Hey! Hey! Glad you have a few minutes to stop by today. It gets lonely here sitting watching cyberspace and hoping someone will spiral down for a quick read and looksee. Coffee's fresh and so are the virtual treats so help yourself while I bend your ear with news of a much needed facility that WE NEED HERE. I am sure you will agree!
A small town in Spain has come up with a new way of dealing
with dog waste – a canine public toilet. Located along a busy
thoroughfare in El Vendrell, northeastern Spain, the stainless steel
contraption consists of two sections placed side by side – a doggy potty
and a doggy urinal.
The potty is a raised steel platform with a covered hole.
Dog owners need to lift the lid for their pets to defecate, and later
press a handle to flush. Jets of water are released, which carry the
excrement through underground pipes into the sewer system. Right next to
the potty is the urinal – also a raised platform with small holes over
which dogs can squat.
The public toilet is the brainchild of dog-lover
Enric Girona, who has spent over ten years observing and photographing
dogs. Through his work, he recognized the need for a toilet for dogs, so
he set about creating one himself. “Over the years, I’ve seen that if
you train and raise dogs well, these animals can be just like humans,”
he explained.
Girona invented several variants of the toilet, modifying
each one as he learned more and more about dog behavior. The present
version of the urinal, for example, doesn’t clean itself perfectly when
flushing, because dogs need to pick the odor so they are lured to the toilet.
He also had the location in mind while designing these toilets, so
they’d naturally blend into surroundings like parks and other public
places. “You can’t have something that clashes with the setting,” he
pointed out. “The design was done with the concept of being attractive.”
How that, my friend, is progress!
See ya, eh!
Bob
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