I don't have a dog right now, but on occasion am known to dog-sit, and in my neighborhood, picking up poop is a legal and ethical requirement (one often overlooked), given that the combination of high population density with limited "green space" and "leaving it there" results in a poop-rich environment. In the summer-time, well, let's say it bakes, and the parks, well, they smell, and that's even with a lot of (but not all) people picking up.Wow. What an innovative and creative solution to a common problem!
But, really, I can't imagine trying to attach a poop bag to the dog's butt.
-harry
Bet you will look pretty funny with that bag hanging off your butt. Hope Piper can stop laffing.I'd be willing to give it a shot.
Piper probably wouldn't though.
Everybody poops, maybe the market is larger than the inventors initially anticipated:-harry
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It is TSA approved to! So get ready for the next round of service cutbacks from the majors!
The former is for hikers who don't want to bury their digestive wastes. This is discouraged in a number of national parks as being environmentally unfriendly.
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There are a few concerns. One is that humans out in the woods for recreation tend to "cluster", e.g. follow the same trails, camp in the same campgrounds, so their activities are more concentrated in a smaller area than you might find with animals.As a total side note I never really got that. I mean if an animal ie bear, deer, moose what ever relieve itself in the woods thats ok for the enviornment but not so for a human. But a human is an animal and I'd pretty much bet that before westerners came to this continent the native americans and other indigenous people shat in the woods.
There are a few concerns. One is that humans out in the woods for recreation tend to "cluster", e.g. follow the same trails, camp in the same campgrounds, so their activities are more concentrated in a smaller area than you might find with animals.
Also, for whatever peculiar reason, humans react more negatively to the sight of human waste than that of animal waste.
So out in the woods, hikers bury their poo.
But the problem is that there are some areas where burial isn't an option, e.g. on rocky terrain. In these areas, it's "pack it out".
-harry
Ted just bought a case for his plane
my dog would laugh himself silly.
Normally we just use a grocery bag and jettison it from 5000 AGL. Ask me how I know.