Cleaning up wintery poop

[Mandalay]

Now that it has warmed up past freezing the last few days I can get out and get some poop up. But how?

Mandalay thinks it is fun to cover her wintery poop with snow, so I can't always find it. Now that I can see some of it that I've missed when I was out cleaning up chunks of frozen poop (and in the spring when the rest appears when the snow finally goes away) how do I get it up easily? Or at least with the least mess. Doesn't anyone make a product that we can sprinkle on the ground to dissolve the poop? THAT would be a great idea.

[marksteven]

I'm in my yard 2x daily picking up through-out the winter. comes spring thaw, guess who will be the first to step in it if i dont p/u now.

[Amaruq]

Originally Posted By: MandalayNow that it has warmed up past freezing the last few days I can get out and get some poop up. But how?

Mandalay thinks it is fun to cover her wintery poop with snow, so I can't always find it. Now that I can see some of it that I've missed when I was out cleaning up chunks of frozen poop (and in the spring when the rest appears when the snow finally goes away) how do I get it up easily? Or at least with the least mess. Doesn't anyone make a product that we can sprinkle on the ground to dissolve the poop? THAT would be a great idea.

Raw feeding <snicker> Poop becomes fully biodegradable.

In all seriousness I use a poop scoop like this (only larger but hey I have 7 dogs). I personally do not like the rake one but the shovel style works well with the Paq.

[Martie]

I use a horse manure-picking fork - something like this...

http://www.tractorsupply.com/horse-stall...re-fork-5016276

It also can be a rake - works great!

[VectorSketcher]

I have a shovel I use, but as soon as a poo is laid I am right there picking it up, so I don't ever have any unpleasant surprises when the snow melts...but this isn't because I want to pick it up right away, I have to do this or a certain little girl will go around and pick it up herself by ways they lead to devouring it...ew!

[Mandalay]

I have a shovel pooper scooper, but I wonder if the rake one would go through the snow better without picking up so much snow.

[Martie]

Originally Posted By: MandalayI have a shovel pooper scooper, but I wonder if the rake one would go through the snow better without picking up so much snow.

The manure fork does go through the snow and allows you to shake a bunch of it out - depending of course on how wet the snow is. In the warmer months, it also goes through the grass - kind of under the poop - you lift and the poop comes up intact and the grass just slips through the tines.

[SunCzarina]

I was just wondering earlier -what's the most effective way of getting it out of partially melted snow. Eh, get second trash bag or a bigger bucket. Whatever, supposed to rain 2" tomorrow, the bits I missed will wash away.

[sgtmom52]

Originally Posted By: MandalayNow that it has warmed up past freezing the last few days I can get out and get some poop up. But how?

Thanks for the reminder. After 3 weeks of below freezing temps it was 50 and sunny here today, so I went on a "poop hunt" before the freezing rain comes tomorrow! It was so nice out I got a touch of "Spring Fever"!

[Vinnie]

Oh geez, thanks for the reminder guys.