Extendable dog lead injury

unbelievable! Some folks are sooooo stupid. Mi thinks the fines for dogs not under control near a road, should be highlighted very publicly!
 
The owner of the dog was on one side of the road and the dog was on the other when the accident happened.
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What a twunt. :mad: Poor lad, I do hope it doesn't scar badly.

I think I posted on here a few weeks ago when I ended up with one of these wrapped several times around my legs, the cord type rather than the tape, the owner was bloody lucky I had thick jeans on instead of my usual 3/4 shorts. Also lucky that I'm used to dogs and was able to keep my feet while his fat lab continued to wrap me up in it. :o
 
Poor lad - looks so sore :(

Not wanting to make light of the situation, but how big must the dog have been if it was on other side of the road but at chest / neck height? :confused:
 
i think it was a very little lad by the sound of it. I would have been absolutely raging as his parent.

Normally i am of the opinion that kids should be on leads, but in this case the stupid dog owner should be held fully accountable! The dog is dam lucky it wasn't a car that passed through the lead and that poor kid is now scarred!.
 
Well I'm known for my hatred of them but I must confess to using one the last few nights :o it was given to me, OK?! :p It has a high viz strip, he is walking nicely on it and responding to voice commands, no need to use two hands (which is why they are rendered useless otherwise, you're trying to control an unruly dog with one hand in a lump of plastic and with your other hand trying to grab a thin strip of nylon rope - which as we can see, burns).
My issue is with incidents like this, with the dog I nearly ran over a few weeks ago when it darted out in front of my car without the owner even noticing, people who use them for an easy life because they can't be bothered teaching the dog not to pull/to walk to heel.
Especially when attached to a harness :p

Poor lad, hope it heals up.
 
CC - I will confess now to having ordered one of these for the exact same situation as you've described, I will break my bloody legs trying to use a 50ft line in the woods in the dark. :o I won't trust the little ones or the cord ones any more, they're next to useless.

Point is, though, that when we hit the road again the flexi goes in my pocket and she goes back on a slip lead, she is lit up like a Christmas tree and she is no longer unruly. :p

They have their place, I'm sure the dinky fashion ones are useful too for exercising toy dogs that don't need to be let off the lead but for god's sake go out and use one in a field, not in the park or on the pavement.
 
blackcob said:
What a twunt. :mad: Poor lad, I do hope it doesn't scar badly.

I think I posted on here a few weeks ago when I ended up with one of these wrapped several times around my legs, the cord type rather than the tape, the owner was bloody lucky I had thick jeans on instead of my usual 3/4 shorts. Also lucky that I'm used to dogs and was able to keep my feet while his fat lab continued to wrap me up in it. :o
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I saw this happen many years ago at Burghley on xc day, a dog on an extendable lead did a lap of a mounted steward's horse. the horse, unsurprisingly, panicked and bolted. could have been very very nasty.
I hate the flipping things unless they are being used by someone with a working brain... ;) ;)
 
My mam was telling me they treat a greyhound who has been wrapped up by an extendy lead when the dog on the end if it was possibly wrapping its self around the grey a bit like black cobs situation, the lead cut the grey to the bone, nearly severed it fecking leg:eek::( I hate them, esp for purpose of not teaching a dog to walk proper;y but instead letting it run around like a hoon at the end of the friggin extendy, nowt wrong with using them for recall in a field but why use one all the time and on roads and busy areas with it at full length:confused:
 
Hate the bloody things....BUT do any of you remember the hysterical scene in A Fish Called Wanda ..when that yorkie wandered off under a falling concrete block.. and the old lady traced down the cord to where her doggie was flat ,now THAT had me in stitches.
 
I dislike them, but do use them. One of my main dislikes is, the amount of ones our dogs have broken when they've been playing and the plastic just snaps. I much prefer walking on a lunge line especially as they're stronger and longer. And, Yes, when walking by roads, I have it at the length of a normal lead, with my dog perfectly under control walking to heel. Not gallivanting across the roads :p
 
Ouch poor lad. Extendable leads have their place if used sensibly but imo they should never be used on the road . Great for enforcing a recall but thats about it. Did you see the terrier on one at Weston BC, was just waiting for it to shoot out and scoop up a horse.
 
MurphysMinder said:
]Did you see the terrier on one at Weston BC, was just waiting for it to shoot out and scoop up a horse.
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If it was the little Patterdale-type pup then that selfsame terrier shot out and ended up hanging off Dax's neck, completely unprovoked. :eek:

There's an old bloke at the top of our road with a yorkie who, absolutely without fail, spots us coming, panics and presses the button to lock the flexi - forgetting that he already had it locked and has thus unwittingly set the yorkie free. I am counting down the days until the little bugger is squashed... :o
 
There's an old bloke at the top of our road with a yorkie who, absolutely without fail, spots us coming, panics and presses the button to lock the flexi - forgetting that he already had it locked and has thus unwittingly set the yorkie free. I am counting down the days until the little bugger is squashed... :o[/QUOTE]

Block of concrete and crane on it`s way to you,that`s hilarious:D:D
 
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