Ever met a pleasant dog walker ?

[JCfarmer]

Footpath is through our garden, we were in garden. I saw here coming with dog off lead, I approached with my child in a safe place a distance away with my wife, and asked calmly for the dog to be on a lead when in our garden as I have a small child and he will be playing outside in the summer months.

Is it near the edge of the garden or through the middle?

 

[unlacedgecko]

Footpath is through our garden, we were in garden. I saw here coming with dog off lead, I approached with my child in a safe place a distance away with my wife, and asked calmly for the dog to be on a lead when in our garden as I have a small child and he will be playing outside in the summer months.

That's terrible, but I would fence that footpath with 6ft palisade fencing.

 

[yellowbelly]

Ask him to fence it then...

I did.

They've gone away to think about changing the route

 

[Spencer]

Is it near the edge of the garden or through the middle?

Diagonal across middle as they usually are...

 

[Spencer]

That's terrible, but I would fence that footpath with 6ft palisade fencing.

Like I said, their really isn’t any argument to my request is there..? Fencing would just spoil our garden and our enjoyment of it.

 

[unlacedgecko]

Like I said, their really isn’t any argument to my request is there..? Fencing would just spoil our garden and our enjoyment of it.

There isn't. But ignorant entitled fückwits don't need a valid argument to trample over people's rights.

Stock net it and have 2 pet lambs, then shoot any off lead dogs?

 

[Phil P]

Farmer, 70, hit in face with rock in 'unprovoked' attack

Christopher Pine needed hospital treatment after he was attacked while working in a field

www.somersetlive.co.uk

Mentioned on another thread I had a similar incident a few weeks back. Guy running his dog all over my spring barley as it was just emerging so politely asked him if he would keep it under control. Got a load of verbal abuse in return then started throwing rocks as I walked away!
I would have flattened the t*$$er if I hadn’t had my rifle in the sprayer with me and didn’t want plod to turn up! I’m sure I’ll come cross him again at some point though
I would say 90% or more of dog walkers think they can treat agriculture land as there own personal park. They all carry them ball throwing things with them and the second they think your not looking there dogs off across the field . It’s never them at fault and they aren’t in the wrong though if you pull them up on it .

I honestly think we should start a petition to give land owners more rights to protect there property, any dog trespassing can be shot would sort a few out

 

[unlacedgecko]

Mentioned on another thread I had a similar incident a few weeks back. Guy running his dog all over my spring barley as it was just emerging so politely asked him if he would keep it under control. Got a load of verbal abuse in return then started throwing rocks as I walked away!
I would have flattened the t*$$er if I hadn’t had my rifle in the sprayer with me and didn’t want plod to turn up! I’m sure I’ll come cross him again at some point though
I would say 90% or more of dog walkers think they can treat agriculture land as there own personal park. They all carry them ball throwing things with them and the second they think your not looking there dogs off across the field . It’s never them at fault and they aren’t in the wrong though if you pull them up on it .

I honestly think we should start a petition to give land owners more rights to protect there property, any dog trespassing can be shot would sort a few out

Last week I found a man walking through my ewe hogg lambing paddock with a spaniel off lead, throwing a ball for it. Right through the middle of my highest genetic merit sheep.

"Please can you put your dog on a lead?"

"Don't worry, he's very friendly and doesn't chase sheep."

"Funny you say that. The owner of every dog I've ever shot has said the same thing. Open his mouth and see all the sharp teeth, that's a predator."

"Oh. I'll keep him on a lead till I'm out the field"

"Thanks very much, I appreciate it."

I don't have a gun licence, so there's no fear of the police taking it off me for threats. TBF the Mrs is lambing there at the mo. If she caught a marauding dog, she'd run it down and strangle it with her bare hands.

 

[Phil P]

Last week I found a man walking through my ewe hogg lambing paddock with a spaniel off lead, throwing a ball for it. Right through the middle of my highest genetic merit sheep.

"Please can you put your dog on a lead?"

"Don't worry, he's very friendly and doesn't chase sheep."

"Funny you say that. The owner of every dog I've ever shot has said the same thing. Open his mouth and see all the sharp teeth, that's a predator."

"Oh. I'll keep him on a lead till I'm out the field"

"Thanks very much, I appreciate it."

It really is a pity I can’t class my hares as livestock, it would be open season on labradoodles

 

[unlacedgecko]

It really is a pity I can’t class my hares as livestock, it would be open season on labradoodles

There's new legislation passed to increase penalties for hare coursers.

