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The Department of Environment and Urban Quality and the Department of Health and Social Services have joined efforts to conduct a campaign that seeks to promote coexistence between dog owners and other citizens.
The City Council will install a total of 600 signs in parks and gardens whose purpose is to remind Murcia can not let their dogs to parks or playground areas of the gardens.
The signals, which is inscribed "Help us keep it clean. Take me to another site. Here I can not" be installed in both urban gardens as hamlets.
There are two types: sloping panels, which are measures 50x45x67 inches, and other vertical, 50x10x80 cm.
From each of them will install 300.
The objective of this measure is to preserve the green areas, preventing deterioration and dirt that can cause dogs.
For its part, the Department of Health, which runs Fulgencio Cervantes, deliver 5,000 leaflets and 5,000 canine toiletries (pouch with pockets inside and a harness strap to hang on the dog) for citizens to collect the feces of their dogs.
This initiative is part of the campaign 'Do not give the singing.
You do not turn red. "
In addition, people who do not pick up after their dogs may be fined between 30 and 300 euros, according to Article 27 of the Municipal Ordinance on Protection and Animal Holding Company (adopted in 1996 and renovated in 2002).
Under that legislation, "the keeper of an animal must take the necessary measures to prevent dirty roads and public spaces and in the case of no stool in the street, people leading the animal are required to collect the where they deposit them. "
In recent years have increased the penalties arising from allegations of local police to citizens who do not collect the feces of their pets.
Thus, 2006 saw 21 penalties, 42 in 2007 and 62 in 2008.
Cervantes states that the citizens should be aware of the responsibilities involved in pet ownership and respect due to other neighbors littering the street.
The main objective of this campaign is to encourage dog owners in the public health problem of not collecting dog feces, as well as being a matter of civic education, which negatively affected the perception the rest of the inhabitants have of dogs cities.
Source: Ayuntamiento de Murcia
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