Time for the Nairn Doggie Jobbie lotto?

"Officials in New Taipei City say that more than 4,000 people have collected 14,500 bags of excrement. For each bag they turned in, they were given a lottery ticket." It worked in Taiwan, perhaps it might go down well in Nairn too.

The easy way to deal with doggie jobbies - a red tartan Poo-Ch

You can see below that once again (two posts below) that dog turds have been discussed at Community Council level. If you are a responsible dog owner that picks up your pet's turds then there is now a product that you can buy to save you the bother of carrying that plastic bag too far. What's more it's a local product too: "The discreet way to carry doggy pooh on the move."

Even if you are not a responsible owner, this could be your chance to redeem yourself and look stylish at the same time.

Turds, broken bottles and graffiti

River CC discussed the dog poo situation this evening and Sheila Mayer reported that the Prom once again is becoming a winter brown strip. It was a conversation that has been had in previous years and other CCs in Nairn discuss this subject with depressing regularity too. Present also were Liz and Graham for the Highland Council and Louise Clark too who was the official responsible for getting this first meeting of River CC underway up to the point where the new chair was elected. Louise told the meeting the council was aware of the problem and had made efforts to clean it up. It was also reported that the dog warden was also taking action. Graham Marsden told the Gurn that he was going away to find out if Highland Council could up the dog-fouling fine from its present £50. The serial offenders obviously feel that the slight risk of suffering a fifty note hit to the pocket is well worth the risk.

There were also calls for action on broken bottles in the children's play area on the links and also on graffiti that has been appearing up the Riverside.