Things you should know

Residential Pooper Scooper Services Provide Dog Poop Pickup That Benefits Both Humans & Dogs Alike

Do you own a dog? You will not only benefit from all the extra time and cleanliness around the home you’ll have, but I would go so far as to even say that you will soon come to depend on this dog poop removal service like so many other dog owners using this very same pet service. If you love your pups but consistently find yourself falling behind on picking up their fecal matter, well then I’m confident you will find this service a phenomenal means of completely taking over the responsibility of this repugnant chore so that you never-ever need to give it a second thought again. Contracting a Pooper Scooper (A.K.A. Dog Waste Removal Co.) is the service that is available to pickup dog feces from your home or business on a routine basis so that you and your family will be completely removed from this unsightly chore. We take care of all the dog poop and disinfecting when necessary, and you & your family reap all the benefits. No more trying to bribe your kids to take over the chore for good ole dad who suspiciously seems to become ill himself every time the question comes up, “so who’s going to clean up after the dogs this week?” Pooper scoopers help make all that family squabbling a thing of the past when you hire them to routinely visit your home and remove all those smelly unmentionables. I mean someone’s gotta do it, but it doesn’t have to be you any longer.

Our Dog Waste Removal Company makes poop pickup service available to ANY property that requires dog poop to be removed from the premises in short order. Some of the more common places you will find us pooper scoopers “following dogs” include: residential homes, large and small apartment & condominium complexes, as well as city parks & community dog runs. Also, hiring a professional dog pooper scooper is a phenomenal way to help mentally and physically challenged dog owners take advantage of all the benefits of owning a “working or companion dog”, yet without all the mess and need to clean up your pets environment. And, if you are leading one of those fancy shmancy, “jet set” life styles that always keeps you on the run, you no longer have to feel guilty & embarrassed about falling grossly behind on cleaning up your backyard. It’s easy and it doesn’t take a mental giant to see & smell all the benefits dog owners reap. Hire a professional pooper scooper to keep your lawn clean and green. Oh, and did I mention your dog will love his new “product free” environment?

Help end the spread of diseases

Many dog owners and dog lovers have no idea that they are spreading disease and pollution. Most people think the reason to pick up dog waste is so they can have a clean yard and to reduce the chances of
"stepping in it." This could make cleaning up the mess at the very least a tough chore or at worse, an embarrassing situation. However, many people never know that dog waste is a haven for disease, pests, parasites, and pollution.

Aside from the convenience to dog owners, a scooping service protects dogs too. Dog poop is dangerous. Worms can be spread through contact with it. “Feces obviously are unsanitary, to both animals and humans.”

Although many people first think of the aesthetic reasons to scoop dog waste, there are in fact many health and environmental reason to remove and properly dispose of dog feces. Roundworm, hookworm and other worms may be transmitted to young children who play in their yard/dirt,
or adults that come into contact with the dog feces while gardening. Hookworms may be transmitted from contaminated soil and/or infected feces to people walking barefoot (penetrating just below the skin producing a snake-like marking referred to as a creeping).

Poop Pollution The pollution you can't see is the dog poop that washes down our streets left by your neighbors on the streets, walkways and open areas. Dog fecal matter making its way to the ocean is the reasons the parasite, bacterial, virus, and fungus counts to go up at our local beaches after a rainstorm. Who wants to swim in that water?

Animal waste, especially from dogs is one contributor to "storm water pollution." This "storm water pollution" contains disease-carrying bacteria and toxic chemicals nutrients that have been known to increase the risks of viral infections, flu, and skin rashes for swimmers in oceans and lakes that are near storm drain outlets. Without a rainstorm, dog feces makes its way to the ocean by the daily 100,000 gallons of water run off to the storm drains. .

 
“A single gram of dog waste can contain 23 million fecal coli form bacteria” (Van Der Wel, B. 1995. Dog pollution. The Magazine of the Hydrological Society of South Australia 2(1).) Dogs can be a significant host of giardia and salmonella. (Lim and Olivieri, 1982). Further sourced from the University of Texas, 2001.

Feces and your pet

Some of the possible ways a dog or cat can obtain various different parasites, viruses and stages of bacteria from their own poop include: rolling in their feces, pawing at it (contraction transdermally), and in rare instances even eating it-coprophagy (http://www.maltesemagic.homestead.com/S1.html). It doesn’t take a mental giant to see the correlation between contact with dog poop, as well as cat litter, and potential health compromises. Peteducation.com has authored an exceptional website where you can read about several of the “microbial monsters” that threaten animal & people alike including: Parvo Virus, Trichinosis, Whipworms, Hookworms, Roundworms, Giardia and Coccidia. Read about the Corona Virus here:
http://www.wilsonscockers.com/Corona.htm

Dog Waste Poses Threat To Water
By Traci Watson, USA TODAY
http://www.usatoday.com/news/science/2002-06-07-dog-usat.htm
June 6th, 2002

