Owners in Bolzano, northern Italy, must pay €65 for test, which police can use to search for dog muck culprits

Owners in Bolzano, northern Italy, must pay €65 for test, which police can use to search for dog muck culprits

Dog owners in Bolzano must submit their pets for DNA tests as the authorities in the northern Italian province crack down on the scourge of dog poo in the streets.

The swab test results will be inserted into a database, which police can then refer to in their search for the culprits and their owners. The evidence will be used to fine owners between €292 and €1,048 (£250 and £900).

The law required the estimated 45,000 dogs in the province, located in the mountainous Trentino-Alto Adige region, to undergo a DNA test at a veterinary clinic by the end of December 2023 before the initiative is introduced this month. But only 5,000 have complied, according to reports in the Italian press.

The measure has been contentious, especially among the dog owners who diligently clean up their pet’s poop and who are now obliged to pay €65 for the test.

  • Sneezycat@sopuli.xyz
    5·
    10 months ago

    What city in particular? I don’t regularly encounter shit on the street when I go outside lol and most definitely not enough for it to have a smell.

    • ExLisper@linux.communityEnglish
      8·
      10 months ago

      Maybe he lived in Spain 40 years ago? Or in literally the worst part of the shittiest village there.

    • AItoothbrush@lemmy.zipEnglish
      61·
      10 months ago

      I lived in calafell and i went to barcelona and segur de calafell a lot because they are pretty nice(except for the dog poo). Also one of my friends car got robbed in daylight in an elevated parking house… barcelona can be pretty dangerous for tourists and they warn you. We only went with train as it was literally free

      • ExLisper@linux.communityEnglish
        8·
        10 months ago

        That’s not northern Spain. Galicia, Asturias, Cantabria, Pais Basco - that’s northern Spain. Catalonia is in the east and it sucks. Northern Spain is very nice and clean.

        • AItoothbrush@lemmy.zipEnglish
          11·
          10 months ago

          Oh in school they told me that catalonia was northern spain but i guess thats just the hungarian educational system…

          • ExLisper@linux.communityEnglish
            2·
            10 months ago

            Did they teach you that Poles and Hungarians are like brothers? That’s what they thought me in Poland.

            • AItoothbrush@lemmy.zipEnglish
              1·
              10 months ago

              Yeah lol. They also had some wierd obsession with finnish people because of the tie between the hungarian and finnish language.

                  • ExLisper@linux.communityEnglish
                    1·
                    10 months ago

                    I’m thinking about moving to Finland for a year or two. What do you think? I mean not about moving with me. Just if it’s a good idea? I’m also quite antisocial. How good/bad is Finland?

    • thirteene@lemmy.world
      1·
      10 months ago

      Not op but I have been the convention center in Barcelona a couple times and the open sewage vents give the city a distinctive smell.