The first massive snowfalls back in December prompted a run on snow shovels and snow blowers. Denver retailers couldn’t keep them on the shelves.
Well, a few days of temperatures in the 50s produced a run on another cleanup tool – poop scoopers. Not surprising, I suppose, given that Denver has an unusually high per-capita dog ownership and we had seven or eight straight weeks of snow on top of more snow that just kept covering up a problem that is only now starting to reveal itself.
I spent a good part of last Sunday tiptoeing around my back yard with a two-piece poop scooper, defusing landmines left the past two months by my two dogs. Going about this business reminded me of the five years I spent in Anchorage, Alaska, where it snows a ton and doesn’t melt one iota from about Halloween until mid-March. Anchorage has a lot of dog owners too, and
they’re rather negligent — hey, Alaska’s a lawless land — when it comes to picking up after their animals.
So you can imagine what some of that city’s parks look like (and smell like) when the snow finally melts. That’s why around mid-April the City of Anchorage holds an annual “Scoop the Poop Day” in which citizens are encouraged to come out and help rid the parks of poop. I checked to see if Denver’s parks were experiencing a similar problem.
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