[Misc] Taking your dog for a walk

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In Spain, even while in lock down people with dogs are allowed out to walk them. (Source Sid Lowe, Guardian Football Weekly) If you don't have a dog now would be a great time to get one, dogs homes teeming with the things!

Once the virus thing is over take the dog back to the dogs home ? Sort of renting ?

 

[Icy Gull]

Once the virus thing is over take the dog back to the dogs home ? Sort of renting ?

“A dog is just for coronavirus” could be the new Battersea Dog’s home slogan

 

[pasty]

I have a dog. Will rent out at £50 per hour if anyone wants to go for walkies

 

[LamieRobertson]

Next doors have a cat ..I’m thinking of getting a bit of rope so i can take it for a walk...probably at night ...the other side of me has a five year old who is making a racket ..might take him for a long walk

 

[Dick Head]

We took the car out yesterday - 15 minute drive, into the New Forest. All the car parks were rammed full, and it didn't really look possible to park there and NOT come uncomfortably close to others. We drove around for a bit, to find an empty spot next to the road, with no folk around, for a 20 minute picnic, and kick a ball about.

I feel sorry for people. There is a drip-feed of ever-changing, contradictory advice, and they simply do not understand what they should and should not be doing.

Each and every one of those families in those rammed car parks, thought that they were doing the right thing, going for a walk in the open countryside. You had the National Trust throwing open its gardens for free, welcomed by the government - so people went along, and they were promptly closed down. People are CONFUSED.

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[GT49er]

I'm self-isolating - increasingly so. For instance, in the early part of last week I was still nipping in the Morrison's or Asda for essentials. More recently, I have been in my garden, walking through my practically deserted local park, and driving to the country for a change of scenery and a walk, again with no-one around. No socialising at all, and very much keeping my distance. I'll have to look to getting my shopping delivered when I start running short - but I can't believe I'm any more at risk if I continue to work in my garden rather than stay indoors watching the grass and hedges grow.

Update: there are no more deliveries available! Whoops!

 

[Giraffe]

I've not seen it as an issue yet. Our lane has direct access out on to the downs so it easy to get out and about and away from people. That said Sunday was very busy with people heading up there but I'd still argue you can distance from people pretty easily.

May start hitting more remote areas though if the busyness continues, but I think it will be a novelty for now and in time those with no dogs will soon stop doing it

 

[Dick Head]

I'm self-isolating - increasingly so. For instance, in the early part of last week I was still nipping in the Morrison's or Asda for essentials. More recently, I have been in my garden, walking through my practically deserted local park, and driving to the country for a change of scenery and a walk, again with no-one around. No socialising at all, and very much keeping my distance. I'll have to look to getting my shopping delivered when I start running short - but I can't believe I'm any more at risk if I continue to work in my garden rather than stay indoors watching the grass and hedges grow.

You're not.

 

[Bozza]

I've not seen it as an issue yet. Our lane has direct access out on to the downs so it easy to get out and about and away from people. That said Sunday was very busy with people heading up there but I'd still argue you can distance from people pretty easily.

May start hitting more remote areas though if the busyness continues, but I think it will be a novelty for now and in time those with no dogs will soon stop doing it

People were being knobs heading up to Cissbury Ring. We'd leave a large gap to the people in front passing through gates, and others would just walk around us and tailgate others.

I'm only going to head up there at dawn or dusk now (for as long as we're allowed out anyway).

 

[Brok]

There were hordes of people up my favourite hill yesterday, too.
I didn't see them personally because I go up at dawn every day, but I know they were there by the amount of new dog-poo bags everywhere.

 

[AlastairWatts]

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Dali walking his anteater

Isn't this a 'pangolin' blamed in Wuhan for starting the pandemic after supposedly becoming infected by bats?

All of which is of course nonsense presumably made up by the Chinese to hide their inability to make biological weapons securely...

 

[Lincoln Imp]

Ditchling Beacon/Dyke have never been busier - and I've been walking my dogs around there for 20+ years. However, most people stay to the well trodden paths and it's possible to get off the beaten track and get some seclusion. The two-metre thing is OK unless you happen to go past someone the moment they cough/sneeze then the prevailing south-westerly might do for you. Stay upwind.

Very true about the Beacon. Tomorrow morning though I'm being dropped off there and walking to near Lewes prison with our dog. The walk of heaven. Amex visible to your right for the first half an hour, the sea twinkling, the Weald stretched out to your left and the sun in front of you the whole way. Only when descending near the old Lewes Racecourse need you be anywhere 2m from someone coming the other way. Generally you can see people coming and keep well to one side of them. After the first couple of miles there are very few of them anyway.

 

[Swansman]

Yes it's fine to walk your dog but keep it local

Indeed, instead of your usual global dogwalking.

 

[GT49er]

You're not.

Well, I don't see how I can be either - but that's not the message coming from a lot of, for instance, A&E consultants on TV programmes. Even members of the cabinet are not unanimous.

 

[Icy Gull]

Well, I don't see how I can be either - but that's not the message coming from a lot of, for instance, A&E consultants on TV programmes. Even members of the cabinet are not unanimous.

Any link to advice against going into your own garden? That sounds like madness or else this virus is transmitted in ways that we haven’t been told about (as far as I’m aware)

 

[GT49er]

Any link to advice against going into your own garden? That sounds like madness or else this virus is transmitted in ways that we haven’t been told about (as far as I’m aware)

No link, but there was an A&E consultant on Victoria Darbishire who kept emphasising stay indoors, several times; great emphasis on 'indoors', not staying at home or anything like that. I've heard that phrase several times in the media lately though, gradually paying more and more attention - like everyone else with an underlying condition, I suppose - to what is being said. I guess we'll find out more when we get that letter that 1.5M of us are supposed to be getting!

 

[AmexRuislip]

I have no idea what that means.

I was being facetious with ring (backside) and gallops (the trots)

 

[GT49er]

What some people aren't grasping is that going in your car to a spot and then walking also means at some point filling up the car with petrol (higher risk activity as you're touching pumps) or getting too close to people in busy car parks. Go for a walk from your home.

I topped up with petrol today. I went when it was quite, so was always way more than two metres away from anybody. Paid at the pump, and pressed the buttons and used the pump with one hand only, which was encased in a plastic back, which I disposed of there and then. My other hand unscrewed and replaced my petrol cap, then I drove straight home and washed my hands. Can't see the risk in that - nor in driving my car (with the windows shut, of course).

I can't really see much harm in driving out to the country and having a walk either - so long as there's no-one - or only a very few people - around. If the car park's crowded, don't stop; go elsewhere.

 

[dazzer6666]

Parked at Clayton Windmills on Saturday morning - just. Car park was full at 10am. When we got back from our stroll around 2pm there were cars parked most of the way along Mill Lane, including in all the passing places (it's a single track lane), and there was a queue of cars trying to get up the lane to the car park. Took us probably 20 mins or more to get back on to the main road. Lots of people up on the Downs there compared to normal obviously, but the expanse of space is vast so it was very easy to keep the requisite distance from people. Most seemed to stick to the SDW, so it was very easy to nip off on to some other less well known paths for even more isolation.

 

[Worried Man Blues]

Isn't this a 'pangolin' blamed in Wuhan for starting the pandemic after supposedly becoming infected by bats?

All of which is of course nonsense presumably made up by the Chinese to hide their inability to make biological weapons securely...

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