Nibble
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They look great. Nice headings for the pics as well.
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Worst experience as a dog owner?!
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They look great. Nice headings for the pics as well.
mune ni kamome
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I had to do that a few years ago, and you know what? She seemed to know what was going to happen. Kept stopping for a crap and so reluctant to walk I almost had to drag her along to the vets. Heartbreaking.
dougdeep
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Many years. Failure to keep a dog under control carries quite a large fine.
Bognor Bystander
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Took our Chocolate Lab Rolo puppy training many years ago and there was an end of term Christmas fancy dress party ! Wife produces amazing Santa outfit for him to wear and the highlight of the evening is a musical chairs competition with ever decreasing number of folded newspaper sheets on the floor. It gets to only the last few dogs standing and just thinking I have a good chance of winning top prize when said pooch stops before the music does and curls down a huge poo on a paper 'chair' and we are disqualified ! So humiliating ! 
My old lurcher shat on my foot at the beach whilst I was wearing flip flops. She had diarrhea at the time.
mejonaNO12 aka riskit
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Thats EXACTLY what my Retriever used to do.
It was always the same process.
Dog spots muddy puddle.
Dog looks at owner and wags tail.
Owner says in a calm, yet assertive manner "Don't even think about it"
Dog begins the walk towards puddle with tail wagging slowly. Not frantic excitement but calculated happiness.
Dog looks again at owner who is now SHOUTING "Don't you bloody dare. Don't you DARE"
Dog has now reached puddle destination and gives one last look and wag of tail
"NOOOOOOOOOOO. NOOOOOOOO"
Dog lowers himself carefully, maintaining eye contact at all time. The sort of face which screamed "Yeah? and what are you gonna do about it?"
Daffy Duck
Stop bloody moaning!
We used to have a beautiful retriever called Lady. Trouble was, as soon as she smelt fox s**t, she was off and rolling in it.
Got her back home one Saturday lunchtime after an episode and she shook the fox poo all over the dining room wall. Unfortunately, she would never go up stairs.Hubby had gone down the pub and I had to ring him up to come home so that he could carry her up the stairs to the bathroom so that she could have a shower.
She was a wonderful dog, apart from the fox poo.
We had a King Charles Cavalier as well at that time who had a pedigree as long as your arm but the habits of a dirty old mongrel.
Among his many delicacies were snails, horse s**t and anything that had fallen behind the cooker when I pulled it out to clean.
Got her back home one Saturday lunchtime after an episode and she shook the fox poo all over the dining room wall. Unfortunately, she would never go up stairs.Hubby had gone down the pub and I had to ring him up to come home so that he could carry her up the stairs to the bathroom so that she could have a shower.
She was a wonderful dog, apart from the fox poo.
We had a King Charles Cavalier as well at that time who had a pedigree as long as your arm but the habits of a dirty old mongrel.
Among his many delicacies were snails, horse s**t and anything that had fallen behind the cooker when I pulled it out to clean.
Seagull kimchi
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Hermit John was a considerable character around Flimwell/Hawkhurst in the 1980/90s. Once a regular member of society for some tragic reason he retreated in to the woods -and Bedgbury is huge. He was flushed out by the police and questioned over the infamous unsolved Bedgbury murders - but the police could make no sense of him and deemed him eccentrically harmless. I think he was pretty harmless too, he used to draw his dole every fortnight at Hawkhurst Post Office and then completely disappear in to the woods unseen, rain-shine or snow.
He was a bit of a nuisance sometimes though. My parents ran the only pub in his catchment area. And a couple of times old John must have ran out of edibles because we'd have a twilight break-in. Instead of the Chav break-ins who would crowbar the fag machine and grab the booze - we knew when John had payed a visit when all that was taken was a card of peanuts and a jar of pickled eggs!!!
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Under control is very different to on a lead. You can be in full control of a dog without it being on the lead. Dogs sniff and eat things it's natural. No matter how fast you react you won't react as quickly as the dog they are too fast. Just not very nice when it happens to be sick in the middle of a public promenade.
You have either never had a dog and if you have then I feel sorry for them.
brightn'ove
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Sick outside a club? who would have thought ...
blame the government for allowing a drug which makes people violent, violently ill and depressed to be completely legal.
blame the government for allowing a drug which makes people violent, violently ill and depressed to be completely legal.
Papa Lazarou
Living in a De Zerbi wonderland
I've got a Golden Retriever called Fenton. About 2 years or so ago, i was walking him off the lead in Richmond Park in Surrey.
Apparently someone videoed what happened next.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-15864761
Apparently someone videoed what happened next.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-15864761
Nibble
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!!!WARNING CONTAIND DETAILS OF THE DEATH OF A CAT IN CAS YOU ARE SQUEMISH!!!!
ex- girlfriends folks had a golden retriever who was soppy as shit mostly. He had killed the next door neighbour's chicken but hounds will given the chance. Her folks got a kitten and put their feed bowls next to each other. One day the dog came into the utility room, looked a the cat. Looked at the two bowls of food. Went over to the kitten, went over and nuzzled him before quick as a flash biting his head, ragged him once breaking his neck, before returning to both bowls of food. My girlfriend and her Mum were hysterical beyond belief. It was quite harsh.
Didn't know this at the time but vets tell you never to leave retrievers with kids or other pets, very untrustworthy as dogs go apperntly. Would never let a dog too close to a kid anyway.
ex- girlfriends folks had a golden retriever who was soppy as shit mostly. He had killed the next door neighbour's chicken but hounds will given the chance. Her folks got a kitten and put their feed bowls next to each other. One day the dog came into the utility room, looked a the cat. Looked at the two bowls of food. Went over to the kitten, went over and nuzzled him before quick as a flash biting his head, ragged him once breaking his neck, before returning to both bowls of food. My girlfriend and her Mum were hysterical beyond belief. It was quite harsh.
Didn't know this at the time but vets tell you never to leave retrievers with kids or other pets, very untrustworthy as dogs go apperntly. Would never let a dog too close to a kid anyway.
Diego Napier
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In public yes unless they are muzzled.
Show some respect for others who don't like dogs or want them slobbering over them or biting them.
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Really? Wow. I have never heard such utter shite in my whole life
9 am on the beach with no one else around is an appropriate time and place for no lead. If the situation or location dictates then I always have him on the lead.
Nibble
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Disagree. Most dogs don't do this at all. They run about and have fun. Kids love seeing them in parks too.
dougdeep
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Govinda Tim
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In other words. common sense.
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Try again Doug!! You are losing this one. The beach and promenade is not a pavement. The pavement is the thing next to a road. This is so dogs don't run into the road causing an accident. Which is obviously sensible and my dog is always on a lead next to the road.
Want to try again with some other legislation you don't fully understand?
I have a dog but I am a fairly new 'dog person', never had them as a kid, but wife loves them and talked me round, I do understand that some are a little wary of them so I control appropriately and some dog owners I am sure are fools, but on the whole they seem quite a nice bunch.
Luckily growing up dogless, my parents showed me to enjoy different things such as dogs even if it wasnt our scene.
It really isnt healthy to have a phobia about dogs, they are an integral part of our communities and its spaces, so grow up and stop your nonsense.