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Dogs fouling on pathways

Dogs fouling on pathways


Postby peterb1963 » Sun May 02, 2021 5:24 pm

Route description: The Hermitage and Braan Walk, Dunkeld

Date walked: 02/05/2021

Distance: 6.5 km

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Walk this path in reverse today, nice walk but spolit by the amount of dog faeces on the pathways! Surely in this day and age people can clean up after their dogs! Didn't see much in the way of bins to put dog litter in, but come on folks , it spoilsxfthe walk for others.
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Re: Dogs fouling on pathways

Postby iangpark » Sun May 02, 2021 7:14 pm

I recently started working at a nature reserve and we've come across an interesting dilemma. On one hand, if someone is not going to be prepared to pick up the dog's mess and put it in a bin (as there are none around) then that is of course irritating (and even potentially dangerous). Despite this, I would rather they do that a hundred times over than put the mess in a plastic bag and chuck it out of view. Dog mess will return to the soil in a few weeks, a plastic bag is a few millennia. A weird one.
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Re: Dogs fouling on pathways

Postby Wanderer Gaz » Mon May 03, 2021 6:08 pm

A blight of many parks in populated areas. One of the most depressing sights other than large scale fly tipping is plastic bags of dog s*!t hanging from branches after folk have launched them into the woods instead of binning.

I don't like people sometimes :(
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