 

[Phil P]

There's new legislation passed to increase penalties for hare coursers.

I’ve seen that, it’s welcome news Although our resident courser is still behind bars anyway after the last time we crossed paths.

 

[Farmer Roy]

nice to see people from other countries comment on problems us UK farmers face? truth is that many other countries just dont realise how small and crowded with people alot of the UK is? This for us that have been born and say grown up in the same area has changed very quickly in the last 40 odd years and is still changing? I dont know at all what the amount of people development or change is like in the Australians home area, but in my home area the population growth has been over 3 times as much as what it was 50 years ago? and still growing? All that growth brings many many problems, dogs just being one?

nothing ever stays the same & the only constant in our lives is change, but it just sounds as if your infrastructure & laws haven’t kept pace with that change ?
Obviously an outsider, but some of the issues you lot have to face have me shaking my head & wondering why you have to put up with it . . .
You have my sympathy, I’m just glad I don’t have to put up with it

 

[Phil P]

There's new legislation passed to increase penalties for hare coursers.

Talking of hares and dog walkers. I can usually look out the window in a morning and no word of a lie count between 5 and 9 hares on the field the backs on to my house and has no footpaths near it.
Then I have a block of fields (over 200ac) with a footpath on at least one side of every field (some have a path on 3 sides ) I think I’m yet to see more than a single hare on that block! And there’s zero ground nesting birds there. Yet farms are destroying the wild

 

[unlacedgecko]

nothing ever stays the same & the only constant in our lives is change, but it just sounds as if your infrastructure & laws haven’t kept pace with that change ?
Obviously an outsider, but some of the issues you lot have to face have me shaking my head & wondering why you have to put up with it . . .
You have my sympathy, I’m just glad I don’t have to put up with it

I spoke to a rancher from Kansas recently. I couldn't believe it when I explained the bureaucratic nightmare the UK is in general, and UK ag in particular.

Please can you adopt me so I can move to your country?

 

[neilo]

It really is a pity I can’t class my hares as livestock, it would be open season on labradoodles

Could I interest you in a pet lamb to be ‘worried’…?

 

[neilo]

Farmer, 70, hit in face with rock in 'unprovoked' attack

Christopher Pine needed hospital treatment after he was attacked while working in a field

www.somersetlive.co.uk

Mrs NeilO showed me that earlier and I was a little irate. Assuming he’s a local/regular, I would have thought the only course of action that would be effective was for a few of the neighbours to go and ‘have a word’. No need for anything nasty, but put the fear of God into the cowardly little shite.

Quite apart from whether he should be cultivating a footpath (perfectly legit, as long as it’s reinstated after), it was a 70 year old on his own FFS.

 

[unlacedgecko]

Mrs NeilO showed me that earlier and I was a little irate. Assuming he’s a local/regular, I would have thought the only course of action that would be effective was for a few of the neighbours to go and ‘have a word’. No need for anything nasty, but put the fear of God into the cowardly little shite.

Quite apart from whether he should be cultivating a footpath (perfectly legit, as long as it’s reinstated after), it was a 70 year old on his own FFS.

Yes. This is an ideal opportunity for the locals to show a sense of ag community.

 

[Swarfmonkey]

Yes. This is an ideal opportunity for the locals to show a sense of ag community.

Interview without coffee, at the very least.

 

[ollie989898]

Last week I found a man walking through my ewe hogg lambing paddock with a spaniel off lead, throwing a ball for it. Right through the middle of my highest genetic merit sheep.

"Please can you put your dog on a lead?"

"Don't worry, he's very friendly and doesn't chase sheep."

"Funny you say that. The owner of every dog I've ever shot has said the same thing. Open his mouth and see all the sharp teeth, that's a predator."

"Oh. I'll keep him on a lead till I'm out the field"

"Thanks very much, I appreciate it."

I don't have a gun licence, so there's no fear of the police taking it off me for threats. TBF the Mrs is lambing there at the mo. If she caught a marauding dog, she'd run it down and strangle it with her bare hands.

Man says he has no firearm.

Man says he has partially psychotic significant other who prefers to strangle things to death. Probably an angry blonde as well.

 

[unlacedgecko]

Man says he has no firearm.

Man says he has partially psychotic significant other who prefers to strangle things to death. Probably an angry blonde as well.

Yes I clearly have a type.

Blonde
Big boobs
Attitude problem

Don't worry, I came to terms with it years ago.