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Dirty business

4:43pm Thursday 18th March 2010 in


If only Brighton and Hove City Council and the police would enforce the law on dog fouling in our streets with the same zest they have for levying parking fines.

There cannot be a mother in the neighbourhood who is not aggrieved when their child, or indeed they themselves, have trodden in dog faeces.

Dog muck can totally ruin a lady’s shoe and, unless detected swiftly, can ruin one’s carpet too!

Lazy owners will only learn the hard way. A few fines please, for the greater good.

Isabel Noble
Stonery Road, Portslade

Comments(2)

puddingandpi says...
6:04pm Thu 18 Mar 10

The thing is, it's quite easy to trace the owner of a car that's breaking the law. It's not so easy to trace the owners of the producer of a particular pile of dog crap.
I have, a few times, collected the dog muck from a neighbour's dog, from my garden & hand-delivered back to the owner. That worked, but I knew the dog that had done it & where the owner lived.

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yorkie44 says...
6:31pm Thu 18 Mar 10

The problem seems to be getting worse. There is no chance of using fines to stop this because there is nobody to see it happening who could impose a fine. The best thing is for the council to get some giant vacuum cleaners and go round and clean it up.

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