On Monday night, the Tel Aviv-Jaffa City Council approved an amendment to the Municipal bylaw, making it compulsory for dog owners to register their p

Tel Aviv dog owners must now register their dog's DNA with municipality

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2021-07-15 06:00:05

On Monday night, the Tel Aviv-Jaffa City Council approved an amendment to the Municipal bylaw, making it compulsory for dog owners to register their pets to a DNA database. This will then allow municipal inspectors to collect samples from dog feces left uncollected in the streets, and a fine will be sent by mail to the owner who did not clean up. According to the bylaw, they will also be charged for the sampling and testing expenses.

The municipality calculated that an estimated 500 kilos of dog feces are not picked up from the street every month, and hope that this new law will work to decrease the amount.

"The municipality, for its part, has worked hard to eradicate the issue of collecting feces, by distributing tickets to dog owners, placing bag collection facilities in gardens and parks and establishing dozens of dog parks throughout the city – but this does not diminish dog owners' responsibility to keep the public space clean," a municipality representative said.

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