by Tammy L Mahan

Created on: March 26, 2008

Anyone who believes that it is okay for there dog to poop on someone's lawn, in a public park, on the sidewalk or anyplace else for that matter and feel they shouldn't have to clean it up should NOT own a dog!

How would you the anti-pooper cleaner upper dog owner like it if after a rough day at work you got out of your car and cut across YOUR lawn to get in your home and once inside you walk through your home and then realized you have spread dog poop from one end of your house to the other? Best part is it's not your dog's poop!

Our dogs are our responsibility they are for all intense purposes our furry-four legged children, who would not survive with out our care. You would not go to work without feeding your dog would you? Cleaning up after them is no different.

If your baby pooped in their diaper would you leave him or her sitting in it until someone else changed them? Would you take your baby outside and dump the dirty diaper on the sidewalk or toss it in to your neighbor's front yard? Of course you wouldn't! I hope anyway.

Then how care it be unfair to dog owner's not clean up after their dog? It's not a difficult task the dog does his business you get out you pooper scooper and your plastic bag, bend over or squat down and scoop the poop in to the bag. When your dog is finished and you reach your home tie the bag up and toss it in your outdoor trash can! It's a relatively simple task!

A child is capable of performing this cleaning up task. As a matter of a fact a young old boy (I believe he was ten years old) invented a scooper with a bag attached and he didn't even have to bend over to pick the bag up. If a child is smart enough to invent the pooper scooper than an adult should be smart enough to use it.

Be a responsible adult and pet owner and clean up after your dog. It's sad that a law had to be enforced for something as simple as a common sense and common courtesy task to get some dog owners to clean up after their pet.

Just remember if you still choose not to clean up after your dog, you face fines if you get caught and what goes around comes around and one day when you least expect it you'll step right in it!

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