It looks as if a person with three dogs doing three "jobs" per day could be fined £3,000, but dogs going out morning, noon, and night would be nine "jobs", so that could be a total fine of £9,000 per day.

A person with an unruly child who destroys a school or factory would not pay that amount, nor would a country that destroys itself. They would receive help and education and money.

The folk who harm themselves with drugs receive all sorts of help. They even have drop-in centres. The poor dog has none, not even a bin stuck on a fence, for the owner to place the faeces in, because it would need to be emptied and that would cost money. Dogs now have no patch of grass to call their own, no playschool where they can learn wrong from right. What a sad plight, but look on the bright side, TV is great for education, we have lots of animal programmes on, and you never see the dogs defecate.

Perhaps if they did, it would be a start, and they could show dog owners, no, I mean the council members, what should be done to help this sorry mess.

What about the size of the dogs? A person with a small dog who only produces small "jobs" will not want to pay the same amount as a person with a large dog. Will we have some sort of scale and pay the fine by weight? If the dog wardens have to be issued with scales, that would be more expense.

We do have bottle banks, what about dog poo bank? What about a law that would prevent anyone from owning a dog until they had proved they were a fit person to do so, and for all councils to provide education for dog owners and special zones for dogs to enjoy themselves?

Bill Hughes.

Stoneclough Road, Stoneclough

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