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Late in December of 2003, just before the initiation of the Green Dog program, the Warren Playground Dog community engaged in a poop pickup and counting effort. A reasonably careful check was made by a total of 8 to 10 people. The area covered was between the third base line and the park fence and along the outfield fence of the diamond nearest to Dean road. This area was chosen because the dogs seem to prefer to leave deposits along the fence line.

A total of 13 poops were found and the location of each poop was logged.

A similar effort was made in late February covering the identical area. A total of 5 poops were found and logged. Another check was done the first of April. The results of these inspections are covered in the table and photo below. Other inspections on about a monthly basis have been added.

There is a noticeable improvement since the implementation of the Brookline off leash hours. The February and April inspections were after several more winter months when the deposits do not decompose and dissapear which should make the comparison more than fair.

The Warren Playground community should not get complacent or reduce our efforts at poop control, instead this record is a reminder that if we as a group want to keep the off leash policy in place our active efforts to clear extra poops on a daily basis will keep the numbers improved over last year and give us a strong argument to say that the program is working.

One Dog owner says:

I for one keep a careful eye out every day I am in the park and always find and remove deposits that were 'missed' by the dog owners. My personal policy is to pick up any poops that I see, and to pick up all trash I see between the poop and the trash can. I know that I leave a lot of trash when I limit my effort in this way, but, feel that if I took all the trash I saw the only thing I would be doing in the park was clearing trash...

Warren Playground Poop History

Symbol	Date	Poops found
1	24 December 2003	13 poops
2	24 February 2004	5 poops
3	1 April 2004	4 poops with three others found near but outside the original area
4	4 May 2004	2 poops
	June 2004	3 poops
	July 2004	2 poops
	August 2004	1 poop
	September 2004	2 poops
	10 October 2004	104 pieces of trash, 6 baseballs, 3 golf balls, 1 tennis ball and No poops
	November 2004	2 poops
	3 December 2004	1 poop
	January 2005	3 poops
	February 2005	1 poop
	March 2005	2 poops
	April 2005	3 poops
	May 2005	1 poop
	June 2005	no poops
	July 2005	2 poops
	August 2005	1 poop
	1 September 2005	no poops
	October 2005	1 poop
	December 2005	1 poop
	January 2006	2 poops
	6 February 2006	2 poops
	March 2006	1 poop
	13 July 2007	1 poop

Brookline has produced a couple of maps for the Green Dog program.
http://www.town.brookline.ma.us/gis/maplib/green-dog11x17.pdf
http://www.town.brookline.ma.us/gis/maplib/Green-dog8.5x11.pdf