why oh why do people take agressive dogs to Badminton

Oh dear, my wife and daugher went today and left ME at home
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Ah Hadfos - I know where you are coming from on that on but we friends with us and took friends child around and my two dogs were far better behaved than that revolting whinging child. So a creche for kids would be brilliant. They used to do it with Norland Nannies - what ever happened to that. And kids really get in the way, and as for buggies and prams - they should be banned. if the child can't walk 5 miles it should be left at home - in the garden or with friends. Put the rest of us non child owners out of our misery.
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But they poo in their nappies..and we very rarely have to muzzle them
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Do i take my child to these events???
Hell NO
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I do however agree with you on the damn buggy/pram front
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Ban em all,or make them take a driving test...honestly tis worse than being in asda with a busload of diddys and trolleys
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why not - they have friends and relatives. And I have seen a child run in front of a horse at a major XC event. And certainly I saw lots of screaming kids clearly hating every moment
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I was talking about left at home alone (which would be fine for dogs given sufficient food and water), thats the comparision I was making.

You may have seen a child run out in front of a horse (maybe she was Emily Davidson in a former life), but it hardly happens at every major event does it
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Why did I take my dogs to Badders last year?

Well, I took them because I love to be with them, because they are well behaved and because I can trust them not to fight, yap or chase horses. They proved me right on this occassion, they were as usual, comsumate professionals.
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That said I would not take them again due to the fact that I am not sure I can trust myself - I might accidently drop their lead, they may chase another dog onto the course - or cause some kind of incident. They may even have a change of mind and decide to yap (after all who knows what they are thinking?) The cataclysmic embarrassment and awfulness of them causing any upset to a horse and rider in a sport I love so much, far outweighs my own selfish pleasure at taking them.

So next time they wont come.

Still love seeing dogs at Badders though, I'll be sad to see them go if they do, but understandably its for the best.
 
I took my eight month old Collie this year who i have to say a total star and loved every minute of it.We also camped there for four days and i was amazed at how many people just left there dog to wander around the campsite to do what they wanted.We were sat in our caravan and my dog was outside on a longish line and corkscrew eating his dinner when a Labrador just walked up and started helping himself to my dogs dinner.I had to throw a shoe at it to get the bloody thing to sod off.And dont get me started on stroppy dogs.I have to say i am now not a big fan of Jack Russels,mearly every JR we walked past on all four days went for every dog that walked past.I told one women who's dog had tried to attatch itself to my dogs leg that either muzzle it or shoot it.
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Wasn't there an incident with one of the top riders this year at the Hexagon Hedges as well? Their horse spooked at the quad that was carrying the camera, which had to swerve towards them because of a dog in the way. I forget which rider it was, but they were NOT happy as their horse lost concentration, refused the second hexagon hedge, and they retired.

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I think it was Rodney Powell.
 
I agree with the idea no dogs should be allowed on x-country day i don't think they should be allowed in the shopping village for their own good poor things being dragged around being stood on . i also don't think small children should be encouraged in the grand stand on showjumping day , one year at burgly the whole afternoon was spoiled as i felt so sorry for the poor baby who screamed all through the show jumping it was a very very hot day i do think the parents should have taken the poor wee thing away. Another year we were in the grandstand at badminton and a very sweet little boy was sat on his mums knee next to me with one of these twirly wind mill things i could not see the bottom end of the arena i had to say something i had travelled a long way and i wanted to see the whole course, actually that same year i had the skin scraped from the back of my heel when a motorised wheelchair ran up the back of me .
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Yep, I agree: ban dogs, ban children, ban buggies, ban motorised wheechairs, ban smoking (please! A german woman nearly set fire to my hair at the lake on Sat!), ban slow walkers, ban stopping dead in the middle of a narrow pathway, and most of all ban tweed.
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I have taken my dog with me to both badminton and gatcoombe he is a staff but thinks he is a mouse i forever have looks of disgust at having a young child and a chunky staff but it is the other dogs that come up to him and snap at him he just gets terrified and hides behind me.
The reason I take my dog is because I dont want to leave him at home all day on his own.
He is very sociable and loves being at events with me but again I keep him away from busy tradestand areas.

I am really upset to hear about the dogs at the campsite in badminton as I was thinking of camping there next year with my 2 year old son and if there are random roaming dogs this puts me off now, I wouldnt want him being attacked.

Muzzle or kennel them for the weekend if you cant control them. thats what i say !!!
 
Have posted in CR - but the Rodney Powell incident was not dog related.....at least from where I was standing (directly in front of the jump). The horse had a problem with the quadbike with the cameramen - as did at least three other horses. They were jumping directly towards a very fast moving, noisy (get some WD40 on it man, a vehicle shouldn't squeak like that!!) quad bike with people waving big cameras on the back.....not a dog.

For the record, we were in the campsite all four days as well, didn't see one aggressive dog? Saw a couple of aggressive owners though!
The dog we had with us was impeccably behaved the whole four days, am so glad he was there
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Harnesses should be compulsory though....
 
There were lots of loose dogs at the campsite last year, too. Some people seem to think it's a nice open field put aside for their doggies to exercise and sh*t in other people's pitches.

They've been talking about banning dogs on XC day for years, haven't they? Never happens, though.

I have no problem with well behaved/trained ones, though. I compliment people on well behaved dogs if I'm out riding. It's such a rarity, these days and I like them to think that they've done good!
 
Having camped for the last three years (last two with my mate who has dogs) I have to comment on this.

In the 'cheap seats' part of the camping area we setup and then watch folks playing with their dogs and wish we'd brought my mates lurcher (cute very tall long dog). In the quiet friday shoping and big screen setup we think the same thing. By 11am Saturday we've changed our minds, and if we need any convincing it's the 1:55pm rush on a hot Sunday when all the idiots with stand tickets are dragging their dog back to the car or the creche before the top 20 show jump.

I would love to bring my mates lurcher when camping next year but for his sake we have to keep in mind each and every bad situation we've seen this year...

Finally I want to rant against slip leads and zip leads...

First off any sort of extendable lead (in use) has no place in a crowd suituation. If it's all you've got then fine, don't click the button while walking the course with 10,000 other people, or while shopping anywhere on Saturday.

As for slip leads? Well they have their place which in my mind, despite the current faux shoot fashion, is on the pheasant shoot for the well trainned flush/peg dog. this weekend I saw numerous dogs barely held on slip leads, or even pegged unattended on slip leads in the camp site. It was just stupid. But hey fat gun dogs or fashionable pointers (i.e weimaraners) on slip leads and matching dubarry boots mean we can forget about the eventing and focus on the image, fashon and idiocy of modern day badminton.
 
this is why i left my little chap at home with friends. He's very timid, and a big dog only has to look at him and he cowers away.

Luckily i only saw very friendly dogs.

And one black lab run in the lake between xc riders for a dip which was quite amusing.
 
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