Why pick up after your dog? - Page 2

DUH.

You two are great. "I would rather be a bitch then stupid"  I love it.    And the doggie treats, oh can I relate to that one!  One of my girls loves to sneak to the litter box.....  yuck. 

Hodie, great post.  For one summer I kept doggie pick up bags supplied at the dog club.  Amazing how many still couldn't pick up.  The school next door has banned all dogs because of idiots that didn't pick up.  Then there were the ones that would pick up in a bag and throw the bag over the fence into my pasture.......... 

I know some of you are gonna laugh at this but I just found out about this wonderful service someone is offering in my area...they are called the "Poo Poo Pros".  No shit! LOL  No pun intended but this guy decided to put an ad in the local advertisements and started a little after work "business".  He never realized how fast it would take off that he's actually had to hire help to take over his customers.  The price varies according to how many dogs you have and how often you want him to come.  One dog is $8 a week for one day a week.  I have 3 dogs and 1 pup so he's charging $20/wk but will come twice a week.  They take the poo poo away too.  I think he wound up with 3 new customers on my street alone after I told them about it.  What a great idea for a "business" but who in their right mind would want to do this for a living???  When you fill out a credit application and it ask your occupation what in the world do you right??  Sanitation Engineer?? LOL

Shiiit! I just found my second job Agar, thanks. Have shovel will travel. Lemme know what he puts the poop in to haul away.

 There are people who have been running this type of business in Colorado cities for years. The problem however is that the person is not there when your dog goes. If one does NOT pick up immediately, then bad things happen, including dogs eating feces, and a higher chance for actual contamination of the soil and grass. So, for my money, I would simply be getting out there myself and doing it immediately. Not always convenient and certainly not fun just after getting up in the morning, but necessary.

And by the way, those who think "healthy" immune systems keep parasitic infection away are kidding themselves and know little about parasites and how they can actually evade and fool immune systems. They have been doing this for hundreds of thousands of years and are quite adept at it in many instances.

We have "Major Doody" come to work once a week because even though we have two racks of poop bags people still leave the poo in the yard!  Have even found poo right in the middle of the sidewalk. People are so clueless sometimes!  Today in fact I found myself picking up some other dog's poo in the park. 

Last week on Fox, they  had a program on the round worm and how many  Americans are infested with it and how easy it is to  ingest the worms and it is a fallicy that an immune system has anything to do with it...

Many people have worm infestation and never know it until they get sick...Kevin Trudeau;s books 'Natural cures , What they dont want you to know." has an indept study and remedy for all of the such ...and why our bodies have all the problems, that can be cured by some common sense. and natural cures.

Texas has all the worms , of every species , since we have such warm , humid weather...Fleas, fllies, ,mosquitos, hook worm, round worms, whip worms , and tapes..\

I do   Poop Duty twice a day..My son built me a pit and it is covered and is quite nice..He lined the bottom with lime and it has a slide open door and there is no smell nor flies nor even evidence that it is on my property..When full it will be bulldozed over and a new one dug...

I also haul black garbage bags full to outdoor pick up every other day...this is the papers and smaller dog pick up, along with my garbage.. I have neighbor dogs , though , that continue to leave their packages outside my gate and in my front ditchline , and in the flower bed outside my fence line in the front....My son uses a nice   BB gun when he is  here to discourage such gifts.

I'm printing that out and posting it on my front lawn!  Just maybe it will make an impact.  I'm sick of finding loads out there and never seem to be able to catch the A-holes that are doing it.  In my area trying to take the dogs for a walk around the neighborhood after the snow melts is like walking through a mine field.  We have a no good ACO that doesn't care to do his job.  If you do catch someone and call to report it, he will issue a summons for them to go to court but if the complaitant doesn't take time off of work to go as well the person gets off!!  Can you imagine telling your boss you'll be late to work for that!!!

BTW,  check your dollar stores for boxes of disposable diaper bags.  I get 100 of the bags for 1.00.

I've owned dogs since 1958, have never routinely dewormed any of them without first having a stool check done so I know what, if any, parasite they have.  I can count on one hand the number of adult dogs I've owned that tested positive for intestinal parasites and needed to be dewormed. Why routinely give dogs a toxic poison if they don't need it? If you're using h-worm preventative, it may also prevent some types of parasites.

Blitz prefers rabbit droppings-  they taste yummy and make a great cologne.

With every single dog I have imported came a large burden of round worms, and in two cases, giardiasis. Because my dogs are around other dogs, and where other animals have been, I consider it prudent to de-worm at least once a year and perhaps twice and certainly if there is a problem.

In my situation, it is not feasible to do a fecal on every dog here without unnecessary expense. Sometimes despite best intentions, clients dogs arrive too with parasites which are obvious from the nature of the stools.  Toxicologically speaking, the dose required, especially if I use heartworm med is so low as to not be an issue. I have found however that two dogs I imported from Germany apparently had a strain of a parasite that was tough to kill. I think finally it is gone.  Most dogs harbor parasites, as do many humans, without ever showing signs or symptoms. Stool samples are not infallible.