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I posted this on the 'morning thread' but thought it worth duplicating here, from my hack out about 9.30 this morning:

Met 3 badly behaved dogs with appalling owners, 2 of which didn't even have a lead.
Was fortunately rescued from the last one by furious male owner of a gsd who popped his dog on a down stay and rushed over to grab the harness of the staffy that was trying to bite B.
My god he was on it immediately and clipped the dog onto his own lead and shoved a branch in its mouth in 2 quick manoeuvres! He then gave serious shyte to the hapless young man who was 'walking' it and called up the local nick. He took my details before I pootled off. V v glad he was out there!
According to another yard neighbour that same dog had chased two horses last weekend and caused 1 rider to come off, requiring medics out. Glad I have a very sensible B!
 

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Goose was attacked today by an off lead Belgian Malinois. Apparently it's been attacked by another dog and has since been funny with other dogs. I have a lot of sympathy, this is the same story as Zak, but we kept him away from other dogs. My OH just rang to tell me. He's on late shift this week so I don't see him unless he's sleeping. He said there was lots of squealing, he ran at the dog shouting.

Goose seems fine and knowing him, won't be bothered, his love for other dogs will never die, but I'm already wary of GSDs and Malinois after some unfortunate encounters over the years. I hope he is more resilient than Zak and doesn't 'turn'.

I am delighted to say that we met several dogs in the woods today-it’s not normally that busy-and Goose was keen to say hello, although very intimidated by a Giant Schnauzer who begged him to play, lots of bouncy play bows. We spent a while with a beagle, his owner is a dog walker and was smitten by the puppies. It’s lovely to be able to speak to other owners!
 

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I posted this on the 'morning thread' but thought it worth duplicating here, from my hack out about 9.30 this morning:

Met 3 badly behaved dogs with appalling owners, 2 of which didn't even have a lead.
Was fortunately rescued from the last one by furious male owner of a gsd who popped his dog on a down stay and rushed over to grab the harness of the staffy that was trying to bite B.
My god he was on it immediately and clipped the dog onto his own lead and shoved a branch in its mouth in 2 quick manoeuvres! He then gave serious shyte to the hapless young man who was 'walking' it and called up the local nick. He took my details before I pootled off. V v glad he was out there!
According to another yard neighbour that same dog had chased two horses last weekend and caused 1 rider to come off, requiring medics out. Glad I have a very sensible B!
GSD man sounds like a complete star
I hope the police deal effectively with the idiot owner so he can't carry on letting his dog terrorise people
 

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GSD man sounds like a complete star
I hope the police deal effectively with the idiot owner so he can't carry on letting his dog terrorise people
I *think* gsd man might have been off duty plod, they do often pop out on the common for exercise. Here's hoping!
 

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I posted this on the 'morning thread' but thought it worth duplicating here, from my hack out about 9.30 this morning:

Met 3 badly behaved dogs with appalling owners, 2 of which didn't even have a lead.
Was fortunately rescued from the last one by furious male owner of a gsd who popped his dog on a down stay and rushed over to grab the harness of the staffy that was trying to bite B.
My god he was on it immediately and clipped the dog onto his own lead and shoved a branch in its mouth in 2 quick manoeuvres! He then gave serious shyte to the hapless young man who was 'walking' it and called up the local nick. He took my details before I pootled off. V v glad he was out there!
According to another yard neighbour that same dog had chased two horses last weekend and caused 1 rider to come off, requiring medics out. Glad I have a very sensible B!

I’d say anyone who can put their dog in a reliable down stay, especially while there are shenanigans going on(!), could easily be a professional of some description these days!
 

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Def a peeler lol. My old trainer once left his twat of a Mali in a ten minute down stay while he fished a kid out of the water. He was most proud of the down stay.
I know most of them tho, plus the retired ones out exercising, I just hadn't seen this chap before.
I used to be v proud of my v sharp GSD when she would do a down stay anywhere, she was a fab dog for bringing in the ponies from the top fields in winter as knew her cast left and right commands too ?
 

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I was the irresponsible owner today. I went to see my mum and took Pen and Ffee. They get very excited as they sit on her sofa and eat their own body weight in biscuits. I parked outside, checked the street was clear and let them out. They ran to her ground floor apartment but next door (upstairs) was open so they bowled in there and belted up the stairs. ?. Next door were sitting down to breakfast with their two cats. ???. Thankfully the labs were so appalled by the strange people they belted back down the stairs again. Poor cats.
Luckily mum is good friends with them and I apologised like mad.
 

