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No Poo for You!

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The Seattlest reports:

No Zoo Doo this spring! Woodland Park Zoo just notified us that their highly popular Fecal Fest Zoo Doo lottery–which brings that “fresh Zoo smell” to your backyards and P-Patches–has been canceled for spring because of a shortage of safely Grade-A poop. Turns out there are “unacceptable levels of the herbicide clopyralid” in the Zoo’s doo–the herbicide is used on hay and wheat fields, doesn’t break down easily, and now that it’s stored in the animal manure, would likely wreak havoc on gardeners’ pea, sunflower and tomato crops. Is that all? “In laboratory tests, clopyralid caused what a U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) reviewer called ‘substantial’ reproductive problems,” says Mindfully.org. Circle of goddamn life people! Used on wheat fields, eh? What’s in your poop? (Strictly a rhetorical question.)

Never fear. The Green Lake Moms Group have volunteered to provide an alternative.

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Jordan

I started Wallyhood back in 2008, right when my son was born, because I realized I had lived in the neighborhood since 1993 and didn't really know my neighbors. I figured writing a blog about what was going on around me would be a good way to meet people and help other people do the same. As the years progressed, those neighbors have picked up the torch and it is now a group effort, which I adore. I moved out of Wallingford for a few years (2020 - 2025), but I'm back, now living with my wife, son and dog (Dillinger) up in Tangletown.

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  1. Deb K. March 4, 2009

    Hahahaha! As a Greenlake Mom of two (one in diapers) that cracked me up. I’ll leave our Diaper Champ (a glorified special diaper garbage pail that barely reduces the smell) on my front porch for poop pick-ups all spring!

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