PARIS: The days of carefree pooping on the pavement could be over for French poodles after a hard-line mayor introduced mandatory DNA testing to track dirty dogs.
Robert Menard said he was forced to act after street cleaners counted 1,000 turds in the center of the southern town of Beziers.
Police can now analyze doggy dejections to tail owners who fail to pick up after their pets. They will be made pay 120 euros ($135) to clean up the mess.
2 dogowneers face howls of disapproval
IIn ndonesia, two dog owners who married their mutts in a lavish “wedding” in a Jakarta mall faced howls of disapproval.
The pair shelled out 200 million rupiah ($13,350) — more than 40 times the minimum monthly wage — on the bash, in which they dressed their Alaskan Malamutes in traditional Javanese costumes.
It didn’t help that one of the women worked for President Joko Widodo, who has been lecturing the rich about not flaunting their cash as the country’s wealth gap widens.
“It’s wasting money and defying God,” one angry Twitter user wrote as the backlash grew. “Common sense has gone, trampled by the desire to show off.”
