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This fastidious dog has a good $100 Taiwan dollars worth of poop there

If you happen to be in Taiwan, and your dog happens to poo there, and your dog is big, you will find yourself about $100 richer. (It may be worth noting that $100 in Taiwan is a mere $3 in the U.S.  But still!) Zounds! How cool is that?

It’s part of an effort to keep the environment a little more litter free. Rewards are also being offered for plastic, paper, and Styrofoam cups, according to an AFP story.

We Dog Daily News staffers have been thinking about how we could supplement our non-existent incomes with something that comes so naturally to us. We could fly in the cargo hold to Taipei (it’s cheap, and we don’t have to eat airplane food), and start collecting our excrement as soon as we land. But we now realize that three of us are so small that it would take far too long to get the 1 kg (a little more than 2 pounds) of poop that it takes to earn $3. And Ida, our biggest staffer, is afraid to fly. So there goes our dream.

Still, we think it’s a grand idea. We would like to see San Francisco implement something like this. I know several parks where dogs poo in the bushes and their people pretend it never happened. If the four of us staffers were to spend our lunch break collecting orphan poops, we’d probably earn a total of $100. That’s more than we’ve earned during our entire tenure at Dog Daily News. (Hey, I’m working on getting sponsors. It’s not my fault!)

I am going to be writing a letter to Mayor Gavin Newsom this evening, urging him to support legislation that pays people for dog poop. He wants to be governor of California, so if he covets the dog vote, he would be smart to listen. I will post my letter later.