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Not banning dogs leaves a health risk
11:04am Wednesday 8th October 2008
Comments (13)By not passing a bylaw banning dogs from certain of the beaches in its care, Wirral Council, especially John Hale as tourism committee chairman, has allowed its residents and visitors to remain innocently liable to nasty diseases.
The bodily waste products of dogs comprise many human pathogens, including eye worms, alimentary tract worms, liver worms and diseases too numerous to mention, especially so if you read this before a meal.
Dog owners allow their animals to foul any and every public place. It is not sufficient to clean up afterwards as, by then, the ground has been contaminated.
Why do most owners not train their dogs to use their gardens? The answer is simple. They do not like having their gardens fouled. Our beaches are our pride and one of the reasons why we have so many visitors.
Any person catching disease or worm, etc from dog ordure on a beach that could have had a ban applied to it, should take action against the council because it know of the dangers, has failed to act and, therefore, is in breach of health and safety regulations.
If other boroughs can apply a ban, then so can ours. Cigarette smoking has been banned for the sake of the health of 70% of the population, why not dog fouling where children play?
John Hutchinson, West Kirby.
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P.Gall, leasowe says...
8:47am Thu 9 Oct 08
Screaming, Unreasonable Man, Birkenhead says...
11:47am Mon 13 Oct 08
The stink popularly believed to be ‘ozone’ is actually the smell of rotting seaweed. Of course in one extreme way banning dogs from the beaches might protect dogs from many of the health hazards to which they would be exposed on the beaches, but in practice such a ban would be merely another example of spiteful treatment of the law-abiding, like charging for parking in Birkenhead until 6.30pm when most of the shops close at 5.00pm and most of the bus ‘services’ have finished by 6.00pm!
globe, wirral says...
4:08pm Tue 14 Oct 08
Other things that people enjoy:-
- riding motorbikes around in parks.
- smoking in restaurants
- vandalising property
- scratching cars with keys.
Maybe these, like letting dogs run free on beaches should be regarded as fair. After all, the perpetrators are having a good time - and hang the rest of us.
Screaming, Unreasonable Man, Birkenhead says...
12:27pm Wed 15 Oct 08
A far worse menace is surely poorly-disciplined children making noise and running riot in restaurants whilst their doting parents look on, oblivious to the misery they are causing everyone else.
globe, wirral says...
4:18pm Wed 15 Oct 08
Screaming, Unreasonable Man, Birkenhead says...
2:45pm Thu 16 Oct 08
I'm PAYING through the nose for food service, not a grandstand seat in a kindergarten.
Even children have to sit “static” to eat or they make themselves sick or get painful indigestion. Then the interminable crying and howling starts. Parents who allow their children to get into this state are unfit.
In the event of my evening being ruined by selfish parents I shall demand a discount from the proprietor of the restaurant by way of compensation and in future I shall spend my money elsewhere.
Restaurateurs know on which side their bread is buttered.
globe, wirral says...
5:22pm Thu 16 Oct 08
:')
Screaming, Unreasonable Man, Birkenhead says...
1:31pm Fri 17 Oct 08
On the other hand poorly-reared children are ordered cheaper food, which they pick at or tip onto the tables, chairs and floors along with the cutlery making even more unnecessary work for the waiting staff who are already having to bite their lips as they have to step over and around the little dears all over the floor as their parents aren’t capable of bringing them up properly to behave in public.
This seems to be a British problem, my experiences of children in restaurants in the rest of Europe has been fine.
jimisugly, Birkenhead says...
3:04pm Tue 2 Dec 08
There is always going to be a 50/50 split on people who are for and against dogs. I as a dog owner love to take my dog to the beach. He is well behaved and children come to stroke him and play. IF and i mean IF my dog has ever fouled, i immeadiately clean it up and put it in the bin. He would usually go in my back garden, but when you've got to got, you've got to go.
As for Mr Hutchinson's comment of "Dog owners allow their animals to foul any and every public place. It is not sufficient to clean up afterwards as, by then, the ground has been contaminated" at least responsible dog owners do clean up unlike the adults i see urinating against the wall.
You can argue as much as you like, protest, get a petition signed for all i care. It won't help, as there will be just as many dog lovers on the opposite side to you, doin excatly the same thing. Live with it, or move.
katryn, Birkenhead says...
10:42am Tue 9 Dec 08
Am sick of saying to the kids when were out and about to watch were their walking.
Grange Road and streets nearby are full of it and its disgusting.
katryn, Birkenhead says...
5:24pm Tue 9 Dec 08
Needless to say i was fuming and he was upset as it had gone on to his school pants as he started to walk before we noticed it:(
raymond38, Noctorum says...
1:05pm Fri 2 Jan 09
Or has dog excrement suddenly become more toxic.
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