Wirral's dog-fouled pavements are a public health risk (From Wirral Globe)

Wirral's dog-fouled pavements are a public health risk

3:40pm Wednesday 3rd February 2010

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I have to confess to having become rather bored with the letters about dog muck on your letters page each week.

The problem, thought I, had improved out of all recognition since the days when Wallasey was the unofficial “Canine Excrement Capital” of Merseyside; so why didn’t these people stop moaning and do something useful with their lives?

Well, an incident the other day certainly jarred me out of my complacency.

I arrived home in darkness from work, took not a dozen steps from my car to my front door, let myself in, wiped my feet diligently on the mat and sat down in the lounge for a well earned rest before proceeding with the evening's chores.

All at once a noxious stench assailed my nostrils, and sure enough when I examined my shoes one of them was caked with dog muck.

Clearly my smug dismissal of the complaints of those who continue to encounter the effects of this nasty phen-omenon was very much out of place.

And where is our ruling council with regard to this issue? My question is this: Is not the matter of public health a duty of the local council, and if that council is failing in its duty shouldn’t we, as citizens, rather than making individual complaints in the media, be demanding as one that they take a far more pro-active stand against those who are leaving their pets’ excrement all over our pavements?

David Elsam, Wallasey.

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