rob190364 2,594 Posted July 21, 2011 Report Share Posted July 21, 2011 Who's going to the show at Erddig this weekend? I take my mutt for a walk round Erddig every day, went for a walk there last night and it looks like they're putting a fair bit of work into it....there was quite a few people camping there already! And now for the scary part, my mrs and 6 month old baby came with me last night (they don't normally), as we were walking down the path at the top end we could hear something coming rather rapidly and within a couple of seconds a fookin horse came running full speed towards us with the reigns flapping behind it....the path is about 6ft wide.....F'CK ME!!!!!! Luckily I had the pram right over to the side of the path and it ran straight past but if it'd have happened 1 minute later we'd have been in the part where the path is narrower.....kind of brought it home how quickly something could change/destroy your life!!! Anyway, my poor lurcher pup completely shat herself and legged it the same way the horse was running and turned the corner and the horse went the same way....I now know my pup has an extra gear that I didn't know about before, you should have seen the speed she was going down that path!!! She dipped into a path that we normally go down and the horse carried on going so she legged it all the way back round looking bizarrely pleased with herself. Worryingly though the horse carried on going full pelt towards a path that eventually leads to a cattle grid Hopefully it pulled up before it got to it but it didn't look like it was going to in all honesty, and I think it had blinkers on so there's a good chance it's dog food now. Ten or so minutes later we say the owners of the horse sort of running to try and find it, I told them what had happened and she said she couldn't hold it and went on their way to try and catch it. Accidents do happen but when you're in charge of something that big and powerful you make sure you keep control of the f'cking thing!!!!! I wasn't happy at all and my mrs was well shaken up, my pup just kept looking at me as if to say "can't we just stick to chasing f'ckin rabbits???" Anyway, who's going? It's only 1 mile from my house so we'll be wandering over there for sure Quote Link to post Share on other sites
pegleg33 134 Posted July 21, 2011 Report Share Posted July 21, 2011 I'm glad you're all ok Thing with horses os that they are flight animals and can spook easily.lets be fair a lot of dog handlers have trouble keeping control of their dogs so you can't really blame someone who's horse may of got the better of them, you don't know what caused the situation in the first place Quote Link to post Share on other sites
rob190364 2,594 Posted July 21, 2011 Author Report Share Posted July 21, 2011 I'm glad you're all ok Thing with horses os that they are flight animals and can spook easily.lets be fair a lot of dog handlers have trouble keeping control of their dogs so you can't really blame someone who's horse may of got the better of them, you don't know what caused the situation in the first place Sorry but quite frankly, yes I can....if you own an animal of that size that could kill someone quite easily, you have the responsibility to be in control of it whatever the situation. If it's not dead, that woman is going to have control (or rather lack of control) over that horse this weekend when there's going to be hundreds of people around, if the same thing happens then I dread to think what the outcome would be! can't really compare that to some knob on the park who's mongrel won't come back to him can you! Quote Link to post Share on other sites
pegleg33 134 Posted July 21, 2011 Report Share Posted July 21, 2011 I'm glad you're all ok Thing with horses os that they are flight animals and can spook easily.lets be fair a lot of dog handlers have trouble keeping control of their dogs so you can't really blame someone who's horse may of got the better of them, you don't know what caused the situation in the first place Sorry but quite frankly, yes I can....if you own an animal of that size that could kill someone quite easily, you have the responsibility to be in control of it whatever the situation. If it's not dead, that woman is going to have control (or rather lack of control) over that horse this weekend when there's going to be hundreds of people around, if the same thing happens then I dread to think what the outcome would be! can't really compare that to some knob on the park who's mongrel won't come back to him can you! That knob on the parks mongrel that won't come back to them may well of been the problem.It could of easily been a plastic bag in a hedge.Horses spook, unless you know this you won't understand.If it was someone with very little experience with horses that lost control I'm pretty sure that the rider did everything in their capabilities to stop this happening Again I'm glad no harm came to you or your family Quote Link to post Share on other sites
rob190364 2,594 Posted July 21, 2011 Author Report Share Posted July 21, 2011 I'm glad you're all ok Thing with horses os that they are flight animals and can spook easily.lets be fair a lot of dog handlers have trouble keeping control of their dogs so you can't really blame someone who's horse may of got the better of them, you don't know what caused the situation in the first place Sorry but quite frankly, yes I can....if you own an animal of that size that could kill someone quite easily, you have the responsibility to be in control of it whatever the situation. If it's not dead, that woman is going to have control (or rather lack of control) over that horse this weekend when there's going to be hundreds of people around, if the same thing happens then I dread to think what the outcome would be! can't really compare that to some knob on the park who's mongrel won't come back to him can you! That knob on the parks mongrel that won't come back to them may well of been the problem.It could of easily been a plastic bag in a hedge.Horses spook, unless you know this you won't understand.If it was someone with very little experience with horses that lost control I'm pretty sure that the rider did everything in their capabilities to stop this happening Again I'm glad no harm came to you or your family Fingers crossed there's no dogs or plastic bags at the show at the weekend then IMO if you're inexperienced or incapable or handling a horse you should stick to the paddock until you have the capability to do so. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
pegleg33 134 Posted July 21, 2011 Report Share Posted July 21, 2011 I'm glad you're all ok Thing with horses os that they are flight animals and can spook easily.lets be fair a lot of dog handlers have trouble keeping control of their dogs so you can't really blame someone who's horse may of got the better of them, you don't know what caused the situation in the first place Sorry but quite frankly, yes I can....if you own an animal of that size that could kill someone quite easily, you have the responsibility to be in control of it whatever the situation. If it's not dead, that woman is going to have control (or rather lack of control) over that horse this weekend when there's going to be hundreds of people around, if the same thing happens then I dread to think what the outcome would be! can't really compare that to some knob on the park who's mongrel won't come back to him can you! That knob on the parks mongrel that won't come back to them may well of been the problem.It could of easily been a plastic bag in a hedge.Horses spook, unless you know this you won't understand.If it was someone with very little experience with horses that lost control I'm pretty sure that the rider did everything in their capabilities to stop this happening Again I'm glad no harm came to you or your family Fingers crossed there's no dogs or plastic bags at the show at the weekend then IMO if you're inexperienced or incapable or handling a horse you should stick to the paddock until you have the capability to do so. Finally we agree on something Quote Link to post Share on other sites
rob190364 2,594 Posted July 21, 2011 Author Report Share Posted July 21, 2011 I'm glad you're all ok Thing with horses os that they are flight animals and can spook easily.lets be fair a lot of dog handlers have trouble keeping control of their dogs so you can't really blame someone who's horse may of got the better of them, you don't know what caused the situation in the first place Sorry but quite frankly, yes I can....if you own an animal of that size that could kill someone quite easily, you have the responsibility to be in control of it whatever the situation. If it's not dead, that woman is going to have control (or rather lack of control) over that horse this weekend when there's going to be hundreds of people around, if the same thing happens then I dread to think what the outcome would be! can't really compare that to some knob on the park who's mongrel won't come back to him can you! That knob on the parks mongrel that won't come back to them may well of been the problem.It could of easily been a plastic bag in a hedge.Horses spook, unless you know this you won't understand.If it was someone with very little experience with horses that lost control I'm pretty sure that the rider did everything in their capabilities to stop this happening Again I'm glad no harm came to you or your family Fingers crossed there's no dogs or plastic bags at the show at the weekend then IMO if you're inexperienced or incapable or handling a horse you should stick to the paddock until you have the capability to do so. Finally we agree on something hug? Quote Link to post Share on other sites
pegleg33 134 Posted July 21, 2011 Report Share Posted July 21, 2011 Depends will I get penetrated? Quote Link to post Share on other sites
rob190364 2,594 Posted July 21, 2011 Author Report Share Posted July 21, 2011 Depends will I get penetrated? only if you don't explode Quote Link to post Share on other sites
pegleg33 134 Posted July 21, 2011 Report Share Posted July 21, 2011 Depends will I get penetrated? only if you don't explode You been talking to my missus I told her it'd never happened before Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Strong Stuff 2,171 Posted July 21, 2011 Report Share Posted July 21, 2011 In answer to your first question Rob, I'll be there, both days, not often there's anything so close to me, and there's not much else on this weekend that isn't hundreds of miles away. Are you going? Quote Link to post Share on other sites
rob190364 2,594 Posted July 21, 2011 Author Report Share Posted July 21, 2011 In answer to your first question Rob, I'll be there, both days, not often there's anything so close to me, and there's not much else on this weekend that isn't hundreds of miles away. Are you going? Yeah I will do I think, I wasn't going to cos I'm not a big fan of crowds but I've never been to a game fair and it's on the door step so I probably will. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
