How do you clean up dog poop that is.....?

LOL good to see you again Chal!

Um, I pick up what I can, and just leave the rest until it starts to get warm and thaw out.

It really puts a new spin on the phrase "spring cleaning." LOL.

Is the poop runny?

I feed a raw natural diet and my dogs poop is nice solid logs that aren't hard but soft enough that I cannot imagine them sticking to the ground if it was frozen.

Perhaps you could add some raw meat, offal & some veges with regular bones to the diet and that may help to keep the poop nice and firm with less chance of splatting and freezing to the ground.

If you want any more info on feeding raw and natural send me a message. I'll be happy to provide details of how I feed my dogs.

I hope it warms up soon so you don't have this problem for much longer. I am in Australia and we have 108'F here today - waaay tooo hot!

"dogs poop, it immediately sticks to the ground!" sounds like an excuse for someone to walk their dog in a public space and not clean up afterwards.

Carry a metal hand trowel and pick up what you can ASAP after it drops.

The temperature of solid poop is ~102F (rectal temperature of a healthy dog), and poop is relatively non-conductive. Snow and dirt have some thermal insulation properties. Even if the surface of the poop immediately sticks to the ground, the majority doesn't.

Best way to handle this is to make an area for your dog to use in your own yard, and after cleaning up what you can, shovel an even layer of snow on top of whatever ice forms. An area with paving under it.can more easily be cleaned up later. An even better method is to spread a layer of untreated paper dog litter over the area following each snowfall.

I wouldn't suggest blow drying poop! lol. If i were you, i'd either keep a shovel handy and try to knock off what you can and then just leave the rest, or you can just wait until it thaws. The other option is to get an indoor turf, and let your dog poop in the garage on the indoor turff, then you can just clean it up from there. Personally though, id just wait til it thaws out and then clean it up.

Good luck!

M

Okay, step one

1---you take a kitchen spatula and get it heated up, then run outside and shove it under the part where the poop is and it comes right up, make sure you do not use this tool again in the kitchen LOL

2--you can take a pan of boiling water and pour over it, and then shovel it up for real.

3--you can take rock salt, deicing salt is what we use, pour around the poop and on top of it, let stand about 20 mins and it is still hard and comes right up,snow, ice and poop all gone...

Or you can wait till spring and then play kick the patties.....

they make the vet techs do it. or they have someone who is just starting out do it. Vets only deal with dog poop when they are trying to get a sample or something like that. at least from what I've seen. and sometimes the vet even has the tech do that! The only time I have known of a vet dealing with poop is looking at it in the microscope

I just leave it until the weather warms up. As soon as it does I'm outside with my pooper scooper. As for cleaning it now I would suggest a good shovel that you can use to remove the poop from the ground. Good Luck!

It must be pretty darn cold where you are!! I would try to get it right after your dog poops...otherwise, try a shovel and if that doesn't work...wait until the weather warms up a little and get it then...but be sure to get it before the spring rain comes....then it's almost impossible to pick it up becuase it will be really soggy!! I hate picking up soggy poop!!!

I pick up what I can. The rest I wait until the weather warms up. I use an apple picker which is what the horse people use to pick up manure. I can usually get under it even in the snow.

Frozen Dog Poop