It’s not been a good month for dogs.
Earlier in February GB News commentator Scarlett MccGwire suggested “one of the problems is dogs” when it comes to making the countryside more inclusive, before touching on “the fact that a lot of Muslims find dogs very difficult”. Clip here.
Yesterday, in a now-deleted tweet, Camden Council launched a consultation on “responsible dog ownership”. The Council is proposing to extend its Public Spaces Protection Order, which could mean “dogs not being allowed in certain areas in [Camden’s] parks and green spaces”.
Anyone can access the consultation here, which closes on February 26. You can answer it even if you neither live or work in Camden.
It asks questions such as:
How often over the last 12 months have you witnessed antisocial behaviour linked to dog ownership/ fouling in public places in Camden that are managed by Camden Council? (See Appendix A)
Dogs are not allowed in certain areas within Camden’s Parks and Green Spaces. To what extent do you agree or disagree that dogs should not be allowed in the areas listed in Appendix A
(So the council has already taken steps to inhibit the movements of our four-legged friends.)
Do you support the proposal made by Camden Council to extend the current Public Space Protection Order deal with dog control and dog fouling in public places?
The form also asks about your ethnicity, sexuality and gender:
Camden Council’s tweet received thousands of angry replies and hundreds of thousands of views before it was deleted. A bit ironic for a council that apparently wants to know what the public thinks. In general, councils love launching endless consultations to give the impression of caring about residents’ views, then pressing full-steam ahead with what they wanted all along (see “liveable neighbourhoods” and LTNs!)
Are we seeing a war on dogs?
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