Interesting that in England, they try to say that Poo Fairies don’t exist!). We believe that there are may be more poo fairies than poo cowards in the South Loop. The argument can be made, and we’ll follow up about this in a future post.

We have plans to print up South Poop poo flags now that winter is here again. As for handing out cards? Well, we gotta find the miscreants in the act, and they don’t seem to be doing it in broad daylight.

I guess… or train them to hop up on the toilet. The funny thing is how dogs can be so particular about where they go! And, their favorite place changes with time – She used to want to go poo by the pine trees, now she’ll only go poo on the patch of grass on the parkway! Last winter it was only along ‘poo alley’!

Interesting idea about Poop911. There’s a franchise in the area, and it looks like they offer ‘HOA, Apartment & Neighborhood’ ‘Commercial Pooper Scooper’ services. A quick punch-in on their services web form gives you something on the order of $25/visit, for weekly visits. I wonder if that would work for a neighborhood, and how much it would end up really costing.

On the other hand, long term, having a policy of ‘don’t worry, leave your crap behind, we’ll clean up after you’ can only come to a bad end. It’s already the thinking that the poo cowards that live around us must use – “who cares”, “somebody will clean up”, “it’ll go away”. Better to move towards personal and collective responsibility IMHO.

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Ha, we’ve been playing with the idea of making stickers, cards, or flags, but that’s something for the future – South Poop has only been around for two months! I do know that the South Loop Dog PAC has been handing out cards and flyers with ‘responsible dog ownership’ guidelines over the last several years. I think it’s open for discussion, though, whether phrases like ‘Scoop the Poop’ and ‘Stream on the Green’ are effective, or reach the right people. But if you support that effort, you can join them (or your local dog park group). And you can complain to your Alderman, but my guess is that the police have more serious things to deal with.

Dubi, I’m pretty sure that it’s just the circular grass area that’s off limits.

Z.E., I know there are a number of people who are willing to be Poo Fairies in the neighborhood. Thanks to you for the great term! I’m not one of them, though – I had a hard enough time learning to pick up my own dog’s poo. 🙂 As Anthill pointed out, if everyone were a Poo Fairy, there would be no problem. But if all dog owners accepted that owning a dog means picking up poo, there wouldn’t be a problem either…