Get up each morning

What do you find?

An unwanted present

Has been left behind.

Dogs with their masters

Out for a walk.

Fouling on pavements

Which others must walk. Anyone's garden

But not on their own.

It's really annoying

When a dog you don't own.

A natural function

The dog's got to go.

Responsible owners

Would clean it up though.

Their toilet attendant

I don't want to be. It's up to their owners

To clean up, not me.

Dogs don't go walkies

These days on their own.

Some but not many

Take bags, clean their own.

My thanks to those owners

Who clean up the mess.

Let's hope by example

You'll teach all the rest. Linda Forshaw, Hawkshead Drive, Deane

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