No Pooping in Community Spaces
How Much Bacteria is in Dog Turds?
A single gram of dog feces can contain 23+ million fecal coliform bacteria.
A single dog produces about .75 pounds of waste per day, which adds up quickly in urban environments.
INFORMATION
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01
It's disgusting...
The 100 degree turds contain millions of bacteria and parasites. It is UNTREATED RAW SEWAGE plopping onto the ground. Unless you are waiting to catch the warm steamy turds, even after removal, traces of fecal bacteria and pathogens remain on the ground. And really, watching you witness the dog anus turning inside out, and bending over to smear it up...pretty disgusting.
02
It's lame...
Most rentals that allow dogs, prohibit them from using the property for your dog dumps. HOAs ban owners from toileting their animals in common areas. MANY homeowners refuse to allow it in their own exclusive use yards! If there was no place where your dog was permitted to drop turds and pee on your own property, why was it reasonable to get a dog? **The solution is NOT to turn our neighborhoods into open-air sewage sites.
03
It's selfish...
It’s selfish because owning a dog is a personal choice, yet the consequences, the waste, contamination, and damage to shared spaces, are pushed onto everyone else. Neighbors, children, and wildlife are forced to live with the mess and environmental impact of a pet they did not choose to own.
It’s selfish because homeowners and park gardeners must spend time and personal and tax money repairing damage caused by dog waste.
Responsible ownership means managing your dog without shifting that burden onto the rest of the community.
04
Dogs kill wildlife...
To urban wildlife, a neighborhood full of dogs is not harmless, it is a landscape filled with predators and contaminated habitat. Dogs can and do kill wildlife, and this is well documented by conservation scientists. But ok, your dog doesn't chase animals...but those turds and all that piss- DOES.
The impact does not stop with people. Ground insects, birds, small mammals and larger wildlife all encounter the pathogens left in contaminated soil grass and water. Rain and irrigation wash those contaminants into storm drains and waterways, spreading disease through the entire eco-system.
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It is a public health hazard...
TURDS .75lb/dog/day
Dog feces is a public health hazard because it contains bacteria and parasites that contaminate soil and water and can infect humans and animals through contact with contaminated environments.
Los Angeles | 5.4 million dogs in Los Angeles County, produce an estimated 4.05 million pounds or 2,025 tons of turds every day!
San Francisco | with more 200,000+ dogs, roughly 150,000 pounds of dog feces or about 75 tons of turds every day!
URINE 0.5–1 liter of urine/dog/day
Dog urine contains HIGH levels of nitrogen and salt, it can carry bacteria such as the current outbreak of Leptospira. That is why all of the grass in the small parks is dead. Your dog piss killed the roots on the grass and trees.
Los Angeles= 1.07 mil gallons of dog urine PER DAY.
San Francisco=39,600 gallons of dog urine PER DAY.
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dog-waste bags...
Now consider the environmental catastrophe created by dog turd bags. Every year, hundreds of billions of plastic dog-waste bags are used worldwide, that will sit in landfills for decades or centuries. These bags are used for only seconds before being discarded, yet they encapsulate biological waste in plastic that will outlive the dog itself many times over. What was once simply animal waste in the environment has now become a second problem: millions of tons of plastic used solely to package turds and bury it in landfills.
Dog Owners
Are you an animal person?
Many dog owners claim their pets help them enjoy the outdoors. But if you truly love nature, why are you actively harming it?
Wildlife protection isn’t just about animals, it’s about safeguarding the shared ecosystems where birds, insects, plants, and other species survive, and where people can have a pleasurable outdoor experience.
Through waste pollution, wildlife disturbance, and damage to vegetation, dogs are steadily degrading so many of our city parks. What were once places to enjoy being outside are increasingly overrun with dogs buttholes out and urinating across lawns, gardens, and public and private spaces.
Studies have shown that domestic dogs have contributed to the extinction of at least 11 species and threaten nearly 200 others through predation, disease transmission, and habitat disturbance.
Doherty et al., 2017 , “The Global Impacts of Domestic Dogs on Threatened Vertebrates”
Published in the journal Biological Conservation.
Twice a day
~anonymous
A little leftovers
~anonymous
don't forget about the dogs turding and pissing in our oceans
~anonymous
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