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An extraordinary video has emerged of a woman pursuing a man in a row over alleged dog fouling.
Danielle Connolly filmed as she remonstrated with him, accusing him of repeatedly dropping bags of dog mess near her home in Squires Way, Dover.
Miss Connolly confronts the man
At first she shouts out: "Gotcha, pick it up now."
She says that she saw him dump two small black bags into bushes.
The man at first denies it's faeces, claiming it's only rubbish and then taunts her by saying: "Are you on drugs?"
Miss Connolly, 31, and the man continue arguing, with him saying he won't pick it up unless she wipes off the video.
She insists on following him until he does as she says.
She tells him: "Children can get blind over that.
"Little kiddies come out and play on the grass and when they fall in it they blind themselves but that's all right is it?
"Why go through all that effort of picking it up, putting it in a black bag, putting a bow in it just to throw it in someone else's garden?"
Miss Connolly finally pressurises him into going into the bushes and picking up a bag.
In the end he walks away with the bag and agrees to bin it at home although she insists there is a second one left behind.
But he argues there is only one and adds: "Find the other one."
Miss Connolly, who has a four-month-old daughter, filmed and uploaded the video on Wednesday on the Facebook page The Real Dover for Disgruntled Dovorians.
She says on the post: "Sick of this man picking up his dog poo and throwing it anywhere. I’ve warned him before to stop but once again here he is in the act."
She now intends to report the man to Dover District Council, which regularly fines people who allow dog mess.
She told Kent Online: "I've caught this man doing the same thing three times now."
Miss Connolly, put up a follow-up video on the same Facebook page yesterday.
It it, she checks the same patch of undergrowth at the back of a neighbour's garden and finds a total 17 small black bags of dog mess.
She even found an 18th bag that day on railings near her home.
She afterwards explained to Kent Online that when she was six months pregnant, last November, she slipped on steps to her flat because of dog mess in a separate incident.
She said: "It's disgusting. People should have more responsibility for their dogs."
It is not known who left the other bags and whether they are from one or more dog owners.
