<p>Today’s morning paper had an article about two UVA graduates who apparently put themselves through school with a dog poop scooping business on the weekends. After getting their UVA degrees they started a business called “Doody Calls” where for a fee you can have someone come and scoop the poop out of your yard so you don’t have to do it. Doody Calls launched in 2000 and now has more than $1 million in annual revenue and 1500 clients in 7 states.</p>
<p>JEEZE!!! Those two really have their **** together!! ;)</p>
<p>“Doody Calls” !! LOL
$1mm in annual revenue… on what “volume” ? </p>
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<li><p>So, how’s business?</p></li>
<li><p>Pickin up, pickin up! </p></li>
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<p>:D</p>
<p>Don’t laugh too hard. This is not the only franchise that does this job. There is also Pet Butler out of Frisco, Texas that operates in 14 states with expected revenues this year of $2.5 million. They even have their own trade association, The Association of Professional Animal Waste Specialists. The vp is Deb Levy who founded Yucko’s Poop and Scoop in St. Louis in 1990.</p>
<p>How do you make money? See a need and fill it.</p>
<p>Uh, where do they put the stuff after they remove it from your yard?</p>
<p>Kudos to them. </p>
<p>A play on your play, NJres</p>
<p>-How’s business?</p>
<p>-It stinks, but we’re rakin’ in the green! </p>
<p>:)</p>
<p>The article doesn’t say. The APAWS (just got the acronym!) had its 4th annual convention last January in Las Vegas “complete with scooping races”. Pet Butler’s CEO (guess what that stands for) says he employs 7 full time scoopers for his Dallas Fort Worth office and their salary can surpass $30k plus use of a company truck.</p>
<p>Reply to Marian.</p>
<p>There was a “King of the Hill” episode where Bobby worked for a similar business, then started up his own business cleaning up vomit. He was kept busy by the partying college kids!</p>
<p>They put it in your neighbor’s yard!</p>
<p>Poop-scooping the outside playcourt was part of my job this summer at an animal hospital kennel. The bad part was when it had rained that day. 
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<p>Marian- Usually the trash/dumpster.</p>
<p>Berurah, too funny!</p>
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<p>LOL! </p>
<p>I’m about to loose my mind because someone has been failing to clean up after their dog these last two weeks. I’ve got little roll-in-the-grass boys & other neighbors’ kids in my unfenced, corner property all the time. How disgusting when lazy dog owners decide to use my yard as their dog’s toilet!</p>
<p>I am not at all shy about confronting the offenders. I even called the health department on one idiot who argued with me that his little dog left little poops, so why was I having a cow. As a non-dog owner, I am really perplexed about the whole idea of bringing YOUR dog to someone else’s house to take care of business. Imagine if I dumped my lawn clippings or household garbage in someone else’s yard.</p>
<p>What I need is someone to hire to follow me around when I walk my BIG dog. The droppings are VERY large and I am good about picking it up. It requires a plastic grocery bag, which I then have to carry with me for the rest of the walk. Nothing like a steaming plastic bag of sh-- to add to the pleasure of a nice walk.</p>
<p>Yes, MOWC. But can you imagine leaving that steaming pile for a neighbor? I can’t inderstand the mentality of people who do that. I’m sure your neighbors are greatful for your consideration.</p>
<p>I’m guessing that the mystery dog leaving me presents is smaller than a Great Dane, but bigger than a Beagle. Maybe a CSI team could do an analysis & help me identify the offending party.</p>
<p>You need a big SIGN. We had a bit of a pooper problem this summer, and I offended the neighbors by posting a “Please pick up after your pet” sign. Well, my unsightly sign was up only about a week, maybe two, and the offenders then let their pets poop elsewhere (or they picked up; I don’t know which).</p>
<p>I really loathe the fact that not everyone is diligent about pooperscooping, but I think I would prefer to flip burgers myself.</p>
<p>Extremely diligent and considerate owner of a large dog here. We’ve actually trained our dog to use only certain common area places for this activity and always clean up afterward! As I said in a recent thread, though, the poop services do a big business in our area, with many people not walking their dogs regularly anymore. But I had no idea the kind of big business these companies do!</p>
<p>When I lived in my old neighborhood one of the neighbors had had enough of one dog constantly leaving it’s mess on his front lawn. After trying to talk to the neighbor, and getting nowhere (the offender was from a different generation when this wasn’t a law) , finally one day he scooped the dog’s mess from his lawn, and placed it right outside the dog owner’s garage door(with a note!), so that this person would step right into it himself. And he did! Not a strategy I’d recommend, but it worked.</p>
<p>About what to do with the poop–they were probably able to use/sell it for fertilizer, don’t you think?</p>
<p>There was a woman in our town who was a NittPicker</p>
<p>yep she would come to your house and clean up your kids head lice…after two bouts of it in pre-school, i would have paid her oodles of money…</p>
<p>I’ve seen ads for similar services in our town but do not know anyone who actually uses such a service. Virtually everyone here owns a dog or two or three and there are very strict ‘scooping’ by-laws with substantial fines, if caught. Dogs are not allowed off-leash except in the fenced leash-free parks in town, not even in the ravines or trails which are abundant. Most people are very good about picking up. We have two large dogs and only have to worry about one because the other one refuses to poop anywhere but her own yard! Now if we could only do something about those people who let their cats run loose to poop in other peoples’ gardens.</p>