英国是一个爱犬的民族，超过700万人每人拥有一只狗。他们为自己的爱犬提供了良好的生长环境，非常喜欢带着爱犬出去散步并享受新鲜空气。可是在Callander的部分狗主并没有履行他们作为狗主的职责。

在接到Callander小学的投诉后，斯特灵市政府的Streetscape办公室进行了考察，发现小学附近非常脏，到处都是狗屎。这严重影响了周围的环境，对学生们的学习和生活带来了不变，还会带来疾病。因此，有关机构警告狗主必须清理自己爱犬制造的废物，保持环境干净。为者将被罚款£40。

详细信息：
Callander Primary School’s Eco group and the pupils’ council contacted the Stirling Council’s Streetscape office with grave concerns about the dog mess, on and near the paths around the school.  Streetscape officers visited the path close to the school to investigate further and encountered a landscape covered with dog faeces.

To highlight the problem Streetscape organised a survey placing a flag at each instance of dog fouling documenting this irresponsible behaviour with photographs.  Streetscape officer Jim Fisher said: "I was disgusted at the state of the area caused by dog owners who are either too lazy or irresponsible to clean up after their own pets and placing others at risk.  Dog faeces can contain toxacara canis which is a major health hazard especially on a path so close to a route used by primary and secondary schoolchildren.

"Stirling Council is in the process of erecting two dog bins which it will regularly service, Streetscape Officers and the Animal Control Officers will also be patrolling the area and issue £40 fines to owners who do not clean up after their dogs.”

Previous studies in Scotland concerning waste and litter have consistently placed dog fouling near the top of the publics most decpised culprits.

Dog mess can contain a number of things, which can make people ill - best known of which is infection with toxacara canis, which is a roundworm.  If the eggs of this worm are swallowed this can result in a range of symptoms from aches and pains to bronchial conditions. In rare cases, eyesight can be damaged.