Ghost Pooping: Dog Edition
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Anonymous
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We moved into a new house in November. It's a large yard (1/2 acre?) that backs up to a field. We have two dogs who poop in the backyard daily. At our old house I had to scoop the poop every week/two weeks at a minimum. We didn't really have a usable back yard, so there was little risk of stepping in it.
Now I've gone to scoop the poop in the new yard and can't find any poop. Sometimes I find one or two, but other than that...nothing. We use the yard daily now that it's nice out and I have been looking to scoop every morning. I am baffled. I go to right where I've seen the dogs go and it is perfectly clean. I have never ran over the poop with the mower or had any surprise steppings. Is something eating the poop? A fox or a possum? Do we have a poop vortex that deposits it to the other side? |
Anonymous
| I don't know but if you find out what's making it disappear please let us know. I would love to have a silent creature come into my yard, eat the dog poop and then vanish into the night. Lucky. |
Anonymous
| Rats? |
Anonymous
Seriously. Where do you live OP? I want to buy in your neighborhood. |
Anonymous
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I don't think it's rats because we have a big rat snake that commutes between our yard and the neighbors yard, plus hawks circle all the time.
I guess it could be them if they clean it up a night? Strangest thing. |
Anonymous
| Rats are probably the prime suspect. Maybe that's why the hawks and snakes are there, good hunting. |
Anonymous
| If the yard backs up to a field -- in the field? |
Anonymous
| Dog s may be eating their own poop. |
Anonymous
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With the help of my sister, I think we figured it out. Dung beetles.
I found a lot while planting my garden. Dung beetles can process 250 times their weight in poop per night. |
Anonymous
Where do I buy some of those? |
Anonymous
We are in Montgomery County. They are right below the surface of our reddish dirt. I found lots of information about how they help the cattle industry. Maybe I should start a beetle farm? |
Anonymous
| Godalmighty this thread is nightmare fuel |
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