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a random lets their dog in your horses field?

yesterday I was poo picking and there were some people out rabbiting and when they finished they came near my field, their little dog came under the gate and into the field!

my young horse is very interested in everything that goes on she he came up to the gate to see who they were, I was a bit concerned that he might chase the dog, also my mare has been scared by a dog before and has been known to kick out! if anything gets behind her.

so I said, can you get your dog out please as I don't want it getting chased or kicked and they commented, he'll out run the horses, so again I asked them to get it out! eventually they called it and it got out! but I just think how they'd have kicked off if it had been attacked!

2 mins later they were walking away and the poor dog got attacked by my friends 2 dogs that she had with her! luckily he was fine but they really kicked off about it, saying dogs like hers shouldnt be off the lead, which is fair, if she wasn't on our private yard, where dog walkers don't come! just thanked myself it wasn't my horses that done anything!
 
Yes. I see it frequently with my land, there is no good reason to allow - encourage - them to go under the gate or jump the hedge.:mad:
 
It annoys me more when walkers let them mess all over my front garden :mad:

They only do it once, I let my dogs out and they move along pretty sharpish then.

Not a problem I generally have thankfully, I have stockwired perimeter fences to keep dogs (well coyotes) out.

I wouldn't worry about my horses so much apart from Ella who doesn't do dogs, Goat would be the danger to dogs. I have seen him serious and that dog didn't walk on four legs for two weeks.
 
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I had this last night too! Dog came running into the field, there is a footpath next door so understandable, but what got my goat was that she made absolutely zero effort to call the dog back!
 
Delicious_D said:
Put a sign up that all stray dogs found in your field will be shot.... :( its bloody bad manners
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Sadly this is not allowed as legally it is regarded as threatening behaviour.

However it is worth knowing that horses ARE specifically covered as livestock under the livestock worrying laws, so a dog actually attacking a horse in a field can legally be shot providing there is no way of catching the dog instead and it is reported to the police straight away afterwards.
 
I have a neighbour who sends their dog into our fields for a run which is fine now as the horses have got used to him and just ignore him but a month after I had bought the cob 5 years ago they let their dog in he scared the welshie and he ran away knocking my 70 year old MIL over who was just walking around the fields. She is used to horses and had had her own for years. Welshie stood on her and she ended up being air lifted to hospital and going through hours of surgery to repair the injuries on her leg. Lucky it was her leg if he had stood on her body or head she probably wouldn't be here to tell the tale!! Needless to say it has taken her some time to get back to handling the horses. So dog owners should realize that its not always just their dogs they are putting at risk.
 
I got knocked over on Saturday when a new neibours border terriers burst through hedge into the field after a rabbit just as I was catching the boys the horse just got a fright and was horrified he had knocked me over.
The dog is called Mayhem , says it all , I have been round and spoken to owner when the dog was on my yard and would not leave , it invaded another neibours House and would not leave , I will have to go and see owner again not sure what to do to be honest .
 
We have stock fencing all the way round the field which stops that happening, Tess wouldn't bother with a dog in the field unless it went for her then she has be known to turn into a snorting dragon trampeling them to a pulp.

I was wondering... if a dog did get into your land and the horses either killed it or criticaly injured it who would be to blame ? (not that is has happened to us :D)
 
tessybear said:
I was wondering... if a dog did get into your land and the horses either killed it or criticaly injured it who would be to blame ? (not that is has happened to us :D)
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Not the land/horse owner as, in my view :

a) Dog was uninvited and should have been under control, and
b) A horse is a horse, a flight animal that may react to a dog as it would any attacker (and that includes trampling it)

If someone wanted to take it that far a legal bod would probably argue along the lines of that the field was not dog proofed, there no signs (dogs can read yes?) and the horse/s were uncontrolled.
 
We have this with a couple of dodgy poacher types tresspassing they're quite intimidating too and me an livery have our dogs who are all soft an sensitive and no to stay away from the horses that will kick if there mythered. I never say anything its not like its daily and ide rather not anger them incase they start on me or horses, we did have bright yellow 'private land keep off' signs but they have all been snapped off!?!
 
Enfys said:
Not the land/horse owner as, in my view :
If someone wanted to take it that far a legal bod would probably argue along the lines of that the field was not dog proofed, there no signs (dogs can read yes?) and the horse/s were uncontrolled.
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They might want to argue it but it is unlikely they would succeed ! Dog must be under control at all times when in a public area.
 
Thanks guys, glad I'm not the only one who was annoyed!! im sure my youngster would be fine! apparently the neighbours dog and him were having kisses over the fence in the summer but with other hyper dogs I have seen him become very wound up! so don't want him getting into trouble!

we have stock fencing around the field but the dog was tiny and got under the gate, which has a very small gap!

I think I might get some signs as I don't want to be held liable if something did happen!

luckily our yard is private and the road though it is too, not sure who got the rabbiters out, whether it was our farmer or the neighbouring farmer but might be safer to have a private property sign up!
 
i had a bad accident at my old house, as we had a footpath running along the outside of our jumping field and on the other side was our turnout field, before people come through the gate it had a sign which read "Please close gate behind you, all dogs MUST be kept on leads, please do not feed ponies as some bite". so i was schooling over some fences and some dog walkers came through firstly they left the gate open so i asked them to shut it, they did, but then two dogs, one terrier and one lab came screaming around the corner, my horse at this time was 4 and i had only had him a month and he hated our dog who was relatively quiet, so i asked them to catch their dogs but they couldn't this, then set off the horses in the paddock on the other side which then in turn set mine off then the lab who was clearly young and rather friendly started thinking it was a game and chased mine around, nothing malicious just unintentionally frightened my horse who eventually dumped me, i was reeling with pain and the dog walkers conveniently caught their dogs and left me with a petrified horse who is now 3 years on still afraid of dogs(i no longer own him) and me winded and i was only 15 at the time, luckily my friend saw me from the trampoline but was too far/and scared to say anything to the walkers. Furious to say the least, it was sad as sooo many lovely people respect that sing but it takes one to ruin it we then had the council close the footpath as there was a route around that only added another 400m to their journey.
 
i think if someone let a dog in with my horses it wouldnt be leaving... i've seen our yongster chase down and trample a fox to death when it was crossing the field... wasnt much i could do by the time i got there :( although it had killed a couple of geese that week... she will happily chase down our dog too but he isnt allowed in the field or off the lead... shes a nasty horse when it comes to dogs... dont think the walkers would let their dog in the field again though :/ its down right rude though!
 
Drives me crackers! There are footpaths along the top and bottom of our land (well actually the one at the bottom does NOT run down the side of our land, but people walk there anyway). We have drystone walls on three sides, so not feasable to have stock fencing. Our land is higher than next doors, at the bottom side and we fence with electric fence and electric sheep netting to keep the sheep in (we did have sheep wire, but my mare can get her foot through :eek: ) This should be ample to keep dogs out from the bottom, but I keep finding the electric netting lifted and twisted, with the spikes on the top, pointing into our field, where people have moved it to let their blooming dogs back out! I am hoping to see who it is doing it, but unfortunately I don't have the time to sit in the field for over 12 hours.
 
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