It is wonderful to see people hunkering down and loving the great trails we have in the Anchorage bowl. It is not wonderful to see the accumulation of dog poo on these trails. Some trailheads are truly disgusting. The area near the Elmore ballfields parking lot is starting to look like a feed lot!
The practice of cleaning up after your pooch seems to have been “social distanced” away. This applies especially to you “fat tire heads” — just because you are rocketing down the trail with your mutt lagging way behind does not mean you are exempt from doing your duty on the doodie! If you can’t keep track of your own mutt, pick up the poo from somebody else. It’s the least you can doo doo.
Wash your hands!
— Jim Thiele
Anchorage
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