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Keep pets out of high rise flats, and reserve the park's roads for swans; posts on driver's double dilemma too

Not much puppy love lost between posters and pet owners living the high life in council flats . . .

I love my dog but I know it doesn't belong in a block of flats. Used to live in a high rise until recently where residents complained non-stop about dog owners who made their neighbours' lives a misery. Non-stop barking, dog s*** in common stair areas and failure to clean up after the dogs in the grassy drying greens were amongst the many complaints. The dogs don't belong locked up in flats. It's pure cruelty.

Glenda,

Dogs are for people living in bottom flats or main doors only, not only for the owner but for the dogs' sake also.

The Real Alfonsa Pedrosa

Dogs require 5-6 mile walks every day and ample recreation ground, not being cooped up by owners who say things like "most of us just signed the missive and brought the pets anyway".

Death

"Most of us just signed the missive and brought the pets anyway..." This is why the ban was lifted – nobody was prepared to enforce it, so the council took the easy option.

digestive biscuits V

"She's a bit young to be having pups." Sounds like most of the pram posse mums round there!!!

fresian

Yes, dogs need a lot of exercise. Perhaps a run in the park, although if it's Holyrood Park there are risks involved. Many of you were angered by the swan killed by a car.

As this is a park, through traffic should have been banned years ago. This is a private road, so no-one has a right of access along it

Road Raga

The park has been allowed to become the main through route from the bottom of Holyrood Road through to Canongate/Abbeyhill via Horse Wynd, and that short-sighted decision will be very difficult to reverse. The park is a much nicer place to be on a Sunday when the bulk of the road is closed to motorised traffic. There still exists a moratorium on commercial vehicles in the park, but this is now totally ignored. It's a shame.

Duncan in Edinburgh

But there was some representation from the driving lobby . . .

The swans are a bloody nuisance on the road. It is a road, not a bird sanctuary. If the park workers know the problem is because of the frozen pond then crack the ice.

tumshie heid

One driver with things other than swans to think about is David Lee, who has been the victim of a bureaucratic foul-up because his name and date of birth is the same as that of another driver

It's a sign of the times that those with the authority to affect our lives place such faith in their computers.

Jacqueline Hyde

And this is why we should not be continuing with the disastrous ID card/ database state project.

Duncan in Edinburgh

Doesn't surprise me at all. The DVLA is a shambles – every dealing I have had with them has been a disaster.

Skip McClendon

It seems to me that Mr Lee is being given the run-around by both the DVLA and the police (no surprises there). He shouldn't have to do anything at all as he's not at fault! He certainly shouldn't have to appeal to the court as he's not the one who has been convicted.

Hmm?

Never mind, Mr Lee. Just get yourself to the pub – and make it a double.