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Coping with dog poo in the chilly wintertime is easy if you can just let it sit on the back yard until spring. But, if you do not have a very large back yard, the cold weather can create a number of additional challenges related to dog waste pick up. The cold weather season delivers with it freezing weather, much more darkness and snow. Every one of these causes an unique dilemma associated to picking up dog poo.
Darkness - When sundown happens earlier, it means that you cannot find the dog poop to be able to pick it up.
Snow - When it snows the dog waste gets smothered and you cannot see it. This results in an even uglier mess as soon as the snow melts.
There's some good news associated with coping with dog poop during the winter season. Since it's genuinely frigid outdoors, the dog poop gets frozen. The cool thing about it is that it means it doesn't smell. This means you can omit the step of putting the poop in to the small bags. It is ok to toss the dog poop straight into your collection container.
The collection pail you implement in the wintertime must be different than the 1 from the summer time. In the summer time you will want a plastic-type garbage can lined with quite a few trash sacks, along with a cover. The cover will be to contain the stink. During the winter months, the problem is the extra snow you will pick-up with the poop. You will want an old bucket (with holes), a wire basket, an older cheap dairy crate, etcetera or anything else that could remain outdoors and would contain the poo but still let some of the liquid to run off as the snow melts. Then once per week you'll be able to remove the poo into your regular trash bag and toss it.
A power snow scoop had to be our best find from the last wintertime. It's essentially a light weight snow blower. You really don't have to clean up a large area, just the place close to the rope the dogs are on. You should also reduce the length of the tie-out in the winter. You definitely really don't wish to shell out cash on a full-blown snow blower merely for dog poop collection. However a majority of these lightweight models are under $100. These are amazing with respect to keeping a ten foot radius in the back yard free of snow. If you keep the snowfall off the surface then the animal waste simply can't get smothered. Using this power scoop will make the dog poo pick-up task more convenient to tackle in the wintertime.
Using artificial turf is one additional very good method for dealing with dog waste. Obtain a 3' x 3' block of imitation grass, put it right by the backdoor, and coach your dog to poop on the imitation turf. Naturally this will involve a little coaching. But, the teaching hassle is really worth it because afterward all you really have to do for pick up patrol is take a couple steps outside the house.
Conclusion
Handling dog poo pick up is a huge problem. It can be icky and smelly and unpleasant. But it is also inevitable that you will have to take care of it. You truly really need to figure out a strategy for your dog poo when you have a dog without having a large backyard. It can be done, but it can take time to decide what works best for you.
