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More Cities Use DNA To Catch Dog Owners Who Don't Pick Up Waste
dkatana writes: For many cities one of the biggest cleaning expenses is dealing with dog poop. While it is impossible to ask the birds to refrain from splattering the city, dogs have owners and those owners are responsible for disposing of their companion's waste. The few who shirk their duty create serious problems for the rest. Poop is not just a smelly inconvenience. It's unsanitary, extra work for cleaning crews, and in the words of one Spanish mayor, on a par with vandalism. Cities have tried everything from awareness campaigns with motorized poo videos, to publishing offenders names to mailing the waste back to the dog owner. In one case, after a 147 deliveries, dog waste incidents in the town dropped 70 percent. Those campaigns have had limited effect and after an initial decline in incidents, people go back to their old ways. Which has left many cities resorting to science and DNA identification of waste. Several European cities, including Naples and one borough in London, are building DNA registries of pets. Offending waste will then be tested and the cost of the analysis charged to the dog owner, along with a fine.
Shit happens, deal with it.
Cause if you don't, we'll use DNA analysis to find and fine you.
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Sure they do, like in playground sandboxes where small children can be infected by toxoplasmosis. People in big cities who let their cats outside deserve to be taxed too.
Democracy is a sheep and two wolves deciding what to have for lunch. Freedom is a well armed sheep contesting the issue
Foreign animal in your yard? Don't you have the right to "restrain" said animal, and call the local authority to retrieve it?
When your neighbours have to start paying $X every time they let their animals stray, they'll soon do something about it.
I had to restrain a neighbour's dog once for hassling my free-range hens. I didn't mistreat it, merely grabbed it by the collar, walked it to the neighbour's place, and advised the neighbour of my rights regarding animals on my property - said rights including shooting her dog if it was hassling, attacking, or even playfully chasing my chickens. She wasn't aware of the rules concerning domestic and farm animals in rural areas, and, to her credit, apologised and promised to never let it happen again. And it didn't.
They sentenced me to twenty years of boredom
Horse shit smells for a few hours, then it becomes a relatively benign damp wad of grass which is useful as compost. Dog shit smells for days, and it's omnivore poop, which is hazardous. You can catch horse shit as it falls out of a horse, then direct-apply it to your garden, and not only will it be good for your plants, but you are staggeringly unlikely to suffer any ill effects if you simply wash your hands. The parasites which dogs have are far more likely to infect you and also far more dangerous to you than those carried by horses. Anyone who thinks that horse shit is as bad as dog shit is severely unfamiliar with one or both.
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as cigar and cigarette smoke causes medical problems for others
So, now that indoor smoking is prohibited, we should stop all the tobacco taxes, right?
All second hand smoking studies were done on people who worked in places where people smoked, not walked past a guy smoking in a smoking hut. When you can prove any harm from the whiff of smoke you get walking by a smoker, then you can complain, until then, go f yourself.
APK likes to ask for responses to the same things over and over. Maybe he just likes the responses?