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Search For Australia's Most Perfect Dog Poo!
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Some early entries have arrived:
NOTE:
In the interest of good taste we will only provide links to actual
photos of dog poo - you choose whether to view or not!
 We
have found a great resource called 'Poop Talkin' - www.pooptalkin.com
and have been in touch with Sheri & Kim.
We'll talk to them soon but
meanwhile they have very kindly allowed us to use photos and stories
from their own website. We hope these stories will inspire Aussie dog owners to
do likewise and share
stories with us....
While we will take great care
selecting photos to show you (this is NOT one of those weird voyeuristic websites folks) we
have started adding comments from listeners as we
receive them.
Have we found it?... Is this submission from Marion in Sydney THE PERFECT
DOG POO? - We won't know until we see yours (er.. your dog's of course!!)
From Marion -
Sydney
Attached you will find what I consider to be the Perfect Poo. I consider myself quite the expert when it comes to poo as I spend much of my time doing Poo Patrol. This is a necessity with 4 dogs in this household. It is no problem at all for me, as I have no sense of smell - a huge enviable plus when it comes to nasty emissions from anywhere or from any living thing. It is also my way of checking up on the general health of my dogs – and I know which dog has done which poo. There is the Mr Whippy, The Quartet – 4 equal portions scattered the same distance from each other, the Perfect Poo and the Snake Coil - with slight variations of course.
I have chosen the Perfect Poo to show you as I believe it to be the one all dogs should copy – it is the benchmark. The name of the giver shall remain nameless. It is well coloured, nicely shaped, easy to collect but when it has dried and crisped and deepened in colour – it is a delight! This is as good as it gets!
Check
out what is possibly our first 'Perfect Poo' entry
From
Lesley - very 'yucky' story!!!
I don't have a picture but we remember it vividly. Our toddler told us she had to do a wee, when we were out in the garden. Being lazy we told her to do a bush wee - behind a tree. Leaving her to it we turned around to see her
squatting doing a pooh with our little black dog right behind her eating it as it came out...!!!!
Lesley - Glenelg Nth SA 5045
Er - thanks for sharing that with us Lesley - I hope no-one was eating
while reading this!
From
Paul P and his 'Rottie'
I've always been amazed how a dog that gets fed only a cup of food a day manages to produce 5 cups of poo....firm and lovely..
Check out the
stylish 'sit'
Paul - Fairfield, 3078
We're amazed too Paul.... that's why we have small dogs!
From
Janien
I don't have a photo or video as my dog died a few years ago, but my story
follows...
One morning I got up early and thought I'd go for a walk, highly unusual for me, I was like a zombie
- put some trackies on (track pants for our US readers!) and headed out the front door. I have a house alarm so I switched it on and headed off.
Only got to the mailbox when the alarm went off. I thought "weird..." obviously nobody has broken in so I switched it off with the remote and turned it back on and continued on my way. About 1/2 hour I'm back and head back into the house.
Inside the house I'm greeted by my stressed out Doberman, still not thinking anything and then ... I head into the
lounge room to the biggest sloppiest poo ever all over the lounge room floor. ARGGHHH.
I realised then that the house alarm had gone off because my dog had slept inside that night and I had locked him inside in my zombie state. Upon leaving he would have jumped up to see where I was going and to say good morning and the alarm would have gone off and then seeing as I turned it back on, it would have continued to go on and off until I got home. He would have been going mad with all that loud screeching from the alarm and stressed so bad.
The mess I had to tidy up was my own stupid fault.
ARRGHH DOG POO !!!
Cheers Janien
Eeeewww... doncha just hate that! ... Thanks for the story Janien... hope
you get (or have) another doggie in your life again :-) Kaye & Brian
From
Gail, Jasper & Freya - a longish e-mail but well worth the
read!
What wonderful emails you must look forward to receiving!!
I am reminded on my emails every time about your poo competition - Australia's best and worst. Well my stories start in England but as the producer of talked about poo is now in Australia I think we can add our comments. Unfortunately no pictures as they are on my main computer which is currently on the water somewhere.
