It is an age-old, smelly and messy problem for landlords, property owners and everyone who walks outside.

The dog drippings left behind by sloppy owners who fail to clean up after their pets.

"It's messy and it smells," Deborah Violette, manager of the Timberwood Commons apartment complex in Lebanon, N.H., told ABC News. "It's not acceptable."

Fed up with reminding her residents nicely, sending warning letters, even cleaning up after the dogs herself, and still finding dog drippings throughout the property, Violette turned to technology worthy of a CSI crime lab to nab her pooper perpetrators.

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Owner of dog who killed smaller dog, on the run

A man who fled Wednesday with the German shepherd-like dog that attacked a woman and her small dog in Carlsbad may compound his legal troubles if he doesn't identify himself by 12:44 p.m. Friday, authorities said.

The small dog —- a 6-pound, Cairn-Pomeranian named Ewok —- died shortly after the attack

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Dog tried to save life of police man

Deputy Sheriff Kyle D. Pagerly's K-9 partner, Jynx, tried to save the mortally wounded officer and likely did save the lives of other officers searching for Matthew M. Connor in the woods near his family home in Albany Township, officials said Thursday.

Connor, 25, took cover in a sniper's nest at the top of a steep hill in the woods Wednesday night when the fugitive task force of federal, state and local officers team went to the property on Pine Swamp Road with a warrant for his arrest, according to state police.

Jynx alerted Pagerly to Connor, who was in full camouflage, troopers said. Moments later, Connor stood up and refused an order to drop his semiautomatic rifle, investigators said. Pagerly and Connor were both fatally wounded in the shootout that ensued.

"Jynx was a hero because he alerted on this guy," an investigator said after a press conference Thursday in the state police station on Kenhorst Boulevard. "There could've been more people killed or injured if it were not for that."

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