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AIBU?

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To think dogs should be on a lead at a sledging hill?

206 replies

PippiL · 05/02/2012 11:50

Prepared that I might be BU.

The field is probably privately owned. It is The Sledging
Hill in the village. Loads of kids there today.

About 3 dogs, big bouncy ones, off leads chasing sledges, pissing in the snow where kids sledging, and crapping too (generally out of the way, but didn't see it picked up).

My dd is petrified of dogs, and stood about 5 minutes complaining loudly how they should be on a lead. Which was ignored by the owners.

We had to leave.

Aibu?

OP posts:
saintlyjimjams · 05/02/2012 22:37

We just had tea trays. No snow here though anyway.

GypsyMoth · 05/02/2012 22:54

Nobody owning up to letting dv go hurtling down a hill at breakneck speed WITHOUT a helmet?!

Mrsheffley???

GypsyMoth · 05/02/2012 22:54

*dc

TuftyFinch · 05/02/2012 22:55

My Dc didn't have helmets on and they were going at 80mph. Sometimes 120mph.

BeerTricksP0tter · 05/02/2012 23:01

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ExitPursuedByaBear · 05/02/2012 23:04

Dogs. Kids. Snow. It'll all be gone by tomorrow.

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TuftyFinch · 05/02/2012 23:39

Ahh well Beer you fought today so that your dog may enjoy the snow another day. You stood up and were counted.

Been Googling deer sledge but can't find it. An old bath would probably do the trick?

minimisschief · 06/02/2012 01:00

why are people so petrified of dogs these days

Hullygully · 06/02/2012 08:01

When I were young we had a wooden sledge. Me, my sis and my bruv did a triple decker down the slope, me lying in the middle. They rolled off, I went flying throuhg the air, twisted and smashed into a tree with my back. Then I lay in th esnow for 1.5 hours as there was an ambulance strike.

Trees. Far more dangerous than dogs.

ExitPursuedByaBear · 06/02/2012 08:06

Ah Hully, them were the days. Wooden sledge with rusty runners! Snow conditions were rarely perfect for those runners. The build up of excitement which disappeared along with the runners into the soft snow.

Wish they'd had plastic ones when I was growing up.

Envy
VivaLeBeaver · 06/02/2012 08:09

I've still got the wooden sledge with metal runners that my dad made me when I was a kid. So it's nearly 40 years old now. Not rusty, looks brand new. Agree about it needing deeper snow but when there's enough snow god it's fast.

Whatmeworry · 06/02/2012 08:14

I think a bit of give and take on both sides is needed here

The End of AIBU.

TuftyFinch · 06/02/2012 11:00

ow Hully! was this in the days when parents let their kids out without them? My and my sisters went over the park when I was 4, they were 5 and 7. The park was behind our garden though. I was pushed off the top of the slide and a random dad carried me home dripping blood from a big cut on my head. My poor mum was Shock

Hullygully · 06/02/2012 11:04

yy tufty - no adults.

In the summer we went out with roller skates and skateboards and rolled down big hills dodging cars. Imagine. Imagine it now.

TuftyFinch · 06/02/2012 11:10

We did that too Hully. Big path in the park ran all the way down to an open gate and a road. We'd go all the way down on roller skates/skateboards, though the open gate, across the road into the wall the other side. If there was a car we got hit. Terrible. We'd alsogo down next doors slope in the snow,or if no snow,pour water over it to ice, go down on a tray...into the road.

Hullygully · 06/02/2012 11:15

how are we even alive?

they do it virtually now, innit?

TuftyFinch · 06/02/2012 11:25

My sister went over the bonnet of a car twice. She was fine though. No other casualties.

BeerTricksP0tter · 06/02/2012 11:29

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stripesnotspots · 06/02/2012 11:36

YABU. It's shared space, end of. I think you're probably exaggerating the dog poo bit to help your case. it would be more useful to try to help your DD get over her fear of all dogs rather than as she's going to come into contact in the countryside with them all her life I would imagine.

southeastastra · 06/02/2012 14:00

finding all the pro dogs posts baffling to be honest. i think it's quite easy to judge what you should do if you haven't had a child that is scared of dogs.

i personally think all dogs should be on leads in areas with children, find it weird that people would think that letting the bound about is ok

also there are way too many irresponsible owners

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OrmIrian · 06/02/2012 14:07

My dog is stupid though. He'd get knocked down by a sledge Hmm

Whatmeworry · 06/02/2012 14:08

i personally think all dogs should be on leads in areas with children, find it weird that people would think that letting the bound about is ok

I find it weird that anyone thinks its odd to let dogs run around on a piece of open land with kids on it. Once, before the Time Of Cotton Wool, kids and dogs were a part of one's youth.

Barking.

ILoveGreggsSausageRolls · 06/02/2012 14:11

Because dogs need to RUN. They need exercise.

There are thousands of places you can take children, you are pretty limited to where you can take your dog to exercise safely. Yet I take my dog the same places every week and don't see hardly anyone, yet alone children. BUT I'm expected not to exercise my dog because of them wanting to play in the snow.

How about banning children from specific areas so these rabid creatures can run free Hmm