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| 2198.1 | Doggie Dooley | DAGWUD::JACQUART | | Thu May 22 1997 10:16 | 11 |
| I just bought a Doogie Dooley from the Foster & Smith catalog. It's a
doggie septic system that you bury in the ground with just the cover
exposed, which has a lever to open it with your foot. You fill it with
water mixed with stool digester. You add a quart of water every day
along with the poop. There are overflow holes at the top, so the water
level actually stays constant. It's been great so far, and the only
time I notice any smell at all is when I leave the cover open. It
certainly beats bagging the poop for the trash or throwing it in the
woods, especially with summer coming.
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| 2198.2 | | PCBUOA::DEWITT | chasing rainbows... | Thu May 22 1997 12:29 | 4 |
| Bought one years ago, complete with enzymes (rather than water)
never installed it... Infact its still in the original package!
joyce
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| 2198.3 | Layers | SAPPHO::DUBOIS | Hailstorm Project Leader | Thu May 22 1997 13:31 | 9 |
| What I am most concerned about is the area around the septic tank. I have
heard that you can train a dog to pee and poop in one area. I have also
heard that you can build that area with layers of sand, gravel, and
lime (or limestone? I can't recall) where the dog's urine, etc will travel
down through the layers. It just needs to be hosed down once in a while.
Has anyone heard of this? Read of it? Tried it?
Carol
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| 2198.4 | I don't get it... | NNTPD::"[email protected]" | Leslie Woolner | Thu May 22 1997 15:10 | 21 |
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.1> doggie septic system that you bury in the ground...
> You fill it with water mixed with stool digester.
> You add a quart of water every day along with the poop.
> It certainly beats bagging the poop for the trash
Let me get this straight: you spend money for a tank, dig a hole and bury
the tank, add a chemical (once? periodically?), add water daily, and bag
the poop to transport it to the tank.
This is easier than bagging the poop for the trash? :-)
Sammy has a "business" area where our back yard meets the woods, and we
bag-&-trash the poop; I don't worry about the urine, as I'm sure it mixes
with all the squirrel pee and chipmunk pee, etc. It would take some
convincing to get me to believe dog pee is toxic waste! (But maybe the
issue is maintaining lawn beauty; Sammy's area is lawn-free.)
Leslie
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| 2198.5 | seemed a good idea - at the time... | PCBUOA::DEWITT | chasing rainbows... | Thu May 22 1997 17:49 | 3 |
| Leslie - like I said - its still in the box :-)
joyce
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| 2198.6 | I like it | DAGWUD::JACQUART | | Fri May 23 1997 09:55 | 15 |
| Well - as far as the tank I use - you add water daily and add the
enzyme once-a-week. It came with a long-handled rake/scooper that I
use to pick up the poop daily to drop in the tank.
It keeps my lawn clean - it keeps the woods clean (my daughters play up
there in the nice weather) - and it saves the chore and the smell of
bagging the stuff. The enzyme essentially dissolves the poop quickly
and it gets absorbed into the ground as the water flows out of the
tank. We tried just digging a hole once a week to bury it before we
got this tank - but I didn't like the idea of digging the yard up and I
certainly couldn't keep digging in the same spot.
It works for me!
Sue
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| 2198.7 | | NNTPD::"[email protected]" | Leslie Woolner | Fri May 23 1997 10:35 | 8 |
| Chacun a son gout--glad it works for you. I "know better" than to try to
dig a hole in my New England rock farm--er, I mean yard--and to me, cheap
baggies are a lot easier to deal with than a scooper. (I wouldn't want to
clean it; where would I store it--wouldn't want it rusting outside, wouldn't
want it inside, wouldn't be able to tuck 10 of 'em in my windbreaker pocket!)
Leslie
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