Smitty
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Sorry Blackcob, I wiped your name out unintentionally trying to pare your post down to the bit I needed ...
I'll live ?
Had another classic today: "He's a bit lame but he's not in any pain."[/QUOTE
Oh well, that's good then ?. It does seem a lot of dogs aren't...
My chap had X rays and physio ... No amount of dogs apparently had similar but never taken to vet as nothing wrong with them and they were not in any pain, they had always done it and anyway all terriers hop.
The situation Fiwen describes is another example of bullying. It doesn't make her colleague look good, rather it highlights her inadequacies.
I think a tough, confident dog wouldn't stand for it and a fearful dog backed up and threatened would feel it had no choice but to bite.
I'll live ?
Had another classic today: "He's a bit lame but he's not in any pain."
This drives me nuts and I have to correct it all the time about so many types of animal.. 'it's not pain they're just a bit stiff' 'it's not pain, they're just old' 'oh he's been walking like this for a long time, it's just how he walks' no! aaaargh!!
I can't stand it, mainly hear it about dogs and horses and nothing you say seems to have any effect on people like that
I wonder whether they'd say the same if they started limping all of a sudden...
This is my usual response to the 'it's just a bit of arthritis, they're old' POV... I say that I have arthritis and in the cold, after exercise or just on a bad day it's absolute agony and it's constant pain. So put that on an animal who also doesn't understand and can't tell you how bad it is that day and you then might just understand what you are putting your pet through.
Famous family story, my Mum DID excuse a dog from the conformation ring and her handler said 'she's only a bit lame'.
Unfortunately, I live in rural France where dog wardens don't exist and this kind of behaviour towards dogs is relatively normal and mild. Here most hunting dogs don't leave their kennels for 6 months a year (and I'm not entirely sure what use they are the rest of the year as none of them seem to be trainned for anything). Lots of peoples idea of walking a dog is to get it to run behind a car. Things are changing but slowly, give us another 30 years or so. Strangely, lots of peoples answer when I moan is but I wouldn't be able to have a dog if it couldn't roam (illegal here)/I had to stop it barking/I had to walk it 3 times a day... well don't have a dog then, they're not mandatory!I’m glad I don’t have anything like that where I live as I would blow my top and fall out with them….why on earth have a dog if you can’t be bothered to look after it properly. I would be very tempted to take a pic when the dog poops and she doesnt Pick it up and a nice video with sound when she is ranting at it just to illustrate to the dog warden what is happening.
if anyone wants to feel completely despondent about the future of dog breeding have a look at silver_star_frenchies on Instagram… ‘big rope’, wire haired, hairless, micro frenchies and they’re all a complete mess. They should be jailed for what they are doing to these dogs..
if anyone wants to feel completely despondent about the future of dog breeding have a look at silver_star_frenchies on Instagram… ‘big rope’, wire haired, hairless, micro frenchies and they’re all a complete mess
Rather than running up and down the A49 risking their life it's a shame that this kind person didn't phone the police.The two spaniels owned by the wife of the new huntsman to our local pack have got out onto the main A49 road again . Their owner is unbothered, just so long as her dogs are out having fun.
As I posted previously, neither the police nor the dog warden will act on this unless they catch them straying themselves.
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A pro active dog warden charging the owners every time might help? Ours works on charge twice, 3rd time it's off to kennels and potentially seized.
I've spoken to the dog warden.A pro active dog warden charging the owners every time might help? Ours works on charge twice, 3rd time it's off to kennels and potentially seized.
I find.... if you catch the repeated lost dog, chuck it in a stable and accidentally mislay the collar, (or pop baler twine round neck if safe) the authorities will collect ?I've spoken to the dog warden.
He can only act if the dogs are still loose, even though the owner is known. Police said the same. As soon as a well meaning member of the public catches the dogs up and restrains them, they can't act. The dogs have identity discs so the finders ring the number on that and the owners eventually come and collect them.
Best thing would be that the finders takes the dogs straight to the dog warden saying they can't contact the owner, then she'd have to pay ££££s to get them released. She might just sort her sh1t out if it costs her.
Btw the dog warden said to prevent the straying from happening again is a police problem, and the police said it is a dog warden problem ?.
I've spoken to the dog warden.
He can only act if the dogs are still loose, even though the owner is known. Police said the same. As soon as a well meaning member of the public catches the dogs up and restrains them, they can't act.
Or the alternative, stand there feebly calling it's name instead of coming and getting aforementioned flipping thing! Gah!When you have demonstrated that you are unable to recall your dog then don't just walk away - come and get the flipping thing.