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Muzzle and lead please.He’s not a poodle.
give over, if a dog has proper recall he’s perfectly safe, they need proper exercise and unless the owner can run 20km, a dash around on a probably empty beach is a great workout,
plus I have met plenty of nasty ankle biter little poodles
‘Muzzle and lead please.’
Is this a genuine comment or a bit of sarcasm, I wonder. This is not Howth. It is a North Mayo beach (which, much to my chagrin, I cannot identify) and the dog and his owner(s) are probably the only visitors. The dog is having the chance of freedom for a while in a beautiful wild setting. In those circumstances, a lead is unnecessary and a muzzle would be just plain cruel.
@Gringo here here.
Genuine comment. That breed of dog is unpredictable and potentially a danger to anyone else in the area, and it is required to have a muzzle on it. And if I encountered a dog like that, loose on my land, I would shoot it without hesitation.
Getting any work down the Law Library?
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‘Genuine comment.’
Thank you for the response, Gringo. The situation of a dog (of any kind) running loose on farmed or similar land is one apart from that of a dog on an empty beach. Regarding the former, I fully understand your position. Regarding the latter, common sense says that this should be perfectly acceptable – it’s good for the dog and no threat to the non-present public (discounting the owners from ‘public’, in this case). However, I’ve looked at the law and the lead and muzzle would, as you say, be required in a public place (ie one to which the the public have access) for this breed of dog. To my mind, it is cruel for a dog like this never to be able to run free and muzzleless so with a law in place that forces this treatment on the dog, I certainly won’t be getting one myself, for the dog’s sake.
In fairness, mission creep should always be guarded against.
What breed of dog is that?
That looks very like Glengad Beach on Broadhaven Bay – will follow comments and hope to get answers to both question and opinion.
Reply to self, since nobody else did!
If you want a thing done and all that – the dog is a husky and the beach is Ross Beach.
That’s how it starts Maura
Soon you’ll invent a new username to answer yourself
No, never went there and not likely now; simply a question of asking a question – if you don’t get an answer (and an answer that’s credible) then you go and find out for yourself.
That’s underpinned a lot of stuff I’ve done.