How To Clean Up Selling Lion Poop: Zoodoo Is Big Business - The Original Georgia Traveler WSB-TV

Quick tips on how to clean up selling lion poop. At Lion Country Safari in Georgia, ZooDoo was big business. It’s classic supply and demand. With 100 lions, they had a seemingly endless supply of feline feces. Someone discovered, don’t ask me how, that lion manure kept pests away from the garden. People started asking the park for lion poo and they were happy to supply it. Doug Cochran told me that every morning a team of dedicated pooper-scoopers went to where the lions spent the night. When the lions left, the rangers hurried in and shoveled up the manure. It’s what you might say is the “Call Of Doody.” The lion leavings were packaged in cute plastic bags and tourist bought it for $5.00. “Grandma, look what I got you on vacation.” I guess it beats an ugly t-shirt. As a joke gift it redefines the idea of not just for shits and giggles.
Lion Country Safari opening in Stockbridge, Georgia in 1972. You drove your car through a 500 acre preserve where the animals roamed free and the people were caged. The lions, cheetahs, elephants, giraffes, rhinos and zebra were right there and were known to come over to the cars for a close look.
It cost about $15,000 per month to feed the lions. Each one ate 30 pounds of meat per day. The extra revenue from selling lion crap helped cover the cost of food and to pay the poor rangers who had to scoop and package the stinking stuff. All-natural and fresh from the source. It became big business and people would buy it by the truck-load. Just a personal note. Farmers said it kept pests away from the garden. If you’ve ever smelled it you would believe - wow! It would keep everything away from the garden. Deer, other cats and bad neighbors. This story aired on WSB-TV Channel 2 Action News in 1973.
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[@edwardpinnix249]

Cool! 😀

[@timmorris245]

Last thing I want in my garden is large cat feces.

[@georgiatraveler]

I can honestly say it was the worst thing I ever smelled ... worse than elephant crap.

[@olskool3967]

let the chips fall where they may, LOL,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,

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This was the first Georgia Traveler story when I came Atlanta. WSB was known for its serious journalism - “hard news” - so most of the staff weren’t thrilled to have a new guy who only did “soft news.” No one saw my stories before they aired. When this one was over the anchor team was stunned and speechless. The new, big deal personality just did a story on lion shit. It caused quite a stink.

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