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feel the need to have NO control over their animals. YET again i was chase by a f**king dog in MY stubble field with NO footpath access and once i saw owner and i told him to remove his dog and put it on a lead as he had NO control. All i got was all the F's in the world.............

WHY can't dog owners have any common sence around farms or farm animal??? and think it a puclic park for their enjoyment. Not a working envorinment, it really, really makes so mad....
 
One of the fields we mow for hay has no public access but people are always taking their dogs out there to sh*t, even after its been mowed. The OH hates getting dogsh*t on his tractor wheels. We haybob on a vintage tractor with no cab and I dread being hit by a flying turd! Yet if you have the cheek to say anything you get told where to go!
 
I take it u where on your horse?
If so how dangerous, and what a pig ignorant knobber........not u
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why not take your dogs with you. its your land, and it will soon get around if your dogs are a tad territorial.
 
yep doing canterwork, which turned into a bolt, so i looked around so saw this F**KING DOG go for us, We turned around and dog stop and then owner called dog, as i was telling him to control his dog!!
 
Next time, take an extendy cattle prod
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one that wil reach both dog and owner
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Maybe u should have cantered straight for the bloke, she how he felt, having an animal chase him
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I have never been anywhere where I wasn't allowed with my dogs and they are always on a lead in public places.
Pity some other gobsh!tes have to give us a bad name!
Maybe take your horse for a crap in their garden and see how they like it....
 
Next time i will - but the bloke is very local so next time i see i will ask very nicely to has his dog under control OR put it on lead, but i simply can't understand why dog owners can't have simple control over their dogs????????
 
I can totally understand ... This happens all the time down here .. makes me mad!
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Dad's a gamekeeper but unfortunately there are footpath rights through the woods from on village to another. Signs (bloody everywherewe) state ALL dogs to be kept on leads at ALL times. How hard is that to understand?
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So f*cking frustrating to see some idiots walking through the woods with 2 or 3 dogs chasing/worrying/killing pheasants that my dad and his Keepers have spent every hour of every week rearing just for some pig-ignorant tw@ts to come along and screw it all up.
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If i/my dad or anyone else that works on the estate catches them we always ask nicely for the dog(s) to be put on lead and refer to the signs but all you ever get is abuse back ..... these days i tend to be a bit naughty and give as good as i get! Quite good when you come accross them wondering off the footpath on private land and i get a mouthfull of abuse
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.. i refer to their dog as a pest and remind them we are well within our rights to shoot the animal as it is terrorising the stock!!
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They soon shift on
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Because they are prats in all aspects of life.
Just like the horse owners I meet that gallop their horses up a FOOTPATH and never give me a chance to get my dog back before they fly round the blind corner and just about over the top of me.
Unfortunately there are always a few who ruin it for everyone, and sometimes some people are just having a bad day, as my Dog beautifully demonstrated yesterday.

I wouldn't have been so polite if I had been on my horse though, as he tends to swing for dogs and he is rather large to be hoofing them in the head
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I don't understand why people let dogs off the lead if they won't come back, full stop, regardless of where they are. My boy doesn't like other dogs AT ALL (he was a rescue at the age of 5, we have tried to socialise him but it's too late). He is never let off the lead as I know he wouldn't come back and has a muzzle on when we take him out (he has almost caught a cat in a tree before so better safe than sorry!) so it is obvious to keep clear of him, and yet time after time we get dogs running over to us, off the lead trying to sniff his bum etc and the owners are either screaming blue murder at the dog to no effect, or seem to be oblivious to the fact that their (usually) small dog is trying to say hello to my rather large doberman who would like nothing better than to eat their dog's face off. Do I ever get an 'I'm really sorry, he/she wouldn't come back'? No. If your dog won't come back, DON'T LET IT OFF THE LEAD! *rant over*
 
Oh I feel your pain ToC...would me waving my arm and yelling 'call your dog' across the beach not indicate that your dog may be in some sort of peril if he were to stick his head under my dog's bum?
Thank goodness with a lot of time and patience we are getting B's dog aggression under control (he was super at training yesterday) but people did NOT make it easy for us.
 
Have so been in that position. My friend had a very dog aggressive GSD (loads better now thanks to a lot of work from her), and when we are out walking you can guarantee some idiots will let their dogs come over to say hello, as you say they don't seem to read the body language of one very large GSD male with hackles and tail vertical
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And when you ask them to call their dog away the answer is usually, "Oh he/she just wants to play".
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Luckily my girls are usually able to deflect the little darlings until they lose interest.
 
