Grrr Spaniels!

[Clodagh]

Actually their owners. Just walking my 3 - a lab, lurcher and terrier - and saw three hares in the field so called them all to heel. (Luckily I saw the hares before the lurcher did!) Then 2 spaniels set off after the hares for the other end of the field (no footpath here). I know two overweight rug wearing spaniels aren't going to catch one but its not the point. The third spaniel hadn't seen the hares as he was quartering the hedges.

Whent he owners finally wandered into sight I told them the dogs needed to be on a lead or on close control. They went mental! Apparently I was totally out of order. Pointed out it was a) My land and b) not a footpath but that was not the point. How dare I tell them their dogs couldn't run free.
Why do people have working dogs who can't train them and don't see why they ought to?

 

[ScotPonio]

That is bad sometimes i take my dogs across the field (two scotties and a westie) and they sometimes chase something but if you call on them they come back and its a farmer who gave us permission to walk the dogs across the field, some folk are like that they just let there dogs run up to or whatever it is, maybe even ignore there dogs when they try to bite your own dog its stupid

 

[Cliqmo]

Sadly this has probably come from the misunderstanding with the "Right to Roam" where people think they are allowed anywhere and allowed to do pretty much anything

My Dad finds people having picnics and letting their dogs play at the edge of the duckpond he painstakingly maintains for shooting

You should find out where they live and go tramping in their garden

 

[ChesnutsRoasting]

What a couple of prats!

The fact they've got coats on their spaniels says it all.

I always thought dogs had to be on leads on public footpaths, but please correct me if I'm mistaken!

 

[Clodagh]

They don't have to be on a lead but they do have to be under control, and there isn't a footpath there anyway, and certainly not all over the field where the dogs were running.
OH has taken it very personally and is now going to stalk them every time he sees them on the farm.

 

[MurphysMinder]

I would have been furious! I think dogs hae to be under "close control" on footpaths, and on lead where there is stock, but I could be wrong on that.

 

[ChesnutsRoasting]

Found this http://www.environmentlaw.org.uk/rte.asp?id=207

 

[JoG]

We have big problems like this with our sprocker who 95% of the time is fine off the lead and will come to heal but occassionally gets selective hearing and there is nothing we can do - flippin' infuriating!!!

Our only option has been to change where we walk as I fully appreciate no-one will thank me if she goes blatting through the nearest wheat field/cover crop/game wood/private mill ponnd

 

[Patches]

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They don't have to be on a lead but they do have to be under control, and there isn't a footpath there anyway, and certainly not all over the field where the dogs were running.
OH has taken it very personally and is now going to stalk them every time he sees them on the farm.

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I am in awe of your hubby! He sounds like a male version of me. I am most definitely a farmer who employs the "gerr orff my land" thesis!

We have some signs from the council which ask walkers to politely keep their dogs on leads when walking across our farmland and also points out the dangers of livestock which will be in the fields the footpath they're entering may lead to. I can't recall the exact lettering, but they are council approved/made signs.

Doesn't seem to have worked, in the sense that people walk but with dogs on leads....it seems to have gone a step better! Haven't seen a dog walker for a while! That said, it is winter/muddy/wet/cold. We'll see what happens come Spring.

 

[Nickijem]

I really don't know how people have the nerve to walk across fields that don't belong to them or don't have a public right of way. I was brought up never to trespass. And I was taught how to read a map so the chance of getting lost isn't likely!
I would follow such people then go tramping across their garden with your dogs - I bet they don't like it!

 

[piebaldsparkle]

Tossers!!!

P.S. Proves most Spangle owners are as mental as their mutts!!

***waits for barrage of abbuse for the ever increasing Spangle owners on here!!!***

 

[Clodagh]

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They don't have to be on a lead but they do have to be under control, and there isn't a footpath there anyway, and certainly not all over the field where the dogs were running.
OH has taken it very personally and is now going to stalk them every time he sees them on the farm.

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I am in awe of your hubby! He sounds like a male version of me. I am most definitely a farmer who employs the "gerr orff my land" thesis!

We have some signs from the council which ask walkers to politely keep their dogs on leads when walking across our farmland and also points out the dangers of livestock which will be in the fields the footpath they're entering may lead to. I can't recall the exact lettering, but they are council approved/made signs.

Doesn't seem to have worked, in the sense that people walk but with dogs on leads....it seems to have gone a step better! Haven't seen a dog walker for a while! That said, it is winter/muddy/wet/cold. We'll see what happens come Spring.

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The children are all experts and saying 'Get off my land' Put that dog on a lead' Thats not a footpath'...maybe they get it from their father??

We are going to get some signs, maybe saying 'birds nesting, Dogs on leads' something like that. My elderly mother-in-law walks her elderly terrier here and her dog was attacked by an off the lead collie last week and the owner didn't even help her out. OH is stalking them, too, now! I just write them shitty letters - at least living in a village its easy to find where they live!

 

[Gladioli]

Walking my new dog

today on what used to be my usual route, there was a new sign on a gate that I walk past in big red letters stating that dogs must be kept on leads or risk being shot!!!

Personally I never let my dog off in arears where he should not be or where I have not had permision to be, but the sign did make me think if I were in there I would hold onto him a little tighter.