Is Newcastle council doing enough to educate and regulate irresponsible dog owners in the city's public spaces? I think not.
On a perfect Saturday afternoon for swimming at Newcastle beach recently we were confronted with an example of said irresponsible owners walking their two large dogs (off leash to boot) along the sand when they stopped and let one dog defecate in the water's edge before it bounded off again to the southern end of the beach. We challenged the owners about no dogs, at all, on any City of Newcastle beaches and they replied "yes we know".
