Too well behaved....

[DSB]

Our working dogs know to sit on the quadbike or follow the horse.

 

[Tiddlypom]

I don’t take the dog on the canal footpath any more apart from one short stretch, it is too narrow and cramped.

As the owner of a dog who is always on lead, I expect that the owners of any approaching dogs on the canal path would also put their dogs on lead or fully at heel, not trotting along 10 feet in front of the owner. That can be intimidating having to pass so close to strange dogs whether you have a dog or not. There is not room to side step on many canal tow paths.

‘Don’t worry they’re friendly’ really doesn’t cut it.

 

[Clodagh]

I don’t take the dog on the canal footpath any more apart from one short stretch, it is too narrow and cramped.

As the owner of a dog who is always on lead, I expect that the owners of any approaching dogs on the canal path would also put their dogs on lead or fully at heel, not trotting along 10 feet in front of the owner. That can be intimidating having to pass so close to strange dogs whether you have a dog or not. There is not room to side step on many canal tow paths.

‘Don’t worry they’re friendly’ really doesn’t cut it.

I walk on the Tarka trail and my lot just do their own thing. I see another person coming and I call them to heel. As we get closer I sit them up at the side. It’s quicker than putting them all on leads tbh! Although if the person approaching looks really nervous I will put leads on them all. Last week I sat them up for a woman riding and leading and she bought her horses over to talk to them! Not ideal.

 

[Jenko109]

There is a horse rider I see on Tiktok occasionally who encourages people with nervous dogs to let them 'meet' her horse.

I find it baffling.

 

[I'm Dun]

I don’t take the dog on the canal footpath any more apart from one short stretch, it is too narrow and cramped.

As the owner of a dog who is always on lead, I expect that the owners of any approaching dogs on the canal path would also put their dogs on lead or fully at heel, not trotting along 10 feet in front of the owner. That can be intimidating having to pass so close to strange dogs whether you have a dog or not. There is not room to side step on many canal tow paths.

‘Don’t worry they’re friendly’ really doesn’t cut it.

Its my home, I have no choice but to be there, if people are intimidated by a whippet going past them without even looking then they are going to have huge problems with the reams of unruly rude dogs I meet day in day out, so I cant imagine they are going to be on the tow path. Having them both on a lead takes up the whole path, Id have to clamber up a bank to get out of the way, and considering how many people I go past Id never get off the tow path. They both know the command over, which means get off the path and get as far over as you can, used for bikes going fast, or anything that needs space and they do get called back if I see something that means I want them next to me. Ironically the time they got attacked they were at heel and tucked slightly behind me. If Id left them be out in front it might not have happened as we wouldn't have all been in a small cramped space together.

and I've never ever said ‘Don’t worry they’re friendly’. They arent friendly in that situation, they are completely neutral.

 

[Clodagh]

There is a horse rider I see on Tiktok occasionally who encourages people with nervous dogs to let them 'meet' her horse.

I find it baffling.

I stuck a lead on Scout as he has no imagination. He sniffed noses with one horse. The others kept well back.

 

[Time for Tea]

Well what they have done is declared themselves publicly to not be a good enough trainer to have a group of dogs work to heel! (Given their stance is it’s not possible without collar)

Absolutely right