No poop bag - that's a £100 fine.

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As the title, I read on my Yahoo News that Daventry District Council is to introduce new regulations within it's area. Take your pooch for a walk onto public property without the means of 'clearing up' after your dog and you can be fined £100 by the Council. I'm all for dog owners to 'clear it up' and in our area most do, but just how is Daventry Council going to establish as to whether dog owners have about their person the required 'poop bags'?
The new regulations come into force December 1st 15' and will be in addition to the existing maximum fine of £1000 for failing to 'pick up'.

Draconian, harsh or just about right?

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Seems to me that the 'means to clear it up' regulation is farcical and typical nonsense of a Council.
Pity the dog wardens trying to implement the daftness of it. The only excuse I can imagine is that the Council wanted to increase the maximum existing £1000 fine.
I don't own a pet but wife looks after a tortoise! We don't take him for walks

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Compared to twenty years back it seems to me that the dog poop problem has been dealt with rather successfully. Compared to South France near the coast it is absolutely disgusting with dog poops scattered randomly like a pox. Paths, grass verges, beaches the place is a dogs lav'. Quite literally you are likely to step into it at any given moment in time, unless you focus at all times keeping your eyes wide open. And yet the class of person walking these dogs is certainly upper and these are reinforced with packs of stray dogs.