Posted on 05/09/2019 3:10:33 PM PDT by Kaslin
It’s really annoying when people take their dogs out for a walk and don’t clean up after them, isn’t it? Being a dog owner/walker myself, I always make sure to bring a plastic bag along with me to clean up after Jake and I have pointed out to others that they should do likewise when I see someone being negligent. And yet, not everyone is so responsible, but what do we do about it? One apartment complex in Pennsylvania has come up with a rather unique solution. They’re building a DNA database of all the dogs that live there so they can send offending samples found on the grass out for analysis. (CBS Philadelphia)
A Delaware County apartment complex is going to extreme lengths to deal with residents who don’t clean up after their dogs. The Governor Sproul Apartments in Marple Township is swabbing dogs to get their DNA.
“They’re asking all of their pet owners to get DNA from their dogs,” said Rose Renzulli.
Governor Sproul management has grown tired of “party pooper tenants” not picking up after their four-legged friends. They even offer free bags and a friendly reminder to clean up.
“I didn’t realize we had a dog doo problem,” one resident said.
So how does your average apartment manager go about setting up a lab and building a doggy DNA database? She doesn’t. They have owners swab their dogs and send the sample out to a place called Poo Prints. (Yes, that’s a real service.) The company, which describes itself at their website as “a proven dog poop management service,” enters each dog’s DNA into the DNA World Pet Registry database.
Then, when anyone finds an unscooped “sample” on the apartment complex grounds, maintenance workers collect some of it and mail it off to Poo Prints, where it’s tested against the known database of registered dogs. If they get a match, the owner can be fined up to $250, along with being shamed by all their neighbors, no doubt.
My first question (of many) was how they could get everyone in compliance. If you’re someone who regularly lets your dog poop on the public square without cleaning it up, why would you submit a DNA sample? Turns out that the apartment complex is making compliance with the DNA swabbing part of their lease agreement.
You can see this sort of thing spiraling out of control quickly. Pretty soon all of the shelters and pet stores could be coerced into providing DNA samples of every dog they adopt or sell. Once the database is large enough, they’d have a record of a majority of pets along with where they live sooner or later. I know the police would dearly love to have a complete database of every human being in the country, but you pesky privacy advocates seem to be opposed to that. The dogs don’t have any lawyers (or constitutional rights for that matter), however, so this could really happen.
Orwellian or just good property management? You be the judge.
Do this with Democrats in California and put an end to human excrement and cigarette butts on the streets.
But what if they find that your dog’s DNA is alien, unlike any Earthly DNA, and that your dog has secret powers beyond your wildest imagination?
Where do I mail the sample?
Fix the problem, not the blame.
So you collect my dog’s crap and send it out for testing. Two weeks later you can prove it’s my dog’s poop. Then what?
I think the problem of this complex must be bad if they are considering going to these lengths.
According to the article you get fined $250.
But voter I.D. is just too unreasonable for something so trivial.
Wouldn’t it be easier to tack on a “dog tax” for residents with dogs and just pay the maintenance crew to go on doggie patrol a couple times a day?
Seems if they have that big an issue they must have many renters with dogs.
What if the offenders are not residents but neighbors of the residence that let their dog do their doody in the complex?
This is DelCo, so shit will be thrown at said requester...
“But voter I.D. is just too unreasonable for something so trivial.”
Don’t give the Leftists any new ideas! Drivers Licenses for pets, first; then register them to vote!
“They’re asking all of their pet owners to get DNA from their dogs,” said Rose Renzulli. <
Well, if a was a homeowner there, I’d have a lot of fun with that. Maybe I’d turn in deer droppings or bear scat. the possibilities are endless.
“They’re asking all of their pet owners to get DNA from their dogs,” said Rose Renzulli. <
Well, if a was a homeowner there, I’d have a lot of fun with that. Maybe I’d turn in deer droppings or bear scat. the possibilities are endless.
This was done in Carmel Indiana last year. As a dog owner and who has had a problem with several neighbors who would rather leave their rather large dog waste in someone else’s yard and have talked with the police and the HOA who both have said unless there is a picture they can’t prove it, I am all for it. This is due to the lack of action by both the safety officer and the HOA. The HOA will tell you not to put a sign in your yard (some residents have tried to put no dog poop signs in their yard) but will not do anything even when you have pictures of the dog in the act. Next time I catch a dog in the act, find out where the owner lives, I will be pressing charges.
Darn Russians made me double-post again.
A tinfoil dog
“Wouldn’t it be easier to tack on a ‘dog tax’ for residents with dogs and just pay the maintenance crew to go on doggie patrol a couple times a day? Seems if they have that big an issue they must have many renters with dogs?”
Stop. Just, stop. No logical, equitable or fair solutions allowed! :)
“I have pointed out to others that they should do likewise when I see someone being negligent.”
Stopped reading right there. BS. (DS?)
One does not correct others in public. Fine odds of being mercilessly set upon accompany a violation. This is common knowledge.
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