Blind Couple in Court Over Guide Dog Waste


INDIO, Calif. - A blind couple is headed to court to resolve a dispute with their homeowner association about droppings left in the street by their guide dogs.



Dennis and Shirley Bartlett are aware of the pooper-scooper rules for their Desert Grove homeowner association, but said they sometimes miss droppings left by their dogs.


"You can't get everything all the time," Dennis Bartlett said.


The Bartletts filed a small claims suit against former association president Delmar Pierce, alleging harassment and prohibiting their guide dogs from doing what they were trained to do — defecate in the street. The case is scheduled to be heard Sept. 22.


Pierce didn't want to discuss the case, noting he's only had one conversation with Bartlett.


"During that private conversation all I said was, 'We need to talk about your dogs and relieving themselves in the streets,'" he said, adding that Bartlett doesn't want to abide by the rules of the gated community.


Association attorney Margaret Wangler said the association never told the couple not to use the streets.


"The association's concern and the reason for getting in touch with the Bartletts was that they don't clean it up all the way and that's a health and safety concern to the board."

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Tis a sad state when dog crap gets taken to court.

Good Kansas, they're blind! That makes pooper scooping very difficult!

Maybe if the dogs are so smart that they can lead a blind person across the
street, they could be trained to poop elsewhere. Maybe the couple need
to buy a dog who can crap elswhere, and lead them across the street!

LOL!!! Oh, the images...

Tis true Tis true moe

some pompous old lady prolly stepped in it, starting this whole thing....

Yeah, a lady with no heart. Hello, they're blind! Maybe one of those disgruntled neighbors could help them by getting off their asses when they see that they missed one piece of poop!

I hate dogs dirt

Wow what a great world we live in!