My husband decided that a house is not a home without a dog so we went to the local shelter. Very naively we thought that you got a dog, fed it, watered it, played fetch and that was it. I hated dogs but had agreed that if it didn't bark at me or scare me that I would help out by maybe walking it and feeding it. I did not even consider that what goes in comes out. Nor did I think that a dog could produce such ..stuff!! Picking up is not a pleasant part of dog ownership however, it is the responsibility of dog owning. Now I can not imagine not picking up as it is so important to indicate the dogs health.
At first you are told dogs from the shelter needs to settle so may have some diahorrea for a few days. after 2 weeks with Jasper passing bloody water instead of poo, we were on chicken and rice diet and keeping a poo diary for the vet. To top it off it was my job to take samples!! We had to take a sample every day for 3 days and keep them in the fridge until we had all three for the vet. Never have I wrapped up something so much!! There was slime, air bubbles, no form to it at all.
I have become an expert in describing shape, consistency, colour and all other things that go with dog poo examining.
We finally found a food that advertised "a smaller output". We tried it and it worked fine with only the odd lapse.
3 years later we got Freya, she came from the rescue home with a 2 week supply of Burns, a holistic lamb and rice dry dog food. As she couldn't eat the food Jasper was on we decided, out of laziness to try Jasper on her food. Well - I can describe it only as ball bearing poo! It was fantastic and if he went on a hill it rolled down. That was the best poo to pick up as I knew it was sorting out his glands too!
After a month in quarantine kennels we got them back and the only thing we were interested in is ...the poo, how did they cope with the food from the kennels? Well, it is acceptable but we are having difficulties finding lamb and rice foods. we will keep an eye out as we want to get back to ball bearing as soon as possible! We also have a whole new range of treats that will be effecting them so lots of study coming up for me!!
As an important message I would like to tell you and if put on your website your readers about Freya. Last August Freya suffered from intersuception (I think that is how you spell it). She had been vomiting constantly for the day so I took her to the vet. I was told that she probably had a virus that was doing the rounds, the vet gave her an injection and said to starve her for 48 hours and if she kept vomiting she had a blockage, if she didn't it was a virus. Hindsight is a wonderful thing as if I had known about this my baby girl wouldn't have suffered or needed an
equivalent of 4000 dollar operation. 2 days later a friend was holding her when she had a loud, smelly horrible dark looking poo. I collected what I could and we put it down to her being ill 2 days before. A week later she was lethargic, unhappy and not eating. They found out that her intestines had swallowed themselves causing a blockage, stuck together and she needed an operation.
Later, a passing comment by a different vet made it all clear. He explained that if the poo is dark, smelly and horrible - as hers had been, it is blood from the small intestine and is a problem. If fresh blood is in poo it is from the last part of intestine so not as much to worry about. If I had known, or even thought logically I would have had her in the vet sooner and maybe they could have fixed her rather than cut her intestines out.
Poo is important, smelly and unpleasant to pick up but it could save you money and your dog.
I realise I have waffled on a bit - I find it hard to get straight to the point!! but as I said poo is very important. If you want to use any of this take what is relevant and type it so it makes sense.
thanks for the show, I have been a regular listener for a over a year and love it. I don't know what it is like here but in England people seem more ready to criticise than thank people or compliment them.
Gail
We're hoping for some pix from you Gail as soon as you get settled here in AU
From
Lisa & 'Maggie' - a 7 year old chocolate Kelpie - "AKA - Magpie"
 What an interesting subject dog poo
is!
I often get very annoyed with my girl Maggie for leaving her poo all in the backyard...when we have 20 acres for her to poo in.
I had a bit of a look today at her samples….note that the
first photo has, well…undescribeable stuff in it plus some mucous..
gotta love that mucous!
No 2
poo must have been there a day or two. Note the furry bits growing all over it?
I wonder does anyone know how many days until poo begins to grow fur?
