Liberal Democrat Councillor for Dunfermline South James Calder has been inundated with complaints from residents regarding an increase in dog fouling over the past few weeks. In particular one issue has been some people using their bags but throwing them into trees and green areas rather than in bins.

Cllr. Calder has said,

Being on lockdown is not an excuse for a minority of dog walkers to throw their dog waste bags into our green areas. This is ruining things for everyone- many people have this unpleasant site on their one walk a day right now which is meant to be a time for people to enjoy being outside.

I’ve had particularly large amounts of complaints about this happening on the path along the golf course at Pitcorthie. I have spoken to Council Officers to ask them to patrol the area whenever possible to try and both deter the behaviour and catch any culprits. I would ask anyone who catches someone doing this to report it to the Council too.