What do you do with dog poo on your lawns?

Don’t you hate it when you mow a customer’s lawn and dog poo everywhere? If you are in a van and it gets on your mower wheels, it can get messy and smelly quickly.

Even worse is when you fly around a corner with a weedeater and discover that the owner’s dog is a rear breed that can actually poop right up against a fence. It flies everywhere, and you end up wiping it off your clothes and face. (if this hasn’t happened to you yet, it is something to look forward to)

So what do you do with dog poo on a customer’s lawn?

What can you do about these furry offenders and their owners?

The other day, we had a very popular post about this on our forum, and there were a few interesting suggestions. I will talk about a few of them here and then discuss what we do.

Some suggestions were.

• Charge a dog poo fee
• Mow around them
• Weed eat around them (a brave suggestion)
• Use a blower (not sure how that works)
• Zig-zag to get it off the wheels.

All interesting suggestions and some of them have merit.

I think you would have difficulty enforcing a dog poo fee. You could try raising the price of the lawn. It would probably be more straightforward. Another thing to try would be to give two prices when quoting, with and without dog poo, and then let the customer decide.

I would not recommend mowing or weed-eating around poo, either. Not only does the result look unprofessional, but it will actually take you longer to mow. Again a price increase or a cancellation might be the answer.

I won’t go into the blower method here, and I have absolutely no idea how that would work. (however, that might make a good YouTube video )

We have a straightforward method that you could try.

It doesn’t work all the time, but it gets pretty good results.

We have a text that we send to customers the night before. We don’t send it to all customers, only customers that need to do something, such as

• Remove dog poo
• move a car
• open a gate

You get the idea.

If it works, great. If it doesn’t, we just mow over it. We do avoid hitting it with our wheels. We may price increase if it’s a real pain.

At the end of the day, it’s just dog poo.

And I guess there are bigger things to worry about than dog poo on a lawn.

Happy mowing, everyone.