Dog Being Exercised in Field of Sheep

[TheChandler]

I wasn't being at all unreasonable to give the dog owner a row, was I? Not my field, not my sheep (or lambs) but the bloody idiot was using his dog to play at sheepherding or something. Yes, it was a well trained dog, but it obviously was neither a sheepdog nor he a farmer, and the ewes and lambs were terrified and trapped in one corner of the field while he messed around with whatever silly game he was playing to brighten up his evening.

I got a load of abuse back from him, but he and the dog did leave and drive off (I have his registration number). Not even sure who the sheep belong to, but they are near where I live.

He's lucky it was you who found him and not the farmer as he'd have a dead dog now.

Yep. What an utter cock.

Call 101. It's a criminal offence.

People that stupid deserve to lose their pets, I hope the farmer catches them next time.

He broke the law. I agree w calling 101 and getting word to the farmer if you can.

Yes, bad form. It's late for lambing now but if he tried that in March he could cause stillbirths.

I once inadvertently did this whilst walking my granny's border collie, a retired sheepdog. We were walking in the middle of nowhere so off lead, when suddenly she made off for a field. She expertly herded a flock up the field, across and back down ... then spotted three or four she had missed, and herded them a full circuit too. I was morto. Eventually she came back with a look as if to say "that's better ... did you want something? "

Idiot. Growling up in the country I've seen the devastating effect a similar idiot and his dog had on ewes and the subsequently stillborn lambs

You should probably consider letting someone know - if he is making a habit of this ("well trained"?) he could have been causing a lot of suffering and loss for animals and farmers.

Oh no, that's terrible! Poor sheep!

As an aside though, I have a fluffy cream coloured medium sized dog. We often walk past a local petting farm/open air museum and when we get to the field with the sheep, there is one who is convinced my dog is a sheep! She will come racing over as soon as she spots him and then chases us along the fence until we let him approach the fence (on lead) and then she licks his face all over! He'll lick her back and we'll go on our merry way with this silly sheep madly chasing us, trying to get us to let our dog back to see her. The last time we were there she brought her little lamb with her and the lamb was desperate to see our dog as well.

I know that was completely irrelevant to the OP and no, OP, YANBU at all!

That sheep sounds baa-king mad.

Taz no, I needed to hear something like that to cheer me up. He was a bit abusive and I thought he was off his head on something. Fortunately other people came along and he jumped in his car sharpish then and drove off. I hope I put him off enough for him not to come back but I can imagine him being stupid/crazy enough to let his dog loose in another field of sheep somewhere. He had obviously driven there, with his dog, for the very purpose.

He started giving me some nonsense about dogs being used to herd sheep - err, well, yes, but by trained sheepdogs and for a good reason, not for some idiot to use them like toys for their own amusement and trap them in a corner!

I think I'll put a note on the gate.

Taz that is brilliant!
But op yes you were right in what you did, drop the reg details to the police and they might pass the info on to the farmer to keep a look out.
The police where called to a dog running around in the field beside me with all the lambs, my neighbour caught the dog so it wasn't shot but the owner was warned what could happen, don't know what else happened.

Complete dickead.