Maxie Zeus
05-23-2002, 04:50 PM
So, there's a problem up in Anchorage. Seems that people aren't doing the "pooper scooper" thing after dogs. So the city is looking at some, ah, unconventional approaches. Such as this:
This spring, municipal officials say, they'll consider anything and everything to get dog owners to clean up after their pets.
Even putting peanut butter on the piles they leave behind.
"Somebody makes a peanut butter dispenser that puts a dab on the stuff," said Jim Posey, city parks director. "You only have to do it for a short period of time because when everybody realizes what their dog is really eating there out in the bushes, there's that camaraderieship, I-like-my-dog-to-lick-me-in-the-face thing."
Others are not keen on the idea:
Dog groups agree something needs to be done.
But they pan the peanut butter idea.
"Who's going to put the peanut butter on the dog poop?" asked Bob Brock, a local skijorer who runs his German short-hair pointers on local trails. "Are we going to have a ministry of dog poop?"
Dogs can also pick up parasites and diseases from eating fecal matter, says Kirsten Ballard, president of the Anchorage skijor club. "Some of 'em are already tootsie-crunchers as it is. We're trying to break that habit."
The complete article is here (http://www.adn.com/alaska/story/1128948p-1236373c.html)
This spring, municipal officials say, they'll consider anything and everything to get dog owners to clean up after their pets.
Even putting peanut butter on the piles they leave behind.
"Somebody makes a peanut butter dispenser that puts a dab on the stuff," said Jim Posey, city parks director. "You only have to do it for a short period of time because when everybody realizes what their dog is really eating there out in the bushes, there's that camaraderieship, I-like-my-dog-to-lick-me-in-the-face thing."
Others are not keen on the idea:
Dog groups agree something needs to be done.
But they pan the peanut butter idea.
"Who's going to put the peanut butter on the dog poop?" asked Bob Brock, a local skijorer who runs his German short-hair pointers on local trails. "Are we going to have a ministry of dog poop?"
Dogs can also pick up parasites and diseases from eating fecal matter, says Kirsten Ballard, president of the Anchorage skijor club. "Some of 'em are already tootsie-crunchers as it is. We're trying to break that habit."
The complete article is here (http://www.adn.com/alaska/story/1128948p-1236373c.html)