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Geez, Toronto can do something about it's doo - doo problem, " Star gets action: High Park doo-doo dilemma", but what to do with Doo - doo the Croat munchkin?

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CUNTICA

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May 21, 2013, 12:39:47 AM5/21/13
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Star gets action: High Park doo-doo dilemma closer to being solved as
Toronto grants dog owners new bins in off-leash area

Toronto dog owners will manage the disposal of two new garbage bins
inside High Park’s off-leash area.


A Toronto man’s nearly year-long crusade against dog poop in High Park
has finally seen a victory.


The city agreed to start a pilot program with Ed Wugalter and a team
of volunteers to introduce two garbage bins inside the park’s off-
leash area, saving dog owners a walk to the bins outside the
enclosure.


Wugalter, who regularly visits the off-leash park, told the Star
earlier this month that the two bins located outside at the
enclosure’s entrance and exit were too far for dog owners,
particularly seniors. They were expected to either hike over to the
bins to dispose of their dog’s waste, or carry around a bag heavy with
dog poop until they were ready to leave.


Wugalter’s group will get two black garbage bins with litter written
on the side delivered to them next week. He said they’ll roll these in
and out of the enclosure to be emptied as required.


“I feel very happy but I am a bit apprehensive about whether we can
make it work,” Wugalter said. “I hope to make the experience of
bringing a dog to High Park more pleasant.”


The city had rejected Wugalter’s earlier requests for bins because
they were too heavy to move through mud and snow and because it was a
health and safety issue for employees to be inside the off-leash area.
When Wugalter proposed that his group of volunteers would manage
rolling the bins in and out, he was told it was unionized work.


After reading about Rob Orpin, the city’s director of collections and
litter operations, in a Star story, Wugalter contacted him and
arranged to meet him at High Park Friday afternoon.


“Operationally, the city doesn’t see a need for bins inside the actual
area,” Orpin said. “Ed and his volunteer group think there is a need
that will make it easier for him and the dog-walkers there so we’re
working together. His volunteers are going to try the bins out and see
how they work and we’ll go from there.”


Orpin expects they will be able to tell if the program is working in
the next three or four weeks.


The pilot program is only for this area, he noted. He does not expect
similar requests to be made from other off-leash parks.


“We haven’t had any complaints about bins from anywhere else,” he
said.


Orpin said there are litter and recycling bins at all four gates of
the small dog park area. “It’s 100 metres to a bin.”


But Wugalter insists that distance was too far and it was creating
problems.


Bags of excrement would be left hanging on benches or on the ground
where other dogs would eat them, he said, either because people were
tired or they’d forget to pick them up on their way to the exit.


Instead of a pleasant experience, taking their dogs to the park was
“becoming something we had to endure,” Wugalter said.


With the new bins, “there will be less of this malfeasance,” he said.


Wugalter only has three volunteers on board so far but he said he
doesn’t expect much difficulty in gaining more.


There is one problem, however, that he’s still working to solve. “I’m
concerned that some people might be off put by the smell emanating
from the bins.”


His plan for now is to try covering the bins with large garbage bags
to mask the stench.

The Peeler

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May 21, 2013, 7:38:17 AM5/21/13
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On Mon, 20 May 2013 21:39:47 -0700 (PDT), CUNTICA
<brianla...@yahoo.com> wrote:

>
>Star gets action: High Park doo-doo dilemma closer to being solved as
>Toronto grants dog owners new bins in off-leash area
>
>Toronto dog owners will manage the disposal of two new garbage bins
>inside High Park�s off-leash area.

No, more shitting, on the grass for you Brian! <BB>
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The Peeler

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May 21, 2013, 8:22:28 AM5/21/13
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On Tue, 21 May 2013 13:46:44 +0200, The Rectu, the resident,
psychopath of sci and scj, FAKING his time zone, again and
IMPERSONATING his master, The Peeler, wrote:

>On Tue, 21 May 2013 04:38:17 -0700, The Rectum, the resident psychopath of
>sci and scj, FAKING his time zone again and IMPERSONATING his master, The
>Peeler, wrote:
>
>
>>>Star gets action: High Park doo-doo dilemma closer to being solved as
>>>Toronto grants dog owners new bins in off-leash area
>>>
>>>Toronto dog owners will manage the disposal of two new garbage bins
>>>inside High Park�s off-leash area.
>>
>> No, more shitting, on the grass for you Brian! <BB>
>
>Well, that must be good news for me, The Rectum, I'm THE Usenet's official toilet
>and urinal! <BG>

You ARE psycho! <GB>
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