Scoop the Poop
Anchorage has a municipal ordinance requiring pet owners to "scoop up" after their pets, both at home and in public places. Dog droppings are a nuisance and a health hazard. They attract flies, spread disease, and dog waste is one of the worst causes of water pollution.
Anchorage (this includes Girdwood) has an estimated 50,900 dogs. Dogs relieve themselves every day, producing an average of 3/4 pound of waste per dog. That's over 38,000 pounds or about 19 tons of dog waste each and every day.
It's important for pet owners to "scoop up" after Rover on bike trails, parks, and wherever Rover goes. Carry a supply of plastic bags to clean up after your dog, slip a bag over your hand and collect the droppings. Then pull the bag off of your hand so that the droppings are inside (like pulling off a sock cuff-first). Tie the bag shut and dispose of it in a trash can!
On another note. Mark better come home soon because Moses needs a haircut.
4 comments:
Sounds like a brilliant idea, take the worlds most biodegradable substance, put it in a plastic bag, and throw it in a landfill. That'll save our water and neighborhood. Next thing you know, these dog hating environmentalists will be making it manditory to have a perfectly manicured lawn treated by Trugreen Chem lawn or other "green" toxic company. My dog's shit is pretty and smells great!
I'm gonna have to side with Party Dude on this one, plastic will always be plastic but dog crap won't always be dog crap, one day it could be a beautiful flower and you will say 'my, isn't that pretty, doesn't it smell great!' and then we will be right. Of course there's always this - http://www.boredshitless.com/pic1.html
Another alternative to plastic would be to simply scoop the poop and fush it down the toilet.
From the Snomish County Water Management web site:
Isn’t landfilling bad? Shouldn’t we do things more naturally?
We certainly want to reduce our waste stream to landfills wherever possible. When it comes to pet waste, however, there is currently no better alternative.
There is nothing “natural” about 50,900 dogs concentrated in an area the size of Anchorage's urban and suburban areas. Native wildlife populations do not reach that density. The question, then, is how we deal with the waste produced by this unnatural concentration of animals.
Burial, composting, waste digesters, and letting it lay in yards contaminate water and jeopardizes human and pet heath. Flushing is impractical for most people.
At some point in the future, commercial composting technology may be sufficient to treat pet waste, enabling curbside pickup along with yard waste.
Until then, landfilling is the best alternative for pet waste. Composting is good for yard waste and bad for pet waste.
i wasn't aware that Moses even went poop. At least, I have never witnessed it. It must be sticking to his butt fur.
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