FOLLOWING your article 'Mucky devils' in the BEN on March 20, I am writing to say how angry it makes me feel how dog owners keep getting blamed for Bolton's dirty streets. Okay, some people do not pick up their dog's muck, but how many people pick up the rubbish they drop!

I have recently become a dog owner, and I always pick up my dog's muck, as do a lot of dog owners who walk their pets around the field facing where I live.

I think more dog owners would pick you their dog's muck if there was somewhere to put it. Environmental Health chiefs are urging walkers to 'Bag and Bin' dog muck; can they tell us where? How do they expect people to 'BIN IT' when there is no where to 'BIN IT'!

As mentioned here, I live facing Hulton Lane playing fields, which is a very popular dog walking place, and there is ONE old wooden, broken bin tucked away out of sight in the corner of the field.

Bolton Council put up penalty signs on every other lamp-post, threatening £1,000 penalty for non-removal; how about putting up a few lamppost bins instead.

Before the Council ask us to help them clean up our streets, how about them helping us, by using some of our hard earned money we pay to them every year, by providing a few more bins, not just to put dog muck in, but for rubbish in general.

Around Morris Green, I can think of just two bins, which are to accommodate a district and two local schools.

Instead of wasting money on signs urging people to report offenders, how about the council showing us they mean business by providing us with bins instead of free poop scoop bags. I think dogs owners can provide themselves with bags!

Tell Bolton Council to give dog owners a break and concentrate on doing their own jobs right in the first place.

Wendy Kirkham

Wyndham Avenue

Middle Hulton