Dog Shit Part 3

I Hate

The lazy dog owners are now letting their dogs foul the pavements of the street I live on now.

Every day I leave my house to find dog excrement all the way down the street and occassionally on my own driveway. I just don’t get it! Why do these dog owners think this is acceptable behaviour. The council don’t do anything apart from put up signs that threaten on the spot fines of £20 - no one actually polices the area and issues these fines though, so in my opinion the signs are a complete waste of time and tax payers money!

This is an interesting article…

“In Edinburgh, they use a mobile CCTV van. In Lincolnshire, it’s enforcement agents on 650cc motorbikes. Kennet in Wiltshire has dished out half a million bags for free. Liverpool got council officials to pose undercover as courting couples in its parks. And Hinckley in Leicestershire hired a team of private detectives. In Cheltenham, for a while, operatives from the local authority painted pretty coloured circles - one red, one yellow, one white - round every bit they found.

Abroad, the struggle has reached a higher plane. In their search for incontrovertible scientific proof, Germany’s Cologne and Dresden, Vercelli in Piedmont, Italy, and Petah Tikva, near Tel Aviv in Israel, have resorted to DNA testing. Paris has adopted shock tactics in the shape of some truly revolting posters. Geneva, being Swiss, simply fines first-time offenders £1,700. Then £8,000 if they do it again.”

Now that’s better than the so called threat of being fined £20 and I think far more effective. I’ve just found the website Fix My Street and reported the issue on there, and will be calling the council in the morning to find out what they are going to do about it.