Pick it up: CDMX’s new animal welfare policy targets dog poop on sidewalks with a new reporting hotline

In a propulsion to beforehand liable favored ownership, Mexico City plans to ace down connected dog-biting portion aiming to go escaped of canine feces.

During a canine and feline sterilization work lawsuit successful the borough of Tláhuac connected Tuesday, Mayor Clara Brugada said her authorities is moving to fortify carnal payment policy, outlining 10 proposals to “make Mexico City a precise animal-friendly city.”

Mexico City Mayor Clara Brugada outlined immoderate of her government’s carnal payment argumentation goals during a sterilization lawsuit successful the borough of Tláhuac. (Camila Ayala Bernabib/Cuartoscuro.com)

One apical precedence is to warrant a metropolis escaped of fecal substance successful nationalist areas, particularly connected sidewalks. To execute a poop-free city, the authorities volition people favored owners with an consciousness run and volition enforce fines and penalties that already exist.

Brugada said the authorities volition found a dedicated telephone enactment truthful that “citizens tin study anyone who does not comply with the measure” of picking up their dogs’ feces. 

The politician besides acknowledged that the superior leads the federation successful dog-biting incidents. Olivia Garza, a subordinate of the Mexico City Congress, said she intends to taxable authorities to code the problem.

Garza said her measure strengthens penalties for canine owners whose pets wound idiosyncratic other (25-36 hours of administrative apprehension and 12-18 hours of assemblage service), portion besides expanding administrative detention from 24 to 36 hours for owners who locomotion their dogs without a leash.

“Responsible guardianship is not optional,” Garza said. “Protecting children, the elderly, and animals themselves is an obligation.”

Brugada told reporters that the city’s caller favored registration strategy (launched successful June 2023) has attracted 200,000 caller canine members since October 2024, reaching 300,000 registrations overall.

“Our extremity is to person zero thoroughfare animals,” she said. 

Mobile units that volition beryllium sent into each 16 boroughs volition not lone let owners to registry their pets, but tin besides supply escaped vaccinations.

Other goals of the Animal Welfare Plan are to physique 100 escaped veterinary clinics, 200 canine parks (40 caller parks are scheduled to beryllium completed this year), a structure with capableness for 500 rescued animals and a money for autarkic carnal shelters. The metropolis is besides gathering a caller veterinary infirmary that is expected to unfastened adjacent year.

Additionally, Brugada said that the metropolis hopes to supply 150,000 sterilizations this year, much than doubling the 65,000 performed past year.

With reports from La Jornada, Excelsior and Animal Político