Most condo corporations have rules that state that pets are not
permitted to soil on the Corporation's property and owners must
clean up after their pets. Despite rules like this, dog poop is
often found on condo properties, particularly in the winter months
when the short daylight hours enable offending pet owners to breach
these rules "under cover of darkness."
The Toronto Star1 recently reported about a service
being offered to US condo associations to identify delinquent
owners. PooPrints2 is a dog identification service that
maintains a private dog DNA data base for each property, so that
any dog poop found on the property can be matched with the culprit.
Dog owners are required to register their pets with management, pay
the registration fee and provide their dog's DNA sample by way
of a cheek swab. When management finds poop on the property a
sample is sent to the lab in Tennessee to indentify the offending
dog from the condo's dog database. The cost of the lab
