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Oct 13, 2012 • Comments Closed Dear Supporters, Dogs Unleashed welcomes the easing of leash laws, outside all designated bathing areas, that will give us the freedom to exercise our dogs under effectual control in keeping with the Control of Dogs Act 1986. We wish to thank our committee members and our many supporters who played an active role, on behalf...
Proposals to ban dogs at all times from the designated bathing areas at Seapoint and Sandycove beaches form part of the DLR 2012 Beach Bye-Law amendments to be voted in chamber next Monday. Last minute negotiations continue with councillors to reconsider these punitive and unnecessary restrictions, outside summer months, on local dog owners. While we...
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Aug 29, 2012 • Comments Closed Last Sunday a group of committed dog owners assembled on Killiney beach to remove what amounted to eight bags of accumulated detritus, most of it human, in another demonstration of civic responsibility which unassumingly refutes the council’s caricature of dog owners as selfish sociopaths. It’s a good-natured clean-up that’s been going on for months across...
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Aug 14, 2012 • Comments Closed Sunday, 12th August, and another “pick up poop” day dawned for the hardy souls of “Dogs Unleashed”. This time our target was The Metals, which stretches from Dun Laoghaire to Dalkey. We met at The People’s Park, about fifteen of us in all, and before we set off Liz cheerfully approached dog walkers with some...
Out in force on the sunny morning of Sunday, 22nd July, some 25 volunteers from the Dogs Unleashed citizens’ campaign took to cleaning up the Seapoint/Salthill area. The campaign’s slogan, ‘Leading by example’, displayed on our high-viz yellow jackets, an enthusiastic bunch fanned out with the objective of picking up poop left by that minority of...
A soft day, thank Dog! That’s how it was on Sunday morning, 8th July, when members and supporters of Dogs Unleashed assembled at CarysfortPark for the first of a number of organised “pick up poop” outings. Despite the rain, there was a great turnout of approximately twenty five hardened dog walkers who donned fancy new...
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Jul 6, 2012 • Comments Closed We hope you find our first newsletter informative and enjoyable. Remember, this is YOUR campaign for YOUR dog. Please contact if you can do more to protect your way of life as a responsible dog owner in DLR. Dogs Unleashed Newsletter – Summer 2012
We have organised a number of ‘Pick up Poop’ days, starting in Carysfort Park, this Sunday 8th July, at 10am. For full details see attached leaflet. We hope you will join us while we get down and dirty, throughout the ‘summer’ of 2012. Untreated dog fouling continues to be a problem among a certain element...
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Jun 15, 2012 • Comments Closed On Wednesday 6th June 2012 Dogs Unleashed made a presentation using this video to a Strategic Policy Committee of Dunlaoghaire Rathdown County Council. We hope you will agree with us and help us in our ongoing campaign for fair and balanced bye-laws on our beaches and in our parks http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y4pLEvcteAQ
It is incumbent on our legislators, and those we vote into power, to enact and enforce fair and balanced laws; to lead by example, through education and training, a society that cohabits our public and private spaces, with Mans’ Best Friend. Dogs Unleashed offer to work in partnership with our Council, while calling for enforcement...
Citizens with a respect for democracy are puzzled by the tactics being used by DLR Council over the amendments to the Beach bye-laws with regard to dog ‘leashing’. The Council were ‘delighted’ with the active response of so many people to their consultation process. Altogether 589 people responded in writing to the proposed amendments, a...
Some may be thinking ‘The law is passed. What can we do? We can’t change it …’ YES WE CAN is the answer! People power is back. We did it for Killiney Hill all those years ago, we did it for the Dun Laoghaire Baths, we can do it now for our dogs and our very...
