Sir, – Dog poo may be driving Kevin Courtney and other Dubliners demented (“Dogs don’t foul our pavements – dog owners do”, Summer Living, July 19th) but there is a carrot-and-stick solution.
In Vienna strict enforcement of €75 on-the-spot fines has sanitised the streets, and though increasing numbers of cafes, restaurants and bars now charge for tap water but well-behaved dogs can lap it up for nothing. – Yours, etc,
Dr JOHN DOHERTY,
Operngasse,
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Vienna .