Students, neighborhood activists and youth movement trainees, will participate in an extensive awareness campaign for collecting dog feces
The Municipality of Haifa is currently embarking on an extensive publicity campaign to raise public awareness of the nuisance caused to residents as a result of leaving dog excrement in public areas and on sidewalks.
The operation, entitled "Going Clean", takes place in the first phase in the neighborhoods of Ramat Sapir and Ramat Chen, in cooperation with the neighborhood committees, from the Sapir community center,
The builders school and the middle school of the city school C. In the next step, the operation will be extended to other neighborhoods in the city.
Before the start of the operation, the doctors of the veterinary service met with the school students and their teachers explained to them the nature of the operation,
The actions to be taken as part of it, action teams were assembled and timetables were set for execution.
In the next step, the students will meet with dog owners, explain to them the activity taking place in the neighborhood and hand them a letter from the director of the veterinary service
who appeals to them to please adhere to the provisions of the law.
At the same time, the mayor will address a personal letter to all residents of the neighborhoods, in which he will ask for their help in helping to reduce the dimensions of the phenomenon that causes
A serious nuisance and harms the quality of life of the residents.
In the letter, the mayor writes, among other things: "One of the nuisances that cloud our lives in the city is the dog excrement on sidewalks and public gardens.
Only with the joint efforts of everyone, the city residents in general and the dog owners in particular, can we eradicate the daily nuisance that happens every day at our feet.
I am appealing to you - the residents of the neighborhood - to join in the effort and help us maintain the cleanliness and care of our city."
The municipal inspection teams will increase their patrols in the neighborhood and monitor the behavior of the dog owners. Dog owners who collect the dog feces will be noted
And they will receive a symbolic reward as a token of gratitude for their proper behavior.
Against dog owners who do not collect their dog's excrement, reports will be filed and a fine of NIS 430 will be issued.
The school students will design posters and flyers on the subject. A judging committee that will consist of representatives of the veterinary service, the neighborhood committees,
The schools and the Sapir community center will select the outstanding posters which will be published on the neighborhood bulletin boards and sent as flyers to all residents of Ramat Sapir and Ramat Chen.
Mayor Yona Yahav: "Not collecting dog excrement in the public domain is regulated by law, but the Haifa municipality does not see the city in enforcement but in education and information,
Because without the public's awareness and willingness to cooperate, it will not be possible to eliminate or even significantly reduce the phenomenon that disturbs many of the city's residents."
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The municipality of Haifa are scumbags. Put some signs and think that's the end of the job.
Haifa municipality, start enforcing!!!!!!!!!!!!! This is what they pay you for!!!!!!!
I have never heard of a Haifa dog owner who received a fine.
Put one inspector in the city who will issue fines between 06:00 and 08:00 in the morning.
This inspector will make his monthly salary in three days.
An inspector who will take only one neighborhood every day, at random, and you will see how the amount of shit on the sidewalks decreases.
Here in the French Carmel, I see endless dog owners who don't care about anything.
The dogs shit on the sidewalk and the owners of the dogs seem not to have seen it happen. There is no law and no justice.
A minute after that, 300 children pass by on their way to Leo Buck and step on the dogs' poop.
There is no enforcement. Everything is in B.L.T
I have a dog
And the neighbors have dogs too
If you don't give reports - it won't help. Whoever pays once will always collect.
Several times I politely offered a bag, in most cases I was told, thank you, no need, it's a small dog, or you shouldn't pick up from the ground or grass
But it stinks just as much!!!
Small or big - must be collected!!
A solution with poop bags is a great solution under two conditions:
1. Bags get tangled, otherwise it pollutes the city even more in an indirect way.
2. Give reports to those who do not collect.
I saw in one of the cities that there are beautiful boxes for distributing dog excrement collection bags. I looked it up and it turned out to be from an organization called Clear-Ad that provides them for free including bags. I contacted them to understand this and they explained to me that it is exactly like that. All the municipality has to do is contact them for assistance and from there everything is their responsibility. They are not disobedient and try to help everyone who turns to them. Sounds weird but it works. They explained to me that they are a body that finds the necessary budget for the municipality to establish this project as well as for the ongoing financing. I contacted them to get details via email [email protected] And they came back to me. Maybe the people up there will be able to embrace the opportunity.
Yes, I saw new beautiful signs.
Maybe we should invest in inspectors who will walk the roads and especially in public parks and give reports to the disgusting people.
I have a dog and I really don't understand what is so difficult to pick up! Why does my child have to walk in the public garden and step on shit? Why do I have to make sure he doesn't put it in his mouth? Where are the inspectors??
Bless you for the activity.
I walk every morning in the streets of the flowers, Disraeli and Netka and I meet landmines every time
of dog feces.
Really disgusting.
I go and keep my eyes open not to step on the mines.
Rachel Moran
And maybe during an awareness campaign why shouldn't the city be littered with stickers?
And also an enforcement operation against all kinds of bodies and companies that put posters with glue on electrical cabinets and walls?