Disposing animal waste

[sebandg'smama]

Just curious what to do with my dog and cat waste.

I don't have a very large yard, one side is a vegetable garden so I don't have much room to dig a hole to dump it. Clearly I'm not digging my holes deep enough, because they fill up so fast!

Then there's the guilt I feel when I take the dog for a walk, and scoop with a plastic bag.

Our city has a green/composting bucket system in place, but they don't take animal waste.

sigh. I would love to hear some suggestions!

[spiderdust]

Originally Posted by sebandg'smama

Just curious what to do with my dog and cat waste.

I don't have a very large yard, one side is a vegetable garden so I don't have much room to dig a hole to dump it. Clearly I'm not digging my holes deep enough, because they fill up so fast!

Then there's the guilt I feel when I take the dog for a walk, and scoop with a plastic bag.

Make your own compost bin and toss it in there! However, I'd only do this with cat waste if you were using a biodegradable litter, like S'wheat Scoop.

[sunshinegal]

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I've always wondered this myself. The last time I posted the question, I got all sorts of links to neat composters. Right now we don't have any room for compost although the complex has some sort of biodegradable bags for dog waste and a bin. But I think they just dump it with the rest of the garbage??


Stacey

[BeckC]

I have a small dog so I don't know if this would work for bigger dogs. I can dump water from the kitchen sink on it or turn the hose on it for a couple of seconds and it disintegrates. I figure the wasted water is better than throwing it in plastic bags. And my tiny yard is very green!

[hipmummy]

There is a thing called a doggy dooley. GAiam sells it I am sure you can fund it other places as well.

[annekevdbroek]

Here you go:

http://www.plantea.com/dog-waste-compost.htm

I personally would not put composted poo in my garden.

[mercy589]

Hm... so is it good for compost or not? I thought I'd heard that it was not to be used in compost piles?

[Unreal]

not for food use compost...
just for landscaping...

but even then ,with little ones around, I think I would hestitate

[smeisnotapirate]

We have a special compost for doggy poo that only gets used in our front yard (no food). Kitty poo gets flushed with our poo. We use corn litter.

[karen1968]

Originally Posted by annekevdbroek

Here you go:

http://www.plantea.com/dog-waste-compost.htm

I personally would not put composted poo in my garden.

Oh, this is cool! I've always just thrown dog poop in the trash, but I've been feeling like such a hypocrite - I'm always telling my mainstream friends they should be flushing their baby's poo instead of throwing it away!

Now, where in my tiny yard can I put this??? :

[iamloved22]

We have a large yard (2 acres) and I have 2 compost piles (one right across from the other so as not to confuse anyone). Compost Pile #1 is last years compost which should be ready come spring to use in the gardens, Compost pile #2 is the "fresh" compost where all of this seasons compost (including our kitty poo, we use swheat scoop litter) goes which will "season" until next summer. I was flushing our kitty waste but with 2 kitties it was taking a lot of time and the larger clumps were clogging the potty plus I worried about our septic system. I figure if the chickens wander through the gardens & yard, some year old decomposed kitty poop isn't going to be any worse. I should add I don't have a veggie garden where the animals are, it's up on my deck (in our only sunny area). But for those that squirm about kitty poo in your veggie garden remember that strays (not to mention plenty of other animals & creepy's) are adding to your garden as well all the time, not that I would ever put fresh droppings on a veggie garden though!

[MiaPia]

Originally Posted by annekevdbroek

Here you go:

http://www.plantea.com/dog-waste-compost.htm

I personally would not put composted poo in my garden.

Thanks for the link - this is brilliant!
And no, I wouldn't use it in my veggie garden, but just having a safe place to put the waste and have it break down is something I will be looking into!

[chocomoto]

Have you seen the YouTube video of the cat using the toilet? I really want to learn how to train a cat to do this!
We've been petless for 2 years now since our cat died, but thinking of maybe adopting a cat sometime soon. The cat poop issue is really a problem.

[marlyninla]

We actually have an opening in out septic tank into which we dump the collected dog poo. We collect it in a flower pot and dump it in once a week or so. For the cat, we use Swheat Scoop and flush the poo, compost the pee (in the regular compost pile). But the cat rarely goes in the litterbox -- he goes down at the bottom of our very steep untamed property. Works perfect for me. Love that cat. Yesterday he brought me a disembowled rat, a dead mouse, and a dead lizard. He was quite proud of himself!

[smeisnotapirate]

Originally Posted by marlyninla

We actually have an opening in out septic tank into which we dump the collected dog poo. We collect it in a flower pot and dump it in once a week or so. For the cat, we use Swheat Scoop and flush the poo, compost the pee (in the regular compost pile). But the cat rarely goes in the litterbox -- he goes down at the bottom of our very steep untamed property. Works perfect for me. Love that cat. Yesterday he brought me a disembowled rat, a dead mouse, and a dead lizard. He was quite proud of himself!

Awww...

[hollyvangogh]

I've read that you actually SHOULDN'T flush cat feces because sewage systems don't treat the cause of toxoplasmosis (spl?). I think I even recall reading concerns about it particularly for the US West coast because sea otters are dying from it.