The Extension service here (Virginia) released a report some time ago saying NOT to eat any produce grown using dog or cat dung. Seems the little bugger carry, well, little bugs - parasites, to be exact - around in their stomachs, and excrete them as a matter of course. This is serious - I had a parasite once (giardia) - and it's not something you'd want. I was sick for a year; on antibiotics for more than two months; and lost 25 pounds. So - plant those pepper elsewhere. Robert.