Pushing Up Daisies with Dog Poo
Designer Andrea Roman partnered with VagoLab, Manuel Rimada & Gilberto González on a new concept in dog food.
What if your dog’s waste could literally end up smelling like flowers? What if it could help the environment? They came up with the idea food create dog food that contains seeds so that when your dog goes to the bathroom on grass or soil, it plants seeds that grow into flowers. What do you think of this idea?
This project was published in illogicalquestions.com.
Cute idea but wouldn’t work for us city folks who have to pick up all our dog’s poops and put them in the trash cans.
Unique concept but like the above comment – it’ll be contingent upon where the dog does their business.
It won’t work period. Carnivore droppings don’t make good fertilizer.
Stupid question, but could the seeds get stuck in their digestive system?
If your dog was trained to go to a specific area it would work well though!
No, you’d have a reeking pile of dog poop with nothing growing in it. Trust me. Plant some seeds (any kind) in a pile of dog poop and let us know how it works.
Two words. “Holy Crap!”
I’m curious whether this would work or not. Any chance on a follow-up post with someone who has tried the seeds?
I’d love to do a follow up – I’m not sure if this is just a concept product, though.
Having been a poop scooper for almost 8 years, I’ve scooped over half a million piles. In all that time I’ve never seen anything growing in dog poop except mold.
While it can be used as fertilizer for non-food crops, it *must* be composted first, and pasteurization above 165 F is required to kill the harmful microorganisms it may contain.
“Raw” dog feces is not suitable for fertilizer. Did you ever notice that commercial fertilizers are from herbivores like cattle, sheep and horses? There’s a reason for that! Digested plants are a great fertilizer. Digested meat byproducts aren’t.
I’ll bet my bottom dollar this won’t work.
It would only work if it was Vegan food… although I feed my grown dogs V-Dog and I still don’t think that it would grow anything until it has been decomposing for a while. Who wants that in your back yard? Not me.
Yuck! No thank you.