Town posts dog poo back to owners

[Jazzy]

A Spanish town is keeping its streets clean of dog mess - by sending offending deposits back to the owners in a box marked 'Lost Property'.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=m3cViKly604

The council of Brunete, near Madrid, launched the campaign to crack down on irresponsible dog owners.

During the course of a week a team of 20 volunteers patrolled the town's streets on the lookout for dog owners who failed to scoop.

They then approached the guilty owner and struck up a casual conversation to discover the name of the dog.

"With the name of the dog and the breed it was possible to identify the owner from the registered pet database held in the town hall," explained a council spokesman.

The volunteers then scooped up the poop, packaged it in a box branded with town hall insignia - marked 'Lost Property' and delivered it by courier to the pet owner.

A total of 147 deliveries were made during the course of the week-long scheme and the town has since reported a 70% drop in dog fouling.

Source

Jeez, and I thought I had a crappy job.

Seriously, good for them and they should do that here too!

 

[Evil Eye]

Ew.

It's nice not to have to worry about standing in dog poop.