Americans love their dogs, but they don't always love to pick up after them. And that's a problem. Dog feces left on the ground wash into waterways, sometimes carrying bacteria—including ...

Fecal transplants are available for humans, as doctors battle the Clostridium Difficile gene toxin. According to the Centers for Disease Control, C-Diff was found in 347,000 Americans in 2014 ...

Dog, Cat Feces Linked To Climate Change: UCLA Study. August 3, 2017 / 9:05 AM PDT / KCAL News ... Feces production from the roughly 163 million dogs and cats across the country.

“Ideally, dogs should not lick faces, especially around the mouth or eyes, as a matter of health,” Dr. Aimee Warner, a resident veterinarian at pet insurance company Waggel, told the Daily Mail.

There’s a new reason to crack down harder on dog owners who don’t clean up after Fido. Air samples in two cities found that in winter the most common bacteria is from feces, most likely that ...

“Ideally, dogs should not lick faces, especially around the mouth or eyes, as a matter of health,” Dr. Aimee Warner, a resident veterinarian at pet insurance company Waggel, told the Daily Mail.

Assuming pet owners don't pick up the feces, dogs could be contributing about 24 lbs (11 kg) of nitrogen and 11 lbs (5 kg) of phosphorus per 2.47 acres (1 hectare) per year to the soil.