High Tech in the Magic Kingdom

A sanitary, portable pickup-and transporting device for unclean material such as animal droppings and which permits the user to collect the material in a disposable bag supported on the pickup device for ready removal and replacement by a fresh bag. The pickup device includes an elongated body having a handle at one end and a pickup arrangement at its other end. The pickup arrangement includes a pair of bails wherein a stationary bail is fixed to a yoke member carried on the end of the body and a movable bail is movable with respect to the body and is also carried on the yoke member. An actuating mechanism is carried on the body and includes an elongated rod having a lever mechanism carried on one end adjacent to the handle and having an offset connection carried on the other end of the rod forming apart of the movable bail. A resilient device is provided for returning the movable bail to a position immediately adjacent to the fixed or stationary bail.