Many trails and parks around Colorado offer pet waste bag dispensers with reminders for owners to pick up after their pets. (Kristin Morin, Youhub)
I recently returned from a beautiful morning walk at a well-kept Denver park with my dogs in the Uptown area, and once again I had to rinse off my shoes due irresponsible dog owners not cleaning up their dogs messes.
In a city that loves its dogs, and as the dog population increases, I wonder if it s time for Denver to follow more and more large apartment communities and start collecting dogs DNA.
With DNA collection, irresponsible dog owners could be identified and held responsible for not cleaning up their messes; it would help identify lost dogs that are found; it would help identify dogs that have bitten someone if the dog is no longer on the scene; and it would help identify dogs that have attacked other domestic animals such as cats and chickens.
As part of the animal-loving community, to me it only makes sense for the city to address an ever-growing problem before it all piles up.
Jeff Dorrell, Denver
This letter was published in the April 14 edition.
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