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Article: Attention, dog owners! Time to clean up your act: It's more than a matter of courtesy. There are health and safety issues, too.
- Article from:
- Akron Beacon Journal (Akron, OH)
- Article date:
- May 20, 2006
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Byline: Connie Bloom
May 20--If you own a dog, you're guilty. At one time or another, or maybe many -- perhaps routinely -- you've delivered your dog to the edge of private or public property where he or she has deposited a steaming pile of poop. Then you strolled off. It isn't pretty.
A grievous offense, this topic is long overdue in this column, an essential conversation of springtime when most neighborhoods are all aflutter over their lawns and gardens. My pretty yard in Highland Square seems to be a magnet for hound mounds. Even when I emerge from my digs in protest, the humans gallop off, dogs in tow, or make up excuses. Their ...