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Old 18-03-2003, 08:57 PM
 
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Default Is it OK to put dog poop on a garden? NO!NO!NO!

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Ian wrote:

Everyone acts as if dog crap, or any other type of crap is toxic. Its
not. Just compost it and use it all the same.


It's *not* the same and and never should be used on a vegetable
garden...unless of course, you'd like a nice dose of ecoli
(a single gram of dog feces can contain 23 million coliform bacteria),
roundworm (the adult roundworm lays eggs which are passed onto the soil,
completing the life cycle. If humans ingest the eggs, they hatch in the
intestine and migrate to other body tissue; like lungs, liver, spinal
cord. The larvae can even attack the retinas in the eye), tapeworm,
hookworm, even toxoplasmosis (particularly if you're pregnant) and the
list goes on and on ....read more at:

http://www.extension.umn.edu/project...e-dog-cat.html