Types of real survivalists: 1. The bad man

[vtsnowedin]

I remember dog licences...I think they went the way of all things about 20 years ago.

Do you mean to say that "Fido" can run around without sporting a collar adorned with a license tag and a rabies safe bob? If true that would make you much more Libertarian then Vermont/ USA.

[kenneal - lagger]

We have the English Channel to keep rabid French dogs out of our country. It worked for German ones as well.

[RenewableCandy]

I remember dog licences...I think they went the way of all things about 20 years ago.

Do you mean to say that "Fido" can run around without sporting a collar adorned with a license tag and a rabies safe bob? If true that would make you much more Libertarian then Vermont/ USA.

So, erm, yes. Though these days a lot of people have a chip implanted in their dog with its details.

The UK used to be extremely strict about Rabies and everybody who ever travelled knew about it from the deliberately-warlike-looking posters at ports and airports. But technology marches on and these days it's apparently no longer a death sentence if you catch it, and there's even innocculation. So people here are a bit more relaxed.

Of course, dogs do a lot of other harm. Every year at the top of February rural police forces have to remind people to keep their dogs away from line-of-sight of sheep (who are usually pregnant round about now, and may abort if panicked) and of course dogs ar also running around on cycle-paths causing accidents because "he doesn't mean to do any harm...".

[JohnB]

dogs ar also running around on cycle-paths causing accidents because "he doesn't mean to do any harm...".

I tended to find it was humans on cycle paths that cause more problems, especially when they walk on the bike bits of segregated paths. Dogs are easier to train to use them properly, as I used to be able to demonstrate.

[vtsnowedin]

I remember dog licences...I think they went the way of all things about 20 years ago.

Do you mean to say that "Fido" can run around without sporting a collar adorned with a license tag and a rabies safe bob? If true that would make you much more Libertarian then Vermont/ USA.

So, erm, yes. Though these days a lot of people have a chip implanted in their dog with its details.

The UK used to be extremely strict about Rabies and everybody who ever travelled knew about it from the deliberately-warlike-looking posters at ports and airports. But technology marches on and these days it's apparently no longer a death sentence if you catch it, and there's even innocculation. So people here are a bit more relaxed.

Of course, dogs do a lot of other harm. Every year at the top of February rural police forces have to remind people to keep their dogs away from line-of-sight of sheep (who are usually pregnant round about now, and may abort if panicked) and of course dogs ar also running around on cycle-paths causing accidents because "he doesn't mean to do any harm...".

We have quite a bit of rabies in wild animal populations at present so any dog or cat that ever goes out doors needs up to date rabies vacinations. As town clerk my wife sells the dog licences and has to check for up to date shots before she can issue a license tag. The dogs seem to think the two tags jingling on their collar are doggy jewelry and seam proud of them. Anytime anyone is bitten the first thing they check is to see if the dog has his tags to determine if rabies shots for the victim are in order.

[JavaScriptDonkey]

Well yes but cyclists should always give way to pedestrians and animals even if they are on a footpath marked okay for cyclists to use.

[biffvernon]

Cyclists should always give way to pedestrians, if only for self-preservation. In the event of a collision the cyclist has further to fall.

[RenewableCandy]

Well yes but cyclists should always give way to pedestrians and animals even if they are on a footpath marked okay for cyclists to use.

Pedestrians are generally not a problem because they're so easy to give way to. A typical lead-less dog though will cheerfully run alongside, or round and round, a bike for ages, for the entertainment/socialising value. While the owner stands in the background and calls "Honey" Honeyyy..." to absolutely no effect whatever, except perhaps to salve their conscience. But, to give them their due, most owners will then put their dog on a lead. At least for a while.

[Blue Peter]

Pedestrians are generally not a problem because they're so easy to give way to.

It's the cyclists "walking" dogs which are the worst,


Peter.

[JohnB]

It's the cyclists "walking" dogs which are the worst,


Peter.

Not all of them Peter. He may have weed on your lettuces, but Charlie was a fine example of dogs, bikes and pedestrians co-operating in harmony. It's a matter of proper training.