Italienische Stadt ordnet Hundebesitzern an, den Urin wegzuspülen, andernfalls droht ihnen eine Geldstrafe von 500 Euro | Italien

It’s Italy: they will check and give fines the first week and then stop enforcing that law.

Wash away the urine but leave the poo for everyone to step in. Makes sense. 😃

A lot of people got a pet on impulse during COVID and now we are dealing with the consequences. Inconsiderate dog owners who don’t make an effort to train their dogs or clean after them. I am sick of people tying poo bags to the trees in the park and all the dogs peeing in the garage door of my building until they create a puddle of pee in the bottom of the ramp.

Finally. I thought I was crazy thinking thats its deranged whats happening in cities with dogs, asking myself if nobody else is bothered by the piss and shit from dogs

So hear me out:

A:
You start a city run laboratory.
Every dog owner has to give a DNA Sample from the dog.
You make a simple app to report dog poop: „poopy report“.
You hire people to collect poop and bring it in the lab.
A positive DNA match results in an automatic fine, the fine is matched to the owners wealth. Wealthy people pay much more. Repeated offenses result in forced social work additionally (trash cleanup for example).

B: starting from 2027 every dog owner must make a dog license (similar to a driver’s license), where you learn properly how to own, train and treat dogs. You can’t get a new dog without one. (Special cases are support animals of course.)

C: adopt this strategy for all larger cities in the entire EU.

Nothing against that order personally but what will happen when we inevitably have new water restriction measures this summer ?
I’m not saying that order’s impact on water consumption will be meaningful at all (hello datacenters), I’m just wondering if it’s even realistic to think people will abide by it in the upcoming circumstances

That Italian city should get ready for influx of new dogs in dog shelters.

Historically, when the cost of owning a pet (whether financial or purely logistical) increases suddenly, abandonment rates tend to spike.

Good.

Back when I was a kid every goddamn dog pissed right in front of entry door to our apartment building, the stench, especially in the summer, was nauseating. And of course their owners didn’t give a single fuck about it. I remember my my dad making some unholy concoction of vinegar, chilli powder and ground black pepper and pouring it in their favorite piss spots to keep them away.

Oh god this needs to spread please.

Now, as more people are foregoing having children, they’re choosing to have dogs. Oftentimes in conditions that aren’t really, err, reflective of an „animal lover“ (tiny apartments and hunting breeds…), and to top it all off, this had led to cities being noticeably dirtier in the last decade.

Measures like this, aside from immediately alleviating the cleanliness issue, also can serve to make people think twice about getting a living being under the guise of „yeah I’m not having children, so the easy and careless version of that“. Having dogs should be a large responsibility.

They want dog owners to wash away urine? Like when a dog pisses against walls and stuff?

Sounds kinda hard to enforce to me.

I completely agree that we should prosecute dog owners not picking up dog shit. I have literally called it out in person before where I live. Washing away urine though seems quite excessive in my opinion, especially when the more egregious offence of dog shit not being picked up is NEVER fined.