Cleaning Up After Your Dog is Serious...

• There are an estimated 70 million dogs depositing over 20,000 tons of waste every single day in the United States.
• Dog waste carries fecal E.coli bacteria, viruses, and internal parasites, which can be a significant hosts of both Giardia and Salmonella—which are communicable and harmful to humans—especially children and the elderly.
• The EPA identifies pet waste as a major contributor of nonpoint source pollution. In just one example it was cited... "for watersheds of up to twenty-square miles draining to small coastal bays, two to three days of droppings from a population of about 100 dogs... contribute enough bacteria and nutrients to temporarily close a bay to swimming and shellfishing."
• Germany and Great Britain are taking the issue of pet pollution so seriously, that in some jurisdictions pet owners are required to have their dogs' DNA on record for identifying the animal in the event of a complaint.
• Contrary to popular belief, carnivorous animals such as dogs do not produce usable manure-fertilizer for plants. Beneficial manure-fertilizer comes from herbivores (like cows and sheep) which, in turn, consume vegetation and return unused waste back to the soil to be taken up by plants.
• Virtually every municipality, park authority, and homeowner association has adopted laws requiring pet owners to remove their dog's waste from any property other than their own—with failure to comply punishable by fines.
• While there are many reasons dog owners give for not cleaning up after their pets, knowledge about the adverse health and environmental impact is rarely mentioned.

Lawn Dog Sign Highlights...

• Homeowner/designer's pet peeve results in first-of-its-kind, consumer-friendly lawn sign designed to reduce pet pollution at the grassroots
• The Lawn Dog has been adapted by homeowners, HOAs, property managers, and municipalities nationwide.
• The Lawn Dog was unanimously endorsed by the Central Hollywood Neighborhood Council, Hollywood, Calif.
• The Lawn Dog is chosen to appear in several publications.
• The Lawn Dog now adorns front lawns in every state in America and in Puerto Rico.

Why we developed the Lawn Dog...

• No existing product addresses the awareness of dog poop as pet pollution in such a serious, yet attractive, functional, and informative design.
• Existing products present offensive graphic images of a defecating dog, and say nothing about the social, lawful or environmental responsibility of dog owners to clean up their dogs poop.

"Most of the animal dung in New York City comes from dogs. Estimates of the dog population vary widly, but 1 million is a good guess. Assuming 99 percent of all dog owners pick up after their dogs, that still leaves 10,000 dogs whose poop is left in public spaces every day."

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