There was a time, not so long ago, when poodles shitting on the streets of Paris were considered to be the government’s biggest cultural problem. Oh the outrage…! All those beautiful, romantic areas (as depicted on Hollywood billboards) were full of tourists tripping over foul-smelling crap.

This upper-class excrement problem was seen as a veneer of capitalist decay – a French society so rich and comfy that its pups of leisure were entitled to defile the sidewalks.