tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3063789335725081371.post3527904793644897911..comments2024-03-10T18:43:37.776+01:00Comments on Writing Home: A Hard, Bitter Lessonsuejhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04072740351690646281noreply@blogger.comBlogger13125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3063789335725081371.post-54687229351549487682012-02-24T16:59:48.050+01:002012-02-24T16:59:48.050+01:00Victoria thank you for the comfort and for the rea...Victoria thank you for the comfort and for the reassurance about the fence. We're waiting for the delivery and I'm now impatient to lay it down and see how it works. I've a lot of gardening to do and moving backwards and forwards with the dogs on the lead all the time is frustrating.suejhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04072740351690646281noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3063789335725081371.post-10050411438528352622012-02-24T16:45:22.467+01:002012-02-24T16:45:22.467+01:00Sue, unfortunately one of my Dalmatians is a natur...Sue, unfortunately one of my Dalmatians is a natural born killer (the small feminine one, not the great lout who wouldn't hurt a fly) and she's caught several deer and killed one. When she merely caught a buck by the back leg and let go after a minute or two there was blood everywhere. So if your dogs weren't bloody I think you're right about your private opinion. My brother got one of those elctronic fences after his dogs kept on getting run over and it worked brilliantly.Victoria Corbyhttp://victoriacorby.wordpress.comnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3063789335725081371.post-32568972408609618702012-02-23T17:45:53.941+01:002012-02-23T17:45:53.941+01:00Yes, with luck it will.
We had good relations wit...Yes, with luck it will.<br /><br />We had good relations with neighbours...but the 'other interests' - used to using our land as their own for years while the last owner was too ill to leave the house - were most disgruntled by our arrival.<br /><br />If your land is of no interest then all you have to watch out for is someone who will be paid if he says your dog killed his whatever whereas he won't if a fox did it.the fly in the webhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04563871975125538755noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3063789335725081371.post-16683760346090869202012-02-22T22:31:57.630+01:002012-02-22T22:31:57.630+01:00Hello Perpetua, I thought you were spring cleaning...Hello Perpetua, I thought you were spring cleaning???? Thank you for your sympathy. I was watching the two of them playing this afternoon and I think, strangely, good will come out of this. Bertie has tended to go off and do his own thing and now he's having to walk alongside Vita all the time their own relationship is more enriched.suejhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04072740351690646281noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3063789335725081371.post-39117476987462624702012-02-22T22:27:33.138+01:002012-02-22T22:27:33.138+01:00Fly so sorry to hear about your experiences in rur...Fly so sorry to hear about your experiences in rural France. Until now we have been very fortunate. We have good relationships with the neighbouring farmers and indeed generally they don't have a problem with our dogs. One is a local counsellor and inclined to doubt it was our dog. The mayor has thanked us for taking this seriously. I think also we are tolerated because we own land that is not of interest - so for example the hunters do not disturb us. I'm hoping that all of this will settle down if we manage to secure our dogs properly.suejhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04072740351690646281noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3063789335725081371.post-50822694259753890892012-02-22T21:54:26.610+01:002012-02-22T21:54:26.610+01:00I don't know how I missed this post, Sue. So s...I don't know how I missed this post, Sue. So sorry for the distress this has caused you, not to mention the difficulty of keeping your dogs within your own boundaries in future. Sadly, in situations like these, it's just too easy for people to put 2 and 2 together and make 5. Not being a dog-owner I have no practical experience to share of advice to offer, but I can and do sympathise.Perpetuahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01214396019726161983noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3063789335725081371.post-19337618054207460482012-02-22T20:42:39.029+01:002012-02-22T20:42:39.029+01:00You're right about potential consequences....i...You're right about potential consequences....it is one of the things that made me so fed up with my part of rural France - the attempted bullying.<br /><br />I had people cutting my boundary fences to let the dog out on to the road....hoping he'd have an accident...because I would not tolerate unauthorised anglers on my land, leaving their weights and lines about to kill waterbirds.<br /><br />I've had ranks of the thugs of la chasse firing into my garden where children were playing because I reported them for breaking down nests that were protected.<br /><br />I'd be glad to hear about the collar system when you try it out...and I'm glad your dogs will be safe.<br /><br />I think if your dogs had killed you'd have noticed the distinct smell on the breath...but it's the neighbour who is your problem.the fly in the webhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04563871975125538755noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3063789335725081371.post-2862889149280699592012-02-21T18:55:59.159+01:002012-02-21T18:55:59.159+01:00Pomiane thank you for adding your voice to the gro...Pomiane thank you for adding your voice to the growing number of those expressing doubt. I hope everyone is right, but I also recognise that our foolish lack of control of our dogs is what has brought us to this point and we could do no less than step up to the mark. There are too many horror stories about what happens when English "incomers" fall out with their neighbours.suejhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04072740351690646281noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3063789335725081371.post-23257044645162660812012-02-21T15:34:03.769+01:002012-02-21T15:34:03.769+01:00The electronic fence ought to work - they generall...The electronic fence ought to work - they generally do, and once the dogs have got over the first surprise, it probably won't have any negatives for them. <br />I mistrust the 'circumstantial' evidence of the goat's owners, though - we had an identical incident years ago, in Greece, when a farmer swore blind he'd seen our then four-footed killing his chickens three days earlier - and it was only because we could prove that said four-footed had actually been in a different country on the other side of Europe at the time that something unpleasant didn't take place.Pomianehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05396853206841588293noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3063789335725081371.post-36020837868280556312012-02-20T21:25:36.154+01:002012-02-20T21:25:36.154+01:00Thank you everyone for your sympathetic comments. ...Thank you everyone for your sympathetic comments. No evidence of blood, but from time to time they do come back smelling of stuff they've rolled in - so who knows. Fly I too had reservations, but I have done a lot of research and am buying a reputable system through a dog trainer I trust. When we're through this I'll post more about our experiences, not least because I'm beginning to realise there is a lot of misunderstanding out there (my own included).suejhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04072740351690646281noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3063789335725081371.post-80742663861172928352012-02-20T20:54:13.323+01:002012-02-20T20:54:13.323+01:00So very difficult. So sorry for you, for the dogs,...So very difficult. So sorry for you, for the dogs, for the neighbours and for the baby goat. As you say, at least they went to the Mayor and it was discussed, rather than the matter taken into their own hands - without evidence, that would have been very hard to take. <br /><br />Poor Bertie - confined to quarters. With so much land, it must be very difficult for him! Hope the collars work.<br /><br />AxxxArtyZenhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12628693178003940118noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3063789335725081371.post-59360546194448953802012-02-20T18:36:59.255+01:002012-02-20T18:36:59.255+01:00Like the wild magnolia I think you would have seen...Like the wild magnolia I think you would have seen some traces, but as it is and whoever was responsible, you're lumbered with the consequences.<br />I really feel for you....between frustration at not being able to let the dogs roam, worry about what happens if they get out, and your relationship with your neighbour.<br /><br />I've never liked those collars, but if it keeps your two safe...it has to be.<br />I know someone who trains dogs for the police and he says they work very well.the fly in the webhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04563871975125538755noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3063789335725081371.post-37391955395205537092012-02-20T16:51:46.491+01:002012-02-20T16:51:46.491+01:00Your babies are wonderful. I love the from a dist...Your babies are wonderful. I love the from a distance. Looks to me like you would have seen a certain amount of blood on your dogs if they had killed a baby goat. I'm just sayin'.<br /><br />You will figure it out. I hope the electric fence does the job.<br /><br />I'm so sorry this has happened. I am sorry for the baby goats owner's also.the wild magnoliahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14355836751549469688noreply@blogger.com