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And by the way, all this talk of "anti-dog prejudice" gets right on my wick. It's the same old lame argument trotted out by the NRA in America. Next thing we'll hear the yamwnsome old flannel. "Dogs aren't the problem, it's their owners." Yeah, well next time I see a dog's owner taking a dump in the middle of the pavement on Goodrich Road I may agree...

I don't hate dogs ... I just hate the fact that they crap indiscriminately all over the place and their antisocial handlers don't have the courtesy to clear their putrid gutrot up, instead preferring that it smears all over my little one. So, enough's enough. Nothing short of zero tolerance would get my vote.

@ DJKillaQueen "Southwark can pass all the bye-laws it likes...the fact remains they won't be able to afford anything like the number of wardens needed to make any difference to dog fouling, and where they do find offenders will spend more money than they'll recoup from those they chase to court because they can't afford the ?50 fine. Totally unworkable and makes no financial sense." So, that's all right then! Dog owners, please feel free to allow your animals to drop their guts all over the pavements with impunity. @First Mate "The way it reads at the moment makes the definition of children's play areas a moveable feast that could be applied to large sections of the parks etc.. That is not reasonable. Of course most people will say dogs should not be allowed into children's play areas, but without defining what those are the whole exercise could mean dog owners will be banned from large sections of the park in future. There needs to be clarity on this." I wouldn't advocate banning dog owners from large sections of Southwark Parks. But I definitely *would* ban their dogs not just from large sections of the parks, but from any section of the park and - for that matter from the streets, the roads, the dwelling places. Having just wasted time yesterday clearing a huge pile of dog scheidt from my garden path yesterday (what eejit would allow their mutt to crap on someone's path?), I then had to waste more time after coming home from Peckham Rye on cleaning the sole of my wee lad's trainers with a toothbrush to get rid of some rancid canine deposit. I wish I could have found the owner of the dog who was responsible for that. He'd have been licking the soles of the trainers clean, the dirty clart!

I've run a small business. It's hard enough trying to make ends meet without people making off with your stock. So some people will not use the shop again because of vigilanteism? Sounds to me like some people would be happier if, instead of displaying a poster showing people making off with their stock, they had put a poster in the window saying "Welcome to Celestial. Payment is optional. Please feel free to help yourself if you'd rather." Sigh!

"The survey seems designed to get the most anti dog resposne possible and so could give Southwark the power to ban dogs from all kinds of areas." Good ... hopefully they'll ban dogs in the Borough and start a domino effect across London and then across the UK! I have had it to here with wading through canine crap day after day after day after day after day after day... And fed up having to endure the macho posturing of numbskulls wandering about with huge and ugly offensive weapons on leads, looking smug and hard. And sick to the back teeth of the yappy little mutt two doors down from me whose soprano manic barking irritates the life out of me. I agree it's a poorly designed survey though. The bit where it asks about the ?50 spot fine? Only option for me was to strongly agree whereas I would have preferred to have been given the option of proposing a more appropriate fine such as ?500 fine plus confiscation of the offending beast.