Gave the mother in law a lift home last night due to trains not running and saw some sights. A roaring bonfire unattended on a grass verge st the side of the road and someone in the front garden of their terrace, probably a space 8x8ft, putting a whole fence panel on top of the fire they had going there.
Dog's peed in the kitchen as well during the night. I'm newish to this dog owning thing but maybe those little black bags of poo hanging from trees are pet owners getting revenge the rest of the year round for bonfire night.
No, they’re just disease spreading cunts.
Same as the millions of people who still don’t bother to pick their dog’s shit up full stop.
Environmental Contamination by Dog’s Faeces: A Public Health Problem?
Vittoria Cinquepalmi, Rosa Monno, [...], and Leonardo Soleo
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Abstract
The risk to public health from the large number of dog stools present on streets of urban areas is cause for concern. Dog faeces may be a serious hazard because they may contain microorganisms that are both pathogenic to humans and resistant to several classes of antibiotics. The aim of this study was to evaluate the potential for zoonotic infections and for the presence of antibiotic resistant bacteria in canine faeces which contaminates the urban environment. A total of 418 canine faecal samples were collected from streets in seven areas of Bari, Southern Italy. We have isolated multi-drug resistant
Enterococci and meticillin-resistant
Staphylococcus aureus from these dog faecal samples. The presence of the resistant bacteria in an urban environment may represent a public health hazard which requires control measures by competent authorities. No
Salmonella,
Yersinia or
Campylobacter species were isolated.
Giardia cysts were detected in 1.9% of the samples. The predominant
Enterococcus species were
E.faecium (61.6%),
E. gallinarum(23.3%) and
E. casseliflavus (5.5%). Other species, including
E.
faecalis were also isolated. These strains were resistant to clindamycin (86.3%), tetracycline (65.7%), erythromycin (60.27%) and ampicillin (47.9%). High-level aminoglycoside resistance (HLAR) was found in 65.7% of
enterococci. Resistance to three or more antibiotics and six or more antibiotics were observed in 67.12% and 38.4% of
Enterococcus spp., respectively. Resistance to vancomycin and teicoplanin was not detected in any of the
Enterococcusspp. isolated. Methicillin-resistant
Staphylococcus aureus was isolated in 0.7% of the faecal samples. Canine faeces left on the streets may represent a risk factor for transmission of microorganisms and a reservoir of multidrug- resistant bacteria thus contributing to the spread of resistance genes into an urban area.
