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?

Beauty contest?? Must have missed that bit. If you were throwing stones near a dog chances are you could very easily have hit it intentionally or not. Totally irrational behaviour.

Just saying dogs should be under control at all times. Not just when there is a threat of Covid 19

Oh, I agree with you totally. After all, out of control dogs off the lead leads to accidents, most often for the dog but sometimes for passersby too. I just wanted to point out that an out of control dog off lead is actually a tad more dangerous during the COVID-19 outbreak, because it's likely to lead to infringement of social distancing.

Bestcat..I think new ideas are what make for progression. Interesting idea.

Nikthegreek why would someone want to hit a dog intentionally? And no I don't think you could have easily I think it would be tough.

Mainstream universities here don't that type of language and I'm not living on the streets.

Far be it from me to even suggest that.

Dogs shouldn't approach other people but it's very wrong to throw stones! Dogs have not been proven to carry covid19 and if you don't touch the dog you are at no risk. My dog is actually trained so would never approach people in the park, in fact my issue is kids running up to him when I have him in the lead (they will never catch him off lead)

If you're throwing stones near a dog it could quite easily think you're playing a game with it, dog runs towards the stones and there you go , stone hits the dog. Use your sense and maybe a bit of imagination.

The fruit loops are out in force at the moment aren't they.

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 uncontr

The dog should have been under control and so should you. It looks like other people are following the official guidelines re animals/contagion, but you're expecting them to follow your inflated, exaggerated, unpublicised, unfounded rules. If that's the attitude you live your life with, I'm not surprised you're so paranoid that you're throwing stones at an innocent animal. You must feel your boundaries are crossed constantly.

Of course the dog should have been under better control. I am a dog owner. I am currently keeping our elderly spaniel on the flexi lead when out to ensure we can socially distance if we encounter people in the fields. She used to have very good recall, but doesn't now because she has gone deaf in her old age so unless she is looking directly at me she can't be recalled and I have to go up to whatever the situation is to physically retrieve her myself.

From what I can tell, the chances of you getting Covid 19 from a dog are minimal, if at all. That doesn't mean that these people should have allowed the dog to run about unchecked like that.

You don't seem to know much about dogs though. They love to play "chase", and by running away you gave it a target to chase. If someone else's dog comes up to me I find it much better to stop. I give it no eye contact if the person is having difficulty recalling it. I also sometimes turn my back on it. Nine times out of ten they then give up after a few minutes and bugger off to the next thing.

Throwing stones at them is stupid, even if you are just aiming near to them. Just as dangerous as throwing them at or near another human.

Once again, you’re wasting your time people, there’s no arguing with stupid

Living on the streets? Get me - the ghetto princess.

Went to university thanks. You’ve had goady fucker explained to you. Most of my friends there would have grasped it. Long time ago now though so I concede that standards may have dropped.

Given that you can’t even manage to get my name right then I can only conclude that they have.

For a first time poster you sure do have hirsute hands.

Hirsute under H in the dictionary.

Just after G. Where you will find goady.

Just in case you need help finding it.

Idiots like you cause the below problem 😡

Is today 'misinformation' Tuesday?

There's a thread in which the OP has stated in the title that France has banned all outdoor exercise, which isn't true and now this one claiming that dogs can spread Covid19.

Can you show us where you get your proof from OP?

Oh hold on, you probably read it on face book or twitter or some other highly respected science journal.

Thank you all for your posts. It is just nice to hear other people's thoughts I know dogs are a touchy topic at the best of times.

Just like marmite or coffee...you have some who love it and some who don't.

But you always have the middle ground folk who actually just jump into any thread going to vent and unleash their unchecked anger issues.

It's good to see that many said the dog should have been on a lead anyhow 'despite" and that the recovery of a dog jumping or attacking someone would force the owner to break the 2 m social distancing measures we are all obligated to now follow.

BrooHaHa

Out of control dogs are a nuisance for everyone. I have been jumped on, more times than I care to remember, over the years of walking my dogs.

It seems now that dog owners who cannot control their dogs want the field to themselves these days. If they want to wait outside the gate until I’m done with my dog walk that suits me just fine 😊

In the scenario given it does rather seem like the OP’s actions were, even if unintentionally, more exciting to the dog than it’s owner. Anyone who has been jumped all over by a strange dog will know the only thing you can do is stand still, shouting “Get off!” and wait for the owner to call them, or retrieve their unruly mutt. It’s pointless running with a dog running after you. The dog will think it’s great fun. As for throwing stones near the dog.... there are no words... except if she was throwing stones near the dog then dog wasn’t jumping over her 🤔

Off you go to shave. There’s a love.

I also worry about our dog's fur picking up the virus on walks. If a pet lives in a house where people have Covid-19, what's to say their fur doesn't have viable virus on it. They then rub against things like plants, lampposts etc.

I don't think this has been tested, but I have seen pictures of South Koreans and Spanish streets being sprayed to deactivate the virus outside.

I don't think throwing the stones 'near' the dog is much different from 'at' the dog.

How would you feel if children at school were throwing stones 'near' your child? 'Oh, that's ok then'?

If this post is about dogs jumping on you I agree, but don’t put it under the umbrella that you can catch coronvirus from dogs, mis information is very dangerous, animals are being dumped because owners are stupid enough to believe they can get coronvirus from them

For someone who need interpreting into international English you do a have a remarkable grasp on Marmite.

And enough grasp of mumsnet to stay on topic but allegedly no idea what goady fucker is.

Yah get me blud. (Keeping it street)

But you always have the middle ground folk who actually just jump into any thread going to vent and unleash their unchecked anger issues

If you post something on a public forum and a bunch of people get pissed off with your post, it's a good idea to look at what you've said and see if they have a point, rather than passive aggressively making sideways remarks at nobody in particular about people having 'issues'.

Otherwise you risk looking like you have 'issues' yourself. Which is, in fact, how you look.

PigsDofly. Here you go:

"Dr. Jeremy Farrar, director of the Wellcome Trust in Britain, where he studies infectious diseases and tropical medicine, noted that this coronavirus has crossed from animals to humans.

"That does not happen often, and it is without doubt very serious," Farrar said in a Science Media Centre"

Should be enough for you to Google further online. Please don't go to Facebook or Twitter.