Crystal Palace Road - Pick up after your dogs!

[Melph91]

Hi,

I live on CPR and have been walking along it earlier than usual recently (my 4 year old has just started school).

Perhaps it is the timing of our new walks but almost every other day either pushchair (for newborn), scooter, small feet or my own larger feet are finding dog poo often too late to avoid it.

PLEASE PICK UP AFTER YOUR DOGS. I CLEAN ENOUGH SHIT AT HOME.

[Nigello]

You are pushing against a very closed door. Those who let their dogs foul the streets without cleaning up are very unlikely to stop doing so unless caught red-handed and fined. I agree it is a real pain and very anti-social!

[Abe_froeman]

I'm going to ask Southwark council to have a look at this scheme recently adopted in canterbury:

http://www.express.co.uk/news/nature/850285/dog-poo-fines-council-demands-owner-proof-bag

If dog owners were encouraged to carry poo bags then they might even bother to use them. If not there would be more resources for the council to pay for a street cleaner...

[DuncanW]

I'd be interested to know how may offenders Southwark have prosecuted under the existing legislation. My guess would be none, or close to none.

I appreciate resources are stretched, but if they had a two-day purge on this once every couple of months, a few fines issued and publicised might go some way to changing the behavior of the small majority of dog-owners in question.

[KidKruger]

Personally I'd be all for DNA registration of dogs along with their microchip.

Then tracing the owner would in most cases be straightforward.

[uncleglen]

KidKruger Wrote:

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> Personally I'd be all for DNA registration of dogs

> along with their microchip.

> Then tracing the owner would in most cases be

> straightforward.

Here Here KK and it should be extended to cats

[singalto]

There is someone who regularly picks up after their dog but leaves the plastic bag and content on the pavement underneath a dog waste bin.This is on the corner of Pellatt and Lancroft.

[Sue]

Perhaps the bin is full? Why do that otherwise?

[singalto]

The bin didn't seem to be full and it is a regular occurrence.

[uncleglen]

I expect if you open one of those bins the smell would be horrendous- so the person avoids it

[Earl Aelfheah]

uncleglen Wrote:

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> I expect if you open one of those bins the smell

> would be horrendous- so the person avoids it

They shouldn't have a dog then.

[Penguin68]

They shouldn't have a dog then.

For many people (particularly the lonely elderly) a pet can provide real therapeutic benefits. However these can be provided by a ferret (domestic, not a pole cat) just as much as they can be by a dog. Ferrets will rush to greet their owners and are the only pet, I believe, which will actually stroke their owner. They need less exercise, are less costly to feed, and their excreta are far less bulky and noisome (male ferrets do have a particular smell, associated with scent glands, so female ferrets are a better option). If you require a pet, particularly in the city, perhaps you should look for something more city-living friendly.

[Robert Poste's Child]

Just been for a two-and-a-half hour walk - through the village, Love Walk, Belair, beside the railway line to Sydenham Hill station, Dulwich Woods and the nature reserve, Cox's Walk, Fireman's Alley, Dulwich Park - and didn't see one pile of dog mess. Massive improvement.

Good work, people of Dulwich.

[KidKruger]

Massive dog turd outside my front gate on Thursday evening, from a very big dog, laid between 8.15-8.30pm.

Luckily I didn't step on it as I left to walk my dog and luckily I had bags to pick it up and then washed the pavement.

Could have carpeted my hallway with it there was so much.

I swear the person I see intentionally allowing their dog to do this will be wearing the shit down their shirt.

No. Fecking. Excuse.

[Henry_17]

Look on the bright side!