Introducing ScoopyPoo

True confessions here.  I’m an animal communicator who made a terrible mistake…thankfully it was with my own dog Teddy and there is a simple remedy.

We live in the Minneapolis, MN area, and for those of you not familiar with MN, we easily have 7 months of winter a year.  Which means when you have two dogs, the dog poo accumulates until spring time.

Recently we experienced a day nice enough that I could go out and begin picking up the top layer of the poop.  The snow had melted enough I could get to the poop, but the poop itself was still frozen and easy to pick up.  Not thinking, when I came in the house, I told Teddy, who occasionally eats poop (coprophagla) that he helped clean up the yard when he did that.

Way big mistake!  Teddy has taken it to heart that cleaning the back yard is now his job, so I did a Google search and discovered ScoopyPoo, the #1 Pooper Scooper in the Minneapolis/St. Paul area.

I connected with owner Sonja Tengdin, and I knew we would hit if off when she said “ScoopyPoo: We love taking crap from you!”  Sonja pointed out the importance of keeping a clean yard.  Did you know:

• 23 million fecal coliform bacteria can be in 1 gram of dog doo.
• Dogs poop on average 23 times a week.
• It can take up to a year for dog poo to degrade.
• Picking up dog poo prevents your dog (and family) from exposure to infectious worm eggs & larvae.

What I truly appreciated is the humorous, practical, down to earth approach ScoopyPoo has to the poop scooping business.  As we talked, Sonja pointed out some benefits I had already been thinking of: if I have someone pick up the poop, it won’t be brought into the house on my shoes, keeping my rugs and floors clean.  I detest spring poop cleaning, I can only do it in short spurts because I start gagging and feeling nauseous.  And frankly, I am busy enough without adding that repugnant chore to my to-do list.

I investigated ScoopyPoo’s website and discovered more information.  They are very reasonably priced, and offer year round pick-up service.  They also have a Big Time Clean-Up, which is right up my alley.  I also learned that because dog poo is considered hazardous waste in Minnesota, ScoopyPoo leaves the poo double bagged in my garbage.  An extra bonus, which I hadn’t even considered, is that when picking up the poo, they check for possibly any unhealthy warnings and alert me to that.

To my delight I found some Poo Haikus on the site:

“I watch where I step
Determined not to mash poo
Ew, my cross trainers.”

The last thing I saw on ScoopyPoo’s website said:

“It’s a dream come true.  Close your eyes.  Imagine never picking up another piece of poop again.  Enough said.”

If you’re in the Minneapolis/St. Paul MN area and need a pooper scooper in your life, I recommend ScoopyPoo!

Teddy, your poop-eating days are numbered!

Harmony,

Janet Roper

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