i know of 1 dog owner in my local town that has been fined via the cctv footage of his dog fouling in a road gutter ... not a pavement or someone's garden ... still the same offence and am glad they was fined .. the same for those that get parking tickets really ... you don't want the possibility of a fine then don't do the illegal activity .... simples
It's the same kind of people that do not care about anything.
They would be the first ones to moan if some big dog came along and dumped a pile outside their front door, or their kids trampled it into their house from their shoes.
It is like anything else, if you want a dog then look after it and that includes cleaning up after the bloody animal.
Fine em five grand a shite, that will stop it.
Dirty disgusting gits.
Aye it has always been a disgusting and unacceptable problem.
In the good old days we had collectors and it would be used for tanning leather. Later when I was a kid dog shit used to turn into chalk. I havent seen chalky dog shit for years.
Well there is NO laws about cats shitting in ya garden.
There are laws about dogs shitting anywhere on the public highway.
Letting any animal you own shit anywhere other than your own land without cleaning it up is disgusting. Unfortunately we don't have the ability (or the will in many cases) to do anything about the millions of cats. But we CAN and SHOULD do something about the dogs.
DG - I would recommend having a camera handy at home and take pics/film of the offending owners and send them to the police and the council. And keep sending them.
It is perfectly legal to take these images since people in a park have no expectation of privacy. And with any luck you'll piss of either the police or the council enough for them to get their fingers out and do something about it.
Is there a friendly contact on the parish/town council who is on the anti-dog-fouling committee?
People.
Any chance of doing a bit less quoting? Or at least snipping some of the quote? It's getting really tedious scrolling down all the time just to read a one-liner.
When I had my shepherd, I used to take a carrier bag with me and always pick up the poo. Round my way the bloody chav's with thier staffies let them shit everywhere!!
Wouldn't it be nice if these responsible dog owners, who are well prepared and have plenty of carrier bags to pick up the poop, would just think about how and where they're going to dispose of the poo bag instead of decorating trees with them?
We do a lot of walking and think how nice it is to see someone picking up bio degradable poo in the middle of nowhere (among the cow and sheep poo) only to see it adorning a tree or stuffed in a nook on a dry stone wall a couple of miles further down the trail because they've got fed up carrying it, hanging there for god knows how long, not sure how many millennia it takes for plastic to degrade.
If your an urban dog walker Im sure there are plenty of poo bins/litter bins to use and your doing a great job, however, the people who walk their dogs miles into open country side - by all means enjoy it with the rest of us but please have some common sense. dog poo on walking boots is not going to kill anyone as it only gets mixed in with the cow muck which stinks just as bad.
Right after my little whinge, which is not something I usually do
My point is your little plastic bags in the country are doing more harm that the poo itself
Jane xx
shoot the cats with a plastic pellet BB gun - doesn't harm them but scares the living daylights out of them and they seldom return for another barrage.
Cat shit can cause blindness in young children - I don't care about their rights, they relinquish any consideration when they shit in my garden!
