Dogshit: No Not This Mag But How to Report It

It started with a WhatsApp message from a neighbour.

“Dude, you noticed the dog shit on the street outside our houses? You seen anyone walking their dogs today?”

Operation ‘Dogshit’ was initiated.

For months we kept finding dog shit on the pavement outside our houses, I won’t tell you where as I really wouldn’t want to devalue any house prices especially in this market climate.

So we set up operation ‘DogShit’.

First we positioned cameras in our cars and kept checking the footage of our ring doorbell cameras, sure enough dog shit appeared every-time a certain couple were walking their dogs around our street at around 530am each morning.

We kept up the surveillance.

Once we were sure it was this particular couple we started to discuss how to approach them, but one morning after checking the footage we noticed that the couple had spotted the camera’s in our cars and they’d also noticed the fact we had started to put down dog repellent gel at the base of our front garden walls, sure enough no more dog shit appeared on our part of the street, still, we wanted to know how we should report it if it occurred again.

That same morning after discussing the footage on our front doorsteps a council van came down the street looking for rubbish, I hailed them to stop and discussed the matter with them.

The council worker was very sympathetic, not only because it’s a shitty thing to do, but because he and his council colleagues were tasked with the crappy job of cleaning up any dog shit they came across in the streets, so of course he was very keen for us to report our findings to the local CPO for our area, you’ll find them working out of public libraries or community centres, apparently they love to hunt down dog foulers, he also asked us to report it through the council website.

We took onboard his advice but as the culprits had stopped their anti-social behaviour we decided not to take any further action, however we’ve kept hold of the video footage as evidence for future reference, operation ‘Dogshit’ had delivered the desired effect.

So if you have a dog shit problem and want to nail the swines doing it then get video footage, speak to your local CPO and also make a complaint through the council website, it’s that simple.

Just say ‘NO!’ to dog shit on our streets.