I understand the concern about dog poop in the edible area.
BUT....if I am composting only for the non food areas can I put it in?
I have a ample supply

I used a piece of snowfence, bent into a circle, and buried (4ft). I put an old trach can lid on top. I put the dog poo in, and layer with soil to keep the smell down. Eventually it fills up and I move the 'composter' to a different spot.
I do not use it on any plants I have contact with. Dogs are omnivores, meat and vegetable matter, and I just don't want to work in any bed that has Fido's crap in it, no matter how decomposed!

I would still trench it, rather than putting it in compost. I dig my hands into compost...wouldn't want to do that if I had dog or cat poo in it.

Technically according to composting experts like Howard Garrett (dirtdoctor.com) and Malcolm Beck (author of "The Secret Life of Compost"), you can compost any plant or animal remains, no matter how gross it may seem to us humans! (LOL)

The only reason why most conservative OG books and websites, frown on composting pet poops or stinky meats, is because the average novice composter is either passive, lazy, or conservative, and doesn't have the advanced skill nor knowledge to correctly hot compost it properly, by reducing stinky odors, and digesting all pathogens and toxins in it, before applying it to the garden beds.

There is nothing wrong with composting carnivorous animals nor their waste. Look at chicken manure. What about blood & bone meal, or fish meal products?

Nature does not discriminate between plant or animal waste organic materials in mulching or composting.

Malcolm Beck mentions in his book that a good healthy compost pile should mimick a natural forest floor. It can contain dead, rotten insects, manures, or small animals, and lots of plant remains.

Like a natural forest floor, our compost piles should contain at least 2-3 times more browns than greens, and more plant waste than animal waste. [u]NOTE: Constant aeration and moisture is mandatory, to breed an abundance of healthy, strong, beneficial aerobic microbes in the pile.[/u]

I have successfully hot composted fish scraps and old rotten dog and cat foods, under 2-3 feet of sawdust and leaves, without attracting stray dogs, rats, and other pests. However, I try to keep my piles constantly wet, and hotter than 140-160 degrees F at all times too.

Thank-you for the reasonable answers.

I am a vet so have a pretty constant contact with poop.
I wash my hands a lot

I would not be hot composting as I do not have the area to do it in.

I normally just let stuff decompose over several years, and have trench composted food stuffs.
I got a new bin (used that is from a freind), and thought it would be a good place to compst.

It is hard to find a 3 foot area to use as a compost pile.

Since my back yard is pretty much covered with dog manure from years past, I don't get too shook up about it. It's there, so I live with it. It does wonderful things for the grass. The main reason I don't put it in my compost pile is that it takes too long to break down. I've got a separate pile that's just dog manure. Haven't had a chance to stir it around this spring, but when it's ready I'll use it on the lawn.

I've used a composter that's buried in the ground. We have an old trash can lid on the top of it. When it is full we make another hole. One year I used Dog poop instead of rabbit poop by my tomatoes. It was like I didn't put anything there. I leave some on the lawn but rake it around. My back yard looks better than the front. The ground composter is just a very deep hole 4-5 feet deep. Then I put a plastic garbage can that has fallen apart on the top. That holds the sides so they don't fall in. The plastic garbage can will not have a bottom so the poop just falls into the hole and then put the top on it and your fine. I haven't had any problem with the hole smelling eather.