Michael Moynihan: Some dog owners showing utter disregard and making a mess of my city 

A dog fouling on the spot fine sign in Cork. Ensuring people don’t let dog poo after them is tricky, and different jurisdictions take different approaches to this problem. Picture: Denis Minihane.

SPRING is in the air and blossoms can be found on every footpath in the city.

They appear in varied forms: yellow conch shells and densely packed brown curls. Liquefied spatters and solitary blobs. Abstract piles of two or three mini-logs. Weathered smears. Near-black and crusted or fresh and greenish, at times they seem a rising, steaming tide ready to overwhelm us. If you’re particularly unlucky you may see the perpetrator in action or just after the fact, heading off into the distance, tail wagging happily.