If these stencils persuade just one dog-owner to not befoul the path...
...it'll go unnoticed due to the several hundred other regular biological hazard implementation teams using the Restalrig Road access to the Restalrig Railway Path for defecatory purposes.
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today's rubbish dog-handling
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Posted 8 years ago #
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DOG owners who don’t clean up after their pets will be targeted by environmental wardens in the early hours.
Enforcement teams will be on patrol at peak dog-walking times, handing out £40 fines between 7am and 2am.
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I may sound overly pessimistic, but I'll believe it when I see it.
WoL path between Sandport Place and Coburg Street is covered in dog mess all year round, has been reported multiple times, has had promises of Environmental Warden monitoring many times - and nothing has ever happened.
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My wife is always amused about British peoples inability to adapt how they speak depending on the listener. For example using simple, short sentences when talking to someone who is learning English. Seems this also applies to dog owners.
This morning as I was slowing on the approach to a lady walking her dog she said "Oh Bernard, you really do need to get out of this gentleman's way". Reminded me of the Far Side - What Dogs Hear.
Doesn't anybody remember the teachings of Barbara Woodhouse?
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Report dog fouling
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Doesn't anybody remember the teachings of Barbara Woodhouse?
Her teaching methods (essentially just dominating the dog through fear and pain) are fairly widely discredited now I believe.
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One of my least favourite things is when I see people call their dog, and it doesn't come, so they call it again, and it does - and when it gets to them, they slap it for not coming the first time.
Yes, I think I can see WHY the dog might be reluctant to "come"...
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I had a few years without owning a dog, but the last three months since we took in a rescue has really shown me the truth in the famous phrase: hell is other dog walkers.
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Which rescue did you get the dug from?
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Dog and Cat Home at Seafield. Always a depressing experience to visit animal rescues - not least for the preponderance of Staffies and Staff-crosses.
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On the subject of animal rescues, I visited the cat home out at Gorebridge about 12 months ago with an eye to a house cat. Their facilities are however firmly centred around their (rather lovely) garden seemingly with the belief cats all belong outdoors. If you read several of their current descriptions I don't think that's changed.
"Korky ... has been kept indoors till now ... best in a home ... with a garden."
Kinda sad the number of black cats needing homes... one theory is that they're just not photogenic enough for the modern obsession with sharing pictures.
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@The Boy: yes, we got our (late) cat from EDCH and were at the open day recently. It's so sad to see all the animals needing homes. Staffies are such cracking wee dogs; their bad reputation is undeserved. Their nature is to be wee sooks and properly raised ones are really friendly and loving.
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that cat rescue do seem a bit obsessed about cats going outside, don't they? I get that an outdoors cat shouldn't be rehomed to somewhere with no outside access, but ime indoor cats are perfectly happy creatures.
@Stickman, my other half mooted taking ours along to the open day so they could see how well he was settling in, but we decided it might be a bit of a stress seeing as it wasn't *that* long since he had been dumped there possibly by a stranger.
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@stickman No surprise there - most people from the 70/80's are discredited now.
I was mostly referring to some basic training to get your dog to sit, stay and come. I have no recollection of how she actually went about it but I believe the commands are still commonly used. Or actually not. Which is the problem.
I have no problem with owners not training their dogs if they then control their pet appropriately in other ways. I like dogs but don't want them near my very young children.
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Cycling at a reasonable pace along Pilrig St earlier. Adult male, 2 kids on scooters & dog were waiting to cross on the far pavement. Just as I pass the 'no way I can stop' point, the dog bounds across the road and misses taking me out by literally millimetres. I swore involuntarily. I hope the kids didn't hear. I hope the dad did.
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Todays rubbish dog walking comes to you from the owner of this Sasquatch/Man In A Dog Suit.
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Where was that? There's one of them lives round here that I see out with its owner quite often. Hilariously, said owner is tiny.
Though she's not as tiny, nor the dog so large as the (i assume) tourist couple I saw on Christmas day as I walked through town on my way to Roseburn. I swear when this dog held its head up said head was up past its owner's elbow.
I dread to think how big the bags need to be...
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I once exited the toilets in the Outhouse and came face to face with a dog that I'm sure came up to my chin. I'm not going to pretend that it didn't frighten the life out of my slightly addled brain. Maybe it was just a skinny bear in need of a quiet pint.
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@The Boy - it was at the 5 ways heading east.
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One of my neighbours had a deerhound that size who thankfully was so aloof or shy that he was never threatening. His basket had about the footprint of a neat two seater sofa and pretty much dominated their lounge.
My new boss is 6'9" and I wonder whether (if you saw him walk such a beast along a beach or place with similarly few visual aids to height estimation) your brain would go through a few bouts of Schroedinger boxing while it decided if it was a medium height chap with an unusually fuzzy greyhound.
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I dread to think how big the bags need to be...
I once saw an Irish wolfhound lighten its load in the middle of the Buccleuch Place cobbles. You'd have needed a robust bag-for-life to have carried that small mountain away.
This was 20 years ago, so well before bagging it was the socially expected approach for dog-wranglers.
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An untethered squat/bulky idiot-hound with glowing red
eyesLEDs on its collar barked and growled at me on the Restalrig path on the way home whilst I was trying to see and kick off some glass in the dark and rain.Posted 8 years ago # -
There used to be a dog toilet in St Margaret Park (?) in Corstorphine when I was a lad - and that's about 25 years ago now.
Not sure how useful they would be, tbh. If you want a dog to go in a particular place then you have to train it to do so, and the people who don't clean up after their dogs are the least likely to do so.
Unfortunately the list doesn't include the putting down of owners who repeatedly refuse to pick up their dog's produce - I'd be all for that one.
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Time for my daily grumble.... Has anyone else noticed the phenomenon of bagged dog's dirt strewn along verges and hedges? Where I work in Livingston, the little black bags are a common site on the back paths - I even see them along Edinburgh cycle paths! People go to all that trouble of picking it up, only to drop it back down in a significantly less decomposable form! Madness...
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Common occurrence.
When we were still living in Clermiston and looking friends' greyhound the woods were naturally my preferred walking route. There was a cut through from the tree line next to the old nuclear bunker which was obviously used as a regular exit by another dog walker - scores of poos in little black bags everywhere.
I get that they were probably of the decomposing variety, but to bag it and carry it almost all the way to a bin and then dump it is madness - just use the stick method and flick it into the undergrowth if you're that lazy. The wildlife will probably appreciate it.
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Yes I do find the paths being strewn with poo bags one of the most spectacularly stupid instances of modern life/morality.
If you don't want to deal with it, flick into the bushes with a stick/implement as the boy says. Nature will take care if it as long as its out the way.
But to pick up and seal poo in a plastic bag and hang it off a branch is staggeringly moronic..Posted 8 years ago # -
I think most will get tired of carrying it around, trying to find a bin and dump it in the nearest bush. I think you can walk all the NEPN and not find a single bin.
Agreed it's stupid anyway as it's then the volunteers that will end up cleaning them up.Posted 8 years ago # -
"I think you can walk all the NEPN and not find a single bin."
It's by Stedfastgate. Is there still one a bit further down by the Largo Place steps?
I'm almost certain there was once a special dog poo bin beside the Innocent in Bingham, but can't find a photo so might have imagined it.
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