When people are coming and a dog lives on the property, the lawn needs to be checked by someone who is not also cooking, decorating and answering the door. Event pooper scooper service from Poo Squad Salina is a cleanup scheduled around your date: the grounds cleared before guests arrive and, where it is useful, cleared again once they leave. What that involves depends mostly on where the event is being held.
At home
Most of what we do for events is ordinary back yards before ordinary celebrations. Graduation open houses, birthday parties, baby showers, a cookout for the team, relatives staying over a holiday weekend.
The family dog is the complication. It has had the yard to itself, and its habits are invisible to you because you live with them. Visitors do not know where not to step. Children go straight for the corners. Somebody always carries a chair to the back fence for the shade.
For a party at home, one sweep the day before is nearly always enough. We go over the whole yard, including the side strip, the space behind the garage, the ground beneath the trampoline and the edge of every flower bed, and we take everything away with us. If the lawn is going to be mowed for the occasion, we should come first and the mower second.
Rented and borrowed spaces
Park shelters, church lawns, a relative's acreage, a barn venue outside town. On ground that is not yours, two things change.
First, you do not know its history. A rural property with farm dogs, or a lawn that neighbors cut across with their pets, may hold more than a quick look suggests. Ask the owner, or have us check it over a few days ahead.
Second, you are often responsible for the condition you leave it in. If guests bring dogs, a sweep after the event protects your deposit and your standing with whoever lent you the place. Get the owner's permission for us to be on the grounds, and tell us about any gates, livestock or areas that are off limits.
Events where dogs are the guests
Adoption days, rescue fundraisers, charity walks, breed club meetups, a pet friendly grand opening, yappy hour on a patio. Salina's dog owners turn up for these. The city's off-leash area at Barkley Park was built with donated funds.
When dogs are the reason for the gathering, cleanup needs to be part of the plan from the start and not something left for a volunteer at the end of the day. We can help you work out three things:
- Before. A sweep of the site so the event begins on clean ground. This matters most in public or shared spaces.
- During. Where bag dispensers and lidded cans should sit so people will actually use them. Entrances, water bowls and the far end of any walking route are the usual answers.
- After. A full pass once everyone has left, so the site is returned in better shape than you found it.
Tell us how many dogs you expect, how large the area is and how long the event runs. Coverage for fifty dogs over two hours looks nothing like coverage for a handful at a backyard meetup, and we would sooner plan it with you than guess.
Weddings and anything photographed
Outdoor ceremonies raise the stakes. There are formal shoes, long dresses, guests seated on the lawn, and a photographer leading the wedding party to whichever corner has the best light. That corner is seldom one anybody has checked.
Give us the layout: where the ceremony will be, where the tables go, and where the photographs are planned. Those areas get covered twice. If the reception runs into the evening on grass, we also take in the route to the parking area, since that is where people walk in the dark.
How to time it
The day before is right for most events. It is close enough that almost nothing accumulates afterward.
The same morning is possible when your event falls on a weekday, because our routes run Monday through Friday from 8am to 5pm. For a Saturday or Sunday event, a Friday visit is the one to reserve.
A week ahead plus a touch-up is the better plan when a yard has gone months without cleaning. A heavy cleanup leaves the grass flattened and the ground marked for a few days. Doing the big job early gives the lawn time to recover, and a short second visit just before the date finishes it.
Between our visit and your event, walk the dog on a leash for bathroom trips if you can manage it. If not, picking up one or two fresh piles yourself on the morning is a small job.
What we need to know
- The date and start time
- The address and what kind of property it is
- How many dogs live there, and how many are attending
- When the grounds were last cleaned, as near as you can tell
- Whether you want a visit before, after, or both
- Anything we must work around: tents going up, rental deliveries, locked gates, sprinkler schedules
What it costs
A home yard cleared before a party is priced the same way as any one time cleanup. The visit and the first five gallon bucket we fill are $35, and each additional bucket is $20. A before and after booking is two visits.
Larger jobs are quoted individually, including venues, public events, rural properties and anything with dogs in attendance. The size of the site and the number of dogs decide the work, and we will give you a firm figure once we know both. If warm weather is forecast and the gathering is on a patio or near a dog run, deodorizing can be added so the ground is treated as well as cleared.
Two questions we hear a lot
How far ahead should I book?
A week or two is comfortable. Spring weekends, graduation season and early fall fill first. On shorter notice, ask anyway.
I already have regular service. Do I need this?
Probably not as a separate visit. Tell us the date and we will try to move that week's stop to the day before your event.
Reserve your date
Send your request online and choose the one time option, or call or text (785) 829-4441, Monday through Friday, 8am to 5pm. Start with the date. For event pooper scooper services in Salina KS, everything else is planned backward from it.
