Topic: | Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Finally - Dog DNA registration...? | |
Posted by: | Paul Corcoran | |
Date/Time: | 03/01/15 09:04:00 |
Dan, you do have a tendency to treat anybody who disagrees with you as a mortal enemy. If you toned down the rhetoric people might take your point of view more seriously. To give you the benefit of the doubt I read a few news items about this to get a view of what was really going on in the states with DNA testing of dog poop. In practice testing seems almost exclusively to have been introduced in upscale apartment blocks and gated communities where DNA testing has been made a condition of owning a pet. The impression given is that it largely a deterrent measure with nobody actually going out and picking up and testing the stuff as fining or evicting a tenant would raise significant legal problems and as far as I can see, even where the scheme has been introduced nobody has ever been fined. The impression given in the article that municipalities in the states have introduced DNA testing appears to be misleading. I suspect when we hear that some state or county is 'looking into the system' it means they have agreed to take a meeting with the salesperson from Pooprints. Felicity's 'silly impression' that the article is based entirely on a press release is clearly based on professional experience and seems to be spot on. Therefore there is no evidence that the system works even inside narrowly defined communities where implementation is straightforward let alone for a broader implementation across a state administrative region. Your statistic that there is 50,000 tons of dog crap (and growing) seems to me a made up one. After decades of involvement in grass roots sport I can say with some confidence that this is a far less severe problem in local parks than it was in the past. |