Tales from the Tabs
‘Are they barking? Council blows £15,000 on adventure playground for dogs’
The Daily Mail are chomping at the bit this morning over a 30ft square area at Southern Country Park in Hertfordshire, UK – a £15,000, first of its kind, adventure play park for dogs.
According to the People’s Dispensary for Sick Animals, over half of UK dogs will be obese within the five years and it is thought that using taxpayers’ money to combat this development was a sound idea, as it gives pet owners an area to exercise their dogs with Crufts-style obstacles and activities.
Emma Boon of the TaxPayer’s Alliance, however, was not impressed, and even managed to sneak in a cheeky pun saying, ‘The local council must have gone barking mad to spend thousands of pounds of taxpayers’ cash on this canine attraction.
‘Of course dog owners should exercise their pets as part of looking after them but a run around the park should be sufficient.’
