Louisville ordinance "be afraid, be very afraid"

    • Gold Top Dog
    Picking up dog poop is one thing ... somehow I just can't picture someone hopping down from a horse, scooping a giant poop pile into a huge plastic bag and looking for a trash can. [sm=rotfl.gif]That's not really what they're expecting, is it???
     
    Joyce
    • Gold Top Dog
    3) If you trail ride in the park, you must carry with you a "suitable device for the picking up, collection and proper sanitary disposal" of any manure dropped by your horse. Further, you must actually dismount, collect said manure, and dispose of it while maintaining control of your horse.


    So... instead of letting a horse poop on a trail in the park, where the poop will quickly dry out and fertilize the soil, horseback riders have to collect said poop in some sort of (probably plastic) container and dump it in the trash, where it will be shipped to a landfill where it will be buried in an oxygen-free environment and left unable to decompose for the next 100 years? And the "while maintaining control of your horse" part... I can just see a room full of bureaucrats arguing about how to properly legislate that one.

    And the "perturbation" clause is great. I think it would be perfectly fair... if we were allowed to have the same law for human children. Why is my tiny dog barking when someone comes to the door that much more disruptive than the neighbor's young kids squealing at each other as they play tag in the backyard? Noise is noise...
    • Gold Top Dog
    ORIGINAL: fuzzy_dogs_mom

    Picking up dog poop is one thing ... somehow I just can't picture someone hopping down from a horse, scooping a giant poop pile into a huge plastic bag and looking for a trash can. [sm=rotfl.gif]That's not really what they're expecting, is it???
     
    Joyce


    Actually, legally we are supposed to do that in the town that my horses barn is in (well, actually only on the road, but if they can find a way they'll make it the trail too).  I also work at that barn, which does public trail rides, and it is a pain in the arse.  We have to have a person rding behind everyone, ready to hop off and scoop at a moment's notice--lol.  We have a large kitty litter scooper and a bag we attacch to the saddle.  We are *techincally* supposed to completely remove the poo, but we actually bury/spread it out under leaves.