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Dog poop piling up on public paths and trails

Shuswap/Okanagan dog owners reminded of the health and environmental hazards of letting poop lie
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The Salmon Arm Wharf is one of the areas in Salmon Arm where some dog owners have a tendency to not pick up their dog香蕉视频直播檚 poop. (Carli Berry/Black Press)

Dogs are pooping freely in several Salmon Arm parks, with some owners leaving it at that.

香蕉视频直播淚 get complaints, and the number of complaints have gone way up on the wharf, Little Mountain, Blackburn and Klahani 香蕉视频直播 way up from last year,香蕉视频直播 says Jason Chernoff, Salmon Arm香蕉视频直播檚 supervisor of parks, referring to dog feces on the ground.

The dog park in Klahani is better than it was, but the problems there are beyond its fences, on the ball diamonds and elsewhere, he says.

Even when the doggy bags the city provides at the entrance to parks are used, sometimes the full bags are chucked into the forest, left on the trails and, strangely, even tied up in trees.

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To reinforce the need for pet owners to clean up after their dogs, the city has increased its fees to match those of the Columbia Shuswap Regional District. The fine for 香蕉视频直播榝ailure to remove excrement香蕉视频直播 has jumped from $25 to $100.

While dog poop can be stinky and yucky to step in, it香蕉视频直播檚 also a potential hazard to health and the environment, says Mary Bermudez, someone who is very familiar with the subject.

Bermudez owns Poo Worx in Kelowna, which provides clean-up services to the City of Kelowna and outlying communities, including to individual dog owners.

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As a dog lover she was concerned about the diseases that dog feces can spread to dogs as well as humans. The Canadian Public Health Association lists nine human diseases that can be transmitted by dog poop, including E. Coli and Giardia.

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Before the snow arrived last year, Poo Worx went to the parks generating the most complaints for the City of Kelowna. At Paul香蕉视频直播檚 Tomb Trail in Knox Mountain Park, for instance, three of her scoopers and a vehicle picked up seven or eight five-liter buckets of dog waste.

Bermudez would like to launch an educational campaign reminding people that dog poop can be toxic. 香蕉视频直播淭hat feces you leave might make another dog sick.香蕉视频直播

Not only that, it can harm the environment. It can ultimately end up in streams and ponds and, once there, can help create algae because of its thirst for oxygen.

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Martha Wickett

About the Author: Martha Wickett

came to Salmon Arm in May of 2004 to work at the Observer. I was looking for a change from the hustle and bustle of the Lower Mainland, where I had spent more than a decade working in community newspapers.
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