I trust that Rosemary Scicluna (September 19) knows a thing or two about hygiene and that transporting pigeon droppings into our homes via our shoes and/or pram wheels could be considered dangerous to health. Weaving our way along pavements in Rudolph Street, to name just one area, to avoid the dirt can be challenging, that is, if one is lucky enough to dodge the assault from above.

But if these considerations are of no concern to the ‘Live and let live’ brigade, then the sheer sense of shame one feels at having one’s home town degraded to a severely polluted, traffic congested, dirty place more reminiscent of a farmyard, where we have to resort to hanging unsightly black garbage bags to chase off the pigeons, should have, I would have thought, kicked in.

Civic pride was never a strong attribute of Maltese citizens.