Blame it on Adina

[F, Calla & Luca]

Let me explain. OFL--our fearless leader --Adina is always exhorting us to excel by expounding upon the need for exacting scientific method. So following in her excellent tradition I embarked upon an experiment today. After 2 weeks of extreme weather, I excitedly exited for an excrement collection. In the interest of complete disclosure let me say that a few leaves, twigs, and plastic bags were part of the bagful of you know what (expletive deleted). But the collection also excluded areas that are still under snow. I examined the "collection" and found it weighed 12.5 pounds!!!  I was surprised since it felt like 30-40 pounds to me. Still, it seems excessive to me. Now I am exhausted. I'm sure you'll agree that my doodles are exemplars  of excrement expellers. I exonerate them of all blame since they can't help it. Clark and Adina need to find a solution for those of us who can't exploit the Doogie Doo Drain.

[Karen, Jasper and Jackdoodle]

ROFLMAO!!!!

[F, Calla & Luca]

Good one. I'd rather "doo" this than what I should : )

[Lorraine Bromley]

And to think that I thought it was bad enough to have a group dedicated to the topic of POO!

[Nancy, Ned, Clancy, and Charlie]

With three dogs and visiting cousins, we probably have as much poo as a rescue facility! Luckily for us, well not luckily perhaps, we have no snow to hide it in, so poo patrol is a daily outing at my house! I do know that the trash can we collect it in gets quite heavy by collection date!

[Patty]

It was a three-bag day today. Oy.

[Karen P]

How funny I did the same clean up this morning. Almost all of our snow had melted and I saw the "piles" everywhere. So I also was on a mission. It filled a whole bag. I did not think to weigh it though. But it felt like 50 lbs of poo !!

[shelly]

Is this normal???? I wonder how many other non-members of DK people were around and about doing the exact same thing as we all were? It reminds me of when everyone is out in the neighborhood on the first nice day, sprucing up their yards for Spring. I think we're on to something here, "F".... "doodlizer", - with the healthy diets our doodles have... no need to worry about bacteria. Just a few paper towels, pieces from the 'indestructible' dragon, shreddings from the bottle holder toy made of fire hose, and socks (Kyle) that were scoffed up and "passed" during those 'boring', cold, winter days! Made my "pick-up" a trip down winter memory lane! But wait... there's more...Tori just chewed off corners of a towel I used to dry her off with before and left within her reach.... tomorrow I go 'hunting' again!

[Debbie and Thomas]

I just found this little blurb on the internet about the weight of poo!! I thought you all may be interested.

What is poop made of?
About 3/4 of your average turd is made of water.

Forgive me, I just couldn't help investigating as my doodle makes HUGE ones.

[shelly]

Water, huh!? Well the other 1/4 must be some real "HEAVY" 'stuff'! LOL

[Debbie and Thomas]

Here is what the article says about the rest! and apparently that is why it kind of SMELLS. I can't believe I am investigating this ! Only for my DK friends...

Of the remaining portion of the turd, about 1/3 is composed of dead bacteria.

[F, Calla & Luca]

Actually, I'm surprised the bacteria doesn't make up more of the poo! Intestinal bacteria are vital, part of the reason people and dogs have GI "problems" when they are on antibiotics.

[Jennifer,Chloe & Myla]

oh wow thanks-you guys need a hobby!