Politics & Government
Getting the Scoop on Poop is Pricey
Aliso Viejo dog owners use nearly $24,000 worth of doggie poop bags every year.
Attention dog owners of Aliso Viejo: Your pets poop a lot!
Between the city and the , your dogs go through nearly $24,000 worth of plastic, poopy-pick-up bags a year.
"We go through six cases per month," said Kirk Elliott, parks and landscape director for AVCA.
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Dispensers are refilled twice a week, though Elliott suspects some of you might be hoarding the bags. He'll often receive complaints about empty dispensers just hours after restocking them.
AVCA operates 21 parks throughout Aliso Viejo and spends $22,000 a year on the tiny, pleasant-smelling — at least initially — trash bags.
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The city operates one park, , and spends $1,821 a year on the baggies.
The citywide cost is a little less than the $27,000 a year spends annually and less than the $45,000 Dana Point spends each year on MuttMitts. Like Aliso Viejo, San Juan Capistrano does not have a dog park. Dana Point does.
By stark contrast, Laguna Beach, which also has a dog park, spends only $5,865 a year on the canine excrement depository bags.
