And as a public service announcement for dog owners, I want to tell you about a product that DH and I bought after we had lived with Annie for awhile. Our previous dog, Emma, made small, dainty poops that "composted" and disappeared from the yard rapidly. We never picked up her poop.
Not so with Annie. She poops in much larger piles and likes to poop in the front part of our yard right near the front walk. (Emma was an equal opportunity pooper and used the whole yard.) So, after stepping in some fairly fresh poop bare-footed, I decided that it might be wise to pick up Annie's poop on a regular basis.
But what should we do with it? Dog poop in the trash can is very stinky, especially in the the south central Texas heat. I guess I could chuck it over the fence into the neighbor's pasture, but flinging poop is not very lady-like, especially if the wind is blowing in the wrong direction. ;-)
I remembered seeing a dog poop septic tank called the Doggie Dooley Waste System in a pet product catalog and researched it. Unfortunately, it does not work in soil with a lot of clay in it, which is what we have. So I researched some more and found this product: Doggie Doo Drain Dog Waste Sewer Line Attachment on Amazon. We bought it and I have to say it works well.
You screw it in to your sewer pipe cleanout and dump the poop in it, following it with water (either a pitcherful or from your hose) and it goes into the city sewer line if you live in the city or into your septic tank if you have one. We have a septic tank. In the second picture, you unscrew the handled cap to dump in the dog doo, replacing it after you've dumped. ;-)
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| Septic clean-out cap before. |
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| Doggie Doo Drain attachment after. |
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