{"id":411862,"date":"2025-09-10T01:14:22","date_gmt":"2025-09-10T01:14:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/411862\/"},"modified":"2025-09-10T01:14:22","modified_gmt":"2025-09-10T01:14:22","slug":"sheffield-city-council-considers-dog-walking-code-of-conduct","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/411862\/","title":{"rendered":"Sheffield City Council considers dog walking code of conduct"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Ecclesall Rangers football coach Martin Windle, who previously said he had to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/news\/articles\/ckgllp226kko\" class=\"ssrcss-f6h2dj-InlineLink e1kn3p7n0\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">clean up 16 piles of dog poo<\/a> from the youth team&#8217;s pitches, said he did not think the scheme would stop irresponsible dog walking.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;They&#8217;re not getting fined, they&#8217;re not being warned and there are no wardens there,&#8221; he said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">However, he supported commercial dog walkers being limited on the number of dogs they could walk at once.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;We have one van after another, we&#8217;re talking about people with eight to 10 dogs, and two ladies in particular had 14 dogs between them &#8211; you cannot control eight to 10 dogs pooing everywhere.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">He said that some dog walking routes were poorly cared for and overgrown, meaning that dog waste could be lost in the tall grass.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">He added that the amount of waste at the Whirlow Playing Fields on Limb Lane was the worst he had seen in his 40-year career of coaching young people.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;It&#8217;s been the bane of my life, and the volunteers who turn up in the week and weekend, they&#8217;re the ones who clean it up &#8211; not the council.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Ecclesall Rangers football coach Martin Windle, who previously said he had to clean up 16 piles of dog&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":411863,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8817],"tags":[748,393,4884,1620,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-411862","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-sheffield","8":"tag-britain","9":"tag-england","10":"tag-great-britain","11":"tag-sheffield","12":"tag-uk","13":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/115177354937597280","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/411862","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=411862"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/411862\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/411863"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=411862"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=411862"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=411862"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}