Keep your dogs on a lead!

Riding home from work tonight and I am coming near to the end of the lanes so I am beginning to slow from 60mph.

There is a car coming in the other direction and then out of the hedge, on my side of the road, appears a dog.
I have to slam the breaks on and just narrowly avoid squishing said mutt and coming off the bike (there was loose gravel on the road so that didnt exactly help my cause)

While I was composing myself, and the dog was still just stood there sniffing the hedgerow without a care in the world, I see the owner idly climbing over the fence that is used to enter and exit the field.

He finally gets over, glances at me and his dog and then starts walking off in the opposite direction with just a whistle to the dog who just stands there (until I rev my engine and it moves)

The looks round calls the dog and then beggars off into a house just off the lanes.

Now I am all for letting your dog run off lead on a field but for goodness sake when you are near a road then put them on a lead!

*puts soapbox back to collect dust*

I don't have a dog

[maviczap]

Squish it next time, harsh, but that'll make the owner take a bit of interest in the mutt, as they obviously don't at the mo

[andrewsmith]

MM boot or run the bugger over

[Bluepete]

I hit a dog on the motorway a few months ago.

Luckily, I was in my job car.

Unluckily, I was doing about 110mph at the time.

The dog wasn't well afterwards.

Unluckily, my car needed a new bumper and foglight.

Luckily, I dont have to pay for it!

Pete

Glad you`re okay, could`ve been so much worse!

Gah, would be so much easier if we didn't give a jot about dogs! Well done for keeping it together, I'd end up putting myself in danger if the same thing were to happen to me, just the instinct to save the bleddy dog!

[Shellywoozle]

Glad u r ok!!!!! This kinda person gives dog owners a bad name

What people don't realise is if their dog causes an accident they can be prosecuted.

Let alone have to live with either a dead pet or someone hurt.

I let my dog off the lead, on a clear field where there are no other dogs and not near a road.

No matter how well trained you think your dog is off the lead, if they are near a road and get spooked they can quite easily bolt into the road and you end up with that on your conscience

Originally Posted by minimorecambe

I let my dog off the lead, on a clear field where there are no other dogs and not near a road.

No matter how well trained you think your dog is off the lead, if they are near a road and get spooed they can quite easily bolt into the road and you end up with that on your conscience

Exactly. Our German Shepherd tends to be good as gold of the lead - cos hes a scaredy cat - but we don't let him off anywhere near roads, not worth it.