Grrr!

[teresa]

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I am feeling so angry at the moment as my local council is proposing to make some big changes to where dogs can be walked.They are proposing to not allow dogs to be walked on our beach at all(at the moment there is a designated stretch of beach for use in the summer months and comlete access during the winter months).They want dogs to be banned from ALL sports grounds, bowling greens ,churchyards and cemeteries. One of the areas they want to propose a ban is a completely enclosed playing field which is 100 % whippet proof and is used by really responsible dog owners.The reason for these proposals is because of "a string of high profile dog attacks in the U.K". Am I right in thinking that these attacks took place in peoples homes? If this is not a kneejerk reaction I don't know what is.Our local paper has asked for peoples comments on these proposals.I think they might just be inundated!

 

[kris]

well id say to your local council that if they want all their parks,beaches,bowling greens etc to become no go areas for people then go ahead. :angry: the only reason a lot of places like these havent been taken over by the yobs/druggies/hooligans is cos theres still folk out there who refuse to let them cos they walk their dogs there!cant local councils see further than their noses?dont they realise that once you ban ordinary folk with their dogs from going there that they become breeding grounds for the yob youth element in a local town?honestly i despair, i really do.

 

[Evie]

Dear god. Does anyone working in that place have a brain in their heads. Bloody idiots. So many ways on so many levels this is just wrong. They should be working towards promoting better dog care etc. Not limiting the places where dogs can go to run and let off steam.

If that is their way of thinking - Surely by not allowing dogs access to areas they can free run they are building up more frustrated animals ready to bite??

GRRHH!!! :rant:

 

[Seraphina]

The trouble with councils is they have to be seen doing something. So they are thinking of ways to change things.

My daughter lives in area built in 1920' and the whole suburb was designed with parks and round-abouts, and streets going on different angles (not the usual grid). When she bought the house (5 years ago) she already knew the area is to be put under heritage protection, which means there will not be any development which would sigificantly alter the look of the suburb. Yet the council has been making one stupid proposal after another, like closing off streets, putting roads through the parks. Each time there was public meeting, with people objecting and they went back to drawing board. Finally, they came back with proposal, which really did not change anything much, just widdened the footpath in places (narrowing the wide streets) and few other things i cannot recall. My daughter just gave up gathering protest signatures. Few months later all the residents got a letter telling them that due to the heritage listing which is just about to become valid they will not be able to make ANY of these changes to the area. (w00t) That means that somebody in that council has worked for the past 5 years (probably longer) on a project they should have known cannot procede.

Moral of that story;

get lot of signatures, after all dog owners are also rate/tax payers and so they deserve to have use of the shire's facilities as much as other groups. It has been proven that dogs are good for people's physical as well as mental health. Get the council to install bag dispensals and poo bins in sports grounds (we have them). Go to local press and point out the benefit of people with dogs being around.

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[doris]

well id say to your local council that if they want all their parks,beaches,bowling greens etc to become no go areas for people then go ahead. :angry: the only reason a lot of places like these havent been taken over by the yobs/druggies/hooligans is cos theres still folk out there who refuse to let them cos they walk their dogs there!

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get lot of signatures, after all dog owners are also rate/tax payers and so they deserve to have use of the shire's facilities as much as other groups.  It has been proven that dogs are good for people's physical as well as mental health.  Get the council to install bag dispensals and poo bins in sports grounds (we have them).  Go to local press and point out the benefit of people with dogs being around.
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both really useful and good points :thumbsup:

 

[~elizabeth~]

Surely by not allowing dogs access to areas they can free run they are building up more frustrated animals ready to bite??

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Also, if people and dogs have fewer opportunities to interact and socialise, then people will grown more unfamiliar with dogs, become more anxious about them and more fearful when they hear hyped-up stories like the ones in the papers recently. Also, the more places that put restrictions on access for dogs, and restrictions on dog socialisation, the greater the public perception that all dogs should be on leads in all places, all the time and an assumption that this is for their personal safety.

We're starting to get it here too; after millennia of years of humans, dogs and livestock interacting on our ancient watermeadows perfectly well, people are now starting to demand that dogs should be on leads; if you ask why, they just say 'we're afraid of dogs and it's the law anyway'. I'm pondering what to do about it too, I think it should be clear that all walkers enter at their own risk (which is considerably greater from large livestock than dogs anyway); although ours is an unusual situation it is symptomatic of a wider problem of alienation towards animals felt by those who have little increasingly little contact with them (made even worse by irresponsible journalism. :angry: )

It was so lovely taking our dog to Moreton and Evesham when we picked the puppy up; we were allowed in quite a few shops and a café with Gelert; lots of people stopped to stroke him and let their children do likewise; made such a nice change from the hostile attitude you get so often around here.

 

[Tesa]

That means that somebody in that council has worked for the past 5 years (probably longer) on a project they should have known cannot procede.

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Think they may have a brother working here in our Geelong council Lida (w00t) (w00t) Geelong has spent the last 5 years overhauling the roads through the centre of Geelong. Traffic which use to flow through town, now crawls through at a snails pace. So what are they doing to fix the problem.... they are adding palm trees (truely) :wacko:

 

[Seraphina]

That means that somebody in that council has worked for the past 5 years (probably longer) on a project they should have known cannot procede.

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Think they may have a brother working here in our Geelong council Lida (w00t) (w00t) Geelong has spent the last 5 years overhauling the roads through the centre of Geelong. Traffic which use to flow through town, now crawls through at a snails pace. So what are they doing to fix the problem.... they are adding palm trees (truely) :wacko:

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:lol: At least people can look at the lovely landscape while stuck in traffic :lol:

The area my daughter lives in is a very quite suburb with wide streets and so little traffic that I can happily train my dogs for show on the street and never as yet had to move because a car was coming. So why did they wanted to change anything is beyond me. :wacko: