Dogsey

With so many dog friendly beaches in the UK (some allowing them all year round) I can't see why the uproar about this.

I've enjoyed taking my dogs on beaches for decades but don't want other peoples' dogs running round my kids when they are on the beaches. Pissing on their sandcastles and running through picnic mats and such.

Hundreds of protests is not a large number at all considering population size.

Some of those protesting are saying March is 'winter' - I think it should be sorted around holiday times. My kids went on beaches all year round. Not as if the sea is ever warm in the UK any time of year!

I have no problem with any council banning dogs from one or two beaches but they need to make the dog friendly beaches much easier to find. As a visitor to an area knowing where we can walk is often quite hard to find. Even resorted to following people with dogs when we went to new castle once as we thought they must be taking them somewhere to walk them, sadly they turned sharp left and went into a pub !

I agree - dog owners pay council tax too. We are lucky here we have a dog friendly beach that is open all year round for us (Ogmore, near Merthyr Mawr).