Thanks Lisa
(nice story Lisa... we guess Maggie doing her business in the
backyard is better than in the house? - be thankful for small mercies :-))
From
Julie & her black male Labrador 'Paris'
The
attached photo is courtesy of Paris. Paris's diet consists of .5cup of Advance Dry Food .5cup of Woofy Bix Dry Food
(gotta love it, avail at Big W for $15 for 15kilos!) fed twice a day and a couple of chunks of marrow bone, our butcher chops up those big beef leg bones for me.
I found Paris at the Guides Dogs Glossodia (NSW) complex, his puppy raisers had returned him at 12mths and he'd been through a couple of new raisers homes but they couldn't cope with
him. I was raising his sister 'Peta' who was just divine, so thought how hard can could he be!!
Always famous last thoughts aren't they!! He had a suffered from separation anxiety which led to barking issues but he wasn't too difficult to work with, and when he was rejected from the Guide Dog program because of dysplasia we volunteered to keep him.
Paris is thick as two short planks but has a heart of gold... we love him :)
Cheers, Julie
From Adolfo
& Buddy
Attached is a photo
of our Buddy's droppings for the day. The ones at the end of the scoop are this morning, in the middle are last night and at the end of the scoop are
 from midday yesterday.
I am very sure about the order. In the morning he likes fruit - a third of a banana ,some pear and
some nectarine, and a couple of pieces of toast with some margarine and Mighty Mite on them.
Midday is a chicken wing and some dry food, and at night he ate dry food and rice mixed with tin food (Great Tucker or Julius Complete,
different flavours, those are Aldi's brand and he really likes them).
Also our Buddy is very particular, he uses the facilities on one side of the house only,
and he doesn't like wet paws so on a rainy day we noticed that it took him around 14 hours to do his business, also he does it in the bush not on the foot path,
and at the beach he goes to the dunes or the grassy area faraway from the people,
so sometimes I can't find it and he comes back to us very happy and with a big smile in his face.
I have never had a dog who is so happy and proud after doing his business! Is that normal??
Best wishes - Adolfo Pozzi and Buddy (photo right)
From Katie,
A few weeks back my mum asked me to get the shovel and pick up all the dog poo around the yard.
I had nothing better to do so I said yeah, how hard could it be, right? Now I have a pretty strong stomach and can handle some pretty gory stuff, but this, this was
somethin' else!!
It was the first piece of poo to pick up and it made it the last. This is how it went down...
I had the shovel in my hand and had scooped it best I could underneath the massive lump of poo (ok we have a
labrador, so you can imagine it's pretty big)
All of a sudden it just broke in half and I could see that inside the poo were
millions of maggots. I almost couldn't keep it down, but I definitely couldn't keep going, so
I got my boyfriend to do it. That had to be one of the sickest things I've ever seen,
truly! Oh, and these weren't dead maggots, they were very alive and squirming all over the place.
Never again man YUK!
( Thanks Katie... Might be an idea to worm the dog ASAP or see a vet! Ed.)
From Betty W - NSW
Sorry I don’t have a photo of this event and it was many years ago. When Zachariah was a puppy he had a penchant for eating soap and one day we noticed bubbles in the garden and realised it was coming from the latest deposit he had just left
there!
From Larry & Digger - NSW
I heard about the poo thing and what is needed.
We have had animals all our lives and their poos have been from Mr Whippy to the
Mr Whippy van has melted
I do not want to send you pics it is 'offal.' Give your prizes to good people!
* Then Larry wrote us again later the same night
Nothing worse than picking up a hot and steamy in a plastic bag on a winters day. It is a different poo each day. One day is slop the other day good - who
knows? They want to eat my cats poo the buggers!
From Kerry & Tigga - VIC
So how many photos do you want?... I could take ten a day every day and still
not get the perfect one. Mostly Tigga is a good girl and does it down the back
in one spot but if its raining - er yuk - she does it on the verandah. I'll send
a photo soon.
 From Eliza, Buffy, Jodi & Kroll - NSW
When you have one dog it's easy to choose the best poo - but we have three
and it's hard to know which one did it. Can I take a video? because that's
probably the only way I'll know who did it *LOL*
* yes we want video or stills and a story about how your doggy doos ended up
'like that'
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