DOG poop really
freaks some people
out. I have two big
dogs, I ought to
know.

Hf vou live in the city and
you own a dog, you must
come to terms with the fact
that vou are responsible to
clean up after him.

ft is an unpleasant task
no matter how vou deal
with it, but if vou don’t deal
with it, vou can pretty well
bet that sooner or later
someone is going to get
really mad at vou.

In all likelihood, vou and
vour dog will eventually be
caught leaving a mess bv
cither a non-dog lover
(these types are prone to
extreme crankiness), or a
dog owner who, himself,
cleans up his dag’s mess
(these gentle folks carry
extra plastic bags and are
much friendlier).

You may even get

“caught in the act” by a
municipal bylaw officer, in

Close to
home

which case vou are eligible
for a $25 fine.

If vou think that’s rude,
in Toronto vou have to pay
3 $100 fine for leaving dog
poop around. (Easterners
are very serious about their
dog poop.)

So you had better get
with the program dog own-
ers, and clean up your crap!

In my considerable expe-
rience cleaning up dog poop
T have tried several different
approaches.

When my dog was a
puppy I trained her to do
her business in a shallow
ditch at the side of the road,
out of the way of traffic.

I thought this was a good

the local

place for her to go, that my
neighbors would surely be

grateful for my thoughuul

Ress.

When mv own childven
started tracking the poy.
trom the ditch into ms
house [realized my mistakes.

Seems the ditch alse
serves asa “moat” for the
kids on my street

A doy trainer suggested
pushing the offending turds
into the street drains.

This clean-up svstem
worked neatly tor me until
Evan, our neighborhood
environmentalist, blew a
hairy at me one afternoon
for killing fish in the streams
that the water drains rm
into,

T had no idea that dog
poop is not environmentally
triendly.

Racked with guilt. [
resorted to discreetly fick:
ing my dogs’ poop under
shrabs or hedges with what
ever stick I could tind.

I figured that at the very
least, the poop would act as

serulier tor the plants as it
decomposed. Untortunarely
the stick thek method is nor
always accurate, and sonte:

times requires several

alte Mpls.

Otten FP would end up
with more aft a mess than i
staned out with.

Sull, the poop was aut of
sight and actually doing
came wood, Gr so E thought.
One dav P bepan to

random dug turds in
the muddle of Gur road, ali
squished down by caific and
reserabling road Fill,

The piles grew in number
daily, until the pavement was
a mass of fattened crud.

[ found this mose per-
plexing.

Then, early one morning
as T was setting. out the
garbage I heard loud cursing
coming trom somewhere up
the street.

A closer look revealed
that it was my neighbor the
lawyer, all dressed up in his
sitit and ready to go to
work.

not

Good riddance to Mister Kinsella

Dear Editor:

Timothy Renshaw must have spent Mr.
steepless nights worrying about the dire
consequences if he did not print the (Jan.
18) letter from failed federal candidate

Laws not
being
enforced

Dear Editor:

Where is the court. svs-
tem? Ifthe Crown prosecutor
and the magistrates began
enforcing the law with penal-
ties that fit the crime and
reflect the damages caused
against both owners (both
personal name of principals
and company names who
have responsibility for their
vehicles when on the road)
and licence suspension
against drivers who are sup-
posedly trained, but who
have failed to cheek their
brakes — it would be more
effective, while permits will
just place an extra burden on
the municipal office.

Owners must register
their vehicles every year
(hoth name of principal and
company name should appear
on the ownership) and infrac-
tions against their record
would, or should, make their
insurance very expe nsive.

Responsible owners and

drivers would just find per-”

mits another unnecessary tax.
What are our courts for, if
they are not enforcing, exist-
ing laws?

W. Clark

West Vancouver

Mailbox policy
LETTERS to the editor must
be legible (preterably type-
written) and include your
name, full address and ‘tele-
phone number, Published let-
ters may be edited for brevity,
clarity, accuracy, legality and
taste. Submi Jons can also be
faxed to 985-2104.

————

Warren Kinsella.

Kinsella’s letter shows much of
the reason he was rejected by the clee-
torate. The other was he went against one
of the best Members of Parliament North

Vancouver has had, who represented a

Ated white, m.p.

THE MAI

(Multilateral Agreement on Investment)

On Monday, February 23, 1998, the
Reform Party of Canada will move a
Motion in Parliament forcing the
Liberal Government to immediately
debate the MAI

Watch the proceedings LIVE on the
CPAC television channel

(Cable 58 on the North Shore, Surrey and
White Rock, Cable 70 in Richmond,
North Burnaby and Vancouver)

The debate will run from
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THIS IS YOUR OPPORTUNITY TO
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His face was flushed with
fury as he frantically Aurled
fractured turds prece by
Piece inte the streer.

Apparently he didn’t
appreciate the fertilizer.

A wise triend suggested
the plasue bag method,
which I now use Qhhough |
Just can’t believe that the
best way to get tid of the
stuff is to have it fermenting
in plastic bags at the land fill
sited.

Here’s why even the
highly touted plastic bag
method for dealing with dog
poap isnt perfect:

You have to have the
bags on vou ar all times.
Not all bags work.

Some have little holes in
them that vou discover too
Jace. Others are too bulky
and won's knot at the top,

The clear ones are gross.
Children and husbands are
unanimously allergic to ube
plastic bag method.

And it vour dog, like
mine, is prone to diarrhea,
you better have a pair of
rubber gloves on hand too.

Other members of my
family have stubbornly
applicd their own teckaiques
to deaiing with dog poop,

warranty
approved

Gg dung issue

despite my efforts to sell
them on the plastic bags.

One of my guys carries
an old hockey stick with him
when he takes the dogs tor
their nightly walk; another
uses his grandfarher’s sand
wedue for the job.

Thev clearly assume that
once airborne, dog poop
disintegrates inte the atmos-
phere.

The fact that none of our
agighbors will speak to us
betrays Ghat assumption.

Not oniv that, last sum-
mer the mailman refused to
deliver our mail for three
straight days because some-
one itt the stinky old hock-
ey stick beside the mailbox.

As for me, I slog it our
with the bags.

In fact, Pee come to the
point where T tore a full
turd bag with my head held
high.

There is no shame in
carting dog poop around in
bags, it simply means thar
vou care about the other
people in vour community,
even the cranky ones who
don’t like dogs.

Phew, [ feel better now.
For a while there [ thought
T might be sick.

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