Dogs on beaches

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Again it is the responsible dog owner who already clears the crap (I bury it on the beach and stay below the high water mark). But, it is also the responsible dog owner who regularly (every 3 months) worms his dogs, which stops Toxocariasis. It is always us who suffer and the idiots on the other end of the leads that carry on as before.

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You bury it on the beach! so some child might dig it up.
You would be better leaving it so people can see it.
You are a prime example of why dogs should be banned from public areas.
 
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...(I bury it on the beach and stay below the high water mark)...

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/forums/images/graemlins/mad.gif As a prolific digger of holes on beaches, that's almost the worst of all worlds - leave it on the sand for the tide to take away if you can't be bothered to clean it up, but don't plant little 'surprises' for me and my kids to find when we're building sandcastles / dams / 'sea defences'.

I also think that cigarette butts, drinks cans food wrappers, etc. are a much bigger problem. What makes people think that if they bury something in the sand that it'll vanish ? (OK: dog crap, etc. eventually will, but plastic bags??)

rant over.

Andy
 
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Your evidence for this is?

Anyway, it aint the dogs, it's the owners, some are just incionsiderate pillocks! "

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Well you are one up on me, I can't even see the bloody buttons!

Not that it's of any great importance, but what puzzled me was why the quote was mispelled?? see above.....

Yep, I know, I need to get a life! /forums/images/graemlins/grin.gif
 
Do the beach dog bans extend all the way to the low water mark, or only to the high water mark when coming from the shore? Is the bit between LW and HW marks under the control of the council, or is that Crown Estate property where the council have no jurisdiction?
 
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Do the beach dog bans extend all the way to the low water mark, or only to the high water mark when coming from the shore? Is the bit between LW and HW marks under the control of the council, or is that Crown Estate property where the council have no jurisdiction?

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Many councils have byelaws that extend into the bathing area, so I expect it's the whole beach.
 
Fair enough, I shall keep that in mind.

To be honest, it has been years since the last event and then years before that. I am talking about the sand by the low water mark here too, not the dry stuff.

p.s. What are your lottery numbers, if you think you can dig up a single dog crap on the whole beach within say 48 hours before all the sand critters eat it, you must be the luckiest man alive... ever cut yourself sitting on a needle in a haystack?
 
I've noticed the plastic bag thing recently as well, people seem to bag it up and hang the bags from trees like some kind of bauble from hell.

What do they think will happen to it?
 
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I've noticed the plastic bag thing recently as well, people seem to bag it up and hang the bags from trees like some kind of bauble from hell.

What do they think will happen to it?

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Perhaps they hope it will shame the local council into providing some disposal facilities.
 
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Tricky subject, officer. I like dogs but I'm not wild about discovering what they leave behind. We have a beach hut at Boscombe, where dogs are allowed on the beach out of season but not allowed between (iirc) May and September, which seems like a reasonable compromise. Like everything else to do with dogs, you can't blame them for misbehaving on the beach or leavling turds lying around - it's down to their owners to keep them under control and clear up after them. Most do, but it's the minority, who couldn't care less, who spoil it for the rest.

Having said which, I think dog bans are also a tick box for Blue Flag status, which may be another reason why they're forbidden on lots of beaches. I think the Kennel Club are probably in for a disappointment.

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I am led to believe that rather than being a tick box for blue flag (I am aware of blue flag beaches without such a ban) rather it is beaches where they fear dog wee, on the assumption most of the poo is bagged and binned, will take their nice beach over the limit because the local sewage treatment is dodgy.

I sometimes wonder how my generation survived, I swam in seas enriched with untreated sewage, and played in parks long before the bag itand bin it became fashionable.

Having said that I in no way object to bagging and binnig and do wish more dog owners were more resposible about clearing up after their pets.

ps can any one suggest a humane way to prevent the neighborhood cats using my garden as a toilet.
 
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Perhaps they hope it will shame the local council into providing some disposal facilities.

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Could they not write to the council in the usual manner?

Leaving turds on a tree seems an odd form of communication.
 
It's a tribal thing.......Dog owners are a bit like that! /forums/images/graemlins/grin.gif

Just be grateful that they don't own elephants!
 
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To be honest, it has been years since the last event and then years before that. I am talking about the sand by the low water mark here too, not the dry stuff.

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Dry stuff is no good for sandcastles, and too far from the sea for an 'island' /forums/images/graemlins/smile.gif

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p.s. What are your lottery numbers, if you think you can dig up a single dog crap on the whole beach within say 48 hours before all the sand critters eat it, you must be the luckiest man alive... ever cut yourself sitting on a needle in a haystack?

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No, but if I "fell into a barrel of t*ts, I would come out sucking my thumb", as the saying goes /forums/images/graemlins/grin.gif

Ironically, I think the dog ban makes matters worse, because it concentrates all the dogs on a few beaches (I'm talking of around Anglesey), so it's not just one crap in two days - there are dozens of dogs on the 'dog' half of Trearddur bay (for example) every day, and they all cluster around the shortest part of the beach near the 'prom'. As our household includes a dog, it means we can't avoid these unless we leave the dog behind (not nice). I also think that some owners see the distinction between dog and non-dog beaches as 'legitimising' (sp?) the indiscriminate fouling of 'dog' beaches.

I'm not having a go at you (honest!) I just really, really don't like dog sh*t.

Andy
 
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ps can any one suggest a humane way to prevent the neighborhood cats using my garden as a toilet.

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I had some success using pepper mixed with chili powder. However, I am reliably informed that owning your own cat is also effective - cats are territorial, and tend to a) keep other cats away and b) perform in specific places in their own territory.
 
It's not for me it is for my dog and knowing the way she feels about cats I think the suggestion of actually sharing her house and garden with a cat would not go down well.
 
Perhaps they have written to the council with little effect, and feel the need for a more noticable demonstration of the lack of proper facilities.
 
The proper facilities are in the dog owners possession, if they
don't have the where-with-all to dispose of a turd bag, then
how can they hope to look after a living animal?
 
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