Despite what some of our commenters might think, no one likes excrement. (Well, except a few exceptions who prove the general rule.) So it is not surprising that most people don’t like dog excrement. I don’t like it, and as I try to abide by the Golden Rule, I pick up my dog’s poop.
A local story about human poop in a playground, reminded a friend that at least one town was into testing dog poop for DNA in order to bust the dog owners who are derelict in their duties.
The town was Ipswich, and the idea is spreading. Startup DNA test labs like this one have sprung into action.
The plan will only work if they have a doggie DNA database, which means demanding the DNA of every dog.
Sorry, I pick up my dog shit, but they’re not getting DNA from my dogs!
This kind of crap is invasive busybody government at its worst.
And don’t expect them to stop with dogs.
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3 responses to “Government assholes keep out!”
How would you feel about an apartment complex or POA requiring residence to register their dogs dna as part of residency for the sole purpose of holding non-picking up offenders responsible? Fining those who don’t clean up their pets messes. The fine being the cost of the test and an added fee. I’d gladly give up your pet’s anonymity to stop having dog crap in the street and on the sidewalks. But maybe that’s the rub, forcing everyone to give up some privacy to make a few tow the line usually leads bad places.
Well, I’d never live in a place where you petty-minded twits have power over my living situation. Hell, I might even add some of my own to give your DNA testers a bloody good jape. Oh, and it’s toe the line. 😉
Has it ever occurred to you that your need to micro-manage your environment and the people in it to ensure that nothing ever goes out of your desired spec incites in some humans an almost pathological need to make sure that you see everything you’re trying to avoid and that no priggish officiousness will stop that? Some of us take great enjoyment in goring your ox, mainly because your responses are so predictable.
Wonder how long you’d last next to a VT dairy farm? Don’t bother complaining, as State law says if the farm was already there and you voluntarily moved in next to it, you are not the offended party. The next few weeks will be prime spreadin’ time. ‘Tis the smell of spring in VT. Smells far better than mud season.
It’s pretty clear you’ve not read much of this blog.
Cap’n Ned said (wrote):
Don’t bother complaining, as State law says if the farm was already there and you voluntarily moved in next to it, you are not the offended party
Exactly the right policy to have. I have little patience with the newly suburban folks who move out to the “country” adjacent to ongoing agricultural operations that predate their presence by decades or even a century or so, and then feel like they have the prerogative to shut down those operations cuz they’re stinky or noisy.
We had a farmer tasered for baling hay at night which he’d been doing for going on 40 years cuz some newly suburban scum bag made a noise complaint.
He and his buddies got their revenge, though. They waited until fall and the prevailing winds were right and disked part of his land that was upwind of the subdivision. For 10 days. Leaving everything in that housing project coated with a generous helping of dirt.
Funny how the next spring/summer, no one made a noise complaint.