dog control orders

[TarrSteps]

Elmbridge Borough Council, in Surrey, is in the process of instituting new dog control orders. There has also been the suggestion that their hardline approach will be a "test case" for instituting similar measures elsewhere. While I agree picking up after dogs is a responsibility of all owners, these proposals seem driven, at least in part, by people who want to exclude dogs from common areas on the grounds that *many* people feel uncomfortable or even threatened by them.

Here is the site for the proposal and there is a questionnaire to fill in if you feel so inclined . . .

http://www.elmbridge.gov.uk/leisure/parks/dogs.htm


I'm not trying to be alarmist but many of these areas are also used public hacking and I wonder how long it will be before the "threat" of horses also becomes a concern.

 

[Ravenwood]

I find this a dilemma that I often think about.

I have working dogs and live in an area of open access moorland, my dogs come riding with me everyday and I never even have to think about picking up after them nor putting them on leads.

However, I do have children, and very occassionally when we go into an urban area I am horrified to see dog poo on the pavements, play parks etc (although mine are a little old for that now!!).

Another dilemma for me is town people coming into the countryside who pick up their dog's poo into those little colourful bags and chuck them over the hedge, leave them on the side of the lane, shoved under a tree or piled up beside a bin in the tourist car park - I can't abide the things and often used to find them in my horses field.

This sign has just been put up by the ENP to try to help with this problem of dog poo bags....

I can only conclude that dog poo in an urban area utilised by children is abhorrent but out here in the sticks it is better left. Unfortunately it comes down to the town/rural divide where no one policy fits all

 

[Oneofthepack]

Love the get a stick and flick it idea but doesn't dog poo harbour some nasty bug that causes cows to abort? So not all rural areas could use this method. My take is, pick it up in a colourful plastic bag and then TAKE IT HOME!!! What's the point of picking it up and then leaving the bag

 

[lachlanandmarcus]

its the ones who hang the poo filled bags on trees at face height that really really get me!