Dog Walkers vs Sports Pitches

In Wales somewhere, at last someone has had the decency to ban dog owners from sports pitches.

And the RSPCA is joining the animal nuts in complaining about the ban. They've got a petition up about it even.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-wales-45656442

What possible complaints do you think the dog apologists could have to being prevented from allowing their semi-continent beasts to defecate all over the space set aside for people to play sports? On what grounds do you suppose they're going to argue they should be allowed to use our sporting spaces as an animal lavatory?

"If you want to stop dogs fouling you have to identify the minority who are letting dogs do it, not punish the ones who are picking up."

Pick up well you may, madam. But your hound has deposited two and a half tins of digested pedigree chum chunks in abundant gravy, accompanied by biscuits and whatever other indulgent treats you've been feeding him. His foul, stinking, worm-ridden faecal matter will still be clinging to blades of grass with which honest football or rugby players might well be making facial contact very shortly. And what about its pee madam? What about that? You're not picking that up, are you? It's dirty. Nasty. Take it somewhere else!

And another objection:

"It creates a lot of anti-dog feeling by promoting these proposals. They are using a sledgehammer to crack a nut,"

No, madam. Au contraire. It's not the dog ban that creates anti-dog feeling, it's the skating around in stinking animal manure whilst trying to play sports that makes one angry, not at the dogs, the dogs no madam, rather their semi-imbecile owners who have to walk them over the football pitch when there's acres and acres of empty park and woods they could walk them in.

I wonder if there will be a job going issuing the £100 fines. I'd love that job. That would be my job. If they didn't supply me with an officious peaked cap, I'd buy my own one. Oh, I'd work overtime for nothing. Just for the joy of the job.

 

Blimey, that's two likes for Clive from me in a row.

 

When I used to run a team I always got to our pitch well before anyone else specifically for the job of cleaning dog **** off the surface. Sometimes there was a LOT of it. Lazy dog owners need to be sorted out. I'd fine them a lot more than they do now.

 

Sounds like the mojo is back in your merengue, Clive.

 

To digress, the perpetual breast enlargement banner ad on my Forum page has been replaced by one for Art Garfunkel.

Can algorithms really be trusted to run the world?

 

Must be a ‘huge t!ts’ line in there somewhere.

 

Spoke too soon.

Candice & her embonpoint have returned!

 

Couldn't agree more. Both kids play for teams and it's a continual problem. Not to mention the many piles of it dotted round the pavement.

Could you extend your fine to cats as well? Why should I have to have a cat curl one out in my garden just because someone down the road wants to have tiddles to stroke every so often.

 

13 separate doggy doo doos found on my son's pitch before a game is the current record for his club. Anyone beat that?

I've done the pre-match pick up before. It's very comforting to know the "majority" pick up their little furry bundle's deposits as I pick up half a dozen turds of varying size and consistency off the playing surface before a game.

 

The first time I went with our rugby team to Saracens (in Southgate) I was very surprised that before marking out the playing areas was that we had join forces with the opposition to walk across the pitch (aka public park) to indicate the dog turds, syringes and bottles for removal...

The majority of Thanet's beaches have a dog ban from May-Sept. The sheer number of Thanet's dog owners appearing on mass on 1st September to allow fido to have a crap on Broadstairs' Viking Bay leads me to believe that the animals have been constipated since May 1st.

 

Some friends brought along their dogs on Sunday.

Shih tzus.

Certainly did what it says on the tin.

 

People always wonder about what makes rugby players so different from footballers.

Now we know.

Bonding over excrement.

 

Most dog walkers are perfectly responsible.

 

Yes, I agree. But it just takes one or two that let their dogs to **** on the pitch on a daily basis for it to be a big problem.

Also, as Clive says, it is very difficult to get all the **** off the grass even when you do pick it up.

I don't think it would be unreasonable to ban dogs from the actual playing service, especially when toxocariasis, that can be caused by infected dog ****, can result in blindness.

Dog **** on a football pitch is not just unpleasant, it's dangerous.

 

Question: What's a Shih tzu?

Spoiler: Answer

One without penguins.

 

I’m not disagreeing with that, it’s the seemingly blanket assumption on this thread that all dog walkers/owners let their dogs **** everywhere that annoyed me.

 

I saw **** all over a football pitch one mile southwest of Watford town centre last Saturday.

 

Surely the focus has been on non picker uppers on sports fields.

Clive, to our delight, paints with a broader brush & with a more vibrant palette than some.

 

I wish I had been blind for that 90 odd minutes.

 

I wish I had been blind for another 3-4 minutes.

No way was it only 2 added minutes.

 

I coach rugby and I spend at least 20 minutes checking my pitch area for dog faeces each week.

 

You want to direct that annoyance at the to**ers that are giving dog walkers in general a bad name.

 

Second only to resetting the scrum as a timewaster.

 

There are fines in place for failing to pick up dog waste. Maybe they need to be better enforced.

 

Of course a lot of these owners may be the old and infirm taking their bestest/only friend in the world out for a little walkies and getting themselves some exercise and fresh air in the process. Mustn't be late back though as this nice man called Clive will be popping round for a nice cup of tea and a little chat and help around the bungalow to allow them to carry on living at home....

 

Dogs allowed on the (fantastic) beaches in Northumberland all summer. Didn't see any problems.

 

Ok you didn't SEE any, but did you TREAD in any ?

 

My (bad) neighbours have a big dog. They once told me they don't pick up the dog mess because the foxes eat it. Several times over the years I've found cr*p on the path which leads from our gardens down to the canal. I always make sure to put it right outside their gate, the dirty scum.

 

Finally the question is answered as to who or what Art only had eyes for.

 

Sound argument for moving into a home.

In fact, I'm ordering the brochures right now.

 

I now have one eye on Art & one on Candice.

Feeling torn.