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Uh oh, seems both dogs and horses are marking their territory in Brooklyn... but only one animal's owners are obligated by law to pick up their pet's mess. The Brooklyn Paper reports that a common sight in Kensington and Park Slope is that of horse waste. Yuck. The paper note that "the decades-old city law mandating pet owners to remove excrement from sidewalks applies to dogs and dogs alone, according to the Sanitation Department." Do the main culprits at the Kensington Stables feel any pangs of guilt for not cleaning up after their horses? Apparently it falls on the city, but they do say, “Generally, the barn hands pick up around the neighborhood. I have made it a general policy to handle this. We don’t make a stink out of it.” Time is off the essence, however, and reportedly it takes hours or more for a volunteer to come and scoop the poop—one resident told the paper, “It smells like a toilet" in Prospect Park.
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“It smells like a toilet" in Prospect Park.
Obviously that cannot be blamed on the horses.
It smells that way due to the July 4th festivities
I've shoveled manure, dog shit smells much worse than horse poo, for what it's worth
As poo goes, horseshit doesn't really smell that bad. I'd rather deal with horse poo than hobo poo.
The worst perpetrator of this, I hate to say, is the mounted police. They often take their horses on pedestrian walkways, where the horse craps directly where people are trying to get by, while the cop struts along.
The worst evidence I saw of this is by Ground Zero on the way to the Path. That walkway is already narrow as hell, and then I saw people having to avoid 3-4 giant landmines of horsecrap that were left by the police horse. I'm sure the cop felt proud of himself.
I was down at the Battery Park City promenade yesterday and saw people cleaning up horse crap.
Back in the 70s and 80s there used to be this hippy family, all dressed in purple tie-dyed outfits, that picked up the manure in Central Park to sell as fertilizer -- strange but very cool folk. Where are they now?
You're talking about the purple people! They used to be around the village on their bikes. I heard a rumor that the purple woman cheated on the purple man and the purple family broke up.
Now that you mention it, I heard that rumor, too. As the t-shirt says: "sh*t happens" -- even to purple people!
They got so angry at the situation they became the purple people eaters. That was some scary shit.
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Are subjects of complaints finite? Will there be a day when Park Slope runs out of things to complain about?
In a word, no.
As far as this type of problem goes, I think it's not a big deal. The number of dogs in Prospect Park is huge compared to the number of horses, and while the size of a dog's crap pales in comparison to a horses, the dog crap can be anywhere, lurking and waiting to be stepped on; horse crap tends to be in just a few places in PP, and you can see it (and smell it) from 20-30 yards away.
Plus, dogs eat all sorts of strange crap, usually due to crazy owner making them bologna sandwiches without crusts; horses just eat hay and carrots and sometimes sugar cubes if they're black stallions.
Central park smells because of all the horse shit and the horses are abused