{"id":593,"date":"2008-09-18T11:10:16","date_gmt":"2008-09-18T10:10:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tinyplanetblog.com\/?p=593"},"modified":"2008-09-18T11:10:16","modified_gmt":"2008-09-18T10:10:16","slug":"dna-and-doggie-do","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/tinyplanetblog.com\/?p=593","title":{"rendered":"DNA and doggie do"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Israeli city of Petah Tikva is building a DNA database <a href=\"http:\/\/uk.reuters.com\/article\/lifestyleMolt\/idUKLG37942520080916\" target=\"_blank\">to help reward and punish dog owners<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The animal is taken to a vet for a swab and the results are kept on file.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Owners who scoop up their dogs&#8217; droppings and place them in specially marked bins on Petah Tikva&#8217;s streets will be eligible for rewards of pet food coupons and dog toys.<\/p>\n<p>But droppings found underfoot in the street and matched through the DNA database to a registered pet could earn its owner a municipal fine.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>It&#8217;s certainly a novel way of doing things. But, as <a href=\"http:\/\/idle.slashdot.org\/article.pl?sid=08\/09\/17\/160246&amp;from=rss\" target=\"_blank\">one Slashdotter<\/a> muses, &#8221; I wonder what sin you had to commit in a previous life to find yourself the official dog poop examiner of Petah Tikva, Israel&#8221;.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Israeli city of Petah Tikva is building a DNA database to help reward and punish dog owners. The animal is taken to a vet for a swab and the results are kept on file. Owners who scoop up their dogs&#8217; droppings and place them in specially marked bins on Petah Tikva&#8217;s streets will be [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[52,57],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/tinyplanetblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/593"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/tinyplanetblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/tinyplanetblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tinyplanetblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tinyplanetblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=593"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/tinyplanetblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/593\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/tinyplanetblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=593"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tinyplanetblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=593"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tinyplanetblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=593"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}