Scoop topics, backyard issues

I scooped the yard today, and it was so easy with just two dogs and maintenance a week ago! Just one bag full. With four dogs and not help from the owner of the other two, and a backlog of weeks at a time, the job was just horrible. I would come out with a good 20 pounds of poop in 3-4 bags, two in each hand, gingerly navigating the steps and opening the trash can lid. Hoping not to have a mishap and let the open end face down or scrape the sides.

Anyway, one way I am approaching this book idea is to compile the topics I want to write about:
1. The whole physical process of the scoop.
2. Twisting the bag for odor control
3. Holding bag to the side, and back, preferably downwind.
4. Untwisting, scooping dried out ones and then re-twisting.* Good fur sunny days like today.
5. How to deal with grass
- to try to tear grass and keep in bag? or
- to scrape what you can off the blades and leave some (stinky process)
6. Beware twigs! How to prevent tears, how to decide whether to remove or keep in bag.
7. It's so old and dried out, I can leave it, right? (why would you! Just get rid of it. You'll miss enough by accident, and dog shit does not make good fertilizer.)
8. Bag diagrams, bag assessment
9. The basic hand motion-- the claw, the two-handed rake, inverting the bag and using one side to scoop and dump into the other corner of the bag.

* Not recommended unless conditions are suitable, ie, new pile to scoop is dried out and easy to pick up.