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Living in a village, good dog owner etiquette involves picking up after one's dog doo while on a walk.

The most convenient and widely marketed solution does not rise to my personal standards and I want an alternative.

But what is the alternative?

Thank you in advance for any and all ideas for what I can do.

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I used to by the diaper disposal bags at Dollar Tree.  100 bags for one dollar.

what do you not like about what you are using?  What are you using?

Is it the plastic?  If so why not buy paper lunch bags?

I liked the ones I was buying because I could stick my hand into the bag, grab the poop and then tie it up with the handles.

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Anne Miller wrote: If so why not buy paper lunch bags?


I would think paper lunch bags would get pricey.

What do you plan on doing with poop after the fact? Garbage, compost, bury under a tree?

Consider what you don't mind carrying with you. Do you want to have to carry a bucket and trowel? Do you want to carry some sheets of newspaper to grab the poop with?

Do you take your dog for a walk with the intent that they poop then? My friend says they normally poop after a meal (my observations suggest it's not quite that simple...) Can you train your dog to only poop in one small area of your own backyard and that way, pooping on your walk will only be an occasional emergency thing?

I think that as Anne suggested, we need more information...

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I'm trying my best to limit how much ends up in a garbage waste stream and disposable plastic makes up the majority of my contribution these days.

My intent is to, hopefully, have my dogs do their business at home so walks would be an infrequent event. I like the idea of dealing with the root problem by handling it at home where a shovel isn't burdensome to lug around.

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Jay Angler wrote:What do you plan on doing with poop after the fact? Garbage, compost, bury under a tree? ...  

Do you take your dog for a walk with the intent that they poop then?  ... .



Usually I used the disposable diaper bags when not on my own property.  Some parks have a trash can to put it in.  Some parks even furnish bags.

Out of the way corners make a great place to bury poop using the trench method.

I now have 40 acres with lots of critters pooping all over the place from deer to racoons so I not longer worry about dog poop.

I even had a racoon that liked to poop on an outside mat.  (That made me think that the racoon was once a pet)

I pick up dog poop with a pooper scooper and toss it out of the way.  She, the dog, used to have a trench that she pooped in and the rain washed it away.

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I used to use newspaper pages. They work ok, if you are someplace with trash cans and don’t need to carry it a long time.

In our yard, I have a half -buried bottomless metal trash can to compost the poop. When I pit fills up, I pull up the can, bury the poop and dig a new hole.

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 My dog poos in our yard and we use a claw to retrieve it
We then drop it into a bottomless mostly buried bucket and use a second bucket as the plug.
The second bucket is filled with unfinished compost and worms, has a lid on top and has holes in the bottom.
I've added other difficult compostables to this compost, like bones, onion scrap and citrus peel, and so far it's still going down.



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The downside to this is you're then carrying poop around, and it's still plastic - but you reuse it. The upside is that you can use it with or without the plastic bag, so if you're traveling, you can use the bag with it. If you're just walking your own neighborhood, you can just clean it when you get home - and it can hang on the leash handle:

https://www.chewy.com/dogbuddy-dog-pooper-scooper/dp/206926

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We get cornstarch poop bags in rolls. They compost readily (we have a rotating pit system in the trees away from any food growing area).
 
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I've been trying to tidy up after my mastiff (before my labrador does - yuk!) and like Mk Neal find a double sheet of newspaper is reasonable to use to keep poo off my hands. If I needed to carry it further and the doggy loo bin here, then I suppose wrapping the paper into a parcel with some cotton string might work OK.

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