Dog owners very irresponsible letting them of leafs on walks knowing they too can spread covid19?

[mumieone]

Today on my permitted walk in semi rural area two men having a day on the beach just let thier dog run wild with no consideration for social distancing.

With reports on dogs, cats and the latest tiger having symptoms and testing positive for covid19 should dig owners be allowed to let thier dogs just jump on passers by?

I saw the dog coming and moved about 4 metres away from the men. One just lit up a fab and did nothing and the other watched.

When I moved the dig chased me as I ran to try to climb up a hill. I threw stones near it to try to deter but didn't work and owner eventually took him and said he was being friendly. More like dangerous. I said look we are all trying to social distance and who knows if your dog has covid19 and some of us are trying to keep ourselves and others safe and social distance!

Shouldnt dog owners be more careful?

Dogs and CV? I thought that they, and pigs, did not?

But off lead and bothering anyone is out of order ALL the time!

Excuse the typos .... first time poster and don't see anywhere to go back and edit the typos. Dig meant (dog) and fab meant (fag).

Dogs and animals are the least of my worries. People spitting during their jog/walk, kids and adults not distancing, getting hit in the kidney by handlebars on a walkway.

The dog I walk is only let off when there is no one about by the way.

But people are the main risk here. Not animals.

Oh for god's sake

Great goady post for your first time though. Well done.

Dogs should be on leads in the street

And dogs don't pass on the virus. Cats are slightly more likely to.

YANBU. Official information here in Ireland is to keep dogs on leads. Didn't stop some woman here letting her dog run down the road ahead of her while she was chatting merrily on her phone.

I think latest findings are the dog's more likely to catch something from you!

You ran away scrambled up a hill and threw things at the dog? But of an over reaction

Yes, the dog should have been under control. No, you cannot get Covid 19 from a dog.

If you had been chased along the beach by a tiger (with or without Covid 19), I might have some sympathy for you.

Sorry, not beach - chased by a tiger through a rural area.

Dogs should always be 'under close control' anyway.

Cats seem to be more likely to be carriers (other than merely physically) on current evidence. I wonder if they'll have to be kept in?

If it had been a tiger then we wouldn’t have had a goady post.

You can't catch Covid 19 from a dog but they should be on short leads so that they don't run all over the place making it more difficult to socially distance.

Also, if they are on a short lead, they can't be run over, and they can't jump up and knock over, or bite someone, so you don't then need to worry about vet or medical care.

Dogs do not spread the virus, but it’s courtesy to keep them on the lead if there’s a chance of them running up to/upsetting others. We have kept our (friendly) dog on lead since our usually deserted dog walks are busy with people (legitimately) enjoying their exercise.

Someone else’s dog is not going to pass covid to you, but in theory if a covid person coughed droplets onto the dog it could act as a fomite and carry the virus on it’s coat (same as anything else such as clothing).

Also having to separate/retrieve an over-excited dog may bring people closer together than 2m. So dogs on leads is a good idea plus usual hygiene and handwashing.

Get a grip. Dogs need exercise too! Like others I'm more concerned about irresponsible humans. We're in the shielding group and have to get up at 5:30 am to walk our dog because the parks are heaving!! We have a 1 year old whippet who is unbearable if he doesn't get to run for at least half an hour a day. He's used to 2-3 hour walks in woodlands and on beaches daily, seeing his brother and friends, this has now been shortened to boring 45 minutes in the local park. We live in a flat with a shared garden. What shall we do? Keep him indoors for 12 weeks? That'll be great for everyone's stress levels... Just don't touch other people's dogs 🙄 which you shouldn't be doing anyways.

The makers of the FCov test have freely admitted it gets lots of false positives and the couple of cats were infected by their owners.
The dog situation has been disproven, dogs can not give people coronavirus.

There are still no reports of animals in the UK with coronavirus.

World Health Organisation says "at present there is no evidence that companion animals/pets such as dogs or cats can be infected with the new coronavirus".

Touch the tigers though

The dog would never have passed the virus on to you. You should be washing your hands every time you get back from a walk anyway, so even if you had petted the dog you would have washed off any potential virus from it's fur.
You must have looked mad running away and throwing stones at a dog!

A sad result of Covid19 here is more people seem to be walking dogs off lead in areas/trails (instead of the usual jaunt round the block) resulting in koalas being mauled. Our local rescue group posted that in the last few days 6 were mauled to death. I don't think it's unreasonable to expect people to keep dogs on lead at the moment (said as a dog owner)

Oh in saying that I don't think you would get the virus off the dog - more as a general consideration for other people at the moment

@mumieone
Glad you clarified, I was dying to know how someone managed to light up a fab 😂
Just for the record I have kept my dog on lead since the whole situation kicked off, mainly due to the increased human traffic on our walks.

By law dogs should be on leads anywhere there are ground nesting birds between 1st March and 31st July.

So that's most 'open access' moorland, many beaches, woods, farmland etc

Useful summary here poochandcompany.co.uk/blogs/dog-safety/dog-walking-your-rights-as-a-dog-owner