A Little History on White Dog Shit

A few days ago, I was in a phase of doing some semi-shit posts. My first line actually proclaimed this to be the case and yet today I received a Hive account@curie vote for what I thought was a little poo.

Thanks to Hive account@steevc who stated that I don’t do shit posts I had the opportunity to prove him wrong today.

While wandering the wilderness today I came across something I have not seen since the 1980s; ‘White Dog Shit'.

If you were born during or after the 80's you may well have never seen this beautiful sight before. What puzzles me is how it got there?

Hive account@mender1 (who was with me at the time) informed me that it was due to the dog food of those times containing high amounts of chalk.

I do wonder if the mortality rate of our pooches has gotten any better since then.

A check on the internet proves his theory to be correct.

a product of the 1970's, white dog shit was everywhere! it was all over the place because once upon a time high quantities of chalk were added to tins of dog food therefore when a dog would take a shit after a few days in the sunshine the poo would dry out and eventually turn white. Nowadays pet food manufacturers don't use chalk in their food and this is why we don't see any more white dog shit lying around.

This stuff was everywhere during my childhood and teen years and yet I always thought it was due to it being old as nobody picked up dog shit then.

I learned something today, and feel enlightened about my increased knowledge.

It seems I was mistaken. Aren’t you glad you read this? You are now wiser about the history of Dog Shit. Yes, this is truly a shit post.