Caring for our town.

The following article was published in The Irlam and Cadishead Times Magazine.

As the summer sun draws us out of our winter hibernation and into the streets I would like to raise our awareness to 'the streets'. It has become blatantly obvious that throughout the streets of M44 we have an increasing issue with the lack of duties to our doggy waste! In particular I am going to talk about dog waste as this is the type of excrement we encounter due to humans being in control of these animals, your more like to come across a dog at the beach, park, woodland and streets of your neighbourhood than a cat or other animal.

So let’s talk poop, it’s not nice, I don’t think anyone enjoys bagging up the butt dumplings but it’s part of the responsibility of inviting our four legged friends into our life. Clearing up your animals waste is not only going to make your streets look nicer but will improve hygiene within our local area. Leaving the faeces to manifest invites vermin such as rats to the local area and produces maggots along with an infestation of flies and bugs.

Dog doo's are not only unpleasant in appearance and smells but is actually quite dangerous. The reason there is a law against not clearing dog fouling and not any other animal is that dogs present the Toxocariasis bacteria or more commonly knows as the roundworm. This is a Nasty bacteria produced by parasites in the digestive system passed between dogs and is present in there excrement, if handled by humans who haven’t cleaned their hands properly or for example a child falls and it gets into their mouth and eyes it can lead to nausea, vomiting, diarrhoea and possibly loss of eye sight!

This does not create the environment we strive for in our community and I’m sure is not an area you wish to live among which is why it is so important to take pride in our M44 making it a safe and pleasant area for us all, so next time your heading out to walk the pup please remember to scoop that poop!