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Len · 06-05-2006, 18:21

If that had been my dog I would have been truly grateful that the farmer hadn’t shot my dog.
We know It shouldn’t have been there, perhaps it had escaped?

A friend of mine once had a red setter a quite a big dog which they had had for a few years but one day the setter escaped and wondered of to a field which was full of sheep (laming season). No one had realized that their dog had gone walk- about.
Unfortunately the dog found the sheep to be great play things and started chasing and basically worrying the sheep, not a good idea when the farmer was watching. Understandably the farmer could have lost a small fortune if he had lost his lambs and seeing that there was no one around to call the dog off he had no choice but to cull the animal, which he did.
The farmer had even taken the trouble to contact the dogs owner, which he found on the dogs collar and tell them what had just happened and apparently he wasn’t a happy farmer but at least he had told them.

06-05-2006, 18:21	#7
Len God Member Join Date: Jan 2004 Location: Great Harwood Posts: 5,576 Liked: 3 times Rep Power: 3602	Re: any comments on this? If that had been my dog I would have been truly grateful that the farmer hadn’t shot my dog. We know It shouldn’t have been there, perhaps it had escaped? A friend of mine once had a red setter a quite a big dog which they had had for a few years but one day the setter escaped and wondered of to a field which was full of sheep (laming season). No one had realized that their dog had gone walk- about. Unfortunately the dog found the sheep to be great play things and started chasing and basically worrying the sheep, not a good idea when the farmer was watching. Understandably the farmer could have lost a small fortune if he had lost his lambs and seeing that there was no one around to call the dog off he had no choice but to cull the animal, which he did. The farmer had even taken the trouble to contact the dogs owner, which he found on the dogs collar and tell them what had just happened and apparently he wasn’t a happy farmer but at least he had told them. Last edited by Len; 06-05-2006 at 18:51.