If you have a dog, and live in a northern/snowy clime, how do you clean up your yard when spring rolls around and exposes a winter’s worth of dog poop?
I don’t have a dog, but apparently the neighborhood raccoons decided that the seating area for my firepit made for a great latrine over the winter. I need to clean it up before the firepit is usable.
Is it thawed? I did my spring cleanup with a pooper scooper and a five gallon bucket.
A shovel, a bucket and a bag inside the bucket.
With my mouth.
Very nice, Rachel.
:rolleyes:
some shit eating dog will be by to have a treat.
You can’t just hose it down?
I just scoop when he poops. The backyard would get rather disgusting quickly if I didn’t. (I imagine the people who aren’t scooping have much larger back yards–ours is about 900-1000 square feet, I’d guess. Or much smaller dogs. We have a 65-pounder.)
The winter poop crop is easier to pick up just after the snow is just about gone but the ground is still cold/frozen, if possible. Less poop seeping into the ground. (Why are the coons congregating around the fire pit?
I use something similar to a - Spade Set for Pet Waste Removal
and a plastic bag.
Another option is to invert a plastic bag over your hand and pick up the poop by hand. Reinvert the bag when it’s full and tie it off.
put paper grocery bag inside plastic grocery bag. The paper bag is easier to keep open and the plastic bag will hold when the paper bag seeps through. Use shovel to deposit poop in paper bag. When done, put both bags inside a kitchen plastic trash bag, leave by garage. On garbage day, put bag in dumpster.
Winter poop is different from … Spring poop? 
I used a rake when it was still cold.
Winter poop is generally colder.
that would be a poopsickle.
Yeah, if it’s a particularly soft poop, I’ll let it settle and firm up/freeze a bit before scooping. That’s one of the advantages of dog poop in the winter–you have that option.
Nope for a couple of reasons. First, it’s pretty firm, and second, I don’t really want all that liquid poop soaking through the seating area around my firepit.
It is, when I just found it, a whole winters worth, all at one time. Collected and aged.
I really wish I knew. If I can figure out why they like it, maybe I can figure out how to make them dislike it next year.
There’s maybe 30 sq ft of gravelled area covered in poop, to the point that you can’t walk through it without stepping on it. It is dug into a hill, so maybe they wanted a nice sheltered latrine?
Not to troll, but you’ve got an unfortunate confluence of username and thread title there. 
I use the five gallon bucket / lined with trash bag / with a pooper-scooping shovel / while the ground is still frozen but the snow has thawed so I can see the poop. That magical day came, let’s see, I think right around the end of March this year. We can’t pooper-scoop any earlier b/c of the snow.
Also, be quite careful with the raccoon faeces you’ve got there. Raccoon roundworm and leptospirosis are only two of the diseases you can get by stirring up raccoon leavings. It sounds like you’re in the open air, but that might not be adequate protection - you might consider a mask.
Also, the CDC has guidelines on how to dispose of raccoon faeces to avoid problems:
Thanks, [q]Grrlbrarian[/q]. I can hear my SO squealing in joy. You’ve just giving him an excuse to buy a propane torch.