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You love your pup! Or maybe you have more than one pooch. The inevitable byproduct of dog ownership is poop production and deposits in your yard. In the Twin Cities area, this problem is compounded by snow. Folks try to clean dog waste up regularly, though this can be an unpleasant and time-consuming to poop and scoop, even in the warmer months. Wintertime poses a larger problem for Minnesotans, however. When the pretty white stuff begins to pile up the little doggie deposits can be hard to Spot, pardon the pun. It's a dog poop disposal conundrum. Snow typically begins in late October, though September sometimes sees traces of snow. Heaviest accumulation takes place in January, but it's just basically pretty snowy through the whole winter until things start thawing in April. That's six-plus months of the white stuff. It looks nice, but things get buried, as many a Minnesotan doggie owner will confess.
Minneapolis-St. Paul has the coldest annual mean temperature of any large metro area in the contiguous United States. Frigid air masses from the Arctic swoop down regularly and make things chilly in the Twin Cities, and that can make dog poop disposal a bit of a challenge, to say the least. The Chanhassen National Weather Service Office collects climate information for the area and found just this past January of 2007 an average daily temperature of 17.3 degrees Fahrenheit and the following month an average of 11.2 degrees Fahrenheit. It's an average, which means things are lots colder than that on a given winter day. Not many dog owners are inclined to head out into their inhospitably frigid back yards and clean dog waste up. Owners often hire a service to come out weekly and scout for poop, and Dr. Poolittle can doo the job, so to speak.
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