[Misc] Taking your dog for a walk

[Easy 10]

I think 'stay at home' and 'stay indoors' is being conflated accidentally. Maybe because many city/town dwellers don't have gardens, and therefore the advise to 'stay at home' is the same as 'stay indoors' for them. The current NHS advice is: "You can use your garden, if you have one." https://www.nhs.uk/conditions/coronavirus-covid-19/self-isolation-advice/

I should bloody hope so. I spent most of Sunday in the back garden cutting the grass for the first time this year, trimming hedges, generally tidying up and getting the patio furniture out of hibernation. Then spent a thoroughly pleasant Sunday afternoon sat in the sunshine quaffing beer and reading the papers.

Twas a bit chilly for any of that today, but I basically live in my garden once the sun comes out. Social isolation won't be so bad once the warm weather arrives. I do feel very sorry for those who don't have their own bit of personal outdoor space though.

 

[Sussexscots]

So wish my big lad was still here. I think I'd be coping better with the anxiety of the present situation.

Just over a year since we lost him and there are sound reasons why we've not yet got another Dog. But right now, I can't think what they actually are.

 

[Weststander]

Would love to be still able to take my dog outside for a walk but sadly had to have him put down last Monday. Devasted and heartbroken in the household View attachment 121394View attachment 121395

So sorry for your loss. What a handsome and friendly looking fella. Beautiful pics btw.

 

[PTC Gull]

Sorry for your loss Miximate. Can appreciate what you are going through as we lost of of ours a few weeks ago to cancer. Remember the good times.

 

[sams dad]

Would love to be still able to take my dog outside for a walk but sadly had to have him put down last Monday. Devasted and heartbroken in the household View attachment 121394View attachment 121395

What a beautiful boy !
So sorry for your loss, I know how heartbreaking it can be to lose a faithful companion.

 

[Is it PotG?]

 

[Dick Head]

Their use of Pangolins in weird medicines might be the originator of a virus, I just pray that after all this crap they are stopped killing Rhinos and all the other stupid stuff they get up to. Them and the Japs phew

And the Brits. Remember bovine spongiform encephalopathy? That was caused by feeding cattle the remains of sheep infected with scrapie which jumped to humans causing Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease. Weird!

 

[Worried Man Blues]

And the Brits. Remember bovine spongiform encephalopathy? That was caused by feeding cattle the remains of sheep infected with scrapie which jumped to humans causing Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease. Weird!

True, that was down to proteins not some mumbo jumbo, although feeding meat to ruminants,

 

[Dick Head]

True, that was down to proteins not some mumbo jumbo, although feeding meat to ruminants,

Pangolin meat is a delicacy in China. It's the scales that are used for the mumbo jumbo.

 

[Worried Man Blues]

Pangolin meat is a delicacy in China. It's the scales that are used for the mumbo jumbo.

Rhino horn? Pangolin now on extinct list, what's next to replace these?

 

[Dick Head]

Rhino horn? Pangolin now on extinct list, what's next to replace these?

It's tragic. Sometimes you think mankind is the real virus.

 

[pearl]

And the Brits. Remember bovine spongiform encephalopathy? That was caused by feeding cattle the remains of sheep infected with scrapie which jumped to humans causing Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease. Weird!

and then passed on via blood transfusions

 

[Weststander]

It's tragic. Sometimes you think mankind is the real virus.

No surprise, the Chinese don’t give a f*ck about the planet including rare fauna eg their obsession with Tiger body parts. Evil to my mind, it’s not all about humans and their quack needs.

 

[Hastings gull]

Would love to be still able to take my dog outside for a walk but sadly had to have him put down last Monday. Devasted and heartbroken in the household View attachment 121394View attachment 121395

Only just seen this. how desperately sorry I am for you and soppy as it sounds, and am sitting here with the odd tear in my eye. I have always had dogs who are truly man's best friend, and who will never let you down (unlike humans, sadly). They are part of the family.

 

[Uncle Spielberg]

I have to walk my dog 5 miles a day, no choice. Lancing beach was polluted with cyclists and runners going past breathing heavily today. I need a new plan for a secluded spot on the downs from now. Too many humans around basically

 

[Questions]

I have to walk my dog 5 miles a day, no choice. Lancing beach was polluted with cyclists and runners going past breathing heavily today. I need a new plan for a secluded spot on the downs from now. Too many humans around basically

They’ll be less soon US

 

[afcb]

I have to walk my dog 5 miles a day, no choice. Lancing beach was polluted with cyclists and runners going past breathing heavily today. I need a new plan for a secluded spot on the downs from now. Too many humans around basically

I live next to a national cycling route....tend to walk the dogs there as its an old railway line and 100 yards from the house.

Today was as if everyone had decided to dust off their bikes, dig out the training shoes and go for their ' once a day exercise'. Foot / cycle traffic was up massively. It gets narrow and congested in places so I veered off. I figure that if I can smell their perfume / aftershave..even the conditioner on their clothes then thats just too close.