Dog Owners: Leaving a bag of poo on the sidewalk is not *technically* cleaning up after your pooch

This just in:

FiPS Reader: Here's a hot tip: a nice bag of poo on 6th Avenue & 12th Street. Someone in the neighborhood keeps taking their dog out for its evening glory and is courteous enough to bag it, but uncouth enough to leave it where it was ejected onto the sidewalk.

FiPS: Whoa. You mean this happens on like a nightly basis?

FiPS Reader: You bet. They do it with their daily Times subscription bag.

For shame, Park Slope dog owner.

For shame.

Who Gives a Shit: Separating Pooches in the dog run?

Big goes with big. Small goes with small. It’s an organizational principle we apply throughout life, whether we’re toddlers sorting wooden blocks or adults organizing our gun closets. It’s not just a spatial mandate, but a social one as well. Little leaguers don’t play against high school teams because no parent wants to see their five year-old get beamed by a teenager’s fastball. Oversized luggage goes to a separate area so your fellow travelers aren’t inconvenienced by your (most likely stupid) Burning Man project clogging the carousel.

Yet despite their rep as a law-abiding and mixed paper and plastic-recycling bunch, this “Rule of Size” is something a good number of Park Slopes ignore. Take the dog run near 4^th Avenue and 3^rd Street, for example. Like any given Project Runway finale, it is divided into two parts: a large dog run for large dogs and a small dog run (pay attention, this is where it gets murky) for their more diminutive brethren.

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Park Slope Signage: Is this your dog's shit?

The war against pet excrement in the streets of Park Slope continues. The above sign, found on 1st street near 8th avenue by FiPS reader Katie, just goes to show how far someone will go to be heard. A note without the bag of shit tied to the tree would have worked fine, but this is meant to shock and mystify. This is the Lady Gaga of Park Slope signage.

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Cool Or Not Cool: Letting Your Dog Pee in the street?

We recently received an email from FiPS reader Dave, who had a messy run-in with his fellow Slope residents while walking his dog: 

Walked my dog on Polhemus St in Park Slope. I let my dog do 3 drops of pee inside a barren tree pit. Two people got out of their cars (I guess they were waiting for the street sweeper) to yell at my audacious ignorance of the purpose of  the "fence" of the tree pit, and that urine destroys trees. I was totally taken aback. They were shouting, and it seemed like this was a VERY important issue to them.

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Rescuing Dogs, a Block Party and All around Badassery? We're IN!

Image Via Chinae Alexander

We love to see folks in the 'hood doing great things, especially when it comes to four-legged friends.

Let me tell you a little about Sara.

Sara started an independent dog rescue called Badass Brooklyn Foster Dog about 6 months ago, AND is a documentary filmmaker who lives right here in the Slope. The pups she rescues are mostly from high-kill, rural shelters in South Carolina, North Carolina, and Kentucky, and she's doing most of the leg work herself (unpaid), along with a group of other documentary filmmakers from around Brooklyn who have recently joined her. Sara typically houses 2-4 dogs in her 1 bedroom apartment in addition to her own beagle, so she needs some help. Here's how we can do our part...

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