More Dogs in Peckham Rye Park

[Devonlass15]

I tend to think that if a dog is running around without a lead, especially near children's play areas or near the duck pond then it must be friendly, other wise owners would surely be stricter about it bounding up to children etc?

For people who don't have gardens, and there are alot of us unfortunately, the park is pretty much the only place we can allow our kids to go wild and get some exercise, so although I agree that parents need to be very aware of their child's safety I don't think we should be encouraged to keep them under control at all times! It's good for them to have some freedom and fun.

It's up to both dog owners and parents to act responsibly with out blaming eachother.

The only subject I get really enraged about is dog poo, I've lost count of the time both my kids have got covered in it during the school run (nightmare, have to go home and get them changed!)or my little toddler has wiped it all over me when I pick him up, nice!

But what can you do? From what I can see it's the minority of dog owners who allow it any way.

[edhistory]

Need to go back to 4 September posts for the context.

A young lady has provided me with a reference to a photo of an LCC park-keeper uniform.

John K

[tallulah71]

Good suggestion about voluntary park wardens First Mate but we already have them, dog walkers, joggers, footballers, kids in the skate park etc.............. the eyes and ears of Peckham Rye Park!

I donned my voluntary warden's hat last Monday morning about 8am. When I saw a woman open the picnic area to let her staffie in to run around and relieve herself as she chatted on her mobile, I said to her, "you do know dogs aren't allowed in the picnic area?", she said, "I CAN READ!"

Oh. There you go then. Not much you can say to that!

I see Mark all the time - the last time I chatted to him was when a dog-owner was hurling abuse at him, and calling him a moron. Lovely. There's some odd people about....

[Huggers]

while we are at it, on the north easterly bit of Peckham Rye today someone had dumped catering sized quanitites of spaghetti bolognese on the grass. Encourages rats and makes well behaved but inheritantly greedy dogs go and stuff their faces before recapture.