Guest 644- Registered: 12 Mar 2008
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3 January 2011
15:4387540I have just walked passed the sorting office on Granville Street and must have counted, no exaggeration, about twenty piles of dog excrement opposite. As I live in the area, I am sick of it, it's like walking across a brown minefield. What is the solution to this vile mess? Owners who allow their dogs to foul up our pavements should be fined and repeat offenders have their dogs confiscated.
Guest 672- Registered: 3 Jun 2008
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3 January 2011
16:0087543Phil, try looking behind the Virgin control box at the bottom of our road ( on the bend next to the new houses ).
The bags have been builing up for the past 2 months. and it must be the same person.
I truely wish we could find an answer to this.
grass grows by the inches but dies by the feet.
Terry Nunn
- Location: London Road, Dover
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3 January 2011
17:1387550It's mostly the residents of the flats on the old LFB site. I've seen them let their dogs do it. I have remonstrated but they just answer in some Eastern European language pretending not to know what I am talking sbout.
Terry
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Guest 644- Registered: 12 Mar 2008
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3 January 2011
17:1987552Here you go Ian, aforementioned junction box twenty minutes ago. The whole Balfour Road/Cherry Tree Ave/Beaconsfield Road/Barton Path area is strewn with little plastic bags tied up and dumped.
Sadly it's one of those habits there is no answer to. Without enforcement officers there is no-one to levy penalties and no deterrent. This environmental hazard will just carry on indefinitely.
3 January 2011
17:1987554Sadly most of dover suffering from lazy dog owners to posh to pick up **** i agree they should be fined or something done
3 January 2011
17:5487562Too chavvy to pick up more like it! The well bred always clear up after their animals, it goes with the territory.
Guest 676- Registered: 1 Jul 2008
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3 January 2011
18:0087563The Dogs Fouling of Land Act 1996 says it is an offence for anyone in charge of a dog not to remove any faeces left by a dog in their charge, and anyone found guilty of an offence will be issued with a fixed penalty. If the fine is not be paid, or offences are persistant the Council may prosecute with a maximum fine of £1000. It is the responsibility of the dog warden to enforce this offence.
Million-to-one chances crop up nine times out of ten.
Terry Nunn- Location: London Road, Dover
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3 January 2011
18:0187564Gosh! I'm well bred! I must admit that I didn't pick it up once. It was a case of a bad dose of the "runs" and the rain washed it away.
Terry
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Keith Sansum1
- Location: london
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3 January 2011
18:0287565your last line stuart
there lies the p;roblem
its a district wide problem
but only one dog warden
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howard mcsweeney1- Location: Dover
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3 January 2011
18:3387579there is not the will to deal with the problem, much the same as dealing with the cyclists that were frightening the lives out of the elderly in the town centre this morning.
blind eyes are conveniently turned.
Guest 640- Registered: 21 Apr 2007
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3 January 2011
18:3787583Yes this problem goes on. There is nothing quite as bad as when you throd in it when your off out somewhere and you end up with a pong eminating all night. You are not sure then if the wafting pong is real or imagined.
However some progress has been made on this though over the years. People pick it up in little plastic bags now a lot of the time, they didnt in the old days as some will remember. But hopefully they bring the little plastic bags home and not as illustrated above. perhaps people feel thats an 'unofficial' designated area. You know how these things go...someone throws an abandoned bed and then another one follows and so on.
3 January 2011
21:3487636We haven't had a dog for three years now (and it's about time we did, frankly, words will soon be exchanged in our house) but when we did we always picked up. Are there any dog-poop bins around there? There used to be some in Connaught.
Jan Higgins
- Location: Dover
- Registered: 5 Jul 2010
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4 January 2011
07:5587659We could do with bins on lamp posts in every road it might help stop the take-away litter as well as the doggy bags just being left around.
Walking across the car park near Netto the other day there was the most enormous pile of dog s... I have ever seen, I thought it was from a horse at first
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Keith Sansum1- Location: london
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4 January 2011
15:2987693then it has to be collected by someone
and theres a cost
i do understand though that some people have been fined for there dogs leaving behind there breakfast.
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Jan Higgins- Location: Dover
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4 January 2011
15:4987705When left in the street it has to be collected eventually, surely the bin men could empty them when collecting the household rubbish.
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Keith Sansum1- Location: london
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4 January 2011
15:5187706not in there contract i can hear cllrs already saying
so no, they wont
but if you pay more council tax ,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,
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Guest 640- Registered: 21 Apr 2007
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5 January 2011
09:4487798As I said previously years ago nobody bothered to pick the stuff up. You could skid around all day on it, down the High St, in the park etc etc. Looking back it was horrendous. If your large mutt did a huge load, as described so appetisingly by Jan there, and did it right outside Boots you never picked it up. You sauntered off whistling and waited for the rains to wash it all away. It wasnt nice.
The pattern of public opinion has shifted since then thankfully..and now dog owners are under pressure from fellow citizens to pick the stuff up. But what do you do with it when you pick it up. Bring it home, put it in the nearby bin. But it represents a new problem that didnt exist when people didnt have to pick it up at all. If you are visiting a friends house after your dogwalk you dont want to go in there carrying bags of dogsh*t !!
But why was there a shift in public opinion. When and why did people start to pick it up in lil bags. I dont remember exactly how it came about. But perhaps this time it was political correctness working for some good for a change. Its no longer politically correct to leave dogsh*t on the pavement.
Guest 653- Registered: 13 Mar 2008
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5 January 2011
18:4387824I'm not sure it has anything to do with PC Paul, but decency and responsibility as a dog owner - that and the fact it is so dangerous as well as horrible once you've trodden in it.
Much more responsibility has to be taken; I also think that more dog-poo bins should be put out, although the poo can be put in ordinary waste bins now.
Roger
Guest 700- Registered: 11 Jun 2010
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5 January 2011
18:4487825Toxicariasis
... A dog harbouring the small round worm causes large numbers of worm eggs in its faeces, which can then contaminate the soil.
Children who then play with an infested dog or with soil ... can pick these up and develop serious eye problems. Cat dirt as well I believe.
It was maybe when this was publicised that the public became more concerned about dog litter.
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howard mcsweeney1- Location: Dover
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5 January 2011
18:4887828that's the name, they say it can cause blindness, not that i have ever heard of a case.
i had not heard that cat's faeces were as bad, but as they normally bury them shouldn't be a problem anyway.
