Remember Your Poop Bags (Please!)

This is from We Love DC: “Thirteen (13!) Pounds of Dog Poo In Petworth.” (With video.)

Please clean up after your dog, especially on the sidewalk or in a grassy area where people walk.All dog owners, myself included, sometimes forget to take bags. It happens. But, please be a good neighbor and clean up after your dog.

Overall, how do you think dog owners do in Borderstan? Are Borderstanians good about cleaning up after their dogs?

I remember about 25 years ago when I lived in Chicago’s Lakeview neighborhood. Dog owners were not as diligent then about cleaning up dog poo. We had a number of really cold winters in the 1980s with lots of snow. One winter, the snow kept coming, without any of it melting between snowstorms.

Dogs would poo on the snow. It would snow more. Dogs would poo on the next layer of snow. This continued for about a month to six weeks. It was very ugly when the temperatures rose and the snow melted: layer upon layer of dog poop.