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 Photo: EPA / Koen Van Weel. The company Pooprints since its inception in 2010 collected 30,000 dogs in its registry.

The irritation of dog owners who do not pick up after their animals reach new scientific heights. A biotechnology company in the United States provides tracking of the guilty through DNA registers.

Joe Gillmer is vice chairman of a condominium association with 368 homes and 60 dogs in the suburbs of the US capital Washington. He got tired of the smelly problem, and hired a company that allows dog owners DNA register their animals via a saliva sample. When hundlortar found in inappropriate places are sent a test tube of evidence to the laboratory in Tennessee.

Gillmer heard many jokes, but he is happy. Repellent effect is large. Since the service was launched a year ago, only one case has gone so far that a sample tested, he told The Washington Post.

Europe at the time

The company Pooprints since its inception in 2010 collected 30,000 dogs in its registry. Customers are primarily condominium associations and landlords who require caught sinners in fines. While several cities have expressed interest. Once launched the service in the UK, and inquiries have come from other countries in Europe, the paper said.

Michelle Mann represents a housing with 2000 apartments in the southern United States. She says that in two years they only had one “repeat offenders”.

– In some areas we have not had to fine one, she says.

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Chesleigh Winfree , the scientist behind the biotechnology company, says that some customers have come to a point where they rarely or never need to submit some samples .

Well, except for one problem district in South Carolina, she recalls.

– They sent 18 samples, which came from the same dog, but that did not match any in the database .

In the end, the sinner connected. The owner had managed to avoid the tops of the dog.

Real Estate company that hires the service often requires dog owners to register their four-legged friends if they want to stay. The problem is that those who wait until the last moment to do so also are those who are least likely to pick up after the dogs, writes The Washington Post.