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May 23 2014, 10:56 AM
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QUOTE (Turin Machine @ May 23 2014, 11:30 AM) Yes lads, rein it in now. What if the shoe was on the other foot? I would definitely be hacked off. I think you've nailed it!
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May 23 2014, 11:25 AM
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QUOTE (Simon Kirby @ May 22 2014, 08:11 PM) A friend had to fend of a horse with a stick today as she tried to cross the field from Church Lane coming back towards Wash Common. There's a footpath across the field and this horse was kicking and bronking six feet from her and she was understandably very frightened. She described it as a "mad bloody stallion", though whether it was a stallion as such she couldn't be absolutely sure. It was a pretty dangerous experience and people have been badly injured in similar circumstances and she's really pretty upset that this can happen on a footpath. To add a serious note for a moment. It is an offence for a landowner to have any dangerous animal in a field with a PROW. It should be reported to the Council (Environment). It is usually fairly obvious if it is a stallion.....
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May 23 2014, 06:02 PM
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QUOTE (Berkshirelad @ May 23 2014, 12:25 PM) To add a serious note for a moment. It is an offence for a landowner to have any dangerous animal in a field with a PROW. It should be reported to the Council (Environment). It is usually fairly obvious if it is a stallion..... Thanks for that Berkshirelad. It was a worrying and upsetting experience. If you're not accustomed to it then noticing if a horse has testicles, especially one that's pronking in front of you, is not the simplest thing in the world. I only mentioned it because I'd have expected a stallion to be aggressive (and really wouldn't have expected to find one on a footpath), though wouldn't necessarily have expected a gelding to be dangerous - but then I don't understand horses at all and they all scare me.
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Right an injustice - give Simon Kirby his allotment back!
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May 23 2014, 07:25 PM
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QUOTE (newres @ May 23 2014, 07:40 PM) Cattle are the worst for this. I have been charged at several times by a herd. I now won't go through a field of cattle with my dog. I just take the adjacent field/road. No, I won't cross a field of cattle with my dogs, it can be very dangerous. I run the footpaths through the local fields and I really don't like going into fields with livestock of any kind - I'm not particularly happy even with sheep. I try and have an escape route if possible.
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Right an injustice - give Simon Kirby his allotment back!
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May 23 2014, 08:20 PM
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QUOTE (Turin Machine @ May 23 2014, 09:00 PM) I've spent a lot of time around horses and can honestly say, hand on heart, I have never been given cause for fear. Been nipped a couple of times and got a bit of a squeeze once when a made decided to lean on me against the wall of her stall but that's about it. If you understand horses, do you recognise this particular horse's behaviour - bucking and pronking six feet from my friend? Was it just excitable and harmless, or was it threatening? Not knowing, it seems to me that the situation was rather more dangerous than I'm happy with.
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Right an injustice - give Simon Kirby his allotment back!
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