Italian province orders all dogs to be DNA tested in poo crackdown

As a dog owner, I kind of love it and - despite it being a totally flawed plan - I share the exasperation that clearly caused them to dream up the idea.

It's so mind-bogglingly annoying treading in dog turd. Surely the dog owners who don't pick up their dogs poo have also experienced this and hated it?

It's got to the point where I now pick up other dogs poos just because I know if I don't do it I will likely end up treading in it myself at some point

Have you seen those peoples footwear( and homes)?!

It's the last thing on many of their minds.

Seems profitable for the testing lab. DNA testing is expensive. Some jurisdictions can't even clear their forensic evidence processing backlogs.

If I could think of a cliche population, from small towns, isolated from reality, prone to fight mosquitoes with a nuclear weapon, that would be exactly that

Cats are so much nicer in that respect.

Yes, automatically burying their output. Even thinking in ahead that there will be soft enough ground there, for the little, cute killing machine to be able to dig a hole.