rob190364 2,594 Posted July 21, 2011 Author Report Share Posted July 21, 2011 OK, now forgive me if I'm being stupid but on the National Trust website, under event details it says "Assistance Dogs only are welcome"......eh??? that can't be right surely?? Quote Link to post Share on other sites
CarraghsGem 92 Posted July 21, 2011 Report Share Posted July 21, 2011 Who's going to the show at Erddig this weekend? I take my mutt for a walk round Erddig every day, went for a walk there last night and it looks like they're putting a fair bit of work into it....there was quite a few people camping there already! And now for the scary part, my mrs and 6 month old baby came with me last night (they don't normally), as we were walking down the path at the top end we could hear something coming rather rapidly and within a couple of seconds a fookin horse came running full speed towards us with the reigns flapping behind it....the path is about 6ft wide.....F'CK ME!!!!!! Luckily I had the pram right over to the side of the path and it ran straight past but if it'd have happened 1 minute later we'd have been in the part where the path is narrower.....kind of brought it home how quickly something could change/destroy your life!!! Anyway, my poor lurcher pup completely shat herself and legged it the same way the horse was running and turned the corner and the horse went the same way....I now know my pup has an extra gear that I didn't know about before, you should have seen the speed she was going down that path!!! She dipped into a path that we normally go down and the horse carried on going so she legged it all the way back round looking bizarrely pleased with herself. Worryingly though the horse carried on going full pelt towards a path that eventually leads to a cattle grid Hopefully it pulled up before it got to it but it didn't look like it was going to in all honesty, and I think it had blinkers on so there's a good chance it's dog food now. Ten or so minutes later we say the owners of the horse sort of running to try and find it, I told them what had happened and she said she couldn't hold it and went on their way to try and catch it. Accidents do happen but when you're in charge of something that big and powerful you make sure you keep control of the f'cking thing!!!!! I wasn't happy at all and my mrs was well shaken up, my pup just kept looking at me as if to say "can't we just stick to chasing f'ckin rabbits???" Anyway, who's going? It's only 1 mile from my house so we'll be wandering over there for sure was driving round a roundabout during rush hour just outside of galway city last summer and there was a fine looking piebald horse grazing on the roundabout, fecking thing took a notion to jump over the bonnet of our van and galloped full pelt down the road. must have escaped from somewhere but if it had caused a crash whats the betting the owner would be nowhere to be found Quote Link to post Share on other sites
rob190364 2,594 Posted July 21, 2011 Author Report Share Posted July 21, 2011 Who's going to the show at Erddig this weekend? I take my mutt for a walk round Erddig every day, went for a walk there last night and it looks like they're putting a fair bit of work into it....there was quite a few people camping there already! And now for the scary part, my mrs and 6 month old baby came with me last night (they don't normally), as we were walking down the path at the top end we could hear something coming rather rapidly and within a couple of seconds a fookin horse came running full speed towards us with the reigns flapping behind it....the path is about 6ft wide.....F'CK ME!!!!!! Luckily I had the pram right over to the side of the path and it ran straight past but if it'd have happened 1 minute later we'd have been in the part where the path is narrower.....kind of brought it home how quickly something could change/destroy your life!!! Anyway, my poor lurcher pup completely shat herself and legged it the same way the horse was running and turned the corner and the horse went the same way....I now know my pup has an extra gear that I didn't know about before, you should have seen the speed she was going down that path!!! She dipped into a path that we normally go down and the horse carried on going so she legged it all the way back round looking bizarrely pleased with herself. Worryingly though the horse carried on going full pelt towards a path that eventually leads to a cattle grid Hopefully it pulled up before it got to it but it didn't look like it was going to in all honesty, and I think it had blinkers on so there's a good chance it's dog food now. Ten or so minutes later we say the owners of the horse sort of running to try and find it, I told them what had happened and she said she couldn't hold it and went on their way to try and catch it. Accidents do happen but when you're in charge of something that big and powerful you make sure you keep control of the f'cking thing!!!!! I wasn't happy at all and my mrs was well shaken up, my pup just kept looking at me as if to say "can't we just stick to chasing f'ckin rabbits???" Anyway, who's going? It's only 1 mile from my house so we'll be wandering over there for sure was driving round a roundabout during rush hour just outside of galway city last summer and there was a fine looking piebald horse grazing on the roundabout, fecking thing took a notion to jump over the bonnet of our van and galloped full pelt down the road. must have escaped from somewhere but if it had caused a crash whats the betting the owner would be nowhere to be found Bloody hell, I bet that shit you up a bit didn't it!!! Quote Link to post Share on other sites
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