what happens to contents dog poo bins

[bikepete]

Anaerobic digester surely?As charmingly animated here:

 

[asterix]

I've learnt something today, thanks Uncle Mort. So you can but I guess it's more difficult?

Slugs eat it, and so apparently do butterflies. They perch on it, anyway. I have not observed exactly what they are doing!

 

[Arch]

Slugs eat it, and so apparently do butterflies. They perch on it, anyway. I have not observed exactly what they are doing!

Lifting each foot up in turn and going "ewwwwww" very, very quietly....

It must be compostable, like all organic material, or we'd be 20 feet deep in it by now... A high temp would be needed to kill off dangerous bugs. Anerobic digestion would probably be better, as long as the methane produced is used, and not allowed out into the atmosphere...

The whole idea of picking it up bagging it for disposal is alright, until you factor in the laziness and stupidity of the people who bag it up and hang it in a bush or tree, thus preserving it even more than if their dog just went on a verge or in the gutter.

 

[biggs682]

the answer i was expecting was who gives a shi@

 

[yello]

Slugs do eat it, and beetles too, I've seen it. But they don't have that much of an appetite for it and even with only 2 dogs, I suspect we'd soon be in the sh*t with it!

 

[Dayvo]

A lo of the dog-walkers at the golf course dutifully pick up the dog turds in plastic bag, then, presumably, when no-one's looking, throw it into a bush, trees, overgrown grass etc.

 

[skudupnorth]

I volunteer at my local National Trust site and i have the "joy" of emptying dog poo bins and it is very heavy lifting $h1t bags out of a bin !
Like Dayvo says,some people are lazy and bag it, then throw it in to the woods for (you guessed it) us poor buggers to litter pick it out of the trees ! Our waste end up in the general waste skips which no doupt ends up as land fill or fried at night

 

[buddha]

I don't get this. People manage to train dogs to do all manner of things. I think there's another thread in cc-cafe where some chap has managed to train his dog to ...... you've seen the thread.
So why can't dogs be trained to do as cats do? Dig a hole, do their business and cover it up. Use a litter tray. Or as with my cat, cr@p in next-door's flower bed, so I can blame it on another neighbour's cats

 

[AnythingButVanilla]

I volunteer at my local National Trust site and i have the "joy" of emptying dog poo bins and it is very heavy lifting $h1t bags out of a bin !
Like Dayvo says,some people are lazy and bag it, then throw it in to the woods for (you guessed it) us poor buggers to litter pick it out of the trees ! Our waste end up in the general waste skips which no doupt ends up as land fill or fried at night

Even reading this is making me heave. I'd love to own a dog but aside from the fact we both work full time, I just couldn't bring myself to handle poo. I don't even touch the cat's litter tray that often, although mainly because my boyfriend insists on doing it, but when I do the turds either go down the toilet or into the compost bin along with the litter.

Can't we do as the French do and let the dogs go where they like and just hose down the pavements at the end of the day? God knows we get enough rain to do the job for us.

 

[skudupnorth]

Ha,Ha it's not as bad as it sounds but that is the career i want to pursue so i have to show willing and do the job as it is ! We get lovely gloves and have to have our jabs to stop any nasty infections.....going blind is one that is the worst from touching poo
It annoys me the amount of bad dog owners who do not think what leaving the crap can cause to other people,especially children in areas where the public visit....even the school run is a challenge of dodge the doggy poo !!!

 

[Night Train]

I don't get this. People manage to train dogs to do all manner of things. I think there's another thread in cc-cafe where some chap has managed to train his dog to ...... you've seen the thread.
So why can't dogs be trained to do as cats do? Dig a hole, do their business and cover it up. Use a litter tray. Or as with my cat, cr@p in next-door's flower bed, so I can blame it on another neighbour's cats

The dog I had in London was trained to poo on newspaper.
When we went for a walk and he wanted to poo I would put newspaper under his bum and he would poo on it. I would then wrap the poo in the paper and it would go in the bin.
The only times it didn't work was when he had the runs.

 

[smokeysmoo]

I've always believed that Channel 5 harvest the best turds from each bin for the next series of Big Brother

 

[CopperCyclist]

Would'nt it be better to train dog owners to make em poo in the gutter????

I'm a dog owner, and I'm perfectly capable of pooing in the gutter without any training at all thanks!

 

[RaRa]

Don't ask how i found this but apparently there is such a thing as a dog poo wormery - they will eat through the poo of two medium sized dogs!

http://www.originalorganics.co.uk/pet-dog-poo-loo-wormery.htm?gclid=CLSDn7GY0qICFUQB4wodzFFizA

 

[Night Train]

As an aside, do not put loads of dog poo in a covered bin in the garden and then forget to empty it for a few months before deciding to take the whole bin to the tip.

If you do, do not have the great idea of checking what the contents look, and smell, like when the bin is already in the car.

If you have done that it is not a good time to find the electric windows on the car have stopped working.

DAHIKT