Really? Oh well too bad! Not all dog owners are the same, just like not all people are small minded for instance and no I’m not talking about you BWW. I am a responsible dog owner and will continue to enjoy my walks and the countryside with him. Some people think it’s acceptable to discard rubbish all over the place, but those that don’t should not be tarred with the same brush should they
Little more awareness of their corporate reputation would be helpful. I am well aware that there are many good dog owners, blameless of the sins of a few, but those few are numerous in the scale of livestock owners to dog owning public. This is a walking forum, as an ex member of an LAF having served for 5 years on one I am only too conscious of the speed with which landowners cite dogs as a reason to restrict access.
Further to this at a family gathering, I listened to the problems of farming on the fringes of Stoke on Trent, where the repeated loss of cows from rotting livers due to a particular nemotode hosted by dogs and causing repeated cases because those dog walkers, feel free to allow "blamless fidos" to run off into the nice lush grass to relieve themselves, without being properly educated by the small animal vets that spring up all over modern suburbia.
Rather than feeling slighted by criticism, should the pet industry be looking towards there own corporate responsibilities and not expecting the local authorities to carry the can.
As to dog poo bags either adorn tress or slung in hedge rows, they reappear every fall, and will get broached by wildlife. Pecked by birds, chewed by hedgehogs or whatever and so the parasite chain continues.