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What will dog owners do now? With apparently no better issues to solve in a city facing massive infrastructure and budget woes, L.A.’s city council spent an inordinate part of the week debating, and ultimately voting for, a ban on plastic shopping bags. (A 10-cent surcharge on paper grocery bags also goes into effect.)
Dateline>City of Angels predicts that the ugly, unintended consequences will soon include an increase in doggie-doo along city sidewalks and greenbelts. L.A. Times
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Oh, those poor poor dog owners whatever shall they do? It wasn’t that long ago in our collective past that we can all recall a day when there were no plastic bags readily available for dog owners to pick up their Pooch’s “residoo”. They picked up poop then too (well most did anyways) the lazy bunch didn’t attempt until the big bad city governments started passing fines against it. Bad Government! Bad Government!!
I would assume that you would be rejoicing in this latest LA City Council decision. This being the 2nd largest city in the country, it will open up a huge gap in the market…Hmmm! Here comes human ingenuity and good old fashioned American entrepreneurship to the rescue.
In the meantime I am certain that Doggie Walkers from The Palisades to Echo Park can content themselves with using heavy duty paper bags, plastic drink containers (which have not been banned unfortunately), and heck even Trader Joes reusable bags. :)
As far as the city government not considering solving our budget woes, I offer the following for your consideration: http://articles.latimes.com/2012/may/24/local/la-me-holland-20120524
Happy Memorial Day Weekend. No worries about stepping in doggy poo, Pasadena as of yet has not considered such a ban. :D