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Vienna asks dog owners to rinse pet urine off trees

Neubau district's Schönes Gassi campaign, built with Grätzllabor Neubau, hands out free bottles at the district office; organisers say it's damage control, not a permit.

On air: Chip Darnell and Kenji Moonfield on BBN After Hours
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  1. Kenji Moonfield · Internet & Trends CorrespondentVienna's Neubau district is handing dog owners free 270 millilitre water bottles to rinse urine off trees, Hindustan Times reports.

  2. Kenji Moonfield · Internet & Trends CorrespondentThe campaign is called Schönes Gassi.

  3. Chip Darnell · U.S. News AnchorAbout six hundred dogs live there, and about two hundred fifty trees have gone in over the past decade.

  4. Chip Darnell · U.S. News AnchorOrganisers say the ammonia can damage the bark and let fungus in.

  5. Kenji Moonfield · Internet & Trends CorrespondentThe slogan is Das Flascherl zum Sackerl. A bottle along with the bag.

  6. Chip Darnell · U.S. News AnchorSo today's honoree is Neubau's Unnamed Dog, Defensive Specialist, six hundred dogs deep.

  7. Chip Darnell · U.S. News AnchorCareer stats: zero trees planted, two hundred fifty trees visited, one hundred percent of the paperwork passed to a human.

  8. Kenji Moonfield · Internet & Trends CorrespondentRating: ten out of ten good dogs. Honestly, a dog who sends the cleanup to his owner is the most efficient employee in Vienna.

  9. Chip Darnell · U.S. News AnchorI'm getting emotional. His retirement speech will be short: he'll just leave it on the tree.

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