SPRAY-painted pavement slogans are the latest technique to be used in the fight against dog fouling in Tweeddale.

It’s a foul problem that blights every community, but now the writing is on the floor for anti-social dog owners who refuse to bag it and bin it.

The spray signs which will clearly tell dog-owners the community says no to dog fouling, and will be marked using a chalk-based temporary paint which washed off in the rain.

Peebles Community Councillors welcomed the news at a meeting last week.

Tweeddale Councillor Shona Haslam said: “I am hoping that some funding is going to be agreed from the Small Schemes to have Dog Fouling stencils and chalk paint held at Eshiels for Community Councils in Tweeddale to use.

“The thinking is that Community Councils are much more aware of where the problems areas are rather than perhaps the Council coming in once a month to do it.

“Because it has to be done under certain criteria, if members of the public did it the danger is that they’d be overused.

"These things only have impact if they are used very selectively.”

The stencils have been used in other parts of the Borders to varying degrees of success.