Flying Poodles

The Poop Problem

My daughter is appalled at the number of plastic bags I use every day to pick up dog poop. I expect she’d be more appalled if I just left the poop sitting in the middle of the path. But anyway, she told me she’d seen something on the web about composting dog poop. This is generally not recommended–you’ll see numerous sources telling you how dangerous it is to use dog poop compost on plants–but the Alaska government, faced with the problem of dog mushers who generate two tons of dog poop a year, did a little research and came up with a method to safely compost dog waste (dog excrement, dog poop, dog shit). They then wrote it up into a nifty little pamphlet:
Alaska’s nifty dog waste composting pamphlet.

What’s the catch? Well, apparently the method doesn’t work well if you have less than ten (yes, ten) dogs.

I think I’ll go back to the method where you bury the waste in a corner of the garden and don’t plant any vegetables nearby.