Luke Baggs, South Golden Beach
Dog controls – is there any chance Byron Council could start properly funding and enforcing animal control across the Shire?
I am out in the community every day and the last time I saw one of the ranger vehicles was probably more than a year ago. If you own a dog and it is wandering by itself, not under control on a lead, and you are not picking up their disgusting landmines, you should be fined. No discussion, no excuse, your opinion is invalid. You deserve to be fined. Or at least until such a time that there is suitable enforcement, have your day ruined every now and then by another equally irresponsible dog owner.
30 years ago there was packs of dogs roaming the streets and on the beach ( there was no dog beaches then) of SGB. 30 years ago we didn’t care for people with dumb attitudes towards petty issues. This is your issue my friend, there are dog all over the world because the benefit of dogs in all our homes communities well and truly outweigh your poo poo concern.
Hmm “your issue” Darren? No-one disputes the benefits of dog ownership – it’s not about that. It’s about having them under effective control at all times & cleaning up after them like a responsible dog-owning citizen, simply as the law demands, & the same as with registration & microchipping. Unless you have Barnaby Joyce syndrome & you’re exempt from laws & regulations that apply to us mere mortal normal people.
From your letter it seems like you wouldn’t mind a yard full of other people’s dog crap? Or covering the soles of your shoes with it?
Don’t you care if unrestrained excited dogs attack other dogs & people, & chase-catch-kill our every decreasing wildlife & threatened shorebirds?
What other laws & regulations don’t apply to the special dog owners of South Golden….. do you throw your rubbish in the street & on the beach? Or personally assault random strangers & their pets? What’s the difference?
And just for your edification it is a problem elsewhere in the world – possibly worse with rabies, & parasites such as hydatids.
30 years ago Darren Gray probably should have been practising his syntax and grammar skills. That may have prevented him making a goose of himself publically in these comments.
“We” in South Golden Beach? Sorry mate, it takes 40 years to be a local, unless you were born in Mullumbimby hospital, like I was.