What is the proposal process like?

CoPS inspects the community to select or verify pet waste station and trash can locations, then usually provides a detailed proposal within 72 hours of receiving the request for proposal.

What does pet waste station service include?

Service includes USDA Certified Biobased dog waste bags and can liners, waste pickup around each station, station inspection, repair reporting, and removal of collected waste from the property.

Does CoPS on Doody require a long-term contract?

No. The community signs the proposal, and service continues until CoPS receives written notice from a community representative.

Will the community receive a service completion notice?

Yes. Communities may choose to receive an email or text notification when service is complete.

Are CoPS on Doody team members background-checked and insured?

Yes. CoPS states that every team member is background-checked before working on a property and that the company carries commercial liability insurance.

Free guide · Community managers & HOA boards

The 30-minute walk that sets next year's pet waste budget

Eleven resources for building a pet waste line item you can defend to your board. Start with an assessment you can finish on one walk of your community, at the hour residents are actually out with their dogs.

Community Pet Waste Program Assessment
Seven Elements of a Great Community Pet Waste Program
Community Service Proposal Evaluation Guide
10 Small Changes That Can Improve Your Program
Planning for Next Year’s Community Needs
Plus 6 more, from board recommendations to a year-end impact review

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Sound familiar?

The stations are there. The complaints keep coming.

A resident emails a photo of an empty bag dispenser, and nothing on your end shows when it was last stocked.
The invoice says the visit happened. You have no way to confirm it.
Waste sits a few feet from the can, so everyone assumes nobody came at all.
Your current vendor cuts grass, hauls trash, and services stations somewhere in that order.
Budget season arrives and you are guessing at a number you have to defend to the board.

None of that is a dog problem. It is a scope problem, and it shows up the same way at community after community.

What most proposals leave out

Two providers can quote the same service and mean two different things.

One means the liner and the bags. Another means the liner, the bags, the waste on the ground within six feet, an inspection of the station itself, and a note telling you what needs repair before it breaks.

The gap between those two definitions is where your complaints live. The guide gives you the language to pin it down in writing, ahead of a signature.

It also covers the thing almost nobody asks about: what proof you receive after each visit.

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Free PDF. The guide covers what proof to ask for after every visit.

Service completion notice · sample

Liners replaced

6 of 6 stations

Bags restocked

Stations 2, 4, 5

Ground pickup

6-ft radius, each station

Waste removed

From property

Flagged

Station 3, loose post

A completion notice after every visit is what turns "they said they came" into something you can forward to a board member.

A community story

Six months later, not one station has required a service increase.

What we found

The same trash cans skipped, visit after visit. Twice-weekly service at certain stations, for a problem that never got solved.

What we did

We came in. We assessed. We standardized. Every station went to weekly service, with no exceptions and no upsells.

That’s what a specialist does.

The community is cleaner. The cost is lower. The manager has one less thing to worry about.

Inside the guide

Eleven resources, built around one walk of your community

Resource 01

Community pet waste program assessment

Walk your community at the hour residents are out with their dogs, and bring a second set of eyes. Another perspective turns up what is easy to miss alone.

Scorecard

The Seven Elements

Score what your community has today against the seven things a working pet waste program needs, so gaps stop being a matter of opinion.

Matrix

Proposal comparison

Put two or three providers side by side on scope rather than price alone, and see which quote is missing the work you assumed was included.

Templates

Board-ready presentation

Turn what you found on the walk into a recommendation and a budget line your board can approve without a second meeting.

All eleven resources in the guide

Understand your community

01Community Pet Waste Program Assessment
02Seven Elements of a Great Community Pet Waste Program

Evaluate and plan

03Community Service Proposal Evaluation Guide
0410 Small Changes That Can Improve Your Program
05Planning for Next Year’s Community Needs
06Preparing Recommendations for Your Board

Prioritize and execute

07Community Improvement Priority Planner
08Annual Community Pet Waste Action Plan
09Launching Your Community Improvement Plan

Manage and measure

10Managing Your Community Pet Waste Program
11Community Program Impact Review

How it works

Three steps. No sales call attached.

Step 01

Fill in the form

Name, work email, your community, your role, and where it is. That is the whole ask.

Step 02

The PDF lands in your inbox

Read it, print it, or forward it to your board ahead of your next budget conversation.

Step 03

Use it on any provider

Including us. If a flat-rate proposal for your community becomes useful later, reply to the email.

One form. One PDF.

Walk into budget season with the questions already written down

The guide takes about ten minutes to read and saves you the twelve months of finding out what a proposal left unsaid.

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CoPS on Doody, commercial pet waste management for apartment communities, HOAs, and community associations.
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