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Dog Poop Bags Are Used When?

As responsible pet owners, we may be well prepared with our dog poop bags when we are out enjoying our exercise with our pets.  We may have stuffed the biodegradable bags in our pockets before heading out the door.  Or they may already be conveniently available in our dog waste bags holder.  Either way, we are set.  But the question may be: “when do we use them?”

Of course we all know the true answer to be “every single time”.  But honestly, do we always believe this?  For instance, we may be off the beaten path, where no one else walks.  Like at a remote park or maybe in the street or the gutter.  So we figure that since no one else will step in the feces that it’s OK to just leave them.  But the choice not to use our dog poop bags in this case is faulty thinking.  The feces will surely do damage in other ways.

Dog waste left in streets or gutters will be washed into our waters.  It is washed into our streams, rivers, lakes and our beaches.  Recent studies have proven that dog poop is third on the list of contributors of bacteria in our contaminated waters.  One recent study which uses a variant of DNA fingerprinting has now proven that dog feces contribute 30% of the pollution in a stream.  As one of the microbiologists commented, “That can be the difference between a beach closing and a beach not closing”.

If we enjoy our outings in parks that are removed from nearby waters, we still must be aware of the damage caused by the high nitrogen content in dog poop.  The native grasses in the mountain parks in Boulder, Colorado were being replaced by weeds because of this problem.  Officials in Boulder had to educate their residents that “dog waste is not fertilizer” said Mike Patton, co-director of open space and mountain parks.  “Some people really did believe it was”, he claimed.  This was a huge undertaking for them and it also involved dispensing $100 fines to encourage people to use dog poop bags.

Another answer to the question, “when”, is “immediately”.  We may wrongly think, “I’ll pick it up on the way back”.  However, it is much easier to scoop up the feces before they have a chance to settle into the ground.  In addition it reduces the chance of being stepped in by others or eaten by other animals.  Coprophagia is the scientific name for eating of feces and this is quite common in the animal world.  However, pets that eat the feces of other dogs are now exposed to a variety of diseases and they can then transmit these same diseases, parasites and worms to humans.  So picking up the poop immediately is important, as well as immediately sanitizing our own hands after doing so.

So we must obviously be prepared when out with our pets, carrying our dog waste bags and hand sanitizer at all times.  And we must be prepared to always use them and to do so immediately.  Having a handy dog poop bags holder to carry our empty and full poop bags as well as our hand sanitizer will certainly help us to be prepared and ready at all times.

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Please consider this new, discreet, convenient and safe way to carry your dog poop bags and your hand sanitizer.

This convenient poop pouch will safely and discreetly carry your poop bags and also has interior and exterior pockets for empty plastic bags, dog training supplies and an inverted bottle of hand sanitizer, along with a handy clip for a dog poop bags dispenser, keys or a flashlight.  This is the new way to carry your dog waste bags.  It is convenient, discreet, and sanitary.

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