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Horrible Experience With A Wild Deer.
Yesterday, on our walk through the fields along a public footpath, Dylan dashed off into the long grass and began chasing a little Chinese Water Deer. After what seemed like ages, but was probably two minutes, the deer fell and Dylan caught up with it.
He jumped around it and didn't actually touch or wound the deer but the deer was literally screaming with fright whilst lying there exhausted.
We got Dylan away and after about five minutes, the deer got up and ran into the scrubland.
What would we have done had the deer been mauled and injured?
It was a very distressing event which could have been a lot, lot worse. It was horrible enough.
He jumped around it and didn't actually touch or wound the deer but the deer was literally screaming with fright whilst lying there exhausted.
We got Dylan away and after about five minutes, the deer got up and ran into the scrubland.
What would we have done had the deer been mauled and injured?
It was a very distressing event which could have been a lot, lot worse. It was horrible enough.
Answers
Of course dogs must be kept on leads when around farm animals but no one can predict when a wild animal will appear in an unoccupied field. We have deer in our garden at times! That must have been awful for you, Tilly.
16:53 Fri 27th Aug 2021
Tilly what would you have done if you had turned a corner and there was a flock of sheep with lambs? Are you confident your dog would have come to heel.? I'm trying NOT to make this personal but my experiences with owners/loose dogs are horrendous and most times the owners think their dogs will never do such things.
I know a woman who did agility and obedience tests up to advanced with her two dogs. Her now dead dogs, that jumped out of her car while when was getting eggs from a farm and killed 3 sheep.
I know a family who lost their two highly trained retriever dogs while on a walk in the forest as they put up a rabbit and chased it. No amount of shouting made them return and they were later found shot by a gamekeeper.
Anyone who thinks they have 100% control over a dog 100% of the time are kidding themselves.
I know a family who lost their two highly trained retriever dogs while on a walk in the forest as they put up a rabbit and chased it. No amount of shouting made them return and they were later found shot by a gamekeeper.
Anyone who thinks they have 100% control over a dog 100% of the time are kidding themselves.
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