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Not so fast with my Dog’s DNA (I don’t trust PooPrints) DOG OWNERS BEWARE OF POOPRINTS

My property sent out this notice that we had to give our dog’s DNA to a business named PooPrints.  At first, I thought, oh well another rule I can’t do anything about, that’s what my apartment decided to do.  Until, I looked these guys up on line.  The first thing I saw was that they had been sued, and all they seemed to care about was poop.  They didn’t have anything else for pets or pet owners as benefits or relief that my pets DNA was not being used from some mom/pop style lab experiments.  It’s like they are literally trying to get rich off of people for dog poop. 

I wasn’t able to find out much about their laboratory.  They are not registered with any public certification or accreditation for DNA testing or processing. Which is exactly my point.  Who am I giving my pets DNA to???  Are these guys governed by anybody, or do they report to anyone?   Even their customers on Amazon were complaining about them and have been for years.  I own a dog and a cat but my property didn’t want to test my cat and I found that very odd and somewhat unfair. 

It appears to me that this will open their system up for a lot of false testing and inflated bills for the manager.  I know for a fact my cat will climb on top of a car and poop when it cold outside so who’s to say all cats or domesticated and burry their poop.  Come to find out they cannot test cats they don’t have the ability based on what the Seattle Washington Pooprint rep indicated.  He told us in our HOA meeting we invented this poop matching business and control the market. He was a bit cocky and arrogant to say the least.

So, after a night of digging I went back to my property manager and needless to say, listening to your residents is probably too much like right and she went ahead with PooPrints much to my dismay.  The property manager provided me with Pooprints contact number.

I decided to call their offices and ask a few questions, they told me I could store information and gain access to the database however it never worked while on the phone with the rep and still hasn’t to this day.  They told me I would get discounts on products but they don’t offer anything I would need for my pet only commercial Dog waste stations.  They indicated my DNA was stored in a secure place and the online system was secure.

We logged once with a temporary ID they provided and saw all types of information that was not my own and found it alarming that it was that easy to see other pets information and the owners.  Needless to say we have placed our 60 day notice to vacate this property and we will not live anywhere that deals with a shady vendor like PooPrints.