"Sunny" <mashyne at facstaff.wisc.edu> wrote in message
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> On Thu, 13 Jun 2002 11:09:23 +0100, "Melanie"
> <melanie.mccluskey at tesco.net> wrote:
>> >A couple of weeks ago I read that some town in the USA (Philadelphia?)
had a problem with
> >dog owners not scooping their dog's poop from public places. The great
minds of that town
> >decided to spread the dog poop with peanut butter, the dogs lick the
peanut butter off the
> >poop, go home and lick their owner's face, and so the dog owners realise
what is actually
> >being licked onto their faces, and so they learn to scoop the poop.
>> How would the owners even know what is in the dog's saliva? Aren't dog
> owners already aware that dogs lick many things far less sanitary than
> their owner's faces? I think if the city really wants to offend the
> dog owners, and are willing to go to all this trouble, they should
> package it up and mail it to them via parcel post.
>> This has to be the weirdest thing I have heard in a long time... try
> to picture this scenario..... city representatives in suits and ties
> down on their hands and knees on the sidewalk and in the parks,
> carefully painting piles of dog poop with Skippy. Somehow, it's like
> a surreal scene out of a very bad comedy.
And how do they ensure that the same dog that did the deed is the one that
licks it up? Do they follow every dog around and do it right away to make
sure it isn't a different dog whose owner is more responsible? Sounds
ridiculous enough that it has to be an urban legend.
