Musings from the Merse
Friday, June 16, 2006
Home Thoughts from Abroad. Getting the Flavour
Excretion seems still to be high in the list of topics aired (no pun intended) the letter columns of the Berwickshire and this one strikes a resonance in far away Amman as a light relief from the usual preoccupations of Academe.
SIR, - At a recent meeting of Greenlaw and Hume Community Council the subject of of fouling reared its head yet again.Very strong views about this deplorable habit were passed at the meeting.The negligence of a small number of dog owners is just beyond belief, however, that small number of owners adds up to a very big problem for Greenlaw.The main streets are always covered with dog pooh, the playpark in the middle of our village is constantly soiled with it, the beautiful WS Happer Memorial park which could be such a lovely walking area is an obstacle course of doggie pooh, the football field where games take place has to be cleared before every game and the school playpark is just another doggie toilet.Be assured irresponsible dog owners, we know who YOU are, we WILL pass on names for prosecution and you WILL be named and shamed.We must do this for the sake of our lovely village and for the sake of the children playing there before one of them is blinded or worse by the terrible diseases that dogs faeces leave behind in the grass.Please remember next time you take your dog out, take a bag too - BAG IT AND BIN IT!!WILMA MOSCROP,(on behalf of Greenlaw and HumeCommunity Council and all like minded villagers).
Well done the G&HCC) Certainly we seem to have licked (npi) the problem in the H&PCC area-at least as far as my own observations are concerned. Dog owners have got the message and have bagged their dog's.
No one sems to mind here but then dogs are not a common sight being regarded by many Arabs as 'unclean'
I wonder why?
Excretion seems still to be high in the list of topics aired (no pun intended) the letter columns of the Berwickshire and this one strikes a resonance in far away Amman as a light relief from the usual preoccupations of Academe.
SIR, - At a recent meeting of Greenlaw and Hume Community Council the subject of of fouling reared its head yet again.Very strong views about this deplorable habit were passed at the meeting.The negligence of a small number of dog owners is just beyond belief, however, that small number of owners adds up to a very big problem for Greenlaw.The main streets are always covered with dog pooh, the playpark in the middle of our village is constantly soiled with it, the beautiful WS Happer Memorial park which could be such a lovely walking area is an obstacle course of doggie pooh, the football field where games take place has to be cleared before every game and the school playpark is just another doggie toilet.Be assured irresponsible dog owners, we know who YOU are, we WILL pass on names for prosecution and you WILL be named and shamed.We must do this for the sake of our lovely village and for the sake of the children playing there before one of them is blinded or worse by the terrible diseases that dogs faeces leave behind in the grass.Please remember next time you take your dog out, take a bag too - BAG IT AND BIN IT!!WILMA MOSCROP,(on behalf of Greenlaw and HumeCommunity Council and all like minded villagers).
Well done the G&HCC) Certainly we seem to have licked (npi) the problem in the H&PCC area-at least as far as my own observations are concerned. Dog owners have got the message and have bagged their dog's.
No one sems to mind here but then dogs are not a common sight being regarded by many Arabs as 'unclean'
I wonder why?
Comments:
I should have added that it is not just the Arab World which regards dogs as unclean. Presumably the good folk of Greenlaw do as well?
More in the letters page this week's Berwickshire on the dog bombs in Greenlaw and the weeds that they are secreted in.
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