Nature calls

Where there's muck...

Strolling out around the beautiful valley where I live with a visitor from down under, taking in the beautiful spring flowers, we saw many examples of the latest craze among  dog-lovers: plastic bags containing their pets’ deposits that are tied onto trees - how odd we remarked.  At first I thought it was a local thing, this decorating of wayside vegetation with little bags of unpleasantnes.

How rude I commented

Isn't it obvious? Replied my companion. People set out on a walk with their dog, they know there are no receptacles on their route so they leave the bags to pick up on the way back. Perhaps they hang them on a branch so they don't miss or forget them.

Catch and prosecute a few offenders to the maximum extent possible.

Then we will see a difference being made.

The laws already exist. It is just that police are too busy meeting government set targets to implement it.

Bahdger