2015/04/07

Seattle Times April 3, 2015: Dog-poop DNA tests nail non-scoopers     

And you thought that at least your dog’s intestinal movements would be, you know, a private thing.

Just you and Rex at the park, or maybe by your neighbor’s hedge, in that spot where that neighbor can’t spot you two.

Bad dog, Rex. Here are the double helixes that prove it.

A company called BioPet Vet Lab, out of Knoxville, Tenn., says its PooPrints testing kits are now in 26 apartment and condo complexes and homeowner associations in greater Seattle.

You see, some of the tenants, they let their pets do their business pretty much anywhere.

“There was poop inside the elevators, in the carpeted hallways, up on the roof,” says Erin Atkinson, property manager at Potala Village Apartments, a 108-unit complex in downtown Everett.

In the elevator?

“They’re lazy, I guess,” says Atkinson about the dog owners. “I don’t know why.”

That’s why, since February 2014, tenants have been paying a “one-time fee of $29.95 for DNA testing.” more