Hayleycob
Well-Known Member
A single track road runs through our yard, to get to the fields you have to walk a little way down it.
I take the dogs to the fields with me to have a run, but leading two horses and two dogs on leads is a pain, so I leave the dogs loose, they are well behaved and just follow me.
On the way back (so no horses) the wind was screaming accross the road and I couldn't hear a thing, until halfway up the road I heard a beep and saw a car right behind me.
I moved onto the grass verge and one dog came with me, the other one is old and stupid and was comming, but a bit slow but the car didn't stop. As I saw the dog dissapearing under the front bumper I jumped in front of the car screaming and signaling her to stop, she did, but only because she thought I was going to smash the bucket I was holding onto her bonnet !
I got the dog and returned to the verge to be treated to some abuse from the driver (which I also couldn't hear because of the wind).
Ok so maybe the dog should have been on a lead, but its not as if she was out of control, and we were on a single track road, with no pavement so as a pedestrian I was entitled to be in the road.
Would it realy have taken up that much time in her busy day to give me a couple of seconds to get safely out of her way ?
I take the dogs to the fields with me to have a run, but leading two horses and two dogs on leads is a pain, so I leave the dogs loose, they are well behaved and just follow me.
On the way back (so no horses) the wind was screaming accross the road and I couldn't hear a thing, until halfway up the road I heard a beep and saw a car right behind me.
I moved onto the grass verge and one dog came with me, the other one is old and stupid and was comming, but a bit slow but the car didn't stop. As I saw the dog dissapearing under the front bumper I jumped in front of the car screaming and signaling her to stop, she did, but only because she thought I was going to smash the bucket I was holding onto her bonnet !
I got the dog and returned to the verge to be treated to some abuse from the driver (which I also couldn't hear because of the wind).
Ok so maybe the dog should have been on a lead, but its not as if she was out of control, and we were on a single track road, with no pavement so as a pedestrian I was entitled to be in the road.
Would it realy have taken up that much time in her busy day to give me a couple of seconds to get safely out of her way ?