Anyone on here rent land for walking their dogs and maybe setting up agility stuff?
We live in a great village but i'd love a couple of acres or more where i could walk all three of my dogs and not bump into other people with their dogs. it would make life alot easier if i could take all three out at the same time but i find that really hard work on the leads and then you have to have eye's in the back of your head with three, even though their pretty well behaved.
if i had some land i could put them all in the car and drive to the field then they could all have a great time without me watching for other people.
At the moment i tend to take the two younger girls out and my old boy goes on his own.  

We rent some land from the local farmer, he is pretty good, and lets us walk our 8dogs in the fields anyhow, but wanted somewhere to walk all year round, especially when there's crops in.
We rent 5 acres, and it costs us £120 a year, it is fenced, and occassionally there horse riders going through it, put no other dog walkers.

How lucky are you. Did you go and ask the farmer about renting land or was it someone you new and they offered?
Just wondering about where to start and who to ask, suppose it's just a case of knocking on farmers doors.

What about your local council, they may have some land you could use.

Never thought of that, it's worth a try.

Never rented land for dog, but when we had horses we regularly rented grazing land.  Several times form farmers, but some other large organisations have big "land banks", and we rented from (among others) the local Water Authority, the National Coal Board, and the CEGB, among others.  They often have small ads in the local papers in the farming/horsey sections with lots of different fields to rent.  Another good source woudl be to try Estate Agents who specialise in farm sales and rents.

I spoke to the land owner/farmer, and asked if it would ok to walk our dogs on his land when there were no crops, and no livestock, then he had some acres which were set a side, and we asked if we could rent purely to walk and exercise our dogs in, there are 3 other cottages beside me, who dont even walk there dogs!!

Interesting....as i would also love to rent some land, will look into it further ;)

Kenya... you live in Scotland... you don't have to ask a landowner if you can use his fields, you have the right to roam :-) The right to roam allows you to walk through farmers fields, but of course you must be responsible. Avoid crop fields and never walk through fields with lambs or calves but other than that you're free to roam with no charge. Unbelievably the right to roam act doesn't even say that your dog must be on a lead in a field with livestock, just under close control. Personally I use farmers fields (empty livestock ones) all the time to walk the dogs.

Edited to add the link to the full access code in Scotland    http://www.outdooraccess-scotland.com/upload/Full%20Access%20Code.pdf

The only thing about living in Scotland and using fields is to make sure the gamey doesn't see you near his pheasants ;-) I had an altercation one year where a friends dog picked up a pheasant and carried it back to my house. I wasn't even with him when he did it - I was out shopping :-) The next day the gamey came out and started shouting at me about keeping my dogs under control. He even had the audacity to say that he couldn't care less if they chased sheep, but to keep them away from his pheasants. How did he know it wasn't a wild pheasant? Or one that had been killed by other means? Sorry, rant over.

Wouldn't mind my own piece of land though. That way I could give the dogs some better gundog training. :-D

I don't live in Scotland, i live in gloucestershire. i do have access to a lot of fields to walk in but their used by a lot of other people as i live in a village with a large amount of doggy people.
i do love to go walking with people and their dogs but would just like the option to walk with my three dogs on my own and not have to worry about other peoples dogs running up to mine as one of my dogs is very nervous. She's fine with other dogs as long as they leave her alone but with so many dogs around us you can't seem to get away from other people.
in an ideal world i'd move house and buy somewhere with land but having looked around getting a suitable house, land and being within the right distance from my daughters school isn't easy.
Stupid thing is we back on to a huge field that has a public footpath round it but it's so popular that you have to choose your time to use it and when the crops grow there so tall it limits you to a narrow walking space and if you meet other dogs there's not a lot you can do to get away from them if you needed to.
Lets hope i win the lottery but thats doubtful seeing as i rarely do it.
think i will try the council though, let me know how any of you get on finding land for your doggys.    

We moved house 11 years ago specifically for the dogs, we lived in a village and had about a third of an acre and at the time had eight Boxers which was hopeless.  We sold the house and moved to the countryside where we have about an acre and a half which is super for the dogs.  To let them run on your own land is fantastic, you don't have to worry about any other dogs, ours weren't a problem but I hate it when another dog you don't know comes racing across "to play".  When folk ask "why did you move to the middle of nowhere" we reply "for the dogs".  I'm sure a local farmer could help you out.

Just had another thought - the Church Commission own acres and acres of land, all over the country, they usually use local land/estate agents to manage the lettings.

My Dad bought 32 acreas of SSSI land years ago when the children (grandchildren) were young. We used to let them raom with a whistle to blow if they got lost. He gave it to me for my 40th birthday and now some 14 years later its still with me, the dogs walk it with us, kids, our grandchildren, and Dad is still with us. Once a year in May my eldest son has "Curdstock" when all his x uni mates and OH's come down to play music get drunk and have BBQ's great fun we keep away that weekend. Apart from that its empty and very very private. It does make all the difference, the kids like it best when someone wanders through and they can ask them to leave "This is private land" very politely but they say the power rush is great.

Im going to leave it to my eldest son, if he ever tries to sell it, it must go to the charity I designate so he can only caretake it as we have.