Poo Squad McPherson is a pooper scooper service for McPherson, Galva and Canton. We come on the same day each week, or every other week, clear the whole yard, take everything with us and latch the gate on the way out. This page lays out how that works here: what happens on a visit, which plan fits which household, what it costs, and how to start.
The city already expects your dog to be in the yard
McPherson asks that dogs be on a leash or inside a well-kept fence whenever they are outdoors. In practice that means most dogs in town do most of their business in one place, the back yard, day after day. A fenced yard is good for the dog and hard on the grass. One medium dog leaves a pile or two a day, so a week is ten or more and a month is forty or fifty, all inside the same fence. The older blocks near Main Street and Kansas Avenue, with their 1920s and 1930s bungalows, tend to have modest yards where that adds up fast. The newer subdivisions have more room, and more lawn for it to hide in. Either way the arithmetic only runs in one direction until someone picks it up.
What happens on a visit
A text first. You hear from us when we are on the way, so a visit is never a surprise and you have a minute to bring the dog in if you would rather.
The whole yard, walked in rows. We do not scan from the gate. We walk the lawn in overlapping passes and then work the edges: the fence line, behind the shed, under the deck stairs, around the air conditioner, along the garage and the alley side. Dogs prefer corners and people rarely check them, which is why the edges take as long as the open grass.
Everything leaves with us. Waste is bagged as we go and carried off the property. You do not supply bags, a bucket or a trash can.
Clean tools. Our tools are sanitized between yards, so nothing from the last stop comes into yours. Parasites and bacteria in dog waste travel easily on a dirty scoop, and this is the simple way to stop that.
The gate. It is latched when we leave, checked by hand, and we send a photo of it closed. For most customers that photo is how they know the visit happened, because they were at work.
Anything unusual, mentioned. If something in the yard does not look right, such as signs of worms or a dog whose stomach is clearly off, we tell you. We are in the yard on a schedule and often notice a change before the owner does.
Weekly, or every other week
Weekly is what most households choose and what we suggest for two or more dogs, a small yard, or a family that actually uses the lawn. Seven days of waste is a short visit, and the yard never reaches the point where you watch your step.
Every other week suits one small or medium dog on a roomy lot, or someone who picks up a little themselves and wants a dependable reset. We offer it for up to four dogs. Past that, two weeks is too long for any yard.
You can move between the two as the year changes. Plenty of people go weekly from spring through fall, when the yard is in use, and ease back in the coldest months.
What it costs
Weekly dog poop removal starts at $13 a visit for one dog, which works out to $56.33 a month, and each additional dog adds a couple of dollars a visit. The sign-up form shows the exact monthly price for your number of dogs and your schedule before you commit to anything, along with whatever offer is running for new customers. There is no contract. You can pause or stop when you need to.
If the yard has gone a long while, that is fine and it is common. The first visit takes longer, and every visit after it is routine.
Being home, dogs, and gates
You do not need to be home. We work Monday through Friday between 8am and 5pm, and nearly everyone is out when we come. We need a way into the yard: an unlocked gate, a code, or a note about the latch that sticks.
Friendly dogs can stay out and usually enjoy the company. If your dog is unsure about strangers, keep them inside on service day, or tell us and we will text before we open the gate. We will not go into a yard with a dog that does not want us there, and we will let you know if we had to skip for that reason.
Kansas weather does not cancel the route
Wind dries the top of a pile and leaves the rest stuck to the turf. Summer heat brings flies and smell within a day. A spring storm spreads waste instead of washing it away, and snow simply hides a month of it until the thaw hands it all back in one afternoon. We work through every one of those. The only thing that moves a visit is weather that is unsafe to be out in, and then we tell you and come on the next workable day. Yards that stay on the schedule through January are the ones with nothing to dread in March.
Where we go
Our McPherson routes cover the city itself, ZIP 67460, along with Galva (67443) and Canton (67428), both east on Highway 56. If you are a little outside those towns, ask. A stop that sits near an existing route is usually easy to add.
After the dog park
McPherson has good places to wear a dog out. Bremyer Dog Park on South Centennial has three acres to run off leash, and the paved path at Lakeside Park is about a mile around the lagoons. Bag stations and common courtesy cover those. The yard at home is the part nobody else is going to handle, and it is the part we do.
Start service
See your price and sign up online. It takes a couple of minutes. Or call or text (620) 798-5300, Monday through Friday, 8am to 5pm, and tell us how many dogs you have and which town you are in. If you have been searching for a pooper scooper service in McPherson KS, this is the local one, and we will take it from there.
