PooTrap: Making Your Dog’s Most Mortifying Dreams Come True
We’ve posted a few stories lately about people getting violent when owners don’t clean up their dogs’ poop. There was the California man who shot and killed his neighbor’s dog for using his lawn as a toilet one too many times. And the man who rubbed poop all over a woman’s head because she didn’t clean up after her dog.
I’m sure that the people behind PooTrap would love to claim that if the dogs’ owners been using PooTrap, none of this would have happened. This video above — a must-watch — is a real-deal commercial, brought to my attention by Dogster’s marvelous social media marketing associate/doo-doo specialist, Nam Nguyen. He saw it on bad late-night cable. I thought this had to be something from Saturday Night Live, or a YouTube joke, but when I phoned 888-POO-TRAP, a real man answered, and confirmed that this was a real product. He was very nice. Apparently he has fielded this kind of call before.
If my dog, Jake, were to wear one of these contraptions, I have no doubt he would spend his entire walk trying to get it off. If he ran across his dog friends, he would surely be humiliated. He would not be a good candidate for the commercial’s “and your pets will love it, too…makes your walking experience fun!” angle. It’s amazing that some dogs will tolerate this thing dangling from their hindquarters. (One yellow Lab in the commercial appears well equipped to pass his tolerant genes to the next generation…)
We love the PooTrap FAQs on the company’s site. We think maybe the PooTrap people should revisit this page with a good marketing person at their side, though. FAQs are meant to educate, and to promote a product, not to make people fall out of their chairs with laughter. Here are a few (all grammar and syntax taken directly from the site):
• “Why it’s not as easy as your instruction video to put the PooTrap on my dog?” (Now there’s a big surprise! The commercial does promise “It’s easy to install on your dog.” I’ve never “installed” anything on my dog. I install things on my computer or on my walls, but not on my dog.) Partial answer, because the rest of the answer makes little sense: “…if they have any uncomfortable feelings, usually the uncomfortable feelings will be eased after 5 to 10 minutes.”
• “I would rather like to pick up poop by myself?” (They provide no answer for this one. Huh.)
• “Do you think PooTrap humiliates your dog when wearing the product?” Answer: “Babies wear diapers and they are truly loved by their parents, hence same applied to the dog owners who use our PooTrap do actually truly love their dogs.”
• “Can the dog owner use the PooTrap on the dog at all times when walking them out?” (Oh, please say no! Please say take it off as soon as your dog poops! Please?) Answer: “It is not a problem to keep the PooTrap strapped onto your dog during the entire duration of your walk. It will not bother the dog. When a dog is having diarrhea, or if the owner just doesn’t feel like taking the PooTrap off the dog, feel free to keep the PooTrap on the dog.”
We like ingenuity, and the inspiration behind the contraption (never leave even a smear of poop on your lawn or in the park again) is commendable. But the implementation is enough to have your dog pinching himself and praying he’ll wake up soon…
What do you think? Would you buy one for your dog?
Two paws down on this product!!
No thank you. I have enough issues with my collar, my leash, the fact that I can’t jump out the front window to get those birds and the neighborhood cat lurking below.
In short, don’t add any more confinements to my life!
Oh my! It looks silly. We won’t be using this in our world. But I did get a good laugh – thanks.
Ridiculous…give me my alligator baggies Mom says. Can you see me with that on my rear end being a fluffy Pom?? What a MESS!!! :O
My kids would refuse to take a single step. And they’d be scooting all over the place to try and get it off. And standing still to get on never.
This contraption might have helped when my big dog became paralyzed and incontinent – but I probably wouldn’t have used it – it just would’ve added to the stress he was already experiencing.
Pooor pups! You can tell how uncomfortable they are. They can’t even walk normally.
Hear hear! But I want to know what that thing above the plastic bag in the article’s photo is. I hope it’s a tail… Someone tell me it’s a tail… I didn’t notice this when I was laying out the piece…
I saw it too. It has to be a tail stuffed into the bag otherwise – where did the tail go?
Linda — You’re right. Where else would the tail be? But ewww; we know what else is allegedly stuffed into the bag. I’m suddenly not feeling much like finishing my very late lunch…
My dog would not put up with that s..err device.
If I bought it and somehow fitted it to him, it wouldn’t last more than 30 secs on him.
I can think of at least 2 common scenarios where things could go horribly wrong.
BOL ! Me wear that ? Never !
Oh my Dawg….that’s onna the funniest things I ever did see, snort, snort.
