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Opinion: Owners need to clean up their dog messes

Why don’t people carry a bag or something to help clean up after their dog messes?
Dog poop bag
Two-legged owners need to clean up after their four-legged friends.

I live in the West Austin apartments in the Hart.

When I go shopping at Save-On-Foods or Shopper's Drug Mart, I do walk down the sidewalk. It is not uncommon to see trash thrown about and cigarette butts thrown down, but the worst I have seen are dog messes.

Why don’t people carry a bag or something to help clean up after their dog messes?

How responsible are the two-legged owners?

Please, if you pay a dog walker or someone in your family takes your dog, please take a bag and some kind of stick to clean up after your beloved pet. Then if you do, you are helping to keep sidewalks clean.

We have small children in these apartments. Would you want a dog mess brought into your house on someone's shoes? Please be responsible.

Kay Wendland

Prince George