Kostas

The used bedding from the rats is ideal for using as mulch so just use it as such,no reason to want it to break down fast. I use the used bedding from animals i have as mulch and its great,the only problem for me is that i have too little to use.

Now,for dog poop,if you have a large piece of land,you can just let it decompose wherever it falls but if you only have a small area,like i unfortunately do,that is not practical nor sanitary. So i would advise to pick them and only let very few decompose where they are,and maybe you could use a few of the other pieces around your bananas and other plants,under the mulch,but the majority will probably have to be thrown out. I do not compost,nor use compost,i just mulch as it takes much less effort to do and the benefits are the same eventually! I do not know how good dog poop would be as an ingredient to compost but given that you would have to mess around with it for the compost to be made,i see that it could me more of a health hazard there than left in place to decompose. But still,only a very large piece of land could absorb all this poop without it being a nuisance.

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