now this is interesting...ive never heard of someone using it for that purpose....no issues with smell, flies etc?
Id love a solution for this. I remember seeing a new device that gets buried in the ground and you put the poop in there, and perhaps some chemicals periodically, but IIRC the reviews weren't great.
It's how it's done.
The dog gets a proper diet so his poop is pretty clean to start with.
Every few inches of poop in the composter gets covered with a little soil or other organic matter...leaves are good...and it's kept wet. This helps it rot faster, smell less, and not attract flies. Nothing is worse than solid poop, but it's so easy to do otherwise.
Now, the dog is a 90 lb Lab cross so there's a lot of poop, not a huge problem if I don't mind boxing up some for the dump (I deliver it) every couple of years if it gets ahead of me, or burying it in a low spot in the yard. Now that we're down to one dog again I doubt that I'll be making a dump run again.
Worms like poop. Stirring the composter contents a couple of times a year also helps. I generally take a few shovels full from the bottom for around the shrubs and such, and by that time it doesn't smell, especially if mixed with a bit of topsoil and/or peat.
Not all the dog poop hits the composter because sometimes he'll poop when we're away, out walking, up north, etc, but most of it does.
Oh yeah...the poop composter is beside the lilac bush, which seems to like the extra run off, and maybe the lilac helps with the smell. ;-)