dogs

We scoop several times a week. Lots of places in our woods for poop holes to bury it in.

When I moved here my black lab pooped everywhere, since we moved from town I was used to scooping. I scooped and threw it into the pasture. After a week he figured it out. Now I have 4 large dogs and they all followed his example.

Training is important.

My dogs only have the frontyard to do their business in since I keep the rabbits and poultry off-limits in the backyard. A restricted area makes cleanup easier if dogs aren't trained to go in a specific place... which mine aren't. With 2 Great Danes and 2 mid-sized dogs, I try to pick up the poop once a week. It goes in the wheelbarrow and then gets dumped along with other organic stuff in areas that need "landscaping", i.e. natural retaining walls, filling in dips and holes, etc.

Back when I had a landscaped yard in the city, I "fenced off" a 10'x10' back corner with rows of aloe plants and trained the dogs I had then to use that as their spot. Worked like a charm, but they were a German Shepherd and a Rottweiler - much easier to train than Danes and snow dogs, LOL! The poop got picked up every day and was bagged for the garbage can. Pretty wasteful, this, but when in the city...

If I remember right, you can find doggie poop "septic tanks" in pet supply catalogs, or at least you could 10 years ago. They looked like a nifty solution, but they were around $50 back then, so I never got one. I bet you could make one though, if you understand the concept behind a septic system and find the right enzymes for doggie poop.

My lab had specific old, dead tree he would pee on and he would poop out in the tall grass about 20 yards beyond that tree. Those were the only places he would go in the yard and he would tromp through the snow drifts to get to them. Th weather didn't matter. That was his bathroom and that is were he would go no matter what. If he wouldn't have been that way I would have trained him to go in one spot. Crap all over the yard is something I wouldn't tolerate. I like to walk around barefoot too much.

We don't have a problem either. Both the lab and the real mastiff go off in the woods to do their stuff...

one large dog = one acre poop rights

Our one large dog knows to go at the back of his land well away from the house. It's close to the pumpkin patch and the compost pile. Didn't really train him on where to go. He just somehow knew.

we have 3 dogs, and 12 acres.. well.. two of the dogs have to be kept chained up until we can afford a dog run... because those two dogs are bad, one is a runner and the other is a chicken killer....

the puppy is being trained what his boundaries are, but he is also being chained for some time in the day when we cant just watch him.

their area is raked three times a week and added to the burn pile, which is about 20 ft away.

shrug.

Lynn in Texas

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Teach em to poop in a corner.

Last year I got fed up with my lazy useless dog taking two steps from the porch and crapping. It was disgusting. So I marked off an area far from the house, called it the 'corner' and made my dog understand it was the 'corner'. I kept her in the house alot at first so that when she went out she would pee/poo immediately. Id take her over at first (not on a leash) and if she went to step over the bounderies, Id say no. And Id say good dog when she was done her business, then we would play. When I thought she could go over by herself, Id stand at the door and say 'corner'. Sometimes she'd try to poop on the way, and Id throw something like a shoe at her, or come tearing out and scare the begeesus out of her.
Every once in awhile I rake it all into the forrest or the empty lot behind,lol.

The hardest part is making the other people understand how serious I was about the dog going to the corner, and making the dog understand she had to go to the corner no matter who tells her to go, and even if no one is watching.
I had to threaten people that if they put my dog out, and she pooped anywhere other than the 'corner' they were going to find a nasty surprise in thier lifes in the near future.

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Why dont you litter train him?

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I have many dogs in my life both small and large and in the city and country. In the confines of a small yard I trained my dog to go in a certain place and cleaned it up every other day. On our farm where we live now our dog runs free and does her business in the fields where the farm animals are. I had a part chiauhauha for fifthteen years. Little dogs like that can be taught to use a litter pan with a newspaper in it. Worse time was when I had a hound that had to be tied out because she couldn't be trusted to stay home. That contained where she could poop but i cleaned up after her everyday.I guess when choosing a dog for a conpanion it is something to consider. If I ever lived in an apartment again I would have a toy breed and have it litter trained or have a cat!

I doubt we'll ever have a 'house' dog ever again. Anytime we've tried having them, it hasn't worked...we end up with more poop inside hte house than outside in the yard...

Now our cat is heaven sent! I can clean his poop when I get around to it, and since his box is in the bathroom, all I have to do is close the door if the smell is bad.

if we ever had a dog again it would have to be an LGD...not in the house.

When I let my two dogs outside in the morning, I'm making coffee and watching them out the kitchen window. When I've seen them 'do the doo' I go clean it up. I have a 20' diameter kennel they go in when I'm off property, which I clean daily. Twice a week (or just before company arrives) I search for the missed ones close to the house.

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Heavens! What do you think that Pooper Scoopers are for? I have a nice sized place..I walk out there at night. So, I want it clean! I have a great "scooper" and I use it every other day, bag up the poop and it goes to the dump with the rest of the trash. What, you think it just evaporates? LOL

LQ

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Our 3 Aussies go outside too and we try to clean up every day. It goes in the trash to be picked up once a week. Are we ever going to get a dog forum?

Thanks for all the replies. I have a female Great Pyr, a male Doberman, and an old senile black lab. the great pyr goes in the field (but does not come back), the dobe goes into the field during the summer. During the winter I have to drag him kicking and screaming outside. (Whoever imported dobes to Canada was a cruel person). As far as the lab goes, she is a dirty dog. I am lucky if she makes it out side. If she does it is always on the road, a path, or somewhere inconvienent. We have 50 acres, and I would walk barefooot around my barn before I would around the house.

I'm reading this, and at the end am wondering just who wrote it (didn't get it as I scrolled throught the thread), and I soon as I saw who it was, just busted out laughing!!

Numb is like absolutely no other....

Pam <--- thinks CN is waaay funny

At one time we had five cats--long story, anyway, they kept pooping in the girls' sand box. Had to get rid of them--took them to my folks' farm.

Anyway, we got a German Shepherd this fall and he tends to poop in the same spots in the yard. I scoop them up once a week and burn in the burning barrel--stinks something awful.

He sure makes a lot of doo-doo; I won't have more than one dog--just too much poo for me :waa:

I was wondering where I could find a picture of a Pyrenees. Our newest dog is a mixed breed...but someone said he looked like part of his ancestry might be a Pyrenees.
Linda

our Border collies will poop at the edge of the woods. Our female is funny she always gets behind a tree or bush, I guess she's modest. So we look away while she's going.

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