News from June 2022

June 8th 2022: On 3rd of May Animal Concern (AC) wrote to all Members of the Scottish Parliament telling them were wasting their time debating a complicated and unworkable new law to add to the useless controls over fireworks. AC stressed that an outright ban on public ownership and use of fireworks was the only way to deal with this. The Scottish Government replied today and it doesn’t look like the Government is going to listen. AC will now redirect the campaign to the Government in Westminster and you can read their reply, and our response to it, here:

Read the news item for 3rd of May here.

June 3rd 2022: We cannot claim a campaign success on this but our John Robins first publicly asked Argyle & Bute Council to seek sponsorship for dog waste bins around ten years ago and he raised it several times since then. Loch Lomond and Trossachs National Park have just obtained sponsorship for new waste bins to keep the National Park tidy, giving dog walkers somewhere to deposit their pets’ deposits and reducing the risk to wildlife from discarded rubbish. Many of these bins will be in the Argyle & Bute Council area. Perhaps someone was listening when the suggestion was first raised. Dog walkers now have more places to safely discard doggy jobby bags. Better late than never. More about this on The Lochside Press website here: