irresponsible dog owner

Rude confrontational rider part of the reason riders are hated by many .
Why the was she following the owner , Shouting at him ?
Inviting the dog to come back , more interested in mouthing off and using her camera than getting her horse out of the way.
 
There's no evidence on there that the dog was out of control - barking yes, but it came back when called and walked away. Idiot on horseback.

And of course if he was right and she wasn't on a bridelway...
 
Goldenstar said:
Rude confrontational rider part of the reason riders are hated by many .
Why the was she following the owner , Shouting at him ?
Inviting the dog to come back , more interested in mouthing off and using her camera than getting her horse out of the way.
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Have to agree. Whatever happened prior to the camera being put on, she did herself and the rest of us no favours by acting in the way that she did.
Yes, the owner should have put the dog on the lead, but they way he was spoken to would make him less inclined to co operate I presume.
I was rather amused by the fact the horse didn't actually give a toss about it all though.
 
Oh dear! I didn't watch with sound, but by the hand movements I could tell it was a heated argument.
The dog didn't look like it was a problem and the horse didn't look bothered.

I met a rather aggressive dog on my hack this evening and I didn't get stroppy, or argue, I simply said "Don't worry about him (Ned) it's his first time out in a while!" and thanked them for attempting to quiet their dog. Ned wasn't really reacting, but he did have a very good look.

I do think some riders think they own the place.
 
yep I did wonder why she kept following him, fair enough she didnt want to turn the horses bum towards the dog but I would have just stood still and waited for them to go :) (btw my op wasn't saying she was right or wrong, just thought it was a good video to share, and wanted to know what to do if i ever got myself in a situation like that)
 
Tbh the guy in the video said she shouldn't have even been on that path (but behind the gates on the other path). Assuming that she was not supposed to be there she has no right to have a pop at him regarding his dog..

Why shouldn't he have his dog off the lead on a path horses aren't supposed to use? There wouldn't have been no confrontation if she had stuck to the bridle path.

Don't know why some riders think they can go were they like. Dog hardly looked ready to attack just barked..
 
Hmm seems a bit odd to me.

I have just read the blurb under the video & it does say the dog had snapped at the horses legs & that the path was open access.

However I would have waited until they were around the corner then turned the horse back round & carried on, not followed him telling him I was going to call the police.
 
jenki13 said:
Hmm seems a bit odd to me.

I have just read the blurb under the video & it does say the dog had snapped at the horses legs & that the path was open access.

However I would have waited until they were around the corner then turned the horse back round & carried on, not followed him telling him I was going to call the police.
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ODD of course it's odd ,why on earth would you follow after a dog that has ( allegedly )snapped at your horse shouting at its owner unless you where ( a ) very stupid or ( b) looking for confrontation .
The funniest thing is Dobbin was totally uninterested ( presumably he's used to his owner shrieking a lot ).
 
I had an interesting ride a few weeks back, I was hacking through the forest path (which btw I actually do have access rights to ;)) when I came up behind a couple of ladies with 3 dogs one of which started to have a hoolie round and round and round Loki, barking like a possessed thing and darting in at him - luckily Loki is perfectly calm about stuff like this or it could have caused an accident.

The dog was really just overly excited and wasn't being aggressive but it went on for a fair amount of time and his owner didn't try to call him back after an initial weak attempt or apologise (which I found quite rude really) and just walked off so I had to sit and wait till the dog decided to stop what it was doing and go look for his owner as I didn't think it would be a good idea to keep moving in case the dog's behavior escalated.

Unfortunately I met them again a bit further on and we had a repeat performance but this time the owner didn't even try to call the dog nor did she put it on a lead when it eventually came back to her. I didn't say anything to the owner (I'm a bit of a wimp) but I was a little miffed at the lack of concern for what might have happened.

I have come across some truly stupid dog owners - one lady who's young dog was completely not in her control and nearly caused a young rider with me to come off when it darted at her pony (it was a massive spook and I was very impressed she stayed on!) and then have a breakdown crying because she was scared. In that case because there was a child involved I did ask if she would kindly put her dog on a lead (politely!) only to be told that she didn't even have one! We were only a stones throw away from the main road which we were separated from by a gate. Even though my dog is very good off lead I still put her on as we get close to the main road purely because accidents happen. - but there are a lot of rude riders out there too. A bit of mutual respect and care would do the world a lot of good but unfortunately you might as well wish for a pot of gold at the end of a rainbow sometimes.
 
