YOUR correspondent (Letters, April 4) seems to believe there is a bylaw requiring dogs to be on leads in Morton Stanley Park.

This is incorrect as although some time ago the council tagged 'Dogs on leads' onto the bottom of the 'No fouling' notices, this was illegal as no bylaw had been passed and it was made clear to the council that such legislation would be unacceptable to most park users and the proposal was dropped.

Many people do clean up after their dogs, as witnessed by the overflowing bins, the contents of which are frequently removed and strewn about the park and not by dogs or their owners.

Other correspondents in the past have wrongly accused dogs of spreading an eye disease.

Thankfully, this disease is very rare and few of the reported cases lead to any damage and the cause has been traced back to cat faeces and eating undercooked meat, not to dogs.

There have been some nasty accidents in the park.

One of the more recent involved a lovely young golden retriever who nearly bled to death after badly cutting his paw on broken glass. I have yet to see a dog smashing bottles.

One or two people have broken their ankles in the park and the large holes gauged out by illegal horse riders make this another hazard, but as it isn't caused by dogs, of course no-one mentions it.

Biased comment causes resentment.

If everyone ensured that they, their children and their dogs left nothing behind, then Redditch would be a happier and cleaner place.

A notice I saw on holiday said 'We made it green, you keep it clean.' Perhaps the council could adopt this as a slogan for the town.

Mrs M Morley

Tennyson Road

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