My Fun Filled Morning

Spring time is my favorite time of year.  The snow starts to melt, the weather warms up, girls start wearing mini-skirts again, oh yeah, and us dog owners can finally clean up the dog crap that's been accruing in our backyards.

I've spoken with plenty of dog owners over the last few weeks, and we all dread "the great thaw."  After 4 or 5 months of dog crap being buried in the snow, the warm weather finally reveals all our goodies waiting for us.  And the best part, is that they've been marinating in the snow for months, so they're extra soggy when we go to clean it up!

My plan of action for cleaning up after Archie was waiting for the majority of the snow in my backyard to melt, and then pick a morning, like this morning, when it was pretty cold out and the ground (and crap) was frozen to start cleaning, because it's easier to clean up frozen dog crap than thawed.  Well, semi-frozen.  I've cleaned when the ground was super frozen and the crap was fused with the ground.  That's never fun.

Dog owners love to brag about how much their animal can produce:

• "I own an 80 pound pit bull, you should see her mess!"
• "My lab is 105 pounds.  I have the most to clean up!"

I wish that's all I had to clean up.  I have a 150 pound Great Dane.  Let me tell you what it's like cleaning up after him: imagine every time you had a take a dump, you took it in your backyard and let it sit there for 4-5 months.  No joke.  His crap is as large as mine.

So this morning I decided was a good time to clean up all that dog dookie laying in the backyard.  I tried to get as much done as I could this morning, but there was so much dog crap, and I eventually ran out of grocery bags!  So really, I only got about a quarter of my backyard cleaned up.  And I didn't want to run inside to get more bags because I had on my dog cleaning/lawn mowing shoes.  So that good quarter chunk will have to do.  The rest of the backyard still has snow (and crap), so at least the bare area is (for the most part) clean.  Hopefully Archie is smart enough to avoid the areas with crap, and go on the clean area.

But then again, I have a Great Dane, and Danes aren't that smart....