One of my dogs is a rescue and goes for horses, bikes, people (especially children), sticks and anything with wheels. I always have the common decency to put her on the lead if any of these are near or passing, but so many of them don't have the common decency to slow down/keep their children away/stop swinging their sticks about even when I have asked them - politely - with increasing urgency several times and it frustrates me so much! Only yesterday did I have to scream my head off at some lads who raced past me and my dogs on their bicycles to absolutely no effect, and although I had them on the lead, Cara, the rescue, still went for them and I was nearly pulled over, as she isn't small! I carried on my walk and ended up passing them while they were sitting on a bench. I spoke to them and asked them if they would please be considerate when riding around other people, especially when they have dogs or children. They just said "Yes" and I didn't get an apology or any sign of remorse. It frustrates me more than anything that some parents do not educate their children to be responsible around animals they do not know. You cannot simply go up to a strange dog and pat it on the head, you don't know whether it is nervous, aggressive or what! If you would like to stroke a dog, ALWAYS ask the owner first, out of common courtesy and for safety!
And on the dogs around horses theme, dog owners should have control over their dogs, and horse owners should slow down when there are dogs about. And if you are on private land that is not yours and you have no permission to be on, get off it and stay off it! Better yet, don't go on it in the first place! If everyone makes an effort to show consideration for the other, everybody should get on fine. This country needs to instill more manners in it's cohabitants.
And that is my rant over! Lol.
 
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Next time i will - but the bloke is very local so next time i see i will ask very nicely to has his dog under control OR put it on lead, but i simply can't understand why dog owners can't have simple control over their dogs????????

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If you know who he is, then sue him for trespassing
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I HATE meeting dogs that are off the lead on walks with my boy (and god forbid if i had the rr with me
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). He is a little gorgeous friendly looking terrier, he will happily eat a JRT or lab (his faves recently), when i see a dog coming towards us i will take my dog into the verge and make him sit to allow the dog to pass. They always want to come over and lick his face off..... and the owners obviously see me looking worried and say 'oh he wont do anything!' and i have to reply 'but mine will' and i look like the one not controlling her dog!

As for the dogs around horses thing.. My old pony kicked a JRT whilst out on a hack. Some complete eejit of a woman had 4 of them and not one lead. I was on a friend of the families land with permission. Her dogs chased me (one actually bit her leg!) and she sent one flying. The owner went mad at me and tried to get the police involved but they just pointd out to her that her dogs were off the lead, one bit my horse, and she had no permission to be where she was.
 
I soo hate people who do the "oh my dog will be fine" thing. Our dog is pretty much fine 95% of the time but he does not like other dogs near us or his best buddy. So, if we spot another dog he will go on the lead. He is not an agressor as such as in he wouldn't just go for another dog but if it comes over to him he just might.

On one walk a couple were approaching with a min schnauzer so i called our dog back (it was a very narrow path alongside a river) lady did the "Oh, he just wants to play" line and had hers on an extendable lead (hate those things!). Our dog was just about abck to me but she still let this pup right up behind him sniffing his backend - well what did he do? Yup, flattened it!! Cue woman screaming whilst i swiftly grabbed our dog and told her that is why we had warned her to keep her dog away. It was all just noise to be honest as it generally is with dogs but the snotty husband of the pair then had the gall to then say "you should have you dog on a lead!".

The dog WOULD have been on a f*cking lead if you hadn't let yours reach him first - he was coming back to me but YOU went stridng up to him!!!

I am shocked that people don't apologise for their dogs chasing horses either and can not see to understand how dangerous it is and what the consequences could be. I do not have my dogs on the lead ALL the time on a walk but they certainly would never chase horses. If I had any inclination they would then they would be on a lead!
 
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Just a tip - I used to do this too and it actually made my boy worse, you are much better to keep moving, albeint keeping a good hold on him.
When we stop them moving we increase tension and make it a much bigger issue for the dog (hey! he's allowed to keep going and I am being stopped and made to stay still, grr!).
I thought I was doing the right thing but now when I keep him moving, keep my body language positive and try to distract him with my voice or a toy, he pays much less attention to other dogs - if he was sitting with me holding onto him for grim death, he could feel my tension, get more tense and get a chance to eyeball/send angry vibes tp the other dog.
 
Thanks Hacking_Hack I will try it with him. I really do hold on for grim death sometimes! For some reason he is far worse when we walk on the fells than he is at the beach or round the fields!
 
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