Dog walk Middle East Style with some Krypton Factor goodness
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Who would have thought just simply walking my dog in a new place would lead, pardon the pun, to a east meets west encounter?
It's been a lovely sunny bank holiday in the SE of England, cough, so I thought I would take my dog Wispa on a nice walk here around historic Ightam Mote house. A new route for us.
So we set off from the church bottom right to go the triangle up to the Ightam Mote house (nice ice-creams by the way) and not 100 yards from the chruch we had the stile from hell. I have a broken back and so took a while to get over this tall and imposing beast and our dog could not get over it all all so we lifted all 25kg of him over. Then the same sort of stile again on the other side, which was strange as this was not even a place you would graze sheep as a working farm.
We went over a couple more, by this time my extremely rare crossbreed/mongrel hybrid was getting rather bummed about the whole deal. Man with broken back lifting 25kg of wet smelly pissed off dog.
We then continued around the path seeing sheep very securely penned in, through the wood, up to Ightam and then back down. We met several other dog walkers and in general chat they kept mentioning the middle east owners which was interesting. Why? My curiosity was piqued.... I felt some undercurrent.
Getting back home I did a google and found this
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/uknews/8915019/Ken...
Which is both quite funny and quite sad.
Sad that they say
"that dog walkers were worrying his sheep, that the path invaded his privacy and was a threat to the security of the estate."
when the sheep are in a field completely penned in with fencing, and funnily enough we didn't meet him on our walk nor did we even see his house, which he probably never goes to. Security to the estate? Here's a guy who lives in a part of the world where people will fill up a truck with explosives and drive it at you just to make a point and he's worried about a Lab doing a poo and it not being cleared up. Ermm.
Sad also Kent County Council agreed to it also. Heads obviously turned by money and power. We all pay a s
tload to them down here each year, expect them to do better and not become a whor e. Public rights of way cannot be bought. People have fought for many years for us to now take the benefits of their hard work 
We won't be walking there again as we can do a dog friendly walk elsewhere, but hats off to the people still doing it as it is their "local". Keep doing it.
Whether you are coming through the channel tunnel or a rich Saudi billionaire when you come to this country you need to fit in as best you can. Or feck off.
My dog Wispa told me to write that last sentence
PS Hope Teddy the cocker spaniel was found. Owners were shouting for a long time.
It's been a lovely sunny bank holiday in the SE of England, cough, so I thought I would take my dog Wispa on a nice walk here around historic Ightam Mote house. A new route for us.
So we set off from the church bottom right to go the triangle up to the Ightam Mote house (nice ice-creams by the way) and not 100 yards from the chruch we had the stile from hell. I have a broken back and so took a while to get over this tall and imposing beast and our dog could not get over it all all so we lifted all 25kg of him over. Then the same sort of stile again on the other side, which was strange as this was not even a place you would graze sheep as a working farm.
We went over a couple more, by this time my extremely rare crossbreed/mongrel hybrid was getting rather bummed about the whole deal. Man with broken back lifting 25kg of wet smelly pissed off dog.
We then continued around the path seeing sheep very securely penned in, through the wood, up to Ightam and then back down. We met several other dog walkers and in general chat they kept mentioning the middle east owners which was interesting. Why? My curiosity was piqued.... I felt some undercurrent.
Getting back home I did a google and found this
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/uknews/8915019/Ken...
Which is both quite funny and quite sad.
Sad that they say
"that dog walkers were worrying his sheep, that the path invaded his privacy and was a threat to the security of the estate."
when the sheep are in a field completely penned in with fencing, and funnily enough we didn't meet him on our walk nor did we even see his house, which he probably never goes to. Security to the estate? Here's a guy who lives in a part of the world where people will fill up a truck with explosives and drive it at you just to make a point and he's worried about a Lab doing a poo and it not being cleared up. Ermm.
Sad also Kent County Council agreed to it also. Heads obviously turned by money and power. We all pay a s
tload to them down here each year, expect them to do better and not become a whor e. Public rights of way cannot be bought. People have fought for many years for us to now take the benefits of their hard work We won't be walking there again as we can do a dog friendly walk elsewhere, but hats off to the people still doing it as it is their "local". Keep doing it.
Whether you are coming through the channel tunnel or a rich Saudi billionaire when you come to this country you need to fit in as best you can. Or feck off.
My dog Wispa told me to write that last sentence
PS Hope Teddy the cocker spaniel was found. Owners were shouting for a long time.
Edited by Gandahar on Monday 31st August 15:30
Would that be the little lab poo that causes Toxoplasmosis and abortions in sheep or the produce of the ones that chase sheep?
The problem with footpaths is that some people who use them don't respect the fact that they are used by others. I rarely walk down a footpath and rejoice in how dog st and litter free it is, and how everyone has stuck to the path and there isn't a hole in the wall where people have climbed over for a wander into other fields...
The problem with footpaths is that some people who use them don't respect the fact that they are used by others. I rarely walk down a footpath and rejoice in how dog s
t and litter free it is, and how everyone has stuck to the path and there isn't a hole in the wall where people have climbed over for a wander into other fields...Countdown said:
I don't think it's necessarily "immigrants" not fitting in. The Public RoW issue is much more often a case of "I've got shedloads of money. I don't want lower class scum on moi land".
Indeed. But I feel that when one purchases a property with a RoW, well, tough s**t. It was there first and it is public land..It is exactly why I will never buy anywhere with a RoW!!
Jasandjules said:
Indeed. But I feel that when one purchases a property with a RoW, well, tough s**t. It was there first and it is public land.
Quite. A local bigwig round here tried the same stunt, buying his country house and then ploughing up one of the fields to deter walkers. He had to put it back.I have posted on here before pictures I took of what dogs can do to sheep, but the mods keep taking them down. They really should make them a sticky in the animals section on here, people are offended by them which is good, they might keep their dogs on a lead then.
We have bloody miles of public rights of way on the farm I work on which is just a drop in the ocean to what is around here, so there is no need not to use them. But people still feel they should be able to walk everywhere.
How did you break your back?
We have bloody miles of public rights of way on the farm I work on which is just a drop in the ocean to what is around here, so there is no need not to use them. But people still feel they should be able to walk everywhere.
How did you break your back?
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