OT: Wrong pets?

[rbowman]

Obviously you've never waded through a corral in the spring, up to your ankles in horse shit.

[Jimmy Wilkinson Knife]

so it's my fault they can't bury their excrement?

[Jimmy Wilkinson Knife]

Horse shit doesn't stink. I've never worked out why, I assumed it was maybe meateaters that made stinky shit, but then why does vegetarian human shit stink? Is it just the fact that we're capable of digesting meat?

[Mr Pounder Esquire]

Prick.

[Thomas]

Did you ever dig a hole to bury your own shit?

[Rod Speed]

Yep, you keep feeding them so they keep producing more shit.

[Rod Speed]

It does if you roll in it.

Nope, some cow shit stinks too.

[Jimmy Wilkinson Knife]

Is that the best you can do?

[Jimmy Wilkinson Knife]

Now try that in dog shit.

Nothing like cat and dog and human shit. I guess a diet of grass makes your shit less smelly.

[Jimmy Wilkinson Knife]

Not feeding them makes them stop living.

[Jimmy Wilkinson Knife]

I do if there's no flush toilet around.

[Rod Speed]

And that does stink much worse than cat shit.

Any dead animal stinks a lot worse than any shit.

[rbowman]

How about cow shit? Before you answer I'll mention a feed lot near Coalina CA that can be smelled for miles, and it's not a good smell. Of course a feed lot is a completely unnatural environment where the cattle play king of the hill on massive piles of shit.

[rbowman]

I don't know what the current dogma is but for at one time the advice to hikers was if you bury it something is just going to dig it up anyway so leave it on the surface to decompose more rapidly.

[Rod Speed]

And our chicken operation that is alleged to be the biggest operation in the entire southern hemisphere, stank very bad as you drove past it in the car before they rebuilt the entire row of sheds.

[Jimmy Wilkinson Knife]

Nah, best to bury it to reduce the likelyhood of someone else stepping on it.

[Jimmy Wilkinson Knife]

Cow shit in Scotland doesn't smell bad, so unless you feed them something completely different....

[Jimmy Wilkinson Knife]

Isn't your country the only 1st world country in the southern hemisphere?

I never smelt anything bad from my friend who kept chickens. He just had about 40 of them though.

[Mark Lloyd]

[snip]

I did have one that had an unusual way of using the litter box. She would have her feet on the rim, so all the shit and piss went on the floor. That lasted only a month or two, until she just used the floor. But the shit wasn't very smelly. Piss was, not fresh but after she died and I had to clean the floor. Nature's Miracle does work.

[Sam E]

[snip]

Which reminds me of the Monty Python show where the ant is the national pet. One customer asks what to feed them, and is told not to feed them anything. It's cheaper to get new ants.