A Quick Note About Dog Shit

Edmonton has undergone a significant warming trend over the last couple weeks. And like much of North America at the end of the last ice age, the snow is melting, revealing the detritus deposited and forgotten under the winter onslaught. Except instead of revealing mountains and valleys, the current heat wave is revealing heaping piles of canine excrement.

Why do dog owners think that they can let their dogs shit wherever they want in the winter? Do they think the cold makes things disappear? If you put leftovers in your freezer and they cover over with frost, when you run the defrost cycle, has your Chicken a la King vanished into thin air? No. It's all deformed and terrible and floating in slush. Just like all the shit I have to see and avoid on my way to work in the morning.

I give Edmonton dog owners a thumbs down. Pick up the shit, even in the winter.

They say don't eat the yellow snow. But you should also avoid the white snow. It might come with a creamy filling.