“For as long as the dog has been man's best friend, dog waste has posed a menace to man's nose and foot. Now science has revealed a more unsavory truth: It's an environmental pollutant.
In the mid-1990s, scientists perfected methods for tracking the origin of nasty bacteria in streams and seawater. From Clearwater, Fla., to Arlington, Va., to Boise the trail has led straight to the hunched-up dog - and to owners who don't pick up after their pets.
At some beaches, dogs help raise bacteria levels so high that visitors must stay out of the water. Goaded by such studies, some cities have directed as much as $10,000 in the last few years to encourage dog owners to clean up after their pets. A few municipalities have started issuing citations to those who ignore pet clean-up ordinances.
Many dog lovers are in denial about their pooches' leavings. But researchers have named the idea that areas used by dogs pump more bacteria into waterways - the "Fido hypothesis."
Dogs are only one of many fixtures of suburban America that add to water pollution. lawn fertilizers, rinse water from driveways and motor oil commonly end up in streams and lakes.
But unlike those sources, dogs generate disease-causing bacteria that can make people sick. According to studies done in the last few years put dogs third or fourth on the list of contributors for bacteria in contaminated waters. "Dogs are one of our usual suspects," says Valerie Harwood, a microbiologist at the University of South Florida. "At certain sites, we find their effect to be significant."
It doesn't take a Ph.D. to figure out that dog do is nasty. But it took science to determine how nasty it is.
From mutt to blue-blooded champion, all dogs harbor so-called coli form bacteria, which live in the gut. The group includes E. Coli, a bacterium that can cause disease, and fecal coli form bacteria, which spread through feces. Dogs also carry salmonella and giardia. Environmental officials use measurements of some of these bacteria as barometers of how much fecal matter has contaminated a body of water.
This wouldn't matter if pet dogs were as rare as pet chinchillas. But four in 10 U.S. households include at least one dog, according to the American Pet Products Manufacturers Association. The association's statistics also show that Americans owned 54.6 million dogs in 1996 and 68 million dogs in 2000. Of that total, 45% were "large" dogs - 40 pounds or more.
Those numbers add up to a lot of kibble. That wouldn't matter if all dog owners also owned a pooper-scooper. But several studies have found that roughly 40% of Americans don't pick up their dogs' feces (women are more likely to do so than men).”

New analysis provides answers
“The environmental impact of dog waste went unrecognized for decades. Then scientists developed lab techniques to determine the origin of fecal bacteria contaminating water. One method is a variant of DNA fingerprinting. Another method looks at the antibiotic resistance of microbes from different species.
Scientists caution that the methods are still new. They are able to distinguish between major and minor sources of pollution, but they can't say with precision whether dogs contribute 20% or 30% of the pollution in a stream. "There's inherently some error," says Don Stoeckel, a microbiologist for the Ohio district of the U.S. Geological Survey who's studying bacteria-tracking methods. "I think the best (they) can do is give you some evidence of the magnitude of each source."
Nonetheless, Stoeckel says, the analytical tools do provide useful information. Researchers have studied dozens of waterways. Wild birds and humans usually head the roster of who's fouling the water. But in some areas, dogs make significant deposits.
At Morro Bay, Calif., for example, dogs contribute roughly 10% of the E. coli, says Christopher Kitts, a microbiologist at California Polytechnic State University-San Luis Obispo. "And that can be the difference between a beach closing and a beach not closing," he says.

Interesting Stats

LIPA USA Reports, “3.6 billion pounds of dog waste/year is produced in the United States alone, equaling 800 football fields, one foot high. This is a hidden health issue that no one wants to "touch" as approximately 50 million registered dogs in the United States produces more than 5,000 tons of waste daily.” Read the full article here:
http://www.dogtoilet.com/pressrelease.htm

“In large cities around the world there is an even bigger problem. In recent years, fines for not picking up after a pet dog have ranged from $100 in New York to $600 in Paris and $750 in London. Among the concerns: sprains or broken bones resulting from citizens slipping on the remains on sidewalks.” Full article here:
http://www.tennessean.com/local/archives/02/03/14465491.shtml

Moe and Rick Schober of http://canismax.angelcities.com/index.htm muse, “If concern for others isn't enough to get you to pick up after your dog, think of the potential impact it could have on your wallet. Around the world, many cities and towns are now imposing stiff fines for "pooper scooper" law violations. Fines range anywhere from $50 per offense to as high as $750 in London. And it's not just dog owners who wind up paying; the city of Paris pays $8.4 million each year to lease 70 motorized pooper scoopers (known as "caninettes") to vacuum dog waste from its streets and sidewalks and the bill is passed along to its taxpayers. How long before your town starts charging its citizens to clean up after its irresponsible dog owners?” Read the full article here:
http://canismax.angelcities.com/health_doo.htm