DNA test proposed to deal with dog poop in Germany

BEIJING, March 3
(Xinhuanet) -- Just saying "It wasn't my dog" will not wash any more if aDNA
testing of dealing with the menace of dog poop on the streets is
taken.

A German lawmaker has proposedthe novel and
high-tech way to identify the canine culprit and fine its owner.

Peter Stein, a conservative politician in eastern
Germany,said officials would test the excrement and then match it up to
the offending dog using a DNA database of all pooches.

German dog owners are fined 30-40 euros (40-50 U.S.
dollars) if they fail to clean up after their pets, but very few are caught,
with only four fines given out in Stein's hometown of Rostock -- human
population 200,000 -- last year.

(Agencies)