MissMoppett
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12 days ago I was walking my two, sorry couple, of Basset Hounds on a public footpath in Somerset north of Sherborne - yes both on the lead - across a horse trainer's field. About a dozen horses were following and sniffing when one turned and kicked my 12 year old in the stomach just forward of the hind leg. If you've got to be kicked anywhere that's the best place for no bones were broken and while I bent down to help she understandably sank her teeth in my wrist. Fortunately the farmer's wife came and washed the blood off and my hound amazingly seemed to be able to finish the walk. However the vet found a nasty wound, she was considerably traumatised, cried for two days and was put on painkillers and antibiotics. I don't think anyone would be surprised that I sent the vet's bill for £107 to the owner fully expecting to be paid. By Return. Hearing nothing at all I rang him yesterday, to be told "I've rung the NFU and they say don't pay." Not once did he apologise or ask how my Matilda was. Whatever happened to decency and courtesy? Am I left with any alternative other than sue through the Small Claims Court?