Indeed they do - but I don't believe that a law, despite what I have said, should be brought in such that if a dog badly savages and mauls a child it should automatically be put down. This is why although I believe in an eye for an eye, I would not like to see the return of the Death Penalty in this country. Simply because you can never legislate for ALL possibilities.

Here's a good example. I was bitten by a red setter on my face as a very young child. It was totally my mother's fault, at aged 3 she left me alone in the garden of her hairdresser with Susie the red setter, who was eating a bone How daft can you get. The inevitable happened - the dog dropped her bone, I crawled across the lawn, picked up the bone to hand it back to her, she thought I was going to take it away and flew at me and bit me quite badly on my face. It wasn't a mauling, or a savaging, but it was a bad attack in that the dog should not have bitten, it should have given me a warning to leave her bone alone. Should the dog have been put down? I say not, because although I was bitten, it did show restraint of a kind. And yet if there was a law to say that dogs, all dogs, must be destroyed if they maul or savage a human being, Susie would have been put down.

So, coming round to answer your very good question, yes, if there were such a law introduced - and in today's climate there very well could be - I would break it in the right circumstances.

Yup, I get that. There is an area of countryside near here, in the middle of nowhere, where the speed limit for about 100 yards, maybe a bit more, is 30 mph. There is no rhyme or reason for it, no school crossing, 3 or 4 houses just on one side of the road, clear views etc. etc. But the speed limit on this stretch of road is 30 mph, clearly ridiculous. I do stick to the limit going along here, although I think it is a bit daft, simply because it isn't going to make any difference to the time I arrive at my destination whether i speed through, or stick to 30. As someone who strongly believes that speed kills, I'm not too bothered by seemingly daft speed limits.

I mean every word I say. If my daughter were a firewoman, of course I would urge her to save people's lives!! I am not deflecting the issue at all. How dare you.

I just cannot believe you are serious ... how would you feel if YOUR daughter had died in agony down that tube because the firemen were not allowed to go down and rescue her AND DO THE JOB FOR WHICH THEY WERE TRAINED AND WHAT THEY CHOSE TO DO AND WANTED TO DO.

Haaaaa!

Not going to get into a debate just thought I would leave some web sites as to why you should not dispose of dog waste in any body of water and why picking up is best, if you you really do want to be eco friendly....

http://www.cleanwatercampaign.com/html/639.htm


http://www.marc.org/environment/water/pet_waste.htm


http://www.lakesuperiorstreams.org/u...mpact_pet.html


http://www.nccwep.org/involvement/kids/dogdoo.php


http://www.epa.gov/safewater/sourcew...p_petwaste.pdf



And here are bio bags that are compostable and natural they break down in 40 days.

http://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/B...SIN=B002WDKUH6


Or you can get ones that break down so fast that you can flush them down the loo...

http://www.flushablepoobags.co.uk/bi...s-flat-packed/

On the poo-picking front - you could always buy 'normal' brown paper bags that biograde down very quickly and buy a Dicky Bag to carry the poo in until you find a poo bin. Cheaper in the long-term although I know Dicky Bags aren't cheap.

I lurrrvvee my Dicky Bag lol. It's great!!

An excellent post followed by a deafening silence....

The deafening silence caused by pressure of work on Friday, and then a hectic weekend of bathing dogs and clipping them with our amazing new electric clippers and watching the Olympics!

I do have a life away from Dogsey you know!!

Didn't go on the computer the whole weekend, must be a first for me