I happen ta be purdy picky bout where I place my poop an somehow a plastic bag stuck ta my bottom will NOT make it any easier to poop.
Some silly hoomans really don’t know dawgs at all when they create stupid gadgets like that, bol.
ROFL!!! That is the funniest contraption I have ever seen! What a mess it would be if the dog decided to sit before you grabbed it off. Worse yet, if he dragged his butt with it on! Defiantly not for long hair dogs. Not on my Prin-cess, I can’t even see her tushie with all that fur!
This thing was probably created by one crazy lazy dog owner.
LMAO! Apollo dodges land mines anywhere he finds them. I can’t even imagine trying to force him to walk with the poop bag full n still attached!!
No. way. Having a service dog, I couldn’t imagine putting that on him. If I walked into a public place or even walked outside with that on while Milo was in harness, people would probably think he was sick or couldn’t control his excrement. I could not and would not embarrass me or my dog with this product.
For real??? My dog Zelda would never put up with this. She would try to get it off. Oh my!
This makes me disgusted. Gross. How would the creators feel if they had a poop bag attached to their butt all the time? Not good, you can expect.
People would look at me funny with a bag attached to my butt!
Oh heck no! That’s all I have to say.
Omar
OMFG I haven’t laughed that hard in a LONG time!
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These were originally invented and are very popular for blind people with Guide/Seeing Eye dogs. Imagine trying to clean up after your dog when you are blind. This is a great invention for them.
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When your dog is eating what should have been in the bag because their owner is to lazy to pick it or you step in it OMFG.
WOw, what a great idea I like it.
RT
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hmmnn…I guess it can be helpful to disabled dog owners in wheelchairs or blind dog owners…but the able-bodied dog owners should have the decency to use their working limbs & be responsible by cleaning up after their dogs.
Don’t be sticking that on my dog’s butt!
People should learn to pick up after their dogs. This new product isn’t even easy! You have to attach the bag to the harness thing which is probably a nightmare!
5 stars DOWN!!!!!!!
This contraption is absolutely ridiculous. The ad looks like on of those fake “Saturday Night Live” commercials which show the most insane products. Not in a million years (that would be 7 million years for Molly) would we use this. If someone is too lazy to bend over and pick up after their dog they’re too lazy to have a dog. It would take less time to pick up after your dog than it would to put this device on.
But some people buy the most stupid products so the inventor may make a small fortune on it.
EWWW! Those poor dogs that have to wear that product! =o( It is not that hard to carry poop bags, and pick up after your dog.
ROTFLMTO!!!!!!! That made me and Momma laugh so hard we’re in pain. Side splitting pain.
I say two dew claws up if this device helps out people who are disabled and need a service dog, but need to be able to neatly dispose of what is going to obviously come along with a service dog. However, perhaps this idea needs some more work. For example, does it really stay on/is comfortable if the dog sits down? How about people putting their heads together and coming up with a better idea? I never thought before of why this could be needed, but now that I have; lets work on a building a better poo trap!
Not only would I never use this, but I’m fairly certain that Buck and Luther would kill me in my sleep if I did.
The concept is good. I still dont think Any of my dogs would ever wear it. It was a chore to get my golden used to a head halter, much less a butt halter lol. I think this needs to go back to the drawing board. Oh and they pulled the bag off WAY too easy, I have a feeling if my golden did his business in this bag, It would fall off from the weight before he was ever finished.
like someone said, incontinent is what my dogs would be wearing one of those things…. lol Amazing what people would do to their dogs because they’re too lazy to pick up the poop!!!! The only imaginable excuse would be an elderly person who can’t bend to pick up poop, or someone who’s disabled. But then again, they wouldn’t be walking a dog, right? Poor dogs, they look ridiculous. What about big poops? Would a St. Bernard’s fit in that thing?? I think not… thanks for a good laugh anyway, I hope not many dogs would be mortified having to wear that. Great intention on the part of the inventor though.
I was taking my large Coonhound for a walk on Friday and he took a huge “dump” in the park and the first thing that came to mind was this contraption and how easy it would make cleaning up. Of course, it looks too silly to use, but the thought did cross my mind. I suppose that’s why the people invented it.
LOL! what a laugh!!
I haven’t laughed so hard in years! My dogs are looking at me like I’ve gone mad as I can’t stop laughing! They would NEVER forgive me if I tried to put one of those contraptions on them–and how do the boy dogs pee with all those harnesses wrapped around? Or the girl dogs for that matter. Oh well, thanks for a great laugh!