Seattle Residents Testing Poop For DNA To Catch Crappy Dog Walkers

[Serendipity 7,821]

SEATTLE (AP) — Frustrated with dog owners who refuse to clean up after their pets, an increasing number of apartments in Seattle are opting to use DNA testing to identify the culprits.

The Seattle Times reports (http://bit.ly/1HxGgb2 ) that a company called BioPet Vet Lab from Knoxville, Tennessee, is providing its PooPrints testing kits to 26 apartment and condo complexes and homeowners associations in the region.

Erin Atkinson, property manager at Potala Village Apartments in Everett says the messes are all over.

"There was poop inside the elevators, in the carpeted hallways, up on the roof," Atkinson said. "They're lazy, I guess."

That's why, since February 2014, tenants have been paying a "one-time fee of $29.95 for DNA testing."

BioPet says in the past five years, the DNA test has been used in nearly 1,000 places around the country, and it's especially popular in Miami, Dallas, Los Angeles and other large cities.

The marketing took a little longer to reach the Northwest, but King-Snohomish-Pierce counties are opportune sites. They are home to about 811,000 dogs. Seattle has 50 percent more dogs than kids, the Times said. One study said the average dog poop weighs one-third of a pound and the dogs in that three-county region are responsible for about 268,000 pounds of droppings a day.

Atkinson says that after some initial fines, DNA testing is working at her complex, with two dozen or so dogs.

"One person was fined five times in one week," she said. "That's over $500. Now people clean up after their dogs."

The fines added up this way: $59.95 to have the poop tested, and $50 to the complex for the hassle of collecting the sample.

Atkinson says that residents at the complex are "mostly on board" for having their dogs' DNA tested.

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Information from: The Seattle Times, http://www.seattletimes.com

[Cocaine Heart 4,768]

I'll probably do the same 

[Swando 300]

In the area i live in there are soooooo many people who don't clean up after their dogs. So i can only welcome this change 

[Woolfsmck 2,763]

Sounds pretty shvtty...

[jomonster12 239]

I would do it too, I always have to pick up someone else's sh** by my house. I hate these people 

[LoveandMagic 1,731]

 

The Seattle Times reports (http://bit.ly/1HxGgb2 ) that a company called BioPet Vet Lab from Knoxville, Tennessee, is providing its PooPrints testing kits to 26 apartment and condo complexes and homeowners associations in the region.

 

Atkinson says that residents at the complex are "mostly on board" for having their dogs' DNA tested.

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Information from: The Seattle Times, http://www.seattletimes.com

​My hometown, making a difference one sh*t stain at a time. 

I also bet that the ones that aren't "on board" or the irresponsible owners who think it's everyone else's burden to do their job for them. I hate bad pet owners. 

[Serendipity 7,821]

​My hometown, making a difference one sh*t stain at a time. 

I also bet that the ones that aren't "on board" or the irresponsible owners who think it's everyone else's burden to do their job for them. I hate bad pet owners. 

​my only pet a fish!

[LoveandMagic 1,731]

​my only pet a fish!

​Easy waste management. 

[Serendipity 7,821]

​Easy waste management. 

​agreed #GETFISHESABANDONDOGS

 

.....................jk

[LoveandMagic 1,731]

​agreed #GETFISHESABANDONDOGS

 

.....................jk

​Lol! No! NOT FIDO!! LOL!!

I'm a first time cat owner myself. Strange creatures, those furry felines!

[Bloody hooker 6,445]

Can someone explain this to me? 

[Serendipity 7,821]

Can someone explain this to me? 

​there's a test to find out lazy dog walkers whose dog poop around the block

[Woolfsmck 2,763]

Can someone explain this to me? 

K...I will try to splain it ....

Some folks with dogs take them for a walk in their hood .... See

Said dogs go poo where they want.

Said folks don't clean it up.

Owners of propity where said dogs left said poo get mad.