How do you guys handle the land mines? When on a portage, do you use a doggie doo doo bag and then haul it to your next campsite to be buried or put in the latrine? Then what do you do with the bag? I'm not sure I want to deal with the bags that would have to be hauled out. That would be nasty in a pack. Or do you scoop it with s shovel (or other device) and haul it off trail or site to be buried?

Fling it into the bush away from the trail. My dogs tend to go off trail a little anyway so I try to make sure no one can smell it or worse yet, step in it. There is usually plenty of other scat on the portages to worry about anyway.

My plan is to take our small folding shovel and do the fling into the woods thing. If it's away from the water, which we will make sure it is, we probably won't bury it. I'll report back in a week or so. :)

Fling with a stick lol

When I was visited by some rangers last year they just said to either put it in the latrine or on a portage to put it back in the woods.

So bascially treat it like human waste.

I just use a piece of bark from a downed tree to scoop it up and dispose of if need be. Normally my dog goes well off trail to do his business so its not much of an issue. I might have to dispose of one "gift" per trip.

Ooh, good idea with the bark. (doh)

I think Willow would go off the trail as well, but that brings up another question. Do you leash your dog on portages? Willow pulls on the leash a little (not too bad, though) and it might be a bit of a pain to be hauling a canoe and have a pulling dog attached to my belt loop. I would rather let her be off leash, but I don't want to irritate other people that we may meet on the portage. She's a real sweetheart and would never hurt anyone. However, they don't know that.

Leashing the dog is the right thing to do. I admit I'm guilty of not always doing it but I do most of the time. SO many reason to leash your dog on portages including courtesy to others. Imagine if your dog ran up and tried to jump on a person carrying a canoe or heavy pack. A dog could easily knock someone over and injure them or damage a canoe in that scenario. Even if your dog walked in front of them all of a sudden it could cause the unprepared person to stumble and fall on rough terrain. Not something you want to have happen.

If the dog is pulling that will make it harder and more fatiguing on a portage. Really that issue is something to be handled at home in your training sessions. It takes time but can be fixed. You can also use either a gentle leader or a pronged collar to prevent the pulling. I use the prong collar as a training tool and it does correct the problem. THe gentle leader will as well but it really only correct the issue while the dog is wearing it where as the prong collar can be used to correct the problem in general.

aways leash my dog on a portage. Just because I know she is good doesn't mean the next person coming down the trail knows that

I wish everyone had the same respect for portages.. Numerous times I have noticed that people have not taken the time to "fling" it into the woods. Great idea.

quote PinkCanoe: "
I wish everyone had the same respect for portages.. Numerous times I have noticed that people have not taken the time to "fling" it into the woods. Great idea."

Probably the same people that do not clean up after their dogs on the walking path, sidewalk, street, other peoples yard in town. grrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr