A broader definition of what constitutes a working dog, where dogs should be prohibited in Mosgiel and ways to deter dog fouling were issues raised at last week's Mosgiel Taieri Community Board meeting.
Board chairman Bill Feather, and members Sarah Nitis and Martin Dillon, met Dunedin City Council animal services team leader Ros MacGill and senior animal control officer Peter Hanlin about the Dog Control Bylaw and Policy Review.
In the chairman's report presented at the meeting, Mr Feather said the board considered the council's definition of a working dog as a border collie breed was too restrictive.
''In reality, a good number of working dogs are breeds to the point where the collie strain is barely detectable or may not exist at all,'' Mr Feather said in his report.
The report also detailed the preferred method of dog control in public places.
The board wanted dogs to be on a leash in residential and rural streets, the CBD and urban centres, business and industrial areas, council reserves and public walking tracks and dogs to be prohibited from playgrounds, marked areas of sports fields and cemeteries.
The board recommended the mitigation of dog fouling by ''strategically'' placing dog waste bag dispensers and bins along popular walking circuits such as Haggart-Alexander Dr, Wingatui Rd from Factory Rd to the Silver Stream and along the stream bank to Riccarton Rd, and from Kinmont Park to the dog exercise park in Cemetery Rd.
