Fouling By Pets The cramped conditions of modern suburbia are not natural. It leaves both human beings and their pets with insufficient open space in which to exercise and perform their natural functions.

For instance, the only large area near my home where children can play away from traffic and experience something of a natural environment is a 100 hectare dog latrine they call the park. Dog owners walk their dogs in this area each day. Principally for the purpose of defecation. Anybody walking there in the morning without a dog is likely to be mobbed if not attacked by a pack of free-running dogs whose owners show no concern about the offence and distress their dogs cause to the lone walker.

The dog population fouls the open space at a rate beyond the ability of nature's reducing agents to keep pace with the influx of fresh faeces. It is on this polluted earth that the local children must gain their formative experiences of running about freely and climbing trees. They constantly run the risk of blindness from diseases which can be contracted from dog dirt.

Closer to home, cats constantly foul one's garden. Other people's cats thus subject one's children to the same danger of diseases from faeces even in the privacy of their own garden. Furthermore, the habit which other people's cats have of digging up the plants and laying dusted-over faeces everywhere make it impossible to grow anything for food to help reduce the family food bill during these hard economic times.

Why are cat owners so shocked when frustrated vegetable growers occasionally manage to get an airgun pellet in one of them? They are vermin. They endanger human health - and even life itself with their filth. It is the cat owners who are to blame. Cats can easily be trained to use a toilet tray or sand pit in their owner's garden. Instead, they choose the convenience of having their cats foul other people's private places.