[nagdu] Pickup The Poop

[Lori Dent]

Hi Vivianna,

Years ago when I had my black standard Poodle guide dog  and my Poodle was 
at the groomers being groomed. Well the groomers called to let me know that 
I could come and pick up my dog because he was ready to go. The groomer also 
told me my Poodle  had contracted ring werms or something  and I had my dog 
on heart werm proventitive  and the groomer said that the dog can  pick up 
stuff by just walking through another dogs poop. I was mad and ferious  at 
the irresponsible people in my apartment complex who have dogs but don't 
clean up after their dogs.

I went to my apartment management and told them that my guide dog at that 
time had contracted ring werms or some other parasight  from stepping  in 
another dogs poop. Management  said that they  can't do anything unless they 
catch the dog in  the act and the owner  doesn't pick up after the dog but 
management has to know who the  dog belongs to.

We have dog stations around on the apartment complex grounds  and I have 
personally watched a man with his dog go past the dog station where you can 
grab a    bag but the man let his dog poop where ever he wanted  and when 
the dog was finished the man walked back passed the dog station where he 
could get a bag and pick up after his dog but instead he just  went back to 
his apartment and never picked up after his dog.

We do have a person who was hired to come in   and goes around and picks up 
dog poop. But honestly she doesn't do that good of a job. My fiancee Rick 
will have to go out with our pooper scooper and pick up piles of dog poop 
that he finds   so that I don't step in it. My thinking is if someone can't 
be a responsible dog owner and doesn't want  or chooses not to  pick up 
after their dog well then they shouldn't own a dog simple as that.

After all when  I'm living in a apartment complex with other tendonts  who 
have dogs and some tendonts have children everyone in the apartment complex 
should be respectful of others that live around them and pick up after their 
dogs and to help keep our apartment complex grounds  clean from piles of dog 
poop everywhere. When I moved into his apartment complex 20 years ago, pets 
were not premitted on the property  except  service animals but since then 
it's changed and it's the biggest mistake that the management made by 
allowing pets on the premisses.

I don't want to have my current dog picking up some disease  from some other 
dog because the owner clearlydoesn't care about picking up after their dog.
I also have heard of  guide dog users  not being legally bound to pick up 
after our dogs but you know what, I still pick up after my dog anyway 
because I think it's the right thing to do. I'll get off my soapbox now and 
be quiet. Take care.

Lori and the Gipper