Dog poops in the woods, clean it up?
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Anonymous
Deer poop is fine but dog poop is not? |
Anonymous
Dog poop has much higher levels of nitrogen which is bad for water runoff. |
Anonymous
| Dog shit isn’t fertilizer, Op. whatever gave you that idea? |
Anonymous
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I flick it off the trail with a stick. Just like in my own 2-acre yard, I fling it deep into the woods with a shovel.
He’s putting a lot less nitrogen into the nature than the deer are. |
Anonymous
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You don’t have to pick it up, but you have to dig a hole and bury it
https://www.rei.com/learn/expert-advice/hygiene-sanitation.html |
Anonymous
| Yes you have to. Dog poop is horrific for the ecosystem. |
Anonymous
Others are complaining that it’s too much nitrogen. Fertilizer works because it has nitrogen. |
Anonymous
Well this just makes no sense. The inability to conceptualize or appreciate magnitude and degree is one reason why so many people simply tune out environmentalists. |
Anonymous
| My dog goes a few feet off the trail when he poops, so I just cover it in leaves. Those compostable bags do not compost very quickly and it still takes energy and resources to make them. When I forget to pick up a pile in our yard to breaks down quickly and our grass loves it. I would imagine it would break down even faster in the woods. |
Anonymous
| If you can reach the poop, you need to pick it up, always and everywhere. |
Anonymous
This is so disgusting! A plastic bag full of poo is worse than a naked pile of poo, which, where I live, will be eaten by slugs in a day. But I am someone who hops off their horse and kicks her poo into the bushes. |
Anonymous
| leave it. if no one is stepping in it, you're fine. |
Anonymous
Wait, yours or the horse's? |
Anonymous
+1 I wouldn’t pick up farther off the trail though. |
Anonymous
| If I can find it, I pick it up. Dog poo damages the ecosystem. |