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Photo Friday: A collection of scoop law signs, from Nova Scotia to Turkey

Thanks to several alert Dog Jaunt readers, I have seven scoop law signs to share with you, each a masterpiece of goofiness. Taking them in the order they arrived in my in-box, we start with a wholesome vision of family togetherness from Lime Kiln Park, on Washington state’s San Juan Island:

Thanks to Chandler for this one, and for several later ones from Nova Scotia

Thanks to Chandler for this one, and for several later ones from Nova Scotia

Halfway around the globe, reader Sarah took a moment from her day in the Kadiköy district of Istanbul and snapped this shot:

Even when I type all the accents in properly, Google Translate tells me this means "Bag with us, please hover for a Clean Environment"

Even when I type all the accents in properly, Google Translate tells me this means “Bag with us, please hover for a Clean Environment”

Another spin and we’re in Shediac, New Brunswick:

This is an extremely odd sign — that disembodied hand! the weary hours of training it must have taken to  convince a dog to poop directly into a pan!

This is an extremely odd sign — that disembodied hand! the beheaded dog! the slug reclining in the pan, unaware that he’s about to be pooped on!

Chandler sent this one to me as a birthday gift:

This sign is from Acadie, still (obviously) in the French-speaking part of the province. I admire the effort to capture actual moment of pooping, but I have to say that that creature really looks more like a giant squirrel.

This sign is from Acadie, still (obviously) in the French-speaking part of the province. I admire the effort to capture the actual moment of pooping, but I have to say that that creature really looks more like a giant squirrel than a dog.

Near Fredericton, in the English-speaking part of the province, you’ll find this sign:

Seemingly straightforward, but note how the dog's leash ends, spookily, in mid-air — and are the words "after pets" really necessary?

Seemingly straightforward, but note how the dog’s leash ends, spookily, in mid-air — and are the words “after pets” really necessary?

This sign is from the interpretive center at Washington’s Ginkgo Petrifed Forest State Park, which is a little odd because the last time you saw this one-armed variation on what’s usually a two-armed humanoid preparing to pick up poop with a hoe, it was telling you that the trails at Mt. Rainier (a national park) are not dog-friendly.

Two messages, conveyed with a minimum of chit-chat

Two messages, conveyed with a minimum of chit-chat

The sign, therefore, just means the area around the interpretive center is okay for leashed dogs to investigate — and the “scoop law” part of the message is conveyed by the presence of the poop bag dispenser.

I wind up with a gem of a sign, this time from Paris’s Jardins du Ranelagh, which we walked through on our way to the Musée Marmottan (home of a really delicious collection of Monet paintings, far from the hurdy-gurdy of the Musée d’Orsay).

Usually that top image, of a happy owner stepping out with his prancing dog, has an ugly red bar through it — but not in the Jardin du Ranelagh

Usually that top image, of a happy owner stepping out with his prancing dog, has an ugly red bar through it — but not in the Jardins du Ranelagh

I love this one not only because — for once! — leashed dogs are allowed in a Paris park (and it’s a very pretty one) but also because I share that dog’s fascination with what his owner is doing back there behind him. He’s using — well, what is he using? — a length of bent wire to maneuver three pieces of poop at once into a plastic grocery sack. No wonder he’s dropped his dog’s leash — he’s got no attention to spare for anything else.

Thank you so much for sending me these! I’m adding this post to Dog Jaunt’s scoop law sign collection — to see others, click on the “scoop law” tag below this post, or type “scoop law” in the search bone.