Beaches for dogs this summer

Posted on 30/05/2011 by admin

Dog owners will be able to enjoy the beach with their favourite pets by the end of July 2011. A beach will be designated in each district for use by dogs (and their owners). The location of the first dog-friendly beach that has been proposed is in Ayia Napa and the rest will follow. Its about time!

On a related topic, in the past we reported that dogs are now allowed in public parks but in almost all parks with the exception of the ones of Nicosia municipality the authorities have yet to remove the restrictive signs.

Finally, I can take my dog out on day trips to the beach. Cyprus has been part of the EU for a while and this is the first improvement ive seen.

WAW this most be a joke 🙂 Is this a real info? Please let me know asap. I’m going to Ayia napa this weekend I want to take my dog with me 🙂 Please reply?

bad news as we know most dog owners do not pick up their dog poo and soem let them ru loose bad idea.

Being the owner of two big, savage, child-eating, adult-biting….no, joking aside, I do have two dogs and where we live there is a fine of up to GBP£1000 for not cleaning after your dog. Unfortunately, there are still owners out there who won’t clean up after their dogs.
We have patrols to fine people but it’s very rare that you see them and, with recent budget cuts, it is less and less likely that they will be around.
I agree that there should be a designated area but I also think it will be abused, with people not bothering to clean up and dogs attacking other dogs and people.

hope the council consult the people who live by the beach before they choose what areas to let dogs run in. who will be policing the areas. I live by an area with 2 big No dogs signs and dig owners choose to ignore the signs.

Pirate is going to the beach with me YAHOOOOOOO 🙂 I Love it 🙂

There aren’t enough beaches in Cyprus for people, how can they give them to dogs?

Cypriots don’t even take care of animals at home far less the beach.
I’ve yet to see anybody here actually walking a dog in over a year. But I hear plenty of the poor mutts barking in complaint as they are chained up in gardens – or even left in cars in the sun. And don’t even get me started on the way they take great sport in disposing of cats for sport with air-guns or chucking alive them out the cars on the freeway. Bastards.

I actually read an article yesterday in Fileleftheros newspaper that said that they are waiting for the final OK. They had named a beach in every district. I will post it on my wall now but its in greek.

I hope the owners will still clean up after the dogs have done their business.

its about time.

I guess I was the first woman in Ayia Napa with a Pointer as a pet in 1979. We had such a hard time because people were so much afraid of dogs. I got fined for public nuisance (?), because Chica, my dog, was fishing in the harbour of Ayia Napa. Those were the days my friends and I am so glad to hear, that dogs became friends, although it took a long time <3.

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