What to do about the imminent GREAT WINTER MELT?

[Adina P]

Sorry I've been out of touch...and THANK YOU for all your kind and cheery Holiday Wishes to me and Clark...they were much appreciated. Can't stay long...we have family here through tomorrow...but wanted to throw a question out there...

We have had MORE snow in one period than I've ever experienced. Hence...there is a LOT of poop buried in my yard under soon-to-be slush...which will turn things into quite the poop soup. I'm SOOO disgusted about the clean up process that is looming. Does anyone who lives in a serious White Christmas state have any tips or suggestions for me...or even a glimmer of hope that 2-3 weeks worth of doggy land mines will not take over!?

Thanks and I'll be back ''full time'' after the New Year!!!

[Adina P]

That's a good idea...but no green thumb here. I hate putting in garbage bags too...but I'm way to disgusted by poop to do anything else with it. Clark is NOT as disgusted and always spouts back "It's just nitrogenous waste!" as if that makes it more appealing to me, his germaphobe wife! LOL -- which is why in some ways I am glad I'm doing the clean-up.

[Karen, Jasper and Jackdoodle]

Spoken like a true Virgo, lol!

[Adina P]

LOL...seriously! If I step in poop my shoes are scrubbed and bleached (as much as possible) and all is done to ensure there is not a molecule left before I allow the bottoms to touch ground in the house. Clark, on the other hand, wipes on the grass, rubs the soles in the shoe scrubber, maybe does a little hosing off and that's it. Sometimes that's enough...but I can just envision the poop molecules smeared all over my floors and rugs :-(

[Rae]

I totally agree! This is nasty stuff! We usually don't get this much snow and NEVER does it last as long as it has this time around. We broke records going back over 40 years, but here we are today in the melt-down mode and UCKS! We're lucky that the girls have just one area for potty - it's fairly big, but not like they have the entire back yard. So we were out there "taking care of it" for nearly two disgusting hours. Put all of it in a big bucket then took the bucket and dumped it away from the house in the middle of the fur trees. Dug a hole, filled it with poop soup, covered it and went back to start over. Gee - can't wait for the "normal" snow storms in January and February!

[Nanette de la Torre]

Good luck with the scoop duty. A friend of mine lived in Nebraska and I asked her what the heck she did during the winters when picking up after her Burmese Mountain Dog. Her solution - she trained him to use a giant litter box which he used until his last day.