Musings from the Merse
Friday, January 11, 2008
The Year of the Dog. Again
Dog Poo is already topic # One in 2008 and it is accordingly faithfully reflected* in the columns of this weeks Berwickshire
- Through your column I would like to make a plea to all the irresponsible dog owners of Eyemouth to start cleaning up after their dogs because the dog muck lying around Eyemouth is an absolute disgrace.
The areas around Seafield, Beach Avenue, St Ebba and the Nursery Lane are particularly bad, in fact the Nursery Lane is so bad that my daughter, who has children at the nursery, had to resort to printing posters and pinning them up along Nursery Lane telling owners to clean up after their dogs.
As you can imagine with three children and a buggy it is very hard to avoid stepping in it or going over it with a buggy because there is just so much of it.
I am sure every mother in the town must get sick of having to scrub buggy wheels and shoes every day after they have been out. Not to mention the serious health risks from it.
So dog owners please have some consideration for others and start cleaning up after your dog, it is not that difficult and if you find it to disgusting to pick up then you shouldn't own a dog.
Huttonian would not normally bother with a cut and paste job on such a regular crie de coeur but this strikes a particular chord with him. On our last visit to the small-house-in-Duns we were greeted by an enormous steaming sausage outside our gate. Almost impossible to avoid-and we only just did so. If this is the work of a visitor from Eyemoth please return with your owner and a large scooper but I fear it is the work of a Dirty Dog from Duns
* As this is not the Mirror-no pun intended is not warranted (blog-ed)
Dog Poo is already topic # One in 2008 and it is accordingly faithfully reflected* in the columns of this weeks Berwickshire
- Through your column I would like to make a plea to all the irresponsible dog owners of Eyemouth to start cleaning up after their dogs because the dog muck lying around Eyemouth is an absolute disgrace.
The areas around Seafield, Beach Avenue, St Ebba and the Nursery Lane are particularly bad, in fact the Nursery Lane is so bad that my daughter, who has children at the nursery, had to resort to printing posters and pinning them up along Nursery Lane telling owners to clean up after their dogs.
As you can imagine with three children and a buggy it is very hard to avoid stepping in it or going over it with a buggy because there is just so much of it.
I am sure every mother in the town must get sick of having to scrub buggy wheels and shoes every day after they have been out. Not to mention the serious health risks from it.
So dog owners please have some consideration for others and start cleaning up after your dog, it is not that difficult and if you find it to disgusting to pick up then you shouldn't own a dog.
Huttonian would not normally bother with a cut and paste job on such a regular crie de coeur but this strikes a particular chord with him. On our last visit to the small-house-in-Duns we were greeted by an enormous steaming sausage outside our gate. Almost impossible to avoid-and we only just did so. If this is the work of a visitor from Eyemoth please return with your owner and a large scooper but I fear it is the work of a Dirty Dog from Duns
* As this is not the Mirror-no pun intended is not warranted (blog-ed)
Comments:
We were in Cramlington recently (it's ok though we've recovered) and the district council office there claimed some unfeasibly huge amount of dog jobby being cleaned from the streets of the district daily. It was more than a couple of tons per day removed....
I read elsewhere that there are an estimated 9000 dogs in that council district so each dog (assuming all things equal, and the council are cleaning up 100%) is depositing about 4oz of output every day!
Looks like the problem with jobby is not restricted to canine output - they seem to have bovine coming from the council offices too. Although that's no real surprise I suppose as anyone in receipt of communication from our beloved SBC will know.
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I read elsewhere that there are an estimated 9000 dogs in that council district so each dog (assuming all things equal, and the council are cleaning up 100%) is depositing about 4oz of output every day!
Looks like the problem with jobby is not restricted to canine output - they seem to have bovine coming from the council offices too. Although that's no real surprise I suppose as anyone in receipt of communication from our beloved SBC will know.
