Red Head Talking Episode 2

...is all about litter and damned if it isn't funny:-)

Dog Crap

Come on people I love dogs too, all that tail wagging and good times for all, and unconditional love and what have you, but let's face it when you have a dog in the city if you don't clean up after your animal defecates on the side walk it makes the city a well, [insert obvious pun here] .

Just down the block from my home in Astoria there's a section of sidewalk that my wife an I call the mine-field and with good reason. It used to be that the beasts (large and small) would stop to do their business right in front of our house (we have the only tree on the block but that's another post) so one of my neighbors and I put up signs stating that the new fine for not picking up dog crap is $200.00 (not as if it's enforced) which may have at least put the fear of the city in them. - I suppose that the more literate canines took the time to read the signs, and wandered along a bit further to get rid of last nights reconfigured kibble, but it's not a solution - to move it out of our immediate eyesight when we look out the front window.

What we live in is called a neighborhood for a reason: it contains neighbors. Time to step up and start acting like it. So, stop on by so I can pet Fido on the head, and you can watch indulgently as he humps my leg.