Dog Fouling

Following on from my blog on Tuesday "Dog Owners, The Good, The Bad & The Ugly", I made a slight error in detailing the amount for an on the spot fine for dog fouling and then not picking it up in the town I live in. As per the notice here it is in fact € 150.00 Back in December last year I was contacted by a Dublin radio station Spin 103, as their lunchtime listener discussion was all about dog owners that don't scoop the poop. (I'm sure it put quite a few people off their ham sandwiches that day) They had picked up on a blog I penned a few days previous titled Poop Scoop Detective I remember at the time, the host of the show asked me what type of signage was around my town, and I described the same to him, but now that I actually look at it a bit more closely, I should have advised that the dog depicted is actually quite proud of her achievement. After that interview, I laughed to myself thinking, if nothing else comes from the pedigree dogs blog, at least …

As per the classic spaghetti western staring Clint Eastwood, you could classify all dog owners into the above categories. Yesterday I met one of the bad & ugly ones. We were just coming in from one of our daily walks, and were stopped at a pedestrian crossing waiting for the light to go in our favour. Across the road a "Gent" was walking his German Shepherd on an extendable lead. The German Shepherd had stopped at the other side of the road, right at the crossing and had a what can only be described as a projectile shite ! Let's put it this way, if the dog was in the decorating business he would have been very proud of his achievement as he got great coverage, with minimum effort. At this stage the light went in our favour and we crossed relatively close to where this disgusting mess lay resting on the pavement. When the dog had finally finished, the "Gent" just tugged the lead, and went to trot off with not a bother on him. Being a responsible dog owner (Don't …