This blog belongs to a slightly crazy, married, woman who firmly believes that life is meant to be entertaining and the gross things that most people avoid are meant to be explored and learned about in order to live a healthy lifestyle along with the common every day things we are faced with while on our own journey of becoming our very own superhero! KAPOW!
Sunday, June 3, 2012
Pet Poop clean-up
I know the blog has the word "poop" in the title but, I never thought I would actually write about poop. Here it goes. I have many pet peeves- morons who drive, morons at the grocery store, if you talk to my husband he would tell you that just about everything irritates me and I can spot a moron a mile away. However, my biggest pet peeve is when someone lets their pet, poop in someone else's yard and doesn't clean it up.
On that note, I was walking out to the trashcan, when I began to smell a very distinct odor. Then I spotted it..... the brown nose offender. This wasn't the first time someone had left a smelly gift on our property. Recently, very recently, we found a huge pile of poop (like the circumference of a bowling ball) on the side of our house by our backyard fence. For those interested, I'm not a poop inspector but I'm pretty sure it came from either a cow or a horse. Now, I knew this morning, that my dog wasn't the mysterious pooping bandit, as she isn't allowed in the front yard. So, immediately I felt my blood pressure rise. I mean, I can understand if you want to let your dog crap all over your yard and property... afterall, it belongs to you. What peeves me off is that it really isn't difficult to clean up your pet's poop as you take it for a walk. Even better.. train it to poop before you leave the house especially if you're to stupid to know how to pick up the poop or just to lazy and inconsiderate to do so!
Luckily, for those of us who do enjoy taking our pets on walks, there are plenty of products out there for cleaning up after our pets. Petco has a variety of great products all the way from scoopers to bags and even a bag with a scoop attached. If you are a cheapskate like me, grocery bags work great too!
As for all of you who walk past my yard with your pets, all I have to say is don't be surprised if you wake up one morning and find your lawn covered with the poop your dog leaves behind on my property. Don't worry... I'll be watching!
While on the poop clean up subject, I recently realized that my dog has declared war on us.... a poop war!
Anyway, when we moved into our house, our sweet puppy was kind enough to pick out one small corner of the yard to do her business. She did good for the first year. My husband volunteered to be on poop patrol since she was making it fairly easy for us. However, due to allergies (aka. laziness) I hadn't spent any time in the backyard other than to look out the door and make sure my puppy was still in the backyard. Needless to say, I was very surprised when I actually entered into the weed jungle that we call our backyard. I soon discovered that not only was it a weed jungle, but it was a poop minefield. When I talked to my poor husband later that evening, he admitted that he stopped poop patrol when he noticed that she was strategically pooping all over the yard. Now, there isn't a trashcan or landfill large enough so we have now scheduled a visit to the local dog store for this coming weekend to buy one of these handy dandy puppy septic tanks! All you have to do is dig a hole, and install your tank. Then when cleaning up the mess, you just have to lift the lid and deposit the poo in the tank and let nature work its magic.
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