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Frustrated residents in one Gloucestershire town have been angered further after discovering their 'clean up your waste' campaign posters have been torn down mysteriously.

The picturesque town of Stow-on-the-Wold in the Cotswolds is reportedly 'a minefield of dog excrement', and a 'pack' had started a four-part poster campaign alerting pet owners to the 'unpleasant health hazards' associated with the levels of fouling.

However, 'controversy has erupted' two weeks after the launch of the posters as they have since been torn down from key locations across the town.

A spokesperson for the 'pack', collectively known as the Dog Turdinator, said: "The campaign encouraged more bagging and binning of dog mess, it appears not everyone wants to see the popular Cotswold town centre free of piles of poop."

(Image: Dog Turdinator)

The poster designs and message 'must have fallen foul of someone in the community,' despite the group saying: "The creative content of the posters had been approved by the Committee of Advertising Practice and Advertising Standards Authority."

The leader of Dog Turdinator, DT Alpha Male, said: " I find this attempt to disrupt the campaign wholly offensive.

'Giveaway 1,000 free compostable poo bags'

"Who on earth would want to take the time to remove the posters? All we are attempting to do is to clean up the town for the benefit of all our residents and visitors.

"This action to thwart our campaign has made us even more determined to stamp out the problem.

"We will step up the campaign and add weight by giving away 1,000 free compostable dog poop bags via dispensers secured to a network of new posters around the town.

"This considered approach covers the three key factors in dog waste management namely; awareness in the creative content, removal & containment via free poop bags and disposal in the network of bins provided by the local council it’s that simple."

'Stood-on-the-Turd'

DT Alpha Male added: "Thankfully most dog owners are responsible and clean up after their dogs.

"We find it very frustrating when a small percentage of anti-social dog owners who openly break the law and gives all dog owners a bad name.

"If these posters and free poop bags are removed well, we all might as well just give up, come to terms of certain death by drowning in a sea of unwelcome and unnecessary dog excrement, and rename our lovely town Stood-on- the-Turd."

(Image: Twitter: @DogTurdinator)

A spokesperson for Cotswold District Council said: "Having consulted with our environmental team and our enforcement team, I can confirm that Cotswold District Council has had no involvement in this poster campaign.

"Additionally, we were not responsible for the posters being removed."