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Help! New house with dog poo bin in garden.

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  • Nanny BeachNanny Beach Posts: 8,343
    You are corerect Dove, I used to have one because I had 3 dogs, whats so funny about a dog loo?  With 3 I had probalby 12 presents each day,  I found the loo was absolutely uselesss, but should be quite safe, as Dove says you put chemical down, (harmless to soil etc)My dogs are regularly wormed etc. you dont know about other folk, if you want to remove it, use gloves, put the whole thing into a plastic bag, and dispose of, fill in as neccessary.
  • Brilliant thank you everyone, it shouldn't be a problem then! Phew! 
    I'll glove up and tackle it this weekend 💪😷
  • plant pauperplant pauper Posts: 6,234
    @pansyface Good to see you back and in top form!!!
    Dog loo. Eeuw! Wren is little Miss Whippie. I just pick hers up and bin it. None of this saving it for later lark!  :(
  • Nanny BeachNanny Beach Posts: 8,343
    Hello PP, yes but when I had 3 dogs 2 quite big there was a huge amount,you dont "save it for later", you pop it in as soon as you pick up, then the none toxic chemical degrades it safely, but it couldnt cope with 3 dogs, and was quite expensive, they never "did" anything while on a walk, saved it for the garden (still do), digging the hole for the thing was a huge task and it didnt cope with the amount, now I have a small plastic bin, tight lid in the garden, liner and then in the bags.  I asked somewhere, not on here, in the days of saving the planet/plastic, what do you use instead of plastic poo bags, never go any answers.  Luckily, we are allowed to put in in the household waste.
  • TopbirdTopbird Posts: 7,705
    Don’t have a dog so maybe this is a silly question... If the dog is doing it’s business in the garden, rather than picking it up and putting it in a plastic bag to go to landfill, why not scoop it up and flush it down the loo?

    I know that is not the end of the problem but it’s going to a designated sewerage treatment plant, septic tank - whatever - where it will be properly broken down along with all the human waste. I certainly used to put fur balls and cat vomit down the loo when there was a little present waiting for me at the foot of the stairs.

    Feeling a little 🤢 now after thinking about that😊
    Heaven is ... sitting in the garden with a G&T and a cat while watching the sun go down
  • DovefromaboveDovefromabove Posts: 82,735
    Or lift a manhole cover  and pop it down there ... saves taking it indoors.  
    “I am not lost, for I know where I am. But however, where I am may be lost.” Winnie the Pooh







  • TopbirdTopbird Posts: 7,705
    Morning Dove :)
    Our manhole covers were an eyesore & trip hazard. They are now set into the ground with paving slabs or gravel on them so they are somewhat disguised.
    Takes a man who's eaten his spinach to lift one of those :D
    Heaven is ... sitting in the garden with a G&T and a cat while watching the sun go down
  • DovefromaboveDovefromabove Posts: 82,735
    LOL Topbird  :)
    Ours is also well disguised ... but then the nearest things we have to pets are hedgehogs, frogs and fat woodpigeons who sit on the trellis and eye the pigeon-proof  birdfeeders in a confused befuddled sort of way  :)  
    “I am not lost, for I know where I am. But however, where I am may be lost.” Winnie the Pooh







  • Pauline 7Pauline 7 Posts: 2,178
    My manhole is in the middle. of the lawn, so we painted it green and stood a planter on it 





    Photo taken before it has been planted up.
    West Yorkshire
  • HelixHelix Posts: 631
    Hello PP, yes but when I had 3 dogs 2 quite big there was a huge amount,you dont "save it for later", you pop it in as soon as you pick up, then the none toxic chemical degrades it safely, but it couldnt cope with 3 dogs, and was quite expensive, they never "did" anything while on a walk, saved it for the garden (still do), digging the hole for the thing was a huge task and it didnt cope with the amount, now I have a small plastic bin, tight lid in the garden, liner and then in the bags.  I asked somewhere, not on here, in the days of saving the planet/plastic, what do you use instead of plastic poo bags, never go any answers.  Luckily, we are allowed to put in in the household waste.
    We use paper/cardboard ones that are good. 

    http://www.poopscoop.biz/

    You can also get biodegradable ones too.
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