dogs again

[Steve L]

We have two labradors, who are very well behaved. They do what they are told when told, don't back chat, and expect nothing except tea at 5-30pm.

Just how many parents can say that of their children. Not many!!

You see plenty of latch key kids on sites. As basically the parents seem to clock off from resposability.

The descerning pet owner will always be attentive to the pet's needs.

As for charges, I don't mind the odd pound or so, after all the site owner