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Good Neighbor Guidelines for Dog Owners

With spring weather upon us, residents are increasingly heading out for walks and activities in our beautiful parks and neighborhoods. While dog owners have every right to enjoy the community with their canine friends, it’s important to be respectful of others for everyone’s safety and enjoyment. Being a responsible dog owner is not only the right thing to be out of respect for others around you who are trying to enjoy the community’s public spaces, but to ensure your pet’s safety and avoid any personal liability from a dog bite or car accident should you lose control of your dog.

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Is It OK to Toss Dog Poop Bags Into Other People’s Trash Cans?

I  come from a city where there are trash cans at every bus stop and every block on main streets and it’s easy and convenient to toss bagged dog poop. I recently moved to a more suburban but still metropolitan city where there are trash cans at every other bus stop and no public cans at intersections. When walking my dogs, I will occasionally throw bagged poop into other people’s curbside garbage canisters when it’s trash day and I see their bin hasn’t been emptied yet.

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Keeping Dog Poop out of my Trash Can

I live near a park.  Inevitably when I roll my trash can in, someone has already deposited a bag of dog poop.  Maybe it wouldn’t be so bad if the can were full and about to be emptied.  But I don’t want that in my can for a week.  And at the bottom there is risk the bag could puncture and release poop onto my can.  Maybe some folks don’t care.  It’s a trash can.  But I do.  I hate that smell and it just grosses me out.  Any tips to prevent others from depositing their dog poop there?  I’ve tried just dumping it back out into the street hoping someone would take the hint but so far no luck.

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