{"id":770,"date":"2011-06-27T23:00:49","date_gmt":"2011-06-27T23:00:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/horsington.blog2.idnet.com\/?p=770"},"modified":"2011-08-19T23:35:12","modified_gmt":"2011-08-19T23:35:12","slug":"dogstapo-tactics","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/horsington.blog2.idnet.com\/?p=770","title":{"rendered":"Dogstapo tactics"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/horsington.blog2.idnet.com\/files\/2011\/06\/imagesCAD84W8S.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"772\" data-permalink=\"http:\/\/horsington.blog2.idnet.com\/?attachment_id=772\" data-orig-file=\"http:\/\/horsington.blog2.idnet.com\/files\/2011\/06\/imagesCAD84W8S.jpg\" data-orig-size=\"225,224\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"Good boy\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-large-file=\"http:\/\/horsington.blog2.idnet.com\/files\/2011\/06\/imagesCAD84W8S.jpg\" class=\"alignleft size-thumbnail wp-image-772\" src=\"http:\/\/horsington.blog2.idnet.com\/files\/2011\/06\/imagesCAD84W8S-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"Dog\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" srcset=\"http:\/\/horsington.blog2.idnet.com\/files\/2011\/06\/imagesCAD84W8S-150x150.jpg 150w, http:\/\/horsington.blog2.idnet.com\/files\/2011\/06\/imagesCAD84W8S.jpg 225w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 150px) 85vw, 150px\" \/><\/a><strong>Not everyone likes dogs, we admit, but bad dog behavior and fouling don\u2019t seem to be a major problem in Horsington or the Cheritons.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>So why have notices gone up around the villages warning that from July 1<sup>st<\/sup> dogs must be put and kept on a lead when an authorised officer of the South Somerset District Council directs you to do so?<\/p>\n<p>Who is an \u201cAuthorised Officer\u201d? On what grounds can he or she make this order? We are not told. <em>(Presumably\u00a0when\u00a0 officious jobsworths think a dog is about to bite them \u2013Ed).<\/em><\/p>\n<p>From the same date, anyone who fails to clear up their dog mess on any public highway or open space (not private land) is liable to a fine of \u00a31000. Yes, \u00a31000!<\/p>\n<p>How are the fantasists at Brympton Way going to enforce this legislation? Will there be a poopy patrol? A turd hotline? At what cost? Supposing you don\u2019t have a spare \u00a31000 lying around and you have run out of polythene bags? Anyway, shouldn\u2019t \u00a0you be using biodegradable paper bags instead?<\/p>\n<p>And, having taken the offending mess home, squelching in your pocket, which bin do you put it in? The green one? The black one? The brown one? Maybe someone in authority will explain, and at the same time tell us why the council does not have better things to do with their time and our money.<\/p>\n<p><em>Tell us what you think -Ed.\u00a0And what about the horses?<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Not everyone likes dogs, we admit, but bad dog behavior and fouling don\u2019t seem to be a major problem in Horsington or the Cheritons. So why have notices gone up around the villages warning that from July 1st dogs must be put and kept on a lead when an authorised officer of the South Somerset &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/horsington.blog2.idnet.com\/?p=770\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Dogstapo tactics&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":23,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2765,2757],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-770","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-comments","category-news"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p6glYD-cq","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/horsington.blog2.idnet.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/770","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/horsington.blog2.idnet.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/horsington.blog2.idnet.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/horsington.blog2.idnet.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/23"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/horsington.blog2.idnet.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=770"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"http:\/\/horsington.blog2.idnet.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/770\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":810,"href":"http:\/\/horsington.blog2.idnet.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/770\/revisions\/810"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/horsington.blog2.idnet.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=770"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/horsington.blog2.idnet.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=770"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/horsington.blog2.idnet.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=770"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}