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A device for picking up animal droppings in a variety of ways, all of which do so in a completely sanitary manner. The device has a pair of spaced pickup plates which are curved at the lower edges thereof and a hinge mechanism which is mounted on the plates to be out of the way so that a flexible wr

A device for picking up animal droppings in a variety of ways, all of which do so in a completely sanitary manner. The device has a pair of spaced pickup plates which are curved at the lower edges thereof and a hinge mechanism which is mounted on the plates to be out of the way so that a flexible wrapper can be securely held and loaded from either above or below so that the wrapper can be used to either pick up or catch debris and enclose that debris in a completely sanitary manner without requiring excessive contact of either the wrapper or any part of the device which may contact that debris. The wrapper is doubled back over the elements of the device which effect the pickup motion to protect those elements from contact with the droppings. After the pickup has been completed, the wrapper can be securely closed, and the securely closed wrapper is transported in the device to a suitable depository.

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A portable device for picking up animal droppings and collecting those droppings into a wrapper comprising: a frame; a pair of blades pivotally mounted on said frame and each having side edges, an upper edge and a bottom edge, said blade upper edges defining a top access area and said blade lower ed

A portable device for picking up animal droppings and collecting those droppings into a wrapper comprising: a frame; a pair of blades pivotally mounted on said frame and each having side edges, an upper edge and a bottom edge, said blade upper edges defining a top access area and said blade lower edges defining a bottom access area; a blade operating hinge having a pair of arms each having an upper end and a lower end with said lower ends each being hingeably connected to a blade upper edge, said hinge being located to one side of said blades to provide free access to the area between said blades via either said top or the bottom access areas; an operating rod hingeably connected to said hinge upper ends and being movably connected to said frame so that movement of said rod with respect to said frame causes said blade upper edges to move via the movement of said hinge, said blades being mounted on said frame to be caused to tilt toward and away from each other by the movement of said upper edges; and means for closing the wrapper.