Has your dog ever been blown off a cliff?

[BiancasSilverCoat]

Jeremy Vine phone-in about it today.

Hopefully will be quite a short feature.

I didn't realise that, but in which case, perhaps he will pick up these two topics? 😁

I live near the coast and all the best walks are all along cliff paths
Ddog and her predecessors have all been kept on the lead on these paths

Never heard of a dog being blown off the cliff but lots of dogs go over as it's a popular area, they either chase after something or go running off with no idea the ground stops.

When I was a teenager one of our dogs, a Westie, ran over a cliff in pursuit of a frog. She fell into the lap of a man sunbathing in a deckchair. She was totally fine, but I don't think the shock of a small dog plummeting from the sky and landing on his bollocks did him much good, to be honest.

There was some Met Office advice to keep dogs on leads because of the coming storm, which they say might lift untethered dogs up and whisk them away! So it's not a completely random topic.

Exactly! It is very specific due to the storm advice. Unfortunately everyone is just talking about dogs running off cliffs, which is Not The Same Thing. Focus, people!

Not a dog, but I was walking mine on the beach and saw a woman on the edge of a cliff about 40ft above me, taking photos on her phone. Notorious area for cliff falls, landslides and she was standing right over a massive crack.

I yelled, waved, jumped up and down and she eventually noticed me. I politely suggested shouted that she step waaaaaay back from the cliff edge and the crack just under her feet.

Not just dogs that are complete idiots!

My dog fell down the stairs the other day. Does that count?

Are your stairs on a cliff?

Blown off no, but many years ago DP and dog, a JR X, were running among the cliff edge of the giants causeway and the dog leapt off the cliff edge into the sea. ( 20 ft or so ) He swam to safety.

DP and dog returned very wet and traumatised.

Not the response the OP was looking for, only saw OPs sarky update now/.

Sense of humour fail there OP

This is the absolute perfect level of detail 😁

One of my dogs fell into a pond once.

Terriers are knob heads but they're delightfully funny and cute knob heads.

When I was little our family dog got out (new postman had left the garden gate open) and she was found a few days later at the bottom of the cliffs. It was Christmas Eve eve and my mum never really enjoyed Christmas after that. Apart from the one just before she died and weirdly that was the best ever.

DH was blown over, just onto the ground, not off a cliff fortunately and he weighs quite a bit so I suppose they could be blown off.