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?

And god given right for folk to spout shite.

Cosmos45 too true. This IS survival of the fittest. If I was 75 out for a little stress with my walking stick I would not have been able to social distance myself and I really do worry about our elderly.

No idea whether or not dogs can transmit c19, but they shouldn't be off leads chasing people anyway.

@mumieone

I dont think you understood what I meant. I am dreading the next few weeks because of what humans are probably going to do to animals now this 'evidence' has been produced. I am not scared of animals now and I never will be. Read my post again. I was disputing the claims that animals now pose a covid threat.

You were aggressive towards the dog. Why would you not expect it to be aggressive in return? I'm saying this because it might keep you safer in future. (And dogs you encounter, but you clearly don't care about them)

The dog should have been called away from you when you made it clear you were uncomfortable. Any owner who doesn't do this is irresponsible. Any dog who refuses to respond to this should be on a lead.

I will do what I want with my dog. She gets out once a day. You're probably one of those people who walk around in plastic gloves and then touch everything making them absolutely useless.

Anyone got a tiger needing a walk?

Sleepwiththefishes...glad to put a smile on your face during such uncertain times😷.

We all have our purpose and you may have just found mine.

Dogs should have been under control - not necessarily leashed.

Dogs cannot spread Covid 19. Hysterical much

Actually there isn’t enough evidence to fully conclude that we cannot transmit CV19 to pets and vice versa. It seems unlikely but it’s impossible to conclude. That said, I certainly wouldn’t be getting wound up over it. I would expect the risk to be minuscule. It’s not something that bothers me. Humans are far more likely to infect other humans in the supermarket!

Cyberwarrior it's a shame that. Risky behaviour coupled with no common sense means our hospital staff are overworked and exhausted while some folk think social distancing measures are unnecessary and exaggerated.

Scrowy 🙏

And which of us do you think are exhausted and overworked and know fine about precautionary measures? Do tell.

YABU OP

What I would like to see though is a dog 'driver's license' regarless of covid.

To be permitted to own a dog and let it run off the lead all dog owners should complete a test similar to drivers license theory test or the Life in the UK Test. Also people should have to renew these every five years. All dogs should be registered.

OP if you were walking in a bird nesting area and came across an out of control dog did you take it up with the owner? Or did you think it more appropriate to rant on SM?

Christ. Now to add to the misery, this sort of scaremongering will lead to people abandoning their pets or hurting animals.

The dog should have been on lead, but you can't catch COVID-19 from domestic animals.

www.pdsa.org.uk/what-we-do/blog/vet-qa-can-pets-catch-coronavirus

The author of the National Geographic article about the tiger that tested positive clarified that the vet considers it more likely that it had been exposed to the virus from an asymptomatic handler and that so far the data suggests that person are getting it from owners, not the other way around

Littlemeadow123 I think they do spread it. There has been enough evidence for me to see animals do, have and are getting ill. The start of this whole covid saga was from an animal to a human at Wuhan wet fish market.
What more evidence do you need?

Will this only make sense once they hire a temp secretary at WHO to type a document and upload this on Thier website to make you think about the risk animals who may be infected might pose to us?

Have you all had your pets tested? I think not. That's because most governments can barely test test own frontline workers to start with.

Do you want to play the waiting game to see if more animals infect more of us?

If you do.....please don't assume the rest of us are happy to "see how it goes". I'm keeping away I don't feel it's too much to ask for adults looking after Thier pets to also ensure we are not subjected to uncontrolled and untested risks.

mumieone so you know better than WHO and the BVA, do you? Both have said that there’s no evidence that pets can be a source of infection or that they can become sick from COVID-19.

Ranting on SM is safer.

Being a goady fucker in real life could get you your just desserts.

Oh FFS

YANBU. Dogs should be on leads unless they are under control. And by under control, I mean will return to their owner when called every time.

One had to be pulled off me the other day (and his owner had to get much closer than 2m to do that!).

Pelleas 😂

did you take it up with the owner? Or did you think it more appropriate to rant on SM

Are you serious? An owner who watched their out of control dog chase someone who was running away from it and then when they eventually could be arsed to take some control of their pet, claimed it was being friendly... yes, I'm sure they would respond really well to that.

I would be more concerned about the dog catching mad cows disease perhaps?