By Long Gang and Wan Yan
Dog Owner Registration Certificate and regular vaccination are compulsory for all dog owners; dog owners have to bring napkins or bags and clean up dog pooping when walk the dog; all dogs have to wear pet collar traction rope and large dogs need to wear mouth-muffles when walk the dog; loudly chat is not allowed among dog owners when walk the dog. The journalist noticed that all the dog owners received civilized dog raising notifications from “Dog’s Mother Patrol” in Jiangjiaqiao Community, Ouyang Road Sub-district. The relevant person in charge of the sub-district told the reporter that every new dog owner would receive a civilized dog raising notification in the community.
In fact, such measures and rules for regulating uncivilized dog raising behaviors are not only promoted in Ouyang Road Sub-district, but also in many other sub-districts in the district.
In recent years, with the improvement of living standards, people pay more and more attention on the pursuit of spiritual life. Quite a few people take raising dogs as pleasures, while the conflicts associated with raising dogs are standing out day by day. The local has found out that uncivilized behaviors from dog owners are the most offensive problem in creating urban civilization in a previous research. The research implied that the problem of “misgoverned dog owners” has bothered managers in the communities, and bring endless troubles to the citizen’s life; the public issued a strong appeal on eliminating “misgoverned dog owners”.
“Since the public provoke the strongest intense, we should start regulating from here.” The relevant departments and sub-districts do not regulate hard-and-fast rules, but push the dog owners starting hot discussions, expressing their own opinions and providing plans by themselves. Thus, they set up “Dog’s Mother Patrol” and pets toilets, pet poop cabins, shoot micro film for civilized dog raising...... “The idea that asking dog owners to provide dog raising proposals has an advantage. Therefore, dog owners would know how to raise dogs in a civilized way and do no harm to the public interests and morals. ”
Garden City in Guangzhong Sub-district is a beautiful residential district. But in the past, the dog owners like to walk the dog in the neighborhood every morning and evening. Many dogs ran wild around the neighborhood and often suddenly rushed from the bushes. The residents exercised in evening would be frightened into cold sweat by the dogs, especially for the aged. Shen Jianhua, a resident here, told the journalist that some residents often slipped down by stepping on the dog-poop and they were quite unsatisfied with this.
How to solve the problem of dog pooping and peeing everywhere? The residents discussed and reached an agreement on how to classify the services and meet needs of different people. Eventually, the property planned to use a special area to create a Pet Garden for those keeping pets. This Pet Garden will be equipped with some devices like pet walkway, slide, jumping circle and so on, with which, the dogs can enjoy playing while their owners exchanging the breeding experiences beside.
Moreover, many pet toilets have been set up besides the flower bed and lawn in this neighborhood. According to the staff from Garden City Neighborhood Committee, Jingrui property has specifically made cartoon pet poop cabins coordinated with the surrounding environment. Some community volunteers put waste newspaper into the cabins so that the dog owner could use it to clean dog’s droppings conveniently.
The head of Civilization Office said that making rules and measures for dog owners is to enhance the public awareness of “Civilized Dog Keeping” and promote the construction of urban civilization, developing a good habit of civilization.