the bag out. Keep repeating the cycle before its too soft and mushy haha. 20-30 is perfect temps, otherwise they just end up being a mushy shat thats hard to scoop up.

**asshanson** · 03-26-2014

Yep they are lazy, we pick up Pacos poop all year long in bags, though they are mini poops compared to some dogs.

AJ · 03-26-2014

Yeah, we pick up through the winter as we can. Frozen poop is much easier to deal with anyway. So as shit thaws (pun intended) we are picking up crap up.

tehehodi · 03-26-2014

I just scoop a litter box. Cats ftw!

AJ · 03-26-2014

You could one up him and start pooping in your own yard so he see's how it looks from across the way. lol

polishmafia · 03-26-2014

LOL @ mushy shats and Paco's mini poops!

Thanks for the info. I guessed the fat bish was just being lazy. Luckily, I don't have to see the shit everyday, only when I go to the mailbox. I can't believe someone hasn't said anything to the association yet.

simulatedwood · 03-26-2014

During the summer I pickup poops right away as I have 2 big kritters and the poops are huge. During the winter I let them poop in the yard then let it freeze typically a day and then pickup because then it doesn't make my garage smell like a sewer.

Frozen poo = non smelly poo.

blesi660r · 03-26-2014

Ha our cane corso/fila just turned 1 year old and at over 130 pounds I just grab a shovel and a 5 gallon pale with a garbage bag in it and go to town. Sucks after a full winter and haven't picked any up, I know what I'll be doing Sunday haha

**JET** · 03-26-2014

We have a big yard and little dogs, they break down quickly if they are being fed good food so we just let them go. If we had a big dog then it would be a different story.

**scheides** · 03-27-2014

I let t go for a while and pick up when I can. In the winter when it's constantly snowing snowing snowing it all gets lost but now as it is thawing and re-freezing, this is the time to get out there and start picking away at the snow with a shovel and cleaning it up. If you wait too long it gets uber gross, probably like you at seeing.

On the flip side I never have time to do it so I'm sure I'm behind...it's all fine and good to stay on top of it when you can be home while the sun is still up but I'm often leaving home at 7am and not home until 7 or 8. But no real excuse there, that's what the weekends are for. Make time for it, just like anything else in life! Gotta take advantages of the windows of time you have instead of watching them pass by. There's a bigger moral to the story at play here

Ps--I say one-up them with your own bombs. Do it!

polishmafia · 03-27-2014

I totally get it that sometimes work/life can get crazy and you can't get to scoopin the poopin for a couple days or a week... but this person's yard looked like they haven't picked up one brown bomb in months.

I called the association manager, and he said he will talk to the homeowner about it. He also said "That's nasty" and almost sounded like Cleveland.

**goodhart** · 03-27-2014

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Originally Posted by polishmafia

He also said "That's nasty" and almost sounded like Cleveland.

curt_gendron · 03-27-2014

We usually wait until Spring to pick up the poo. Especially with this winter being so harsh. Our yard might rival your neighbors since we have three dogs. I think the scooping will be on this weekends agenda. I can deliver over to your house if you want it. LOL

Fejery4491 · 03-27-2014

I let it get pretty wild in my yard this year, it's been a pretty harse winter. Little yard + 2 big dogs = poo city. As soon as it started warming up and snow melted/ uncovered my lack of keeping up with it I knew I had to kick it into high gear. Now I've been tackling whatever shows up every other day.

C3L1CA · 03-27-2014

Lazy dog owner here.

I'll sometimes pick up the yard after the snow melts but I've never went out and done it during the winter.

I also don't pick them up in the summer, figure it's good for the grass and nobody really goes in the yard other than the dogs.