Walking on cliffs...

Walking on high cliffs - on or off lead?

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I guess on lead....but even then I would be terrified of dropping it and them running straight to their death :( :(

But then I panicked earlier because Molly got out of the car onto the pavement and sat down and I wasn't holding her lead.... :o

ETA: Poor bloomin' dog was 12 as well!! Flippin lucky to be in one piece!! :mad:
 
I've done some pretty vertigo-inspiring cliff walks with Henry, but the idea of letting go of the lead is a crazy one! He fell in a damn swamp last weekend, he'd be leaping off a cliff in no time!
 
I am a little paranoid with my darling spanglies....though god knows why as they do charming things like jump in a bog-ditch (I wish I could say they fell but it was a definite *ignore the whistle and launch like a champion bog-snorkeller* moment :rolleyes: :D )
 
I nearly posted a warning about this the other day, but forgot! A couple of weeks ago there were pieces in a weekly dog paper about 3 different incidents where dogs had gone off cliffs, 2 survived but 1 was killed.:( My mum always drilled it into me on holiday that dogs don't have the same perspective of height as us so never let them off lead near cliffs or any sort of drop.
 
LOL well he does that too:D But on this occasion he was having a private moment on a bit of harder ground off the duck boards we were walking on, I headed on without him then heard a splatting noise and turned to see him scrambling onto the boards looking embarrassed... he'd completely misjudged the angle of the jump and landed half in the ooze:rolleyes:
 
On lead for me. One of my best friends saw her childhood spangle take a flying leap over Beachy Head :(

Since Stella decided to go chasing a mouse near the edge of a 100-foot drop, I've always been a bit on edge about cliffs, ravines and the like.
 
On lead defo, Dylan did a classic no sense of height thing couple of weeks ago in a chalk pit. He rolled down it then stoopid thing sat up tail wagging my heart was in my throat it was steep enough that Teal decided it was a no go.
 
Recalled Jake at the Hemlock Stone in Nottingham: he was 15 feet up and took a flying leap.

FIL's dogs came with us to the Brecon Beacons one year and were up and down the Fan Dance like mad things. It was very scary but they were both fine and ready for more.
 
I'll be the real odd one out and say mine is off lead when we go on walking holidays in Devon.

We don't walk along 'proper' cliffs like the one in the link but I suppose he could fall off the edge if he tried really hard.

We don't take Daisy on the walks though as she really is thick and highly liable to run off the edge like a lemming.
 
I wouldn't walk near cliffs because I'm not very good with heights . When I say not good I actually mean really , really bad . I can't watch anything looking down from any great heights . I did have a collie once fall around thirty feet out of a tree but thats another story!!:eek:
 
On lead. The winds whip across the moor and would probably blow Tink off sometimes never mind anything else! And there's too many interesting nooks and crannies to explore, she'd be off in no time!

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It's higher than it looks, and it turns my stomach seeing people messing about right on the edge! Not as high as Flamborough but people still fall off and die. Idiots!
 
I'm a little scared to post this, but my dogs are usually off lead near cliffs etc...

Maybe this is a dreadful attitude, but mine are big dogs and if they really were daft enough to chase something over the edge* then I'd rather there was no risk of them taking a human with them [need a 'cringe' smilie here]. For a similar reason they always go on the lead near cliffs or a big drop if there are other walkers about because I would never take the risk of them bowling into someone and knocking them over near the edge.

*My dogs are fairly cautious by nature, tend to stay close, and are not really the types to leap before they look. That said, who knows what they might do if they'd lost their minds with excitement chasing something reeaaaally exciting... Not sure I'd like to be holding onto them while 1ft away from the cliff edge if that happened though...

Am donning tin hat and awaiting abuse now!
 
On a lead where there's major drops - under about 8-10 foot he's off lead and can scramble better than me. Looking into getting a doggy climbing harness for some of our (well my OH's) "interesting" scrambly walks, so we can help him up the bits he's not tall enough to do. His balance is amazing though -

Particularly careful on softish cliffs as the cliff can go under the weight of the dog, even if they're not over the edge. The command "push him in" means "get the other side of me to the edge" - generally only average sized water edges - anything big and over land and he's on the lead.
 
Considering 95% of all my walks are cliff top life would be very dull if they were all on lead. They are dogs not lemmings so being coastal mutts I doubt they'll be taking a flier any day soon. ;)
 
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