Pooh On Street

[mariano-BCN]

I know where I'm: Buenos Aires, the city of pooh on street. Never been in a city with so much pooh on street, where owners of dogs don't care about taking care of the excrements of their dogs. I try to watch every step but yesterday I stepped on pooh on both shoes. This happened in Palermo.

I wonder how other foreigners look at and deal with this issue. Am I the only one who is annoyed? And while looking for a place to buy I've now another criteria for finding a place: in a n'hood with more responsible citizens/owners of dogs. Any suggestions?

 

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Perhaps the city of BA should look at this as an opportunity. Similar to the littering, traffic infringements and unroadworthy cars driving around.
Where I come from these are all 'on the spot' fineable offences, and our local / state governments see these as great revenue raising opportunities for their coffers. The upside is that the local populace catch on after a while and stop doing it.

I am assuming that these type of infringements are law here, and if so, it only requires a crackdown and paradigm shift in thinking from the police force to enforce it. I have never seen a police office right up a ticket in my time here.

I suppose the next step would be collecting these fines. But in terms of imposing them, the cops back home have a performance based quota of tickets to right up, which is linked to their pay.

I don't see this as a long term solution, such as expanding the subway or wiping out football hooliganism. It's something that could be implemented almost immediately with a bit of 'get up and go'. Perhaps not everyone would embrace the 'get up and go' approach though?

 

[nikad]

I know where I'm: Buenos Aires, the city of pooh on street. Never been in a city with so much pooh on street, where owners of dogs don't care about taking care of the excrements of their dogs. I try to watch every step but yesterday I stepped on pooh on both shoes. This happened in Palermo.

I wonder how other foreigners look at and deal with this issue. Am I the only one who is annoyed? And while looking for a place to buy I've now another criteria for finding a place: in a n'hood with more responsible citizens/owners of dogs. Any suggestions?

I see how fast you are adapting to BA city life by practicing the biggest local sport aka brown skiing.

 

[nikad]

Jokes aside, I have lived here all my life, and I have noticed in the last 15 years that more people ( a lot more! ) own pets in the city, especially dogs - not sure if it is a trend or what. Also, several years ago, people would feed their dogs real/normal food, not balanced dog food, and the size of each pooh was 1/4 of what you see nowadays on the sidewalks - sorry tmi - but it is a valid point. at the same time I propose one could legally smack and punch each a****e that let´s the dog poop right in the middle ramps for strollers and handicapped. It is out of control. Some owners go out with bags, we do, but there are still too many that don´t. I vouch for Macri city´s signs and logos to be painted brown instead of yellow. That would reflect the actual situation in the city

 

[shoush]

Perhaps the city of BA should look at this as an opportunity. Similar to the littering, traffic infringements and unroadworthy cars driving around.
Where I come from these are all 'on the spot' fineable offences, and our local / state governments see these as great revenue raising opportunities for their coffers. The upside is that the local populace catch on after a while and stop doing it.

I am assuming that these type of infringements are law here, and if so, it only requires a crackdown and paradigm shift in thinking from the police force to enforce it. I have never seen a police office right up a ticket in my time here.

I suppose the next step would be collecting these fines. But in terms of imposing them, the cops back home have a performance based quota of tickets to right up, which is linked to their pay.

I don't see this as a long term solution, such as expanding the subway or wiping out football hooliganism. It's something that could be implemented almost immediately with a bit of 'get up and go'. Perhaps not everyone would embrace the 'get up and go' approach though?

you must be from Canada??? if not we got the same rules! and it works quite well there

 

[Caliexpat]

The problem is that there is no goodwill on the part of the City Government to improve this most serious problem and it certainly can be fixed with the minimum of efforts . This is my proposal and it will work like a dream . As we are all aware there are literally hundreds of cartoneros who rip open the garbage containers all day and night causing most of the litter problems in the city . Those same people could be productive members of our society and be given the chance to have a job that makes them feel part of our society and help to clean up the city once and for all . I would make them offical litter police and put them in a uniform and give them the right to issue on the spot fines to offending people who litter . With the help of a backup team they can get this city in clean order quickly and people who do not pay their fines can have their license cancelled or other punitive measures can be applied making 99% think twice about littering .

Some people might believe that this is heavy handed but in a Latin society the only way to enforce order is with the strict and utter power of the law . Litter and its effects destroys the beauty of the city and the general ambience of its streets and cafes . Tourism also is seriously affected as many people do not return to Buenos Aires due to the untidy and disorderly state of the streets .

The cost to the state to implement the litter police proposal will be very low and will self fund due to the revenue collection and the increased tourism that Buenos Aires will attract . Also the cartonero problem will be resolved and they will now have a important job and dignity !

 

[John.St]

I know where I'm: Buenos Aires, the city of pooh on street. Never been in a city with so much pooh on street, where owners of dogs don't care about taking care of the excrements of their dogs. I try to watch every step but yesterday I stepped on pooh on both shoes. This happened in Palermo.

I wonder how other foreigners look at and deal with this issue.

We walk barefoot to keep our shoes clean.

It is (mostly) a BsAs problem. One of the times we discussed the problem (a couple of years back) somebody suggested planted a small Argentine flag in each sh*t - it has worked well elsewhere.

In e.g. Mendoza town you have to search for 10 or 15 minutes to find a single dogsh*t.
Out here it is not on the sidewalk, it's on somebody's sidewalk and if your dog litters it and you don't pick up, you'll hear about it for months to come.

 

[internationalguy]

Why haven't I really felt this is such a big deal? When I was reading the forums before coming down here I thought there would be almost enough poop to shovel it. I don't know if it's because of where my apt is, but I really don't see THAT much. And I walk almost everywhere. That notion that you have to dodge poop every step you take, well, I just don't see it. Sure I see some, and maybe 30% of the sidewalks are in rough shape. But is it really that big a deal? Maybe gets much worse in the summer.

 

[shoush]

To be fair, I see many people cleaning after their dogs in my neighborhood!

 

[Farenheit]

Yesterday I skidded for about a metre down the sidewalk. I thought I had slipped on soapy suds as someone was washing outside their door nearby, but I had stepped in a big mushy pile of dog s*^t, haha! Fortunately there was some new paving laid down at the nearby Metrobus shelter that had convenient bobbles on it for scraping the s%^t off my shoe! #BadKarmaDay...