Patent ID: 7278377

Claim:
A method of using a scooping device for scooping and disposing of waste, said scooping device comprising: a body having a front, a back, a top and a bottom, said front having means for receiving a plastic bag, said bottom having means for receiving said plastic bag and allowing said plastic bag to protrude from said bottom, a handle attached to said back, and wherein said method comprises: inserting a bottom of a plastic bag into said front of said body, continuing to insert said plastic bag until said bottom of said plastic bag protrudes from said means for receiving said plastic bag in said bottom and a front of said plastic bag protrudes from said front of said body, folding said front of said plastic bag over an outside surface of said body until handles on said front of said plastic bag are adjacent said handle, pinching said handles on said plastic bag to said handle on said body, using said front of said body to scoop waste, manipulating said waste until said waste falls into said bottom of said plastic bag protruding from said means for receiving said plastic bag in said bottom of said body.