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This policy is being enforced due to the large number of dog owners failing to clean up after their pets while walking them on the campus.

The exact same practice that has rendered the Laurel Street Park so disgusting.

Sounds reasonable to me. I assume Kingfish objected or he would not have posted this non-issue.

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That's a shame. Don't expect any non students to walk on campus anymore since most of the people doing it are dog owners. The university has done a detrimental job of alienating itself from the neighborhood since I moved into the area four years ago.

I doubt they'll be losing much sleep because non-students aren't walking on the property anymore. Isn't the school located on private property? I don't want people walking their dogs and leaving their messes in my yard - my dogs already do a fine job of that - so I don't really blame Belhaven for feeling the same way.

I wished the president would ask his students to park on campus and not in front of my house. They love to smoke at their car on break,since the campus is nonsmoking,and flick their butts in my yard. I've yet to complain but Mr president consider this the start.

Drama in Belhaven:

Marlboro lights and dog shit.

No wonder that councilwoman has been absent
from meetings .

In cities like NYC, it is mandatory to curb your dog. However in Belhaven, I have NEVER seen one dog owner curb their animal. All it takes is a plastic bag to make the neighborhood cleaner, nicer and more sanitary. I have ruined several pairs of running shoes in my own yard by stepping in dog mess which never completely comes clean from a running shoe's tread. The lawn on the side of my house has turned into a outhouse for the neighbor's walking their dogs. It amazes me how they bring their dog to my lawn to take a crap...even if I am in the yard...and they wave like it's perfectly acceptable.
Hopefully the President's new policy will wake up the dog owners.

Well, good for the President of Belhaven. If people are walking their dogs on the campus and not cleaning up their crap, then they should be told to stay away.

I get that people love their animals. What I don't get is them thinking other people do, too. They don't, and they surely don't want to step in or smell their dog's poop.

The Belhaven campus doesn't exist as a public park where old hippies can walk their dogs while ignoring their shit, or worse, encouraging it. "Let's poopie. Let's poopie." or "Hurry and potty now". I used to have a neighbor who brought his dog to shit on my mailbox planter every day. I finally told him to keep his dog out of my yard or I would shoot him. And I would run the dog off too.

Anyone who does not pick up after their dogs are inconsiderate jerks. Talk about doing unto others, sheesh...big fail.

I don't blame Belhaven one bit.
It's biological littering at the very least, and just plain rude.

My dog weighs 120 lbs.. I pick up the poop. Very simple to do, and my neighbors are happy with me and fascinated by my dog, not disgusted by the two of us.

I'm considered by many to be an "old hippie". Inconsiderate behavior is still an individual's choice, not a group behavior.

"Inconsiderate behavior is still an individual's choice, not a group behavior."

While that's a great bumper sticker, it's certainly not a universal truth. Many of the problems we're confronted with are a result of 'inconsiderate group behavior'.

When you think you have read it all.
KF, read this. DNA testing of doggie poop to identify owners who don't clean up after their dogs at Huntsville, AL apartment complex.

http://blog.al.com/breaking/2012/05/csi_huntsville_apartment_compl.html

I don't blame Belhaven one bit. Many people walk their dogs in front of my house, and I have to say, I have yet to find a pile of poop or see a walker not clean up. My neighbors are very considerate, and I appreciate it.