Omg ott! DNA for dogs

[garinda]

Much cheaper to do as happened with the benches.

Be proactive.

Remove all pavements and lamp-posts in Hyndburn.

[Less]

Originally Posted by garinda

Remove all pavements and lamp-posts in Hyndburn.

& parks & grass verges & playing fields & ...

[garinda]

Originally Posted by jaysay

DNA testing just won't work, but a £5000 fine when some one is caught letting their dog foul, would, I think, focus the mind of irresponsible dog owners

It isn't just the inital, and ongoing cost of DNA testing every single dog, and each new born pup, who's going to go around, taking samples of random dog poo?

Are we going to bring in the army?

Different in a gated community, as in the link Neil gave, of dog owners living in a specific residential area.

There'd be all kinds of legal challenges, if this was introduced.

'No M'lud, Muffy's never plopped in Rhyddings Park, though she is walked their daily.'

'Some naughty kids must have taken her plop-plops there on a shovel, from our front garden.'

'Where she legally lays her dainty little dog eggs, each and every morning.'

[garinda]

Originally Posted by Less

& parks & grass verges & playing fields & ...

Trees!

Forgot those.

They'll have to go.

Though that will also cut down on bird muck falling from the sky, and less kiddies being blinded, by falling spinning jennies...or conkers.

[susie123]

Love this quote from Neil's link to the US story:

“I pick up my dog’s mess every time he goes, so it would be nice if they would take it out of the deposit to have this done,” tenant Michelle Oakes told KDLT.

She means the deposit they pay when they take on the tenancy of an apartment but I didn't read it like that!

[garinda]

Plus, every person will have to be tested as well.

So as to rule out human excrement.

Unless you see who, or what's squeezed it out, unless you're an expert turdologist, I should imagine it's fairly difficult to tell who's created it.

As in this infamous, foul smelling case.

http://www.accringtonweb.com/forum/f...ter-36474.html

[susie123]

Originally Posted by garinda

Plus, every person will have to be tested as well.

So as to rule out human excrement.

Unless you see who, or what's squeezed it out, unless you're an expert turdologist, I should imagine it's fairly difficult to tell who's created it.

As in this infamous, foul smelling case.

http://www.accringtonweb.com/forum/f...ter-36474.html

We live on a private road with a back lane behind our garden wall that has a grass verge up against the wall. On the other side of the lane is an old cemetery where many people walk their dogs so the incidence of poo in our area is quite high. However the other day I came across a deposit which had definitely not issued from a canine backside.

Some person (I won't call them a human as that is too polite a term for someone who did what they did) had made themselves very comfy in the grass snuggled up against our wall and then proceeded to leave us a present. First they laid down a piece of kitchen roll, then did what they had to do (it was definitely not the shape of a dog turd) and tried to cover it with more tissue, then presumably hutched up their trousers and proceeded on their way. Delightful or not? I leave you to judge the mentality of that individual.

[garinda]

Originally Posted by susie123

We live on a private road with a back lane behind our garden wall that has a grass verge up against the wall. On the other side of the lane is an old cemetery where many people walk their dogs so the incidence of poo in our area is quite high. However the other day I came across a deposit which had definitely not issued from a canine backside.

Some person (I won't call them a human as that is too polite a term for someone who did what they did) had made themselves very comfy in the grass snuggled up against our wall and then proceeded to leave us a present. First they laid down a piece of kitchen roll, then did what they had to do (it was definitely not the shape of a dog turd) and tried to cover it with more tissue, then presumably hutched up their trousers and proceeded on their way. Delightful or not? I leave you to judge the mentality of that individual.

Yuk.

Though you should perhaps have used a spirit level on it.

To check if it was a paranormal plop.

Left by one waiting to pass over to the otherside.

Where hopefully they have flushing toilets.

[PM01]

Originally Posted by Neil

I agree with you Less. Before we got our dog I tried to find out the legal responsibilities for dog owners. You would expect that to be a simple thing like looking at the dog warden section on Hyndburns website. They tell you nothing at all. Even so called good dog forums don't help out owners by stating legal responsibilities so its not surprising many people are unaware of the current dog laws.

Here is a link to dog law http://www.thekennelclub.org.uk/download/9308/law.pdf

[maxthecollie]

Totally agree with Jaysay. The irressponsible dog owners are to blame. I have seen a lot of dogs being walked were I live and the owners do not bother were their dogs "perform" or will not pick up

[cashman]

Originally Posted by maxthecollie

Totally agree with Jaysay. The irressponsible dog owners are to blame. I have seen a lot of dogs being walked were I live and the owners do not bother were their dogs "perform" or will not pick up

Tell em,I do.

[Neil]

Originally Posted by jaysay

DNA testing just won't work.....

Why not?
Just because you say so?
I have just posted links to a company that shows previous comments about cost are wrong and that either your son-in-law did not know what he was talking about or things have changed a lot in 4 years.

[Neil]

Originally Posted by PM01

Here is a link to dog law http://www.thekennelclub.org.uk/download/9308/law.pdf

That is good thank you.

Two things that many people ignore are

The Control of Dogs Order 1992
This mandates that any dog in a public place must wear a collar with
the name and address of the owner engraved or written on it, or
engraved on a tag.

and

The Road Traffic Act 1988
It is an offence to have a dog on a designated road
without it being held on a lead.

I see a lot of dogs with a harness on and no collar and a lot walking on the footpath next to their owner but with no lead.

[PM01]

People are generally unaware of these laws - if a law were to pass that all dogs/owners had to have a license, it would be a requirement of that license for the owner to know the law. There's a petition now for this to happen.

[PM01]

The thing that irks me (beside walking in dog crap), is the huge numbers of dogs the charities are having to try to deal with because of the general ignorance around this