Dog Poop...

If there's a vet who can explain the following animal phenomenon to me, please comment below...

How is it possible that you can feed two dogs no more than 2.5 cups of food each day and have 15 pounds of poop in the yard in less than a week? And what causes a dog to wander around the yard while they're pooping???

I love dogs. I really do. But I hate the task of cleaning up the yard every three to five days. We have a BIG back yard, too. Approximately 5,000 square feet of yard. The two dogs, both Portuguese Water dogs, poop in about 4,986 square feet of the yard. But what I've never experienced with any other dog I've ever observed pooping is that these dogs waddle around the yard while they're dropping yard biscuits. What this means is when it's time to clean up the poop, you have to walk a grid pattern in order to have the best odds of doing a thorough job. It's almost like when the Coast Guard is searching for a missing boater who's floating in the middle of the Gulf of Mexico, but you don't have the luxury of using a helicopter or an airplane. And your biggest hazard is you miss one of them and step in it! I hate stepping in poop.

Back to the amount of poop...I picked up about 6 lbs of poop (the 15 lbs I mentioned earlier was just hyperbole). And this is fresh poop, not that slightly hardened or white poop that been bleached out by the sun because it's been there for months. Fresh poop! Doing the math in my tiny, little head, it didn't make sense that there could be that much poop in less than a week from two dogs given the amount of food I feed them. I think the dogs must be letting their buddies into the yard and letting them poop here, too. I have no other explanation for it.

But if I catch them doing it, there will be hell to pay!