Look no more. Surprise that special gardener with a PooPet. PooPets are sculpted piles of cow dung. They come in various animal shapes with names like Stool Toads, Turdles, Dung Bunnies, Stool Pigeons and Bowel Owls. They're the hottest thing in lawn and garden figurines, and they're available in Hastings at the lawn and garden department at Allen's Shopping Center and at Earl May Nursery and Garden Center.
People think they're funny.
But they're also good for your garden plants. When you place the sturdy, odorless, biodegradable PooPets over the roots of your plants, they'll leach organic fertilizer into the soil each time they're watered or it rains. They last for about two years. N.J. Rothman, who has a doctorate degree in pharmacology, quit his job with a pharmaceutical company to start his own business. Rothman said the odor in manure comes from bacteria.