People Who Don't Pick Up After Their Dogs

[Lex Luthor]

Simple solution. On the spot fines for dog owners who do not pick up after their dog, or who cannot produce a dog waste bag either for or containing dog poo on them. For the first time caught, they may buy a bag for their dog at a cost of £25 on the spot from the dog enforcement officer, to avoid the full fine of £100. For dog owners who can actually produce a bag of poo, they get a free car sticker, promoting the scheme, reading 'I am a responsible dog owner'.

[biotechpete]

There is already the provision in law for £80 on the spot fines with up to £1000 fines if someone is taken to court. It just needs enforcement.

[Chelle-82]

Is it true that if you take your dogs into woodlands you dont have to pick it up if it's not on a footpath?

 

I quite often walk my dogs in the woods, loxley, agden etc but still pick it up..

 

Was just something i heard and i'm curious if it's true!

[paula4sheff]

Is it true that if you take your dogs into woodlands you dont have to pick it up if it's not on a footpath?

 

I quite often walk my dogs in the woods, loxley, agden etc but still pick it up..

 

Was just something i heard and i'm curious if it's true!

 

There was some crackers MP recently, who I can't even muster the energy to google, that suggested it was best to bring a stick and throw it into the trees (!!!) than use a bag to pick it up. She was of course the subject of a bit outcry and ridicule, and the odd person saying 'great idea' as you can imagine.

 

I'd stick with picking it up!

[Guest makapaka]

There was talk of DNA testing dogs and matching it against the mess on some kind of database.

 

Sounded a fantastic idea but heard nothing sense.

[PandaJuggler]

I regularly walk down Little London Road, so much dog mess down there. Someone is bagging it up but then dropping the bags everywhere. There are a couple of alcoves in the buildings where the stuff is building up. I swear some people would still do their business in the street if they could - let's bring back the Bubonic Plague!

[Vintagetin82]

Dogs are just so dirty .

[Jomie]

They are just the same as you Vintagetin82 - i.e. they need to eliminate their waste. It is their human owners who are dirty because they don’t pick up after their dogs.

 

There is no species on earth that is as ‘dirty’ as mankind. We pollute the earth with nuclear waste, plastic waste, carbon emissions, our own bodily waste and goodness knows what else. Dogs and other animals are clean in comparison with that lot!

[jdamarine]

Is it true that if you take your dogs into woodlands you dont have to pick it up if it's not on a footpath?

 

I quite often walk my dogs in the woods, loxley, agden etc but still pick it up..

 

Was just something i heard and i'm curious if it's true!

 

Yes i read it some place, Stick and flick they call it

[medusa]

There was talk of DNA testing dogs and matching it against the mess on some kind of database.

 

Sounded a fantastic idea but heard nothing sense.

 

The big down side of that is the fact that the DNA tests would cost well in excess of the £80 littering fine that could be recouped from the fine for proving that it was one specific dog that 'did the deed'.

 

It's one of those things that there's no single answer for, unfortunately.

 

I'm the sort of person who, if I'm driving and see someone not picking up after their dog, I pull over and offer them a bag. Generally speaking, they take the bag and use it in front of me, but of course I can't be certain that they actually deposit the bag in an appropriate bin. I do occasionally get sworn at, but that's going to happen anytime you challenge people, isn't it?

 

Needless to say BTW, my dog rarely goes out these days due to her age, but when she does, she is trained to poo on command, next to me so it's easy to pick up. She's also raw fed, so it usually picks up cleanly.