Doggie Dooley 3800 Deluxe Leach-Bed-Style Toilet

I bought this one week after getting my puppy, One week of bagged poop was enough for me. South Florida in June is very hot and the bags of poop... well, you get the picture. I am a 50 year old woman and I built and installed this myself. It took a couple of days to dig a large enough hole - I only worked on it for 30 minutes a day in the early mornings (again, 50 year old woman, South Florida). I also dug a smaller hole, one foot deeper in the center of the main hole with a post hole digger as the instructions suggested (optional). I have been using it for five weeks now, it's the height of summer with days well over 90 degrees and nights 75 or warmer. I situated the Doggie Dooley within reach of a hose, put a splitter on the spigot and dedicated a hose for the Dooley. I scoop my puppy's poop with a claw scooper, drop it in the Dooley and use the hose to simultaneously wash the scooper and add water to the unit. I add a digester tablet on Monday mornings and we're good to go all week. (Note, I scoop the poop as it happens or, first thing in the morning if it's a night time load. I don't add dry poop.) Thank goodness I found a solution to bags full of poop (I swear future civilizations will dig up our landfills and between diapers and doggie bags they will think we worshiped poop!).

Update: I contacted the Doggy Dooley company about my negative experience and was blown away with the level of superior customer service. They responded quickly and offered to send me a replacement. I decided to try the stainless steel option instead. I'll update again once I install the replacement.I was REALLY hoping the other reviews about the poor quality were wrong and ordered this instead of the stainless steel version because I like the small cover the pyramid shape offers. I should have gotten the steel one. Assembly was easy, digging the hole was long and arduous. Once the container was in, while backfilling (GENTLY) the pressure of the dirt collapsed the container and cracked the whole thing. it's useless and if I had the energy to dig it all up and send it back I would.

IT ALL BEGAN PUTTING IT TOGETHER. THE LID WOULD NOT STAY CLOSED AND SOME OF THE HOLES DID NOT LINE UP.AFTER DIGGING AND DIGGING, PUT IT IN THE HOLE AND FOLLOWING DIRECTIONS PUT DIRT AROUND IT 1 SIDE AT A TIME...THIS CAUSED THE FLIMSY PLASTIC TO BECOME CROOKED MAKING SO THAT IT LEAKED ON THE SIDES AND THE TOP WOULD NOT CLOSE AT ALL.SO THE TOP WONT CLOSE, THE SIDES ARE LEAKING DUE TO PRESSURE FROM DIRT BENDING THE THIN PLASTIC, AND IT DOESNT HOLD WATER DUE TO THE POOR CONSTRUCTION.THIS PRODUCT IS CRAP AND STRONGLY SUGGEST YOU LOOK FOR SOMETHING ELSE. WISH I WOULD HAVE READ CUSTOMER REVIEWS BEFORE I ORDERED THE DOGGIE DOOLEY 3800 "DELUXE".

It's a functional solution. I live in Florida so it takes a LOT of water... more than I'd like but that's okay. My soil drains the whole thing in about ten minutes. Takes at least 20 gallons for me to fill this up it absorbs so fast. I cut a hole in the side and added a zone to my sprinklers to water it automatically. That's how often I was doing it.It seems to work very well though, but you have to keep on top of it and it requires a good bit of maintenance. Still, a better solution than throwing out waste.

I rarely write reviews, but in this instance I feel it necessary. Given the nature of this product and what it's purpose is, one would think it would be fit for its job. However, I found it very prone to failing, and when a person puts pounds of solid waste in it, having it fail is messy at best. The 'Dooley' is made of maybe 1/4 inch stiff plastic that is screwed together and stabilized with thin plastic beams. All of this is good in theory, but when placing the Dooley several feet into the ground, the placing soil on top of it, then compressing that soil, it does not hold up. I live where the soil is very fine, i.e. not thick like clay, almost like silt, so here the weight is minimal. When the Dooley was put into place and the remaining hole was filled in, it buckled. The bottom support, which is a thin plastic crossbar, snapped and fell to the bottom. Keep in mind that the hole for this poop storage container is at least three feet, maybe more if you have a big dog or more than one - in this case it was approximately five feet easily. So I was left with a cracked container, a snapped crossbar that could not be retrieved without digging the Dooley back out, and a lid that would not close correctly as a result. My advice is to steer clear of this thing and get one made of metal, or something more sturdy. I know that the company that makes the Doggie Dooley 3800 makes a metal model ->  Doggie Dooley 3000 Septic-Tank-Style Pet-Waste Disposal System , and in hindsight it would have been better to have gone with that one.

SINCE I BOUGHT THIS PRODUCT AND STARTED TO USE IT RIGHT AWAY; IT HAS WORKED VERY WELL WITH THE WASTE. THERE'S NO MORE SMELLY AND MAGGOT FILLED BAGS TO TAKE OUT TO THE CURB EVERY WEEK. I JUST PUT THE WASTE INTO THE IN GROUND TANK, KEEP IT FILLED WITH WATER, AND ONCE A WEEK I ADD THE EMZINES TO HELP BREAK UP THE WASTE. I HAVE 2 LARGE DOGS THAT PRODUCE A LOT OF WASTE EACH DAY. THE DOGGIE DOOLEY SEPTIC TANK HANDLES THE WASTE VERY WELL. Doggie Dooley 3800 Deluxe Leach-Bed-Style Toilet

The doggie dooley came flat packed, ready to be built. The first "layer" or upper story of the thing is ok, if a little wobbly (thin plastic). The lid is not going to last long, I can see that now. Cheap fixings and latch will mean it pops off first time someone bangs into it. The bottom layer, extender, is just plain junk - not squarely cut, the holes do not line up to attach bottom to top and it is extremely cheap, thin plastic.I'm hoping that being underground will help this thing serve the purpose. I don't expect diamond-plated platinum for a poop disposer but it could at least be strong enough to hold up to a couple years' use. We shall see.

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It's great

If I could give this product no stars, I would. We haven’t even installed it in the ground but none of the cheap plastic parts fit together properly and the lid doesn’t stay shut! T also arrived with instructions not to let Bluebottles into it. Really?! How would one keep flies and maggots out when the ‘easy open,’ lid stays open? I’ve never wasted $100 so easily in my life and would not bother installing it at all if it wasn’t already assembled. This is the second time in as many years that I’ve been let down by North American products. Try to buy local...what a waste...no pun intended

Materiale un po' debole, il coperchio si è rotto. Chiesta sostituzione del coperchio ma hanno proposto di rispedire il tutto x sostituzione in garanzia?!?!Dopo un anno di utilizzo il deposito non scende più e quindi diventa inutilizzabile (nonostante si usi acqua ed enzimi con le modalità indicate)

Whilst it does the job, it's expensive for what it is and I wouldn't buy it again. Fiddly to put together.