ON Sunday, August 3 my husband and I attended a litter pick up at Weston Shore with “Friends of Weston Shore”.

We first covered the area from the old pitch and putt site up to Netley Centre, and then the other way along towards Woolston.

We were amazed and appalled at the amount of dog mess we encountered.

If people want to have dogs as pets, then why is it so difficult to pick up the mess when their pets have finished?

With the school holidays here and the amount of children who will be visiting Weston Shore, something must be done to regulate the cleaning up of this diabolical situation.

MRS JULIE PRESTWICH, Southampton.