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Paw and Order: New Jersey Condo Uses DNA to Track Down Pet Owners Who Don't Clean Dog Poop

The Hudson Harbour community uses DNA from dog waste to enforce a $250 fine, with BioPetLabs servicing nearly 300 communities in New Jersey and New York.

A condo complex in northern New Jersey has turned to science to help track down residents who allow their dogs to defecate and not cleaning up after their pets. To keep their community droppings-free, Hudson Harbour in Edgewater has turned to policing its dog owners.  The condo community requires residents to get their dogs swabbed so genetic profiles are kept on file with Pooprints, a DNA dog waste management company. The company uses those pro…

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NEW JERSEY — A condominium complex in northern New Jersey has resorted to science to help locate residents who allow their dogs to defecate without picking them up. To keep their community free of excrement, Hudson Harbour in Edgewater has resorted to the surveillance of their dog owners. The condominium complex requires residents to take a swab to their dogs for genetic profiles to be archived in Pooprints, a DNA-based canine excrement manageme…

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NBC Dallas-Fort Worth broke the news in Fort Worth, United States on Friday, January 16, 2026.
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