Carnoustie Community Council

I own a dog and I find it frustrating that I take my responsibilities of cleaning up after my pet seriously, I took on my pet with a full understanding of this. The council are at fault as even with complaints they do very little to pursue matters. I complained several times after having had enough of my children tredding dog mess over my hall carpet. My 8 year old child cannot play outside our home without repercussions. On a hot day the smell is rancid need I say more. Ihe councils response to me was that I had a personnal vendetta over my neighbours as apparentely no one else complained. what can I do with an attitude of such disregard over something I happen to feel strongly about.

Some poo piles for the campaign, and a renewed hope that something will be done about it.

Kinloch Terraces, back entrances public walkway, communial washing line area. Friday PM, dog without supervision, no lead. pooed on grass beside child’s swing.

Beach public path near skate park Sat 7.30pm dog without supervision, no lead.

Kinloch Street in front of terraces near a grey post box. Sun 8.15am dog without supervision, no lead.

kind regards

Miss M Ramsay

The lanes that run from Terrace Road to Carnoustie House Grounds always have dog pooh in them!

I have a dog and he is walked regularly over the golf links and the beaches and I have never noticed any other dog owner not attending to picking up poo after their dog. I do know that when you are on the high street there is not 1 single recepticle for depositing any poo bags you may have had to use after your dog. I feel this is not the only place in Carnoustie where there are no bins, so perhaps placing them in the areas where there is more fowling would help.

Have just walked with our children along the lane at the back of our house. This is the lane which all children would use to go into Carlogie primary school. The lane is frequently a place where dog fouling occurs. Today there were 4 separate lots of poo in different parts of the lane. We are aware of your library campaign regarding dog fouling and support your campaign. We have children in the school who use this lane regularly and are sick fed up with dog fouling.

During the summer hols I walked from Charles St. to the RBS bank with my 3 children everyweek day taking the Kinloch St route, it was a disgrace the amount of times i had to say to them to watch your feet, more dog poo, on a few occations we counted how many times and would u believe that one day the most we got to was 17 times that being mostly in Kinloch St., that Day Charles St. had 4 separate lots, some of the time we ended up having to walk on the road because the poo was scatered all over the pavement.

I have lived in lots of places all over Scotland and live here in Carnoustie now for 8 years, and never have i seen so much poo all over the place, and i seems to be getting worse, i have a dog and always clean up after my pooch. What annoys me is the peole who pick up the poo in a bag, then dump the bag on the ground … why not put it in a bin, if theres no bin close to you, pop it in your own bin at home. Some people eh!

Most places I walk in Carnoustie I come accross some dog poo. I walk often along the beach path at the back of tayside street , seabrae and on to Westhaven. Not only do I see lots of dog poo but I see apparent owners of dogs just walking along oblivious (or are they) of what the dog has just done. We certainly need more bins for us responsible dog owners. One bin fell down and has not been replaced—perhaps one at the bottom of seabrae!

The lane at the back of 208 – 214 Ravensby Road is bad. Dog or dogs foul outside garden gates and also on piece of grass adjacent to number 208. Have actually seen the dog – but not the owner!

taymouth st, north side, 5th sept before 6pm

I live on Taymouth Street but my back garden backs onto Charles Street. The dog fouling on both these streets is awful but now an owner is letting their dog into my back garden and twice a week or more I am left to clean it up. I am absolutely disgusted that a dog owner is allowing their dog to do this and they better hope I don’t catch them. I have two young children and have to check my garden daily before they go out to play

There has always been dog mess left in North Burnside Street,many times right outside the front gate to peoples houses.Its time something was done about this as its disgusting and irresponsible. ive lost count of the times my family and i have stood in this mess.

I am blind and have a Guide Dog. As a guide dog owner, I am exempt from picking up if my dog poos on the pavement or grass. However, no matter how difficult it is for me to find where my dog poos, I always pick up after him. If a blind person can do that, why can’t all sighted dog owners do the same?
A loose dog, or a dog with an irresponsible owner, has deposited a large pile of poo on Arbroath Road at the steps at the foot of the lane leading into Broadlands. First spotted on Friday 15th Oct. It is still there! I can’t see it but I know it’s there as I stood in it. Another lot sits nicely on the pavement in Lomond Drive!. No doubt I will stand on it next time I go round that way. It’s bad enough being blind but, you try cleaning dog muck off your shoes when you can’t see…….YUCK!
I think there is a lack of waste bins – maybe I just can’t find them! There is one at the bottom of Westhaven Road but as far as I know, there are none in Arbroath Road or surrounding areas leading into town.

Would it be possible to publish and distribute to all empty houses a reminder note re. clean up after your dog.

Thomas Street Football Pitch is covered in Dog Poo aswell as the area between Greenside Place and the bridge over the barry burn to Buddon Drive, there is a dog bin in the park and most resposible dog owners use this but having walked through the park today it is like a mine field and this is were children are mean to play football and right beside a school its disgusting

One of the routes I use regularly with my guide dog is the lane that leads from Linefield Road, through Broadlands to the stepsleading to Arbroath Road. Over the last 2 weeks there have been numerous bundles of dog muck appearing. This must be left by a dog whose owners live in the estate. Being blind, I only know the muck is there after I have stood in it. This lane is used by children going back and forward to Carlogie School. It may only be one irresponsible owner who is too lazy to pick up their dogs muck, or, do they simply not know how to do it? Well, whatever the reason, if I can do it -even if it means having to fumble around on the pavement trying to find it, you can do it too.

Guide dogs, hearing dogs, canine assistance dogs and assistance dogs who can warn owners of an impending epilepsy fit, diabetic coma or similar are a key part of some people lives. Some people might not be here if it were not for their dogs. Similarly some people would not be alive if it were not for search and rescue dogs. Drugs is a big issue which can be detected by the use of sniffer dogs.

The UK figure is that 52% of households have dogs. We have a population of c 12k in Carnoustie in c 5,000 household which works out at about c 2600 dogs (in theory).

It is the owner of business premises who makes the decision whether or not dogs can be permitted/welcomed on to their premises.

It would be interesting to know where the 85% figure is drawn from.

I see there is an “Anti-Dog Fouling Campaign”. It will be interesting to see what that is all about.