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Started by Anonymous 18 years ago
Enact pooper-scooper bylaws, regulations requiring owners to clean up after their pets, and attach fines for infractions. The City of Agoura Hills should enforce what is commonly known in California as pooper scooper laws. Any person having the custody or control of any dog shall remove immediately any feces left by such animal on any public place and to dispose of such feces in a sanitary manner. City Municipal code should also require that anyone having custody or control of a dog in a public place shall have in their possession a device or equipment for the picking up and removal of animal feces. The only exemption to this statute is to any disabled person when the person\'s disability requires a dog to accompany the person or to a person using a dog in emergency or rescue activities. First time offenders can be given either a verbal warning from a police officer or Animal Services officer, be given a courtesy citation warning them of the violation, or be given a citation. Dog walkers typically let their animals defacate along the sidewalk and in the brush on the route to and from Yerba Buena Elementary School. It is both unsanitary and disgusting for our children to have to walk through these piles left by pet owners. Further, the stench to the residents bordering Reyes Adobe between Lake Lindero and Yerba Buena is toxic. Dog droppings have become a scourge, a form of environmental pollution no less dangerous and degrading than the poisons that we exude and dump into our air and water. We further request that a fine be imposed for those pet owners who do not pick up after their dogs.

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August 17, 2008

I am truly stunned by the way this has grown. It never occurred to me that so many neighbors felt the same frustration about our streets. The credit for this momentum belongs entirely to you for speaking up.

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Daniel Arkoff
9 years ago Featured

This should apply to all of Agoura Hills, not just the area near Yerba Buena Elementary School.

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Sarah Iyer
18 years ago Featured

its so gross walking my kids to school and stepping in it every single day. seriously put in some trash cans or something

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Mike Lane
18 years ago Featured

the smell on reyes adobe is unbelievable when it gets hot out. people have no respect for their neighbors

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Lisa Iyer
18 years ago Featured

i see it all over by the park too. its not just by the elementary school its everywhere in town now

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Jessica Sandoval
18 years ago Featured

FINALLY. about time someone did something about this. people think they can just leave it wherever because they are in the brush

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Tom Dixon
18 years ago Featured

need fines or nobody will actually listen. same people do it every week

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Daniel Arkoff
9 years ago

I just discovered that Los Angeles County now has ordinance 10.40.066 that requires dog owners to pick up the feces of their dog: 10.40.066 - Waste Removal. A person who owns or has custody of a dog (except a visually-impaired person with a guide dog) is required to remove the dog's feces immediately from public property or private property not owned or possessed by the owner or custodian of the dog. The dog's feces must be disposed of in a sanitary manner. A violation of this section is an infraction punishable by a fine of up to $100. (Ord. 2016-0040 § 216, 2016.)

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Mike Resar
11 years ago

This needs to happen ASAP