Washougal and other cities have a message: Please pick up after your pet.
When pet owners don’t, rainwater carries the waste into drains, ditches, lakes and rivers.
“If people forget their bag, they think, ‘Well, it’s natural. It will decompose.’ And that’s not the case. Bacteria and pathogens are in pet waste,” said Rita Fallin, stormwater program coordinator for Washougal…