Message to Dog Owners
Added on 28 June 2014
TAKE CONTROL – PLEASE!
Landowners in the parish have issued an urgent appeal to dog walkers: please, please keep your pet under control when you are using footpaths and bridleways. Several incidents have been reported in recent months when dogs have strayed away from their owners and chased and worried grazing horses and other livestock. Dogs should be under close control or on a lead at all times on both farmland and the National Trust’s Crook Peak land.
Many people also don’t realise it’s not only on pavements that it is an offence not to clean up after dogs have done what comes naturally – the same is true on public rights of way, particularly as highly-unpleasant diseases can be passed on to both humans (especially children) and farm animals.
So the message is: *don’t let your dog run riot; *pick up any mess it has left behind; *and never decorate trees, hedges and verges with multi-coloured plastic bags which contain the evidence!
Ian Tabrett Footpath Liaison Officer