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Each dog with a bone, is the name of the campaign to raise public awareness to keep clean the newly released Greenway Barrio Peral.
It is a citizens' initiative driven by the Neighborhood Association and scout the neighborhood, with the support and cooperation of the City of Cartagena and the Welcome Centre and Treatment of Domestic Animals (CATAD) targeted at pet owners.
The president of the Neighborhood Association Barrio Peral, Eduardo Martinez, the coordinator of the Scout group, Encarna Baeza, and Councilmember Decentralization, Nicholas Angel Bernal, presented this morning the campaign that aims to preserve this place of entertainment of 1,800 meters attached to The Mall Barreros Mandarache.
During the campaign will be distributed about 300 bags to collect dung original, encased in a small bone-shaped container with a ring at the top designed for attachment to the belt, so that does not involve any discomfort to the owners carry this bag.
In addition, there shall be displayed and distributed information leaflets to raise awareness among dog owners.
Throughout the month of May will be young scout the neighborhood, about fifty boys and girls between 7 and 18, those charged with distributing the bags as much information leaflets among residents, explained the coordinator scout group, Encarna Baeza.
It is therefore an initiative of the neighbors and neighborhood residents, designed by young people and funded by the Neighborhood Association, as explained Eduardo Martinez, president of the Association. It is an awareness campaign to be proud of the greenway that you worked hard to get, which has planted over 600 trees, some of them centuries old, stated the president.
INFRACCIÃ "N punishable by up to 300 Euros
The awareness campaign is also designed to prevent the residents of the consequences of non-removal of excrement from the streets, an offense carrying between 30 and 300 euro fine.
Councilman Decentralization and Health area, Nicholas Angel Bernal, explained the difficulties they face in order to punish the owners who break the rules, because basically, when there are police around, the dogs do not poop, for It is therefore important awareness of the neighbors, said Bernal.
Thus also, the neighbors are in favor of having plainclothes patrols to monitor and punish the dog owners, a move that could be viable, as indicated by Bernal, and that it would join other maintenance services required for this lung the city who use and enjoy all the Cartagena
Source: Ayuntamiento de Cartagena
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