It’s one of those questions that adults of a certain age ask.
Whatever happened to white dog poo?
When we were kids playing out in the streets, in the parks, by the streams, it was a common occurrence to see white dog poo. As we grew up this seemed to disappear. It only ever seems to be shades of brown now. Granted, since things changed and it became the proper thing to do for owners to bag up the poo and put it in the nearest poo bin, so there is hardly any dog poo lying around anyway.
So, I was out in the back garden this afternoon, I was hanging some washing out. Charlie uses the back garden as a toilet, and it’s cleared up on a when it gets round to it basis. Well, I was walking down to the bottom of the garden, washing basket in hand, carefully looking where I was treading trying to avoid any of Charlie’s little presents, when i saw it.
White dog poo.
And it suddenly dawned on me how it got there, and why it was around when we were kids but not now.
It was bleached. Lying in the sun for extended periods of time bleaches it, from the brown it comes out as to white. Sure enough as I looked around, poo in the sun was now beige or white, yet the stuff in the shade was still brown.
We don’t see white dog poo anymore because no one leaves it behind in the sun anymore, they pick it up and take it away when it’s still brown.
Mystery solved.