Morning All, A query has landed my way relating to parents who come to collect there children from school and tie there dogs to a drain pipe and leave them. The drain pipe in question is sited no more tyhan 4metres from an under 5s nursery entrance door. The question is should this be allowed? Does anybody have any similar experiences of this? or know of any incidents that have arisen from this kind of situation? Thanks for your opinions!!

Being a school it is always going to be academic (it's nearly Friday). My serious comment is can you put some loops in a wall in a position where dogs can be safely tethered. You might need more than one loop to avoid scraps and puppies.

Hi Reading your topic with interest and under the belief this may be the school looking at the issue. The schools that I deal with are advised to make Parents aware that dogs are not permitted into the school grounds for risk of either attacking a pupil, intimidating a pupil, attacking another dog, attacking another person or even intimidating another person. Add to that the risk of dog fouling and the potential for impact to childrens health do not make it an ideal scenario, Parents are told that they simply do not bring any dogs etc and that they are not elcome on school grounds. Some parents do stay on the outside of the school grounds with their dogs but the school then loses jurisdiction. Regards Karel