I HAVE heard so much from fellow dog walkers on how good Knavesmire is for dog walking - a tarmacadam track used by the camera car saves you from muddy feet, a steady 40-minute walk around, a vast open grass area for the dogs to walk/run on, a wooded area just over the race track for them to explore.

Knavesmire was everything I’d been told about and great except for one thing - the amount of dog excrement in the locality of the car park on the Tadcaster Road side of the racecourse.

Disgusting.

With several dog poo bins near at hand, just how can anyone consider themselves a responsible dog owner and let their dogs foul what is possibly the best area for exercising dogs in York?

D M Deamer, Penley’s Grove Street, Monkgate, York