Why not ban all domestic pets in urban areas? There is not enough room for humans in some places, let alone dogs who bark endlessly, shit on the pavement, leave their hair everywhere and jump all over you when off the lead, small or big they are a bloody nuisance now. Can't even go for a coffee or to the shops without dogs being brought for a day out.
What if dogs were only allowed if they are working dogs. Meaning aids for the blind, disabled, autistic, deaf whatever, together with professionally worked dogs such as police, drug sniffers, airport control, sheepdogs and so on.
Not only are urban areas plagued, but sheep worrying is another appalling thing to observe. And of course the dogs that worry sheep are more often than not out for a walk in the country with their urban owners.
Time to get tough is now. Tinkering around the edges of this is not enough anymore.
I am the survivor of a dog attack in my local park. I still bear the painful remnants of that terrifying incident to this day, more than ten years later. Not good enough. And it was a medium sized dog, not one of those monster sized things either.