Cork City Council launches 2025 Anti-Dog Fouling Awareness Campaign
08/05/2025
Photo Caption: Overall winner of Cork City Council's 2025 Primary School Anti Dog Fouling Poster Competition Annalise Walshe (St. Luke's National School, Mahony's Avenue, St. Luke's) and her schoolmates, receive their prizes from Cllr. Joe Kavanagh (Chair of Cork City Council Dog Fouling Committee) and Michael Sheehan, Litter Management Section, Cork City Council.
Cork City Council is pleased to announce the launch of the 2025 Anti-Dog Fouling Awareness Campaign. The campaign, now in its tenth year, is organised and run by the Cork City Council's Dog Fouling Committee, in conjunction with the Litter Management Section of Cork City Council.
The 2025 awareness campaign will kick off on Friday 9 May 2025 with a prize giving ceremony at the winning school of the 2025 Primary School Poster Competition, St. Luke's National School, Mahony's Avenue. There will be a dog fouling awareness information stand in Wilton Shopping Centre on Monday 12 May from 10 a.m. until 2 p.m., with further information days across the city planned in the coming weeks, details of which will be posted on Cork City Council's social media platforms.
The Dog Fouling Sub-Committee, through public awareness campaigns, is engaged in a process of trying to bring about a change in mindset and behaviour in the area of responsible dog ownership, with personal responsibility of dog owners to clean up after their dogs at the forefront of the campaign.
Information stands showcasing the 2025 poster competition entries will be held in a number of shopping centres, and over the coming weeks the Committee will run further new and innovative awareness/advertising campaigns, present prizes to all the schools who participated in the 2025 Dog Fouling Poster Competition, visit parks and green areas to promote responsible dog ownership, pilot new dog walking routes, and purchase some additional multipurpose bins to make it easier and more convenient to dispose of dog waste.
The Litter Warden Service will also be increasing their anti-dog fouling activity throughout the city promoting responsible dog ownership, advising and cautioning the public and issuing fines where appropriate.
The Committee would like to thank the responsible dog owners who clean up after their dog and would ask all other dog owners to be civic minded and consider the impact on others, particularly people with visual and mobility issues, children at play, wheelchair users, the elderly and parents with buggies when they fail to clean up after their dog.