Or even scraping it up in the first place.
Oh I don't know, it can help keep your hands warm in the winter!
Seriously though, warm poo is considerably more plesant to pick up than it being cold, take it from an expert!
When my mum objected to us getting a dog, it was mostly on the grounds that it would end up being mostly her that had to look after it, take it for walks etc. She was probably right.
Indeed, we always wanted a dog, and my Mum had had a Boxer (called Cindy - Our current Cindy is 'Cindy the 2nd') when she was young but the same excuse was given by my both her and my Dad. They were most probably right too.
Then we moved abroad and rented a house from some folks working away for a few years, and they had left their dog with the house.....
What happened to it?
I used to have a dog and a cat many years ago. To be honest I was so upset when they both died of old age that I have never been able to bring myself to buy another one.
The thought of the dog dying is just too upseting for me.
It is schmalzy and has a few holes if you are to think about it too much, but I always think about it as being like what a kid once said when their parents were upset at the death of the pet dog:
'People need to live a long time to learn to love properly, but a dog knows how to love from being a puppy. They bring so much joy and happiness that to do what they do, they don't need to live as long.'
Out of the mouths of babes.
