Why do people have to be so nasty ?

Only read a few of the replies, but it's a good job some of them don't live round here, where it's the norm for loads of riders to hack out accompanied by up to five dogs in some cases.
The nearby farmer's wife hound walks two puppies which she takes out together with several of her farm dogs. The local P to point trainers hack out with their greyhounds, and nearly everybody has a dog with them on narrow lanes.
Lots of the dogs wear red hankies tied to their collars to make them more visible.
The attitude locally is this is the country so give way to dogs and horses or else...
I've never taken ours because I've always felt it would ruin the ride to have to think about the dog's safety all the time, but for anyone to actually deliberately run over a dog is unforgivable, whether it was on a lead or not.
For the old dog's sake stick it on a lead in future, you'd never forgive yourself if it got hurt..
 
If the dog went under her front bumper and was not injured, it is small dog?
therefore I expect that she saw you and at last one dog move on to the verge and the older dog was not in her sight lines, in front of the car. The ground diretcly in front of the bonnet would be several feet of blind spot.
She was probably shocked to find it was still in the road.
 
To all the people who think this lady is totally in the wrong, go hunting? if so perhaps you could tell your huntsman to keep all the hounds on a lead as they regularly run along roads etc with cars passing by, shocking!
 
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To all the people who think this lady is totally in the wrong, go hunting? if so perhaps you could tell your huntsman to keep all the hounds on a lead as they regularly run along roads etc with cars passing by, shocking!

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Good tip.
I'll try to see if I can find something with large, wide tyres.
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answer me this though. how can u ride a horse, walk to dogs on a lead and keep control of everything. sorry but its impossible.

the driver had no right to have a go at you just because they were off the lead. ok if you were doing something wrong (or they were) then i could understand it. some people just dont understand the difficulty of these sort of things

sorry to rant on
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answer me this though. how can u ride a horse, walk to dogs on a lead and keep control of everything. sorry but its impossible.

the driver had no right to have a go at you just because they were off the lead. ok if you were doing something wrong (or they were) then i could understand it. some people just dont understand the difficulty of these sort of things

sorry to rant on
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Do you know I had exactly this same dilemma when I took my menagerie of 4 llamas, two horses, a goat, six dogs, and my pet vulture Tweetypie for their morning promenade on the A 417.
Ok, so they were all over the road...and Tweety mistook that man's toupe for carrion, but did the drivers not see the difficulties....I mean...I just couldn't be expected to control all of them, could I?
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To all the people who think this lady is totally in the wrong, go hunting? if so perhaps you could tell your huntsman to keep all the hounds on a lead as they regularly run along roads etc with cars passing by, shocking!

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Shoprshire county council seem to think that hunts should keep hounds on leads
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Seriously, I'm with the "dogs on leads" brigade. What is it with this forum and thinking it's ok to fly off the handle at anyone who falls foul of their stupidity?
 
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