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Ours are not allowed upstairs at home but if they ever get the opportunity to run upstairs when we are visiting, they love to explore! Not helped by the fact that when the pup who we dog-sit got too big for the owner to carry upstairs, she asked our 2 to show the pup how to do stairs. They were more than happy to oblige!
 

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Ours are not allowed upstairs at home but if they ever get the opportunity to run upstairs when we are visiting, they love to explore! Not helped by the fact that when the pup who we dog-sit got too big for the owner to carry upstairs, she asked our 2 to show the pup how to do stairs. They were more than happy to oblige!
Now Scout, who is no mental giant, once got upstairs and could not work how to get down again. ?
 

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Now Scout, who is no mental giant, once got upstairs and could not work how to get down again. ?
?. I rehomed a 3 year old sheepdog whose owner sadly died. He had never been in a house, never mind upstairs. He followed me up and then didn’t have a clue how to get down again. I tried coaxing, food, put a lead on him but nope! I ended up carrying him down but the next time he went up, he just followed me back down again as though it had never been a problem ?
 

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Today's irresponsible dog owner was a woman with a terrier. Announced we were "her first horse" as we went past, but did not put doggie on a lead. Next thing I know, terrier is running after me, nipping at Fin's heels. I stopped him and turned to face dog. It backed off, but kept barking while dodging its owner's attempts to catch it and ignoring her recalls. I tried slowly walking on again, and it was back under my horse's feet, yapping. I didn't want to end up a mile away from the owner with this damned thing, so I had to wait around until she caught it. Luckily, Foinavon found the terrier pretty unthreatening and was calm and sensible about the whole thing.
 

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Now Scout, who is no mental giant, once got upstairs and could not work how to get down again. ?

I‘m wetting myself at this! Poor lad!

I‘m probably being very cautious, but bar accidental (read naughty) incursions, I’m keeping the creatures downstairs. They’re very good to be fair, particularly when Bear is very familiar with upstairs ?You never take a bath alone when you have a springer. ?
 

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Speaking of ASBO collies over on the collie thread, my boy and I just got harassed by an unaccompanied border collie in the middle of our concrete suburban route. Neither one of us saw or heard it coming, until it had it’s nose up under my lad’s tail, and then it got a gob full from both of us. No collar or tags on it, even if I had been inclined to try and secure it.

Kept following us up the road, though I kept turning to body block it as my boy was giving it low growls. Had to chuck the end of my long lead at it and use my ‘stop that right now’ voice at it, before it would go away. It barely glanced at me the whole time, it was just focused solely on my dog, which was quite intimidating.

I’m sure it’s probably a local one which just got out of the garden, but I wouldn’t want to have met it with a less tolerant dog.
 

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I‘m wetting myself at this! Poor lad!

I‘m probably being very cautious, but bar accidental (read naughty) incursions, I’m keeping the creatures downstairs. They’re very good to be fair, particularly when Bear is very familiar with upstairs ?You never take a bath alone when you have a springer. ?
A don’t even ask, but I rode my horse up a flight of steps once and she couldn’t get back down either. It was terrifying, she was the boldest hunter but just couldn’t work it out. I thought she was going to try to jump. I had to dismount and lead her back down, very slowly indeed. Never again ?
 

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A don’t even ask, but I rode my horse up a flight of steps once and she couldn’t get back down either. It was terrifying, she was the boldest hunter but just couldn’t work it out. I thought she was going to try to jump. I had to dismount and lead her back down, very slowly indeed. Never again ?

You need to explain that one!
 

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A don’t even ask, but I rode my horse up a flight of steps once and she couldn’t get back down either. It was terrifying, she was the boldest hunter but just couldn’t work it out. I thought she was going to try to jump. I had to dismount and lead her back down, very slowly indeed. Never again ?
Terry Pratchett had a donkey up a minaret in one of his books.
 

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Going up, I don't know if they come down the same way
Staff college RMA ?

Edit. Not usually, big enough hall behind and decent corridors so can exit in various places.
We used to love the hunt ball there, was a great setting, tho this was a good 18-20 years ago when we last went.
 
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My first mare would happily storm up and down stairs when ridden, we used to joke she could have gone down into the garden if not for a tight turn and her wide gut!
 
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