Today whilst out with the dogs at the park and lake we had a bit of a confrontation with some fisherman, the lake is within a woods which is in a country park, part of the lake is for dogs, and the deeper end for fishing, complete with swims.
At the dog end of the lake there are notices saying that in between the two posts is an area disignated for dogs, and if fishermen choose to fish there then they do so with the understanding that there is disturbance from dogs splashing, these signs are normally behind a piece of perspex.
Today on arrival at the lake, there were two people fishing at the dog end, ive walked a fair distance away before throwing the dummy in for jack, our sprocker to retreive, after jack had retrieved it a few times one of the men said 'do you mind we are fishing here' i explained that the area they were fishing in was in fact for the dogs to swim in and that they had to understand any distrubance caused by them, the man that had spoken to me then packed his rods up and walked past me to the other man, at the same time having a go at me for letting my dogs in the lake, once he had got to the other man , he continued to shout at me, at this my lab tess who is very protective of me (she is very vocal and and puts her hackles up towards people who seem to threaten me or my younger sisters) walked out of the lake and headed towards the man barking, i called her back and continued to throw the dummy and explain to the man, he carried on shouting at me to which my lab couldnt take any more she ran towrds him keeping 6 foot from him barking and growling, but returning when called, he then said that she was dangerous and that she should be on a lead, well i cant stand people who tell me what i should do with my dogs, as if i thought tess would bite i would put her on a lead, he continued to shout at me about ruining his day of fishing for my dogs five minutes in the lake, to which i had a go back with a few choice words from both me and tess, and carried on doing what i was doing, after 5 minutes he got fed up and left, our five minutes in the lake was the 30 minutes as always before walking around the woods.
RAther conviently the signs had been removed, they have been removed before and i have found them and reoplaced them but today i couldnt find them.
Why do people assume that just because its raining people dont exercise their dogs, my dogs swim come rain or shine, the only time we dont go to the lake is when its icy, for obvious reasons.
thats it rant over now
tanya

Hope you are feeling better the s*ds aren't they :(

What a horrible pair! They made more of a disturbance than your dogs. What goes around comes around though. Heres to a better day for you all tomorrow:)

Anglers can be a right pain in the backside! They sit by the canals and moan at passing narrowboats (who were the canals built for?? :rolleyes: ) they moan at you if you dare to canoe (with a licence) on the river, and on lakes they grumble when they see ospreys diving and catching fish (what an amazing sight). Is it that loners and moaners are attracted to the 'sport', or does the 'sport' do it to them?

We have the same in our country park - got our own back the other day, Dylan nicked his sandwiches while he was shouting at Honey, have to admit I didn't call him off, but ran away calling them - well, as much as I could through the giggles - I wonder when he realised? :D

Not anglers for us this time - but fellow dog owners!!! We had an annoying incident yesterday on our 'long' walk circuit, at a place where dogs can be run off lead in several fields. It's a great place - most owners who use it are responsible - putting dogs on leads when you approach if they have a snappy dog. ( We do the same if we see very young children , as our dog is a large breed and very bouncy as he is still young , and could hurt a small child by accident in his excitement ). Anyway tonight we had a Weimaraner being a bit 'full on' with our dog , ours was visably uncomfortable so we picked up the pace and called our dog - the Weima followed too through jumping all over our dog and up at us and snapping at our faces. My dog naturally started to try and protect us. The owner made no apology for the Weima- just said 'oh she always does that' and it really hacked me off ! Then we had a male Lab who started playfully bundling with my dog, but then again wouldn't go back to his owner. Our dog came when called and we continued walking, but ended up a mile away from the Lab owner with his dog still in tow and bothering ours , and he did nothing to call it back. In the end I had to out my dog on the lead ( so he missed his retrieve practice and games) , and lure the other dog with food into a sit and down , before instructing it to wait until the owner appeared, and twice the bloody thing nipped me! We have a very gentle natured Ridgie and many people automatically think he will be aggressive or attack them or their dog because of his size, so we have worked hard to train our dogs at classes so that he has good manners and discipline. These people who quite frankly can't be ar*ed to keep control of the dog give all of us a bad name - and it's unfair they way they then look at you when your dog is pushed into protecting you, from what it perceives is a threat. I wonder if they also go fishing !!!