Danny councils have a special expertise in wasting money and resources, I think there must be a special training centre somewhere !

Serious though you are right it beggar's belief that they would dream up such a scheme, if it is true the best thing that can happen is all dog owners boycot the registration.

Just another thought, a dog drops its load and you get a possible fine, what about when a horse does the same ! Don't see the riders jump off with a shovel and sack 😊

Personally it doesn't bother me it's part and parcel of country life, remember going "dobbying" when I was a nipper got a couple of bob for a barrow full.

Cheers John

Part of the entrance exam for local councillor applications is the ability to fail a common sense test or so it seems with ours.

Regards Ian.

The more power you have concentrated into a few hands the easier it is for unhinged people to get control and mess up your society

Councils are a poster child for the moral and corrupt failure of representative democracy

Direct Democracy is the way forwards IMO

Use your council tax account to vote at local level, your inland revenue account to vote at national level (via the internet for most people) and turn Westminster into a hostel for backpackers

Edited By Ady1 on 12/03/2016 09:54:35

I don't think it's illegal to leave it in the road, only public footpaths, parks etc

So police horses etc can leave huge steaming mounds behind them as they trot along

A walk to the pub in our village was fraught with the chance of stepping in a doggy land mine, also walking the kids to school along he same path resulted in many shoe washing sessions, most dog owners in our village have bought in to the pick it up idea and there is good provision of collection bins. These days a walk to the pub in the dark is pretty safe and the village footpaths are a low risk area. They used to say rubbing an animals nose in the mess would train them to go in the right place, perhaps it should be applied to the owners who don't act responsibly.

Mike

Yup, the road is fine

Any land not forming part of the highway or, in Scotland, a public road, which is open to the air, which the public are permitted to use on foot only, and which provides access to retail premises

Well thanks for the reminder- must phone vet on monday. Costs about £15 plus a 30 mile round trip. If anybody has a load of good horse muck please leave near the garden gate.

Just walked back from town and there is a small white plastic bag of poo stuffed into the hedge by my gate, another squashed bag is on the other side of the road in the gutter. About 100 dogs are walked past my house every day, and about 15 cars stop off morning and evening for the pooch to go for a run. As it is their first escape from hours inside their first reaction is to drop a load. If it wasn't cleared there would be a dozen piles a day taking up to a month to rot away over an area of 40 sq yds. It wasn't nice before picking up became the norm but the number of dog owners has mushroomed and some don't clean up or having done so chuck it over my wall.

My local town council, of which my wife is a member, recently put out a survey to every household in the town, asking what they wanted the town council to concentrate on to improve the towns amenities. Top of the list was to do something about derelict buildings in the town, all owned by tesco, and bought to prevent other supermarkets opening in competition to them. Second on the list was to deal effectively with dog fouling. It is dangerous, and can cause poisoning from the Toxicara it contains which cases blindness and can result in peripheral amputation due to gangrene. In public parks where children play the chances of them coming into contact with this filth is very high. So you see it is not loony councils who have come up with the idea, it is actually what the people want. Dogs are carnivores, horses are herbivores, and their droppings are very different. You Dont see many people rushing out to put dog crap on their roses for a very good reason! dog crap is toxic! Horse crap is not. Funnily enough, my cousins wife breeds collies under the Wicani name, and has changed her dogs onto an all raw meat diet, completely cutting out biscuit and commercial processed dog foods, and has seen a massive increase in the health of the dogs, and the numbers of puppies in a litter. Also cleaning the kennels is a much more pleasant job as the foul smell usually associated with dog crap has all but dissapeared. Perhaps feeding them junk food diets has something to do with the proble?

Ady1, the road is not fine! unless it has a speed limit of 40mph or more!! Anywhere where the speed limit is under 40mph is included in the act, and means you must pick up from the road as well!

Toxicara is a lot rarer than it was due to people worming dogs regularly as MANY do. Many people take their dog to a vets once a year so that they can stop in kennels if needed. We used to visit one that gave away good quality worming tablets for free because they cost peanuts. It's a pity that the people who supply these to pet shops don't have more of a social conscience. The shops too as anything like this for dogs will have a high price what ever it's actual cost is.

The biggest problem with dogs and parasites is that they are very likely to take a liking to fox, sheep and other dropping if they find them. Even their own if certain things are in the food.

Horses – well they need worming too.

Dried dog food – there are many varieties and in some cases content can even have an effect on a dogs behaviour. We get ours from a place that specialises in selling barf type food primarily (raw meat diet) and as a consequence sells dried food with very controlled ingredients. If some one changes a dog over to barf after they have had many years on a dry food diet they may well run into problems. They depend on a certain amount of bacterial activity in their gut and what they need for things like animal fat for instance will probably have gone.

The raw meat place – the smell is so bad my wife wont go in it and even complains while sitting in the car outside. They are very large scale supplier too. This touches on why few people with just one dog will feed them this way. It's a cheaper method for breeders. Dried food just has the problem that it tends to increase the volume of the poo – no doubt partly due to the manufacturers wanting dogs to eat as much of it as possible.

My grandmother fed her dog with raw food. Interesting to compare with modern practice. She went to the knackers yard once a week. The dog ate the meat and buried the bone – once a week. A few days after eating the meat it ate the bone. A very healthy and active dog.

John

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