National Pooper Scoopers week
According to the Association of Professional Animal Waste Specialists, America is getting close to National Pooper Scoopers week (starts April 24).
This story is surprising for two reasons:
- there are people whose business is to look after your dog’s business
- there is a trade body for professional dog poo cleaners.
Now, I hate cleaning up dog mess. With four mutts though, it’s pretty much a never-ending feature of my life. If I were feeling flush, and a professional pooper scooper service operated near Wolverhampton, then I’d consider using it. Unfortunately, the APAWS seems to be USA and Canada-only.

May 1st, 2006 at 9:23 am
[…] We’ve had a number of dog-mess related stories on Dogs Rule and it’s a problem that has great potential to cause rifts between dog lovers and the unenlightened. In the States they have professional pooper-scooper services, Horsham District Council has considered CCTV to monitor misuse of dog waste bins and San Francisco is generating electricity from dog poo. […]