Abstract: A manually operated portable device for scooping dog feces into a bag by the action of a pair of opposed scoops which depend from a generally rectilinear support member having a barrel and an inner sleeve. A handle is provided at the upper end of the rectilinear member, and the handle is attached to the sleeve. The handle is displaceable away from the barrel and subsequently partially rotatable, so that the pair of scoops are displaced away from each other, and the scoop end of the device is thus opened so that a bag which is mounted upside down on the scoops may receive the dog feces. The bag is held in place because the open half of the bag is turned inside-out over the outer surface of the scoops. Thereafter, the scoops are snapped shut by reverse partial rotation of the handle and subsequent displacement of the handle towards the barrel, because of the urging of a stressed elastic member such as a spring which extends between the handle and an axle at the lower end of the barrel.