Time to take a stand on dog mess – zero tolerance, promises council

A dog owner responsibly cleans up after her dog - but there are many who are flouting the law.

Published on 21/02/2013 15:20

COMPLAINTS over pet owners who refuse to scoop the poop have rocketed at East Dunbartonshire Council – going up nearly 20 per cent.

Kirkintilloch’s Donaldson Street and Christine Way are the latest areas to be ‘named and shamed’.

The council is determined to reinforce the message that not cleaning up after your dog is disgusting and an offence.

So far this year the environmental and community protection team has received 273 complaints about dog fouling – up 51 on the previous year.

Similarly, the number of fixed penalty notices has risen from one to 10.

Failing to pick up immediately after a dog is an offence under the Dog Fouling (Scotland) Act 2003 and anyone caught will be issued with a £40 fine (rising to £60 if not paid within 28 days) by the council’s environmental wardens.

After last year’s campaign, any unpaid fixed penalty notices were reported to the Procurator Fiscal and offenders were issued with either a fine or fiscal warning.

Depute council leader Ashay Ghai said: “The pavements, streets, parks, fields and green spaces in East Dunbartonshire are for everyone to enjoy and dog owners should be respectful of this, and clean up after their dog or face the consequences.”

Dog bins are available throughout East Dunbartonshire and public litter bins can also be used to dispose of bagged dog waste.

Free bags are available from council buildings, community centres, police offices and some local supermarkets.

* Have you got a story, picture or comment? E-mail kirkyherald@jnscotland.co.uk

Alternatively you can call the newsdesk 0141 775 0040, find us on Facebook or visit us on Twitter

Or you can log in below and have you say on the site...

News

Looking for...

Featured advertisers

Jobs

Search for a job

Motors

Search for a car

Make Model Price from Price to

Property

Search for a house

Buy Rent

Bedrooms Price from Price from Price to Price to

What is a Cookie?
What is a Flash Cookie?
Can I opt out of receiving Cookies?
About our Cookies

Cookies are small data files which are sent to your browser (Internet Explorer, Firefox, Chrome etc) from a website you visit. They are stored on your electronic device.
This is a type of cookie which is collected by Adobe Flash media player (it is also called a Local Shared Object) - a piece of software you may already have on your electronic device to help you watch online videos and listen to podcasts.
Yes there are a number of options available, you can set your browser either to reject all cookies, to allow only "trusted" sites to set them, or to only accept them from the site you are currently on.

However, please note - if you block/delete all cookies, some features of our websites, such as remembering your login details, or the site branding for your local newspaper may not function as a result.
The types of cookies we, our ad network and technology partners use are listed below:
- Revenue Science ►
  
  A tool used by some of our advertisers to target adverts to you based on pages you have visited in the past. To opt out of this type of targeting you can visit the 'Your Online Choices' website by clicking here.
- Google Ads ►
  
  Our sites contain advertising from Google; these use cookies to ensure you get adverts relevant to you. You can tailor the type of ads you receive by visiting here or to opt out of this type of targeting you can visit the 'Your Online Choices' website by clicking here.
- Webtrends / Google Analytics ►
  
  This is used to help us identify unique visitors to our websites. This data is anonymous and we cannot use this to uniquely identify individuals and their usage of the sites.
- Dart for Publishers ►
  
  This comes from our ad serving technology and is used to track how many times you have seen a particular ad on our sites, so that you don't just see one advert but an even spread. This information is not used by us for any other type of audience recording or monitoring.
- ComScore ►
  
  ComScore monitor and externally verify our site traffic data for use within the advertising industry. Any data collected is anonymous statistical data and cannot be traced back to an individual.
- Local Targeting ►
  
  Our Classified websites (Photos, Motors, Jobs and Property Today) use cookies to ensure you get the correct local newspaper branding and content when you visit them. These cookies store no personally identifiable information.
- Grapeshot ►
  
  We use Grapeshot as a contextual targeting technology, allowing us to create custom groups of stories outside out of our usual site navigation. Grapeshot stores the categories of story you have been exposed to. Their privacy policy and opt out option can be accessed here.
- Subscriptions Online ►
  
  Our partner for Newspaper subscriptions online stores data from the forms you complete in these to increase the usability of the site and enhance user experience.
- Add This ►
  
  Add This provides the social networking widget found in many of our pages. This widget gives you the tools to bookmark our websites, blog, share, tweet and email our content to a friend.
- 3rd Party Cookies ►
  
  We use Advertising agencies to provide us with some of the advertising on our websites. These include (but are not limited to) Specific Media, The Rubicon Project, AdJug, AdConion, Context Web. Please click on the provider name to visit their opt-out page.

New book opens a window on a forgotten world of old days, golden memories and more

Time to take a stand on dog mess – zero tolerance, promises council

Top stories

News