We have a lot of dog walkers in the New Forest and the large majority have either very well trained dogs that completely ignore horses or the owners either put the dogs on a lead or make them sit and wait until we have gone past them. There is always, of corse, the exception - we had one the other day. Excited young but large lab bounding up to and behind the horses completely ignoring its owner ( who did apologise). Luckily our horses just took no notice.
 
It's people like her that make everyone hate horse riders. Dog was barking. Big deal. When it's owner walked off it followed. Horse clearly wasn't bothered. She sounded like a right tw*t!
 
In the comments below..

"Hey jackass with the dog. People on horse back have the automatic right away! And a dog off of a leash is illegal!!"

Priceless...
 
Copperpot said:
It's people like her that make everyone hate horse riders. Dog was barking. Big deal. When it's owner walked off it followed. Horse clearly wasn't bothered. She sounded like a right tw*t!
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Agree! Had the dog been jumping up and snarling and biting and had the horse been freaking out, I would understand her anger...but I mean...what?! What was the point? A completely avoidable situation.
 
Copperpot said:
She sounded like a right tw*t!
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She sure did.

Irresponsible horse rider rather than dog owner, poor bloke was trying to mind his own business. If she hadn’t been shrieking and running him down the dog wouldn’t have been excitable and barking. She needs a dose of Bob’s chill pills.
 
Some of the comments on here amaze me. She (the rider) had said to the dog-walker early on that the dog had "gone under" the horse's back feet...... so WHY TF didn't the dog owner do the sensible/right thing and put the flippin dog on a lead FFS? If he'd done that, and taken his @rse in his hand, and departed, there wouldn't have been any problem.

It amazed me that he made no effort to stop the dog barking at the horse OR keeping it under any sort of close control by putting it on a lead.

Everyone on here has had a right old go at the horse rider: her horse it has to be said, is an absolute darling, a saint. I've got a cob like that and TBH you could organise a dog-fighting pit in his stable and he'd be mega chilled about it, he's just very blase, just like the horse in the vid.

BUT...... the fact that the horse was OK doesn't excuse the dog-owner. So OK that could have been YOUR child on its pony, going ballistic; its just not funny when you're not sure if someone's dog is going to go underneath your horse's back feet and the owner patently couldn't give a stuff. There was an incident around here not so long ago when someone's dog on a piece of common land chased a couple of horses out hacking...... the horse bolted and the rider was thrown, injuring herself badly. Meanwhile dog-owner didn't even know his dog had done the deed; don't think they ever found him if my memory is correct.

So IMO whilst the horse-rider needs to do her horse a favour and calm down and chill out, I can understand WHY she was possibly so stressed by the incident. Perhaps she's been on another horse, somewhere else, and had a problem with a dog. Yes we might all have dealt with it differently, but who among us hasn't been made to feel threatened/stressed by either a thoughtless dog owner, a cyclist, a motor cyclist, or man-with-white-van going too fast.
 
Anyone who has any understanding of dogs can see that the dog did not appear in "attack" mode, despite what the blurb says about it having bitten the horse, I have my doubts about it. The dog appeared more "wary" of the horse and seemed to be barking to alert the owner that he was a bit scared and something wasn't right. The dog made no attempt to go to the horse and the horse was totally chilled. The man went on his way as did the dog. Confrontational, rude rider who does no favours for riders. Why didn't the rider just wait and stand still for a couple of minutes until the man had got away.
 
Holly Hocks said:
Anyone who has any understanding of dogs can see that the dog did not appear in "attack" mode,
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Thing is, not everyone does have any understanding of dogs! I don't really hack (because of stuff like this) but wouldn't like to come across a strange dog barking that close to my horse, what if she was on a youngster or something that wasn't nearly as chilled out as her horse? I know mine would be pretty wired about that given that they aren't used to dogs at home and we never come across them very often.

She didn't deal with it well though, but then perhaps the dog DID run under the horses legs in which case I'd be pretty angry too. Not sure why she followed though.
 
I met some women whilst out walking with my dog the other day. Dog ignores horses completely and runs up to say hello to their dog. No barking and stays well away fro horses. Result? Screams of keep your dog under control as about to attack horses. Call dog who comes straight back to me and I put him on a lead. Women go past me and rant about out of control dogs
 
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