# What happened to all the white dog poo? **URL:** \ **Category:** Factual Questions\ **Created:** [September 13, 2002, 10:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-happened-to-all-the-white-dog-poo/128254 "2002-09-13T10:49:07Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 14\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![BillyBobMcCrury](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/e9a140/32.png) [@BillyBobMcCrury](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BillyBobMcCrury)\ **Post date:** [September 13, 2002, 10:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-happened-to-all-the-white-dog-poo/128254/1 "2002-09-13T10:49:07Z")
What happened to all the white dog poo we used to get on our streets? ---
**Author:** ![Mangetout](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mangetout/32/19_2.png) [@Mangetout](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mangetout)\ **Post date:** [September 13, 2002, 11:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-happened-to-all-the-white-dog-poo/128254/2 "2002-09-13T11:04:22Z")
It turns white after being left lying around for a long time, this is now an offence in many places. Oh and the diet of the average domestic dog is quite different now from what it was maybe twenty years ago. ---
**Author:** ![jjimm](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/ba8739/32.png) [@jjimm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jjimm)\ **Post date:** [September 13, 2002, 11:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-happened-to-all-the-white-dog-poo/128254/3 "2002-09-13T11:11:12Z")
AFAIK, dogs stopped getting fed bones and bonemeal; thus when the poo dries it doesn’t calcify. Also (though this may be nonsense) it seems to be wetter these days than it used to be when I was a kid. The poo doesn’t get a chance to dry out any more. ---
**Author:** ![jjimm](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/ba8739/32.png) [@jjimm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jjimm)\ **Post date:** [September 13, 2002, 11:13am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-happened-to-all-the-white-dog-poo/128254/4 "2002-09-13T11:13:11Z")
BTW - I got extremely excited on my honeymoon in the Caribbean two months ago when I saw a lump of white dog poo outside our hotel room. I wanted to take a photo of it, but my wife prevented me. ☹ ---
**Author:** ![Crusoe](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/49beb7/32.png) [@Crusoe](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Crusoe)\ **Post date:** [September 13, 2002, 11:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-happened-to-all-the-white-dog-poo/128254/5 "2002-09-13T11:25:44Z")
It was a very '80s thing. So clichéd now, darling. ---
**Author:** ![jjimm](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/ba8739/32.png) [@jjimm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jjimm)\ **Post date:** [September 13, 2002, 11:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-happened-to-all-the-white-dog-poo/128254/6 "2002-09-13T11:28:33Z")
Oh it’s due for a comeback, I’m sure: it’s been all over the _outrageous_ Westwood collection previews, and there are _glorious_ rumours about ‘caca blanca’ Milan summer collections! ---
**Author:** ![dantheman](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dantheman/32/9421_2.png) [@dantheman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dantheman)\ **Post date:** [September 13, 2002, 12:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-happened-to-all-the-white-dog-poo/128254/7 "2002-09-13T12:11:45Z")
You got _excited_ on your _honeymoon_ when you saw _white dog poo_?!?!?! Ack! ---
**Author:** ![dono](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/e0b2c6/32.png) [@dono](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dono)\ **Post date:** [September 13, 2002, 12:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-happened-to-all-the-white-dog-poo/128254/8 "2002-09-13T12:39:16Z")
::takes sip of coffee:: ::reads:: > [@](#): > > _Originally posted by **jjimm** :_ > caca blanca ::splort!:: BWAHAHAHA! ---
**Author:** ![jjimm](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/ba8739/32.png) [@jjimm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jjimm)\ **Post date:** [September 13, 2002, 12:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-happened-to-all-the-white-dog-poo/128254/9 "2002-09-13T12:58:53Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by dantheman \* > \*\*You got _excited_ on your _honeymoon_ when you saw _white dog poo_?!?!?! > > Ack! \*\* It was getting to the end of a two-week break trip. There’s only so much luuuuurve one man can take… ---
**Author:** ![bloomingpouf](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/5fc32e/32.png) [@bloomingpouf](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bloomingpouf)\ **Post date:** [September 13, 2002, 1:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-happened-to-all-the-white-dog-poo/128254/10 "2002-09-13T13:12:18Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by jjimm \* > \*\*, and there are _glorious_ rumours about ‘caca blanca’ Milan summer collections! \*\* Darling - you clearly have not Lived in Milan - It’s Caca Blanca in every summer collection! ---
**Author:** ![slortar](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/6bbea6/32.png) [@slortar](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/slortar)\ **Post date:** [September 13, 2002, 3:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-happened-to-all-the-white-dog-poo/128254/11 "2002-09-13T15:03:06Z")
I have it all now. Want some? ---
**Author:** ![bloomingpouf](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/5fc32e/32.png) [@bloomingpouf](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bloomingpouf)\ **Post date:** [September 13, 2002, 3:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-happened-to-all-the-white-dog-poo/128254/12 "2002-09-13T15:30:37Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by slortar \* > \*\*I have it all now. Want some? \*\* Only if it’s Prada. Armani and Gucci are so old hat! ---
**Author:** ![Politzania](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/3ab097/32.png) [@Politzania](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Politzania)\ **Post date:** [September 13, 2002, 3:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-happened-to-all-the-white-dog-poo/128254/13 "2002-09-13T15:40:44Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by bloomingpouf \* > \*\* > > Only if it’s Prada. > > Armani and Gucci are so old hat! \*\* \ Don’t you mean “old **scat** ”? ::d&r:: ---
**Author:** ![bloomingpouf](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/5fc32e/32.png) [@bloomingpouf](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bloomingpouf)\ **Post date:** [September 13, 2002, 4:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-happened-to-all-the-white-dog-poo/128254/14 "2002-09-13T16:14:03Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Politzania \* > \*\*\ > > Don’t you mean “old **scat** ”? > > ::d&r:: \*\* So you have been to Milan Then… I always prefer fashion week in london… so much less fraught and the food is better! It always was a terrible thing having to look at all those dogs dinners parading about piazza Cadorna every morning… and that was just the models… the doo doo came later!