Septic tanks work in the soil around here; but they have leach fields too though. I don't know how to determine if it will work or not. I thought that there might be a very knowledgeable honey dipper on here.

 

Just dig a hole and try it out. Doesn't have
to be a huge pit or anything. We use a twenty
liter pail. About five gallons in size. If in a few weeks
you see that you need a field around it, dig around it
and put in some sand and or small gravel and place
the turf back on top of it. The field shouldn't have to
be that big. It's just one dog. If it seems to be moving
along to slow, and doesn't seem to be leaving the pail
fast enough, just add some water to help it get runny.

 

If your serious about this just build you a wire basket using the 1/4 inch square mesh wire and mount it out in the back of the yard somplace. Just cut out round peices for the end and tack the wire to it with a door hatch in it someplace and mount it on a stand so you can rotate the basket. Put a try under it to catch what falls out. Every week or so you just rotate the basket andit will break itself down into the best lawn fertilizer money can buy.

Rain will wash away small residue and what's left you just sprinkle around the lawn. You will be surprised at the lack of smell once you get this going and bugs can't do anything with it because it heats up and kills them off. Make it a project for the kids and throw vegi scraps in it also. You can buy the fancy version of these through any gardening supplier. It's just a composter.

 

Thanks for your comments!

I already have a compost heap, but I don't want to add pet poop to it, since I use it in the food garden. Dogs are meat eaters and can have too many nasty things like e coli and salminella, that I don't want to chance being destroyed in the compost process.

I think I'll bury a pail in the shrubbery bed along the fence and give it a try.

 

Sounds like you got a shitty dog. I'd just blast the turds w/ a garden hose nozzle. "Free" fertilizer, green grass.

 

Unfortunately, along the way is usually means in my yard. Funny how neighbors always find my yard. I saw a lady jog by with her dog a couple of weeks ago. Not even from my immediate neighborhood. Goes down the road to check out the new construction going up, turns around and jogs back up the road. Doesn't her dog stop and take one in my stinkin' driveway.



My dogs are little. Their poo stays in the yard. It dries up and disappears. Maybe the neighborhood dogs are getting rid of it for me. Who knows. It's a mystery.

 

I just leave mine to, my two big dogs own the backyard and between rain and mowing it doesn't last long anyway.

 

Mowing, YUK. I used to hate hitting a land mine.