I’M glad to see you are giving lots of coverage to the problem of dog fouling in Tavistock.

I was interested in the article you published a few weeks ago explaining the transfer of enforcement duties from the dog warden to the West Devon Borough Council mobile locality officers.

Not long after the article appeared I was bitten quite badly by an uncontrolled dog (not on a lead) on the public footpath up to the Greenlands estate – I was interviewed by one of your colleagues and a piece went in the paper on 28/05/16.

I feel very strongly that all dogs should be on leads in town. Not everyone likes dogs – young children can be especially intimidated and it angers me when in The Meadows and along the river path, where such orders and the relevant signs are in place, people wilfully still allow their dogs to run free.

I should like to see these mobile locality officers making more of an effort to enforce the laws regarding the control of dogs and I intend to regularly ask the council how many prosecutions have been undertaken. A few prosecutions and publicity about them in your paper would soon, I am sure, have an effect on people’s behaviour.

Kevin Jago

Tavistock