With the pups 7 and 8 weeks old, the poo is at it's peak!
I sometimes get to work and there's poo on me. There's certainly poo on my shoes every day!
In the morning, the nighttime pen is covered in poo. During the day, poo patrol in the yard is hectic as pups swarm the poop scoop (beware, they love it!)...
Evenings are the worst, as pups are still mad from being outside, and they get put in the newspapered pen inside:
Picking up a little puppy poo is not as easy as you might think!; it's an entire organised mission impossible scenario!
First open a bag on the outside of the pen and let it lay in wait. Next, put a sheet of newspaper on a table next to the pen, making sure it's a small piece! Grab a piece of paper towel and hold it in the right hand. Must be double. Put a fuzzy slipper on the left foot. Take a piece of (large) newspaper in the left hand. We are now ready. But this time they have seen me coming and they are hurtling to the fence like a tidal wave in a small pond. Plot the route over clean paper and make sure that the little offending turd is in plain sight. Take aim! Left foot goes into the pen nowhere near the poop, pups all devour the fluffy slipper. Some will run up the left leg, clawing and scratching a bloody pathway! Right foot is suspended in the air on the outside of the pen to create balance... Do not let the pain stop you! Right hand is poised up in the air ready for the swoop to the poop. Pups by now are onto my plan and start scattering and guessing which way I am going. Left hand comes into play and leans in and waves large newspaper sheet on the opposite side of the pen. Piranhas swarm and tear it to shreds while right hand picks up the poop and mom lowers right foot to shift balance back out of the pen. Next move is to shake the smarter munchkins off my shredded slipper as I retreat from the pen, popping the poop into the packet!! Lastly wait for the swarm to retreat and place the small piece of paper where the poop had been (a large sheet takes too long to flatten before they are upon it!)
Things go downhill from here if another poop appears, because one cannot use the same procedure twice in a row....!
