Can I request YO to do this?

My YO does allow dogs. She and her daughter have 6 between them. As liveries we have a further 7 between us. I can't/won't take my youngest dog down with me now as she was forming a pack with the other dogs and protecting the yard. Not against the family/liveries but guests coming in and I wouldn't risk it. My decision, didn't need to be asked. Dogs work well when owners are responsible. It's a pain for me as I would walk mine around our fields which was lovely but obviously have to walk them all from home. I have always taken the view that dogs at a yard = a privilege.
 
I would be very sad not to take Mrs Spaniel to a yard. I wouldn't say she has horse sense but her first meeting (that I know of) resulted in a pony sneezing in her face, She's been very wary of them since then!!
She doesn't wander too far from me, likes to bounce on the muckheap and will race my barrow to get there. She knows not to go down to the school, will only potter along the fence edging if she can see a horse in there (and has come tearing out in a hurry when one surprised her!) and I make her sit in the car when I ride. She will play with the other dogs but she's not really too sociable with other dogs and would rather tag along behind me.
I pick her poo up when I see her go and apart from liking to jump up and sit on haylege rounds when I'm trying to get that sorted she's no bother at all!

I do understand why people don't allow dogs on yards but it would be a consideration to think out should I ever need to change yards
 
Our yard allows dogs on it - but I wish it didn't! All the ones that come are poorly trained and completely ignore their owners when they are called. They **** everywhere and no one clears it up.

They run under the horses legs and I'm pretty sure its the horse that would get blamed if one got kicked.

I got moaned at in the summer because someone had gone into a field with a dog and my horse had chased it. Apparently it was lucky the dog was able to squeeze through a gap in the fence and escape. Knowing the dog concerned I suspect it was snapping at the horses and I appear to have a horse that has no fear of dogs and decided to see this one off her territory.

I think my final straw was issuing out a warning a while back that we were doing worming on the yard that day and please could we have all dogs off the yard because the product was potentially toxic to them. Instead I got people complaining it would be unfair on their dogs.
 
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