Oh...POOP!

I was thinking about a conversation I had recently about converting poop into fuel or energy. As I was doing the respectable bag and scoop this AM, I was reminded of this conversation. The thought did occur to me that bagging doggie poop and then disposing of it in the way that is regulated by NY State law is actually containing the poop but really you cannot do anything with it because it is in a non-biodegradable bag and so it stays, forever and ever. It is basically preserved for all eternity in its plastic chamber. That's gross. I laughed when I read this article because it described the very thoughts that I had had. Someday, when we are all gone and some alien species is investigating our remains, they will find these bags of poop and wonder what makes it so precious that we saved them, each and every one of them. Perhaps they will use it to cure a fatal illness or as an energy source to save their world. For whatever purpose, I'm sure there must be one otherwise, why else would we choose to save our dog poop in the manner that we do? Why not use biodegradable bags? It makes more sense for us to find a biodegradable yet safe way to dispose of dog poop.

http://abcnews.go.com/US/story?id=1813414&page=1

I found this article, although amusing, to be sad and disturbing as well.

http://www.gothamist.com/archives/2006/02/01/pooo.php

I remember well that my neighbor across the street had an adorable mutt named Snoopy. Snoopy was famous for her...well, poopie. She would be let out and allowed to trot happily across the street to make her famous drop on the strip of lawn lining our sidewalk. She would happily and fairly deposit her deeds on almost everyone's strip of lawn, you know, that useless strip of lawn that divides the sidewalk with your car? That's the part of the lawn that basically serves as a doggie toilet for most suburban dogs. Well, Snoopy would happily do her deed and then trot back home to get a kind pat on the head from her owner, Bruno. Well, this went on for many many years and never do I remember her owner ever coming to scoop da poop. It would remain on our lawn to be scooped by us or our neighbors and not once did we ever get together to form a lynch mob or community arrest on this neighbor, we just scooped the poop. I guess it's a different, less tolerant world we live in now or maybe we just find ways to be mean to each other. Who knows? All I know is Katie does her deed in the backyard, we scoop it and dispose of it in the manner of our towns regulations and that's that. What do city people do? I would think they do the same, scoop their poop and then drop it off wherever the city demands it be dropped. Where is that? I caught this article and laughed...a doggie poop DNA bank. Yeah, that'll be a great use of our taxpayers money. Just scoop the darned poop already!

http://www.gothamist.com/archives/2005/10/02/a_modest_dog_pooprosal.php

Oh no...this goes way back even further than I imagined and here lies a huge post on dog poop and the public humiliation of a girl whose dog pooped on the train and she didn't pick it up. The aftermath was a posting of her photo and identification for life as the "dog poop girl!" or in Korean it is gae-ttong-nyue or dog-poop-girl. Whoa. That is a title that could be held top rating as the all time worst nickname anyone could ever have. Yikes.

Wow! Here is the law...

http://www.doglaw.com/New-York-City-Laws/new-york-dog-poop-law.html

And finally, my last word on da poop...

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pooper_scooper

So it's $600.00 fine and the ticket can be given to you by any of the park's recreation workers. AND you can be identified through DNA in your dog's poop. Incredible. Well, in our world of microchipping your dog to locate it, now you can do a DNA ID of your dog through poop. And we still cannot find the treatment for cancer...what are we wasting our research money on?