It was difficult to bend over today with my sore back and I wish I had a pooper scooper to pick up Odie’s poop.  But alas, no such luck and I had to resort to going down on one knee to scoop up the mess.  It was fresh an warm — if you wanted to know — which is something pooper scoopers do reasonably well at masking that gushy feeling you get when you use the old inside-out hand in the dog poop bag trick.

Dog Waste Bags to the Rescue

I ran out of my favorite dog waste bags, aka Ralphs 1 gallon bread bags, and been reusing the plastic grocery bags.  Besides only able to recycle grocery bags once, they’re pretty useless and you might as well use a paper towel instead.  They catch the wind and you end up getting crap all over your hand from the little holes and tears in the bag.

I finally gave up looking for the cheap bread bags — which you can get 75 for about two-bucks — since no one is buying them or Ralphs is pushing the more expensive zip-lock type bags.

I really didn’t want to start buying dog poop bags since they’re priced in about same range as zip-locks, but my ever so friendly neighbor with the “keep your dog off my grass” sign gave me a dirty look indicating that I better have one or else.

Sorry for the regression, but I managed to find some really good biodegradable dog waste bags at Tuesday Morning which sells Pet Zone’s Pik-Up-Bags for about half the price you would get in a pet store.  I don’t know if they carry them all the time, but I got a month’s supply until I can go back to my regular bags.

I’ve been reluctant in buying a pooper scooper, but with my back out of wack, it’s been hard to go outside and pick up the mounds of Dachshund mess that is starting to pile up.  After all, I’m only a dog pooper scooper!