"Dave Fawthrop" <[email hidden]> wrote in message
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Quoted message said:<rant>
Quoted message said:This bit has a notice at every entry point "All dogs to be kept on a short
lead from March to July, because of ground nesting birds and livestock.
Thankfully we no longer have to put up with this "Dogs must be kept on a
lead" [censored] any longer in Scotland, the wording must now be "Under close
control"
As to the dangers to ground nesting birds. There is no great problem here,
firstly, ground nesting birds do not nest in places regularly frequented by
dogs, so we are talking about rare occasions when a dog passes close by an
active nest, secondly, these nests are very difficult to locate and the
birds act as fantastic decoys, your average pooch will never get close to
its eggs or young, if it was that easy, local foxes would plunder every
single nest! The nesting birds are in no more danger from the dogs as they
are from you accidentally stepping on its nest!
As to livestock, it is highly dangerous to go anywhere near cattle while
tied to a dog, the cattle are very likely to attack the dog, and if that dog
is tied to its owner the cattle will more than likely trample the owner to
get to the dog, if the dog is loose, the dog gets away and its owner enjoys
the spectacle!
Quoted message said:I was off the path, it is Open Access, by quite away, and half a dozen
sheep passed me at a high rate of knots
Since they stopped dipping sheep a few years back, sheep have turned into
massive Tick carriers, and are some part to do with the recent huge increase
in Tick numbers. Currently their is much concern in the Grouse industry
about the amount of young grouse dying with a disease passed from sheep to
birds via Ticks. So maybe your well meaning but naive concerns should be
aimed elsewhere than at people with dogs!
Quoted message said:followed be a small brown terrier
type dog. No sign of an owner, except a distant whistle. I stuck
around till the dog showed me who its owner was. I was sitting there as
if butter would not melt in its mouth.
So I tore a strip off the owner, telling him that the dog deserved to be
shot,
because I had seen it sheep worrying, and that he should have it on a
short lead because of the notices. He was most put out :-) but left the
dog running free. It least I made his day out less pleasant, nothing
else
Quoted message said:I could do :-(
I met a couple of pratts like you once at Sourlies bothy, I arrived very
late one Midge infested August evening with my dog, on entering the bothy I
was confronted by two guests who took an instant dislike to my dog and
demanded it was left outside, after a very heated argument the overfed one
decided he was evicting me my dog and started to throw my stuff out of the
door...... I don't know where the two of them went that night, maybe they
had tents, didn't care really, me and the dog were very comfortable in the
bothy by ourselves!
