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Time for Fecal Fest: Get Your Zoo Waste Now (Seattle)
Seattle PI ^ | 8/31/11 | SeattlePI

Posted on 08/31/2011 12:18:06 PM PDT by illiac

Want some highly-coveted zoo poop? Yes? I sincerely hope you’re a gardener.

The Woodland Park Zoo is getting rid of its — err — natural fertilizer during its annual Fall Fecal Fest, and devoted gardeners can apply to take it off their hands. (Oh, gosh. I hope it’s not really on anyone’s hands.)

Starting Thursday, the zoo is accepting bids for Zoo Doo and Bedspread, two fertilizer products comprised of what’s left after zoo animals digest their meals.


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Zoo Doo is produced by non-primate herbivores and works best with vegetables and annuals. Bedspread contains higher amounts of wood chips and sawdust and works as mulch for perennial beds and woody landscapes, according to zoo folks who know about this stuff.

Here’s how you get your hands on the stuff. (Again, I hope that’s not literally what happens.)

For a chance to purchase Zoo Doo or Bedspread, send in a postcard from September 1 through September 23 only. You can enter both the Zoo Doo and Bedspread drawings, but separate postcards are required: for Zoo Doo, mark your postcard “Zoo Doo.” For Bedspread, mark your postcard “B.S.” Entry cards will be selected randomly for as many entrants possible. Dr. Doo will contact the lucky drawn entries only.

By the way, zoo poop isn’t free:

Pick-up truck 8×4 bed: $60; 6×4 bed: $45; 6×3 bed: $35. Limit one full truck per person. Garbage cans: $8 to $10 depending on size; bags: $4 to $6 depending on size. Two-gallon and pint-sized buckets are available anytime at the ZooStores for $14.95 and $4.95, respectively.

Find out more on the zoo’s website.

1 posted on 08/31/2011 12:18:09 PM PDT by illiac
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To: illiac
For nearly a century, the Ringling Bros circus has played in NYC's Madison Square Garden each spring. One of the BIG problems is what to do with all the elephant poo.

About 20 years or so ago, when organic gardening first became popular..they came up with the brilliant idea to sell the stuff..elephant dung is GREAT fertilizer.

So, every day the circus is in town, you can see all these liberals with their rooftop gardens, drive their SUVs down into the loading docks under MSG, lay down a tarp, and PAY good money for elephant crapola..

2 posted on 08/31/2011 12:25:54 PM PDT by ken5050 (Should Christie RUN in 2012? NO!!! But he should WALK three miles every day!)
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To: Darksheare; Anoreth

Look at this. Would we like to spend September discussing fertilizer? The Seattle location would be reminiscent of Sionnsar.


3 posted on 08/31/2011 12:26:17 PM PDT by Tax-chick ("True education is not an adjustment to the world, but a defense against the world.")
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To: Tax-chick

This story is a crock of $hit.


4 posted on 08/31/2011 12:27:44 PM PDT by killer_rat
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To: illiac

I know people who get lion/tiger poo and put it around their property to keep the coyotes away, as fertilizer, nope.
And no they don’t have to pay for it, just haul it away.


5 posted on 08/31/2011 12:28:04 PM PDT by svcw
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To: killer_rat

Well, yes. But that’s never stopped the Undead Thread before.


6 posted on 08/31/2011 12:34:06 PM PDT by Tax-chick ("True education is not an adjustment to the world, but a defense against the world.")
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To: Tax-chick

what happened to him?


7 posted on 08/31/2011 12:35:52 PM PDT by RitchieAprile (breaking wind to the East..)
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To: RitchieAprile

He died in June. He went to the hospital because he was having trouble breathing, then he stopped breathing, and never regained consciousness.

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-religion/2722880/posts


8 posted on 08/31/2011 2:03:49 PM PDT by Tax-chick ("True education is not an adjustment to the world, but a defense against the world.")
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To: ken5050

“... elephant dung is GREAT fertilizer”.

I can’t believe that I am actually commenting on poop but here goes. I did read an article sometime back that wild animal poop is a great fertilizer BUT one must not spread the “fresh” poop on plants immediately. It has to “mellow” and decay for a good season. If I remember correctly, it had to do with the nitrogen level (?) and the fresh poop will actually burn plants. So.. there you go.


9 posted on 08/31/2011 2:24:43 PM PDT by momtothree
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To: momtothree

I always enjoy a good poop thread before dinner.


10 posted on 08/31/2011 2:26:43 PM PDT by Mears
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To: momtothree

A local farm sells llama poop. Do llamas count as wild animals?


11 posted on 08/31/2011 2:36:41 PM PDT by Tax-chick ("True education is not an adjustment to the world, but a defense against the world.")
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To: Tax-chick

I’m saddened to hear that. He offered to present my resume to his employer back when I was on the market.

Anyhow the zoo is worthy of support and I hope they sell
all their doo. BTW I have a small supply of kittycat doo
I’d be willing to part with for half of what they charge;-)


12 posted on 08/31/2011 4:01:43 PM PDT by RitchieAprile (breaking wind to the East..)
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To: Tax-chick; RitchieAprile

And then I took over doing our thread switchovers.
Our ‘natural’ habitat for the Undead Thread is a zot thread.
However, the quality of the trolls lately has been so abysmal that we’re hurting for threads to sit in.


13 posted on 08/31/2011 4:36:17 PM PDT by Darksheare (You will never defeat Bok Choy!)
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To: RitchieAprile

My catz dug up all my vegetable seeds while fertilizing for me. I had no peas or carrots this year.


14 posted on 08/31/2011 5:47:37 PM PDT by Tax-chick ("True education is not an adjustment to the world, but a defense against the world.")
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To: illiac

Well, I’ve asked three others for permission to use their threads for the Undead Thread September home and gotten nowhere so far.

So, here goes:
With your permission, may we use your thread here for the September home of the Undead Thread?
This is the last of four prospective threads that have been forwarded to me.


15 posted on 08/31/2011 6:24:06 PM PDT by Darksheare (You will never defeat Bok Choy!)
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To: Tax-chick; Darksheare; Anoreth; RitchieAprile
"Look at this. Would we like to spend September discussing fertilizer?"

This thread is useless without ...

.

No, wait, it's all right. This thread is useless.

Oh, wait, I know how to kill it.

Flowers

I look at the soil of darkness and putrescence,
How can flowers find sustenance there?
And yet from soil and sunlight they somehow,
Will lift perfection in the air.

The honeybee enjoys the harvest,
And journeys deep in the flower-bell.
She wallows in the joy of life,
While we only get a smell.

NicknamedBob . . . March 28, 2005

16 posted on 08/31/2011 8:20:37 PM PDT by NicknamedBob (As soon as the rush is over, I'm going to buy some stocks. Next question is, who goes in 'em first?)
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To: Mears

“I always enjoy a good poop thread before dinner”.

LOL!! I am laughing because the kids will ask when they get home from school, “So, what was on FR today?”. I said, “There was a very interesting article about zoo animal poop that people use for their gardens”. One of those “crickets, crickets” moments!


17 posted on 09/01/2011 4:23:09 AM PDT by momtothree
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To: Tax-chick

I have no idea if a llama counts as a wild animal. I remember the article especially detailing elephant poop and more of the zoo’s exotic animals. What we discuss on FR, right?!!! LOL!!


18 posted on 09/01/2011 4:25:11 AM PDT by momtothree
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To: svcw

Tiger/Lion poo is great in the garden to keep the rabbits and coons away. It really works.


19 posted on 09/01/2011 4:36:24 AM PDT by RadiationRomeo (Step into my mind and glimpse the madness that is me)
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To: momtothree

Every fact you learn enriches your life! The byos tell me they can sell poop to raise money for the “Zoo Tycoon” establishments. Even dinosaur poop.


20 posted on 09/01/2011 4:52:47 AM PDT by Tax-chick ("True education is not an adjustment to the world, but a defense against the world.")
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