With regard to the multitude of letters re dogs on beaches, I would like to make the following points.

As a species we help guide your blind, assist your disabled, protect your soldiers by finding land mines and other explosives.

Your police rely on us to find dead bodies, drugs and criminals. We are company and provide exercise for your elderly and alone.

All this yet all we hear about is the mess we leave behind which YOU yes some of you neglect to pick up after us. For this reason some of you would like to deny us the pleasure of running and swimming on the beach - even in the winter months.

HAVE you paused for one moment to ponder what happens when seagulls poo? They fly over the sand with no poo bags picking up after them, they also carry diseases. The rats that populate the fringes of the beach and come out at night also leave there "mark" which carry diseases. Beaches are not sterile!

One final point - where do you think yours ends up? Yes in the sea!

We are Earthlings too and have as much right to be here and enjoy the beaches as you do.

Freya the Labrador - Owned by Vivien Phillips (yes I do pick up),
Trewarton Road,
Penryn