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Originally Posted by DAVES
IT IS NOT. First of all a dog is a meat eater. Due to disease we use only manure from vegetable eating animals such as cows.
If, it is such great fertilizer you can you should walk YOUR PET on your property.
Reality.
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I don't have a dog in The Villages. I wouldn't restrict it anymore here than I would have one in an apartment building. Yes, I am a dog lover and have had dogs many years of my life. I have also trained dogs to go exactly where I wanted them to go. A disciplined dog is a happy dog and confident dog. I love dogs....actually I love most animals.
As for their manure not being good fertilizer, well that is a matter of specifics. When I mentioned it above, I was referring to the thread where someone was complaining about their yard being brown and dead and was asking for advice. Guess it went over a few heads, possibly due to a lack of interest in that thread and less folks reading it. Now, the reason you do not use "meat-eater" manure for fertilizer is mainly confined to vegetable gardens. I don't know where you come from, but chicken manure is used in a lot of gardens. And they will eat worms, insects and small lizards when give a chance. In SE Asia, rice paddies were often fertilized with human excrement.
When I was young, I had a couple of large dogs and I thought about how I was going to dispose of their manure, coming up with a decent solution. I gathered the piles and composted them, later using them around my flowers and bushes. Ever used bonemeal in your garden? Bonemeal is made from animals.
Sorry you didn't get my tongue in cheek response. I did not take into consideration that not everyone reads all the threads. It would be impossible to do so without using a large quantity of time.