Town sends dog poo back to owners marked 'Lost Property' A town in Spain has come up with an enterprising way of educating dog owners about leaving dog droppings on the streets and in parks - it posts the poo back to the owners. Generic image Source: News Limited IT'S a problem that besets every urban area: dodging dog droppings on the footpath. Now one town has come up with a clever way to keep doggie doo off its streets - and remind owners of their responsbilities. It sends the offending deposits back to the owners marked "Lost Property." Does this go far enough? What would you do to make sure owners clean up after their dogs? Tell us your idea Council leaders in the Spanish town of Brunete, near Madrid, launched the campaign earlier this year to crack down on irresponsible dog owners, UK's Daily Telegraph reports. A team of volunteers patrolled the town's streets on the lookout for dog owners who failed to scoop. They then approached the guilty owner and struck up a conversation to discover the name of the dog. "With the name of the dog and the breed it was possible to identify the owner from the registered pet database held in the town hall," a council said. Almost 50 "express poop" deliveries were made during the course of the week in February. The town of 10,000 has since reported a 70 per cent drop in the amount of dog mess found in its streets. It's a more radical solition than that opted for in Melbourne, where offending owners receive a letter from the council instead of a fine. In Edinburgh, Scotland, authorities also used letterbox drops to shame dog owners. During the campaign, in 2011, controversial pictures of dog mess were put through resident's front doors. Complaints about dog mess on the streets dropped by 80 per cent after the three-week campaign. Tongue-in-cheek chalk stencils were also painted onto pavements - to hit home the message that dog fouling will not be tolerated on city streets.