She not only refused, but fumed in print that “this law is just like treating a cancer patient with mouth-to-mouth resuscitation.”ĭog ownership is on the rise in India. In 2007 when an attempt was made to enforce picking on Marine Drive, it lead to a furious reaction from a well-known newspaper columnist who had been asked to clean up after her dog. In 2015 an altercation over a pet dog defecating near some outdoor gym equipment in Delhi’s Humayunpur village lead to around 30-40 men going on a rampage, with shots being fired and a few being seriously injured. The heavier the weight of the package, the more minutes they get, which would seem to offer special benefits to the owners of Great Danes. Parts of Mexico City have experimented with a system where pickers are rewarded with free Wifi minutes. This was such a success that the scheme had to be discontinued when the city ran out of prize money. On the more positive side, in Taiwan’s New Taipei City, dog walkers who pick up can exchange their packets for lottery tickets. A Spanish town claims to have devised an elaborate system for identifying offenders and then mailing them their unpicked deposits the trauma of opening the parcel presumably instills good behaviour.
Another English town has a volunteer who spies on dog walkers, and when a non-picker is detected, he leaps out to confront them with their failure.Ī suburb in Brooklyn, USA relies on camera footage to create a Facebook page of shame.
