Those parishes making up the municipality of Faro have launched an awareness campaign to reduce the amount of dog excrement being left in streets and public places countywide.
Each dog owner registering their pet, or renewing the obligatory annual dog licence, at any of Faro’s parish councils will receive a free gift - an attractive, blue, bone-shaped, poo-bag dispenser.
The new, less than attractive bag dispenser can be clipped to the dog’s collar or to the dog lead and will ensure owners are “ready for any surprises,” according to the notice sent out today by teh faro Unions of Parishes.
As uncollected dog excrement can cause illnesses, the parish councils advise all dog owners that, "the population in general and especially children playing in public spaces are subject to diseases transmitted by dogs. "
The first responsibility, and indeed 'civic duty,' is for owners immediately to pick up the oft' fetid waste, produced by their companion animals, from public streets, squares, parks and gardens.
This is the responsibility of whoever is walking the dog, whether this is the owner or not.
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Will these be on-the-spot fines requiring barking dogs to carry cash at all times? Or perhaps their microchips can be linked to their bank accounts and automatically debited every time they bark.
Quoting Margaridaana: And how exactly do you catch an offender when armed with a mobile phone? You can't use the photo as evidence in a court of law. Also you would be done for taking the photo without authorisation.
Don't forget cat fighting noises too!! What the hell anybody that makes a squeak before 7am fined them!!
It is incomprehensible to North Europeans that so few locals, having felt the obligation to chip their dogs, then go onto register them at their local Freguesia. So leaving their neighbourhood awash with chipped but un-owned dogs.