Horse shit!

Today I am in campaigning mood. I'll tell you all about it - but first I must give you some background info.
For several years now it has been an offence to let your dog roam free on the streets. Dogs must be kept under control (usually meaning on a lead). It is also an offence to let your dog "do its business" in a public place without clearing up after it. All around the streets you see law-abiding dog owners stooping down after their dogs with their little plastic bags picking up the canine excrement they leave behind. Most do it from a sense of civic duty - but some only do it because they face a fine of up to £1,000 if they are caught.
All very commendable. It leads to cleaner, more healthy streets for our citizens.
It's a shame that it would not be workable - at least in this country - to enforce this type of law against cat owners. It really upsets me to find little piles of cat turds in my garden. Perhaps people should be made to walk their cats on a lead just like dogs. Then perhaps some of the wildlife that visits my garden - birds, hedgehogs, other rodents - would not be needlessly killed. I know it's instinctive for cats to hunt and kill small animals but that harks back to the times when they killed to eat. Most cats are well fed and they just kill from instinct, not from a need to eat or survive.
One day I'm going to get a shotgun . . .
But I digress.
I'll take you back to the title of this entry. Horse shit!
I live in a suburb quite close to countryside. Very often one sees horses being ridden round our streets.
In case you hadn't noticed, horses are much bigger than dogs or cats.
Thus, they produce proportionately more excrement.
It seems quite acceptable that horses can dump a load of hot, steaming shit whenever and wherever they feel the need.
A cat produces a few grammes of detritus. A dog a little more.
A horse?

PILES OF THE STUFF!

Do we ever see a rider stopping and shovelling it off the road into a sack? No, they leave it there for others to avoid as best they can. Cars spread it over the road. Cyclists and motorcyclists have to try to avoid it as best they can or else they stand a chance of skidding on the stuff and suffering serious injuries and damage to their machines.
In times gone by people would rush out of their houses to shovel up the piles of muck because it makes good garden fertiliser. These days we have no need because we can buy it from the local garden centre nicely sterilised and not smelling like a farmyard.
It's about time that the people who own and ride these beautiful animals took responsibility for the damage they are doing to the environment.

SAVE OUR STREETS FROM HORSE SHIT!