Six-foot high posters of a toddler eating dog mess have been credited with persuading owners to clean up after their pets in the seaside town of Torbay, Devon.
Torbay Council launched the controversial poster campaign at the end of April to tackle a long-running problem of dog fouling.
Now local councillor Dave Butt said that dog mess on the streets has fallen by more than half from 400 reported incidents in April to 185 in June.
The campaign by Torbay Council features an image of a child eating what appears to be eating dog faeces she has found in a playground with the slogan: ‘Children will put anything in their mouths’.
