Flippin' 'eck, John, and dogs' gobs are that much cleaner? The average cur thinks nothing of sniffing and licking other dogs' arses as well as its own! We had cats for almost forty years, and no cat of ours would ever DARE jump up on a kitchen worktop, or even go upstairs. Why, we always trained our cats to never jump up on to our furniture, and they never did do. The vast majority of dog owners haven't a clue as to how to control their mutts. They have those silly extendable leads that trip the rest of us up and block twenty-foot wide pavements, and they pick up the shit (leaving a smeared, contaminated pavement, of course) only when they think someone has seen their dog shitting. They have those stupid ball-throwers, handling the salivered ball with gay abandon before nipping into Sainsbury's, hands unwashed of course, to contaminate trolley handles and cash for the rest of us. Jail would be too good for the average entitled dog owner...