Tel Aviv is home to an unusually high proportion of dog owners who account for roughly one in every 11 residents. The new law — which still needs to be approved by Israel's Interior Ministry before being put into practice — will mean dog owners must provide a sample of their pet's DNA when applying for a dog licence.
Dog poo has become a hot topic in Tel Aviv. In April the city launched a public awareness campaign calling on the two per cent of careless dog owners to pick up after their pets.
Last month, police in the English county of Gloucestershire launched their own dog DNA database, aimed at curbing rising levels of dog theft. The database is a world first, police said. All of Gloucestershire's police dogs have already had their DNA entered into the database, police said.
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Current Gastroenterology Reports. Bibbins-Domingo K, et al. Food and Drug Administration. He's spent a lifetime starting and selling businesses. His entrepreneurial streak began as a U. Thirteen years ago Boyd sold his last company and retired. The company Boyd bought was developing a blood test to predict early stage colon cancer. However, it presented an unacceptable problem. Boyd created Biopet in , a company which could confirm a dog's parentage using DNA, and also confirm its breed. The first product was no problem, but confirming a dog's breed was problematic.
The DNA test did not look at enough markers to be percent accurate. Then one day Chesleigh Fields, the lab's year-old chief scientist with a master's degree in forensic DNA and serology, had an idea: Why not use DNA to figure out which dogs and dog owners left pet poop unscooped? She could use her background in forensics to bring awareness to a problem recognized globally as a health hazard. Dog feces attract rats.
She could create the CSI of dog doo! Boyd liked the idea and told his team to research the potential market. They discovered 40 percent of dog owners do not pick up after their pets. Forty percent don't pick up," says Boyd. They go twice a day. That's [poops]. He did the math in a country of 70 million dogs and decided, "We have a big, big market here, now let's go all out for it.
Tom Boyd estimates he spent a couple of million dollars getting PooPrints up and running, and he started landing sales at apartment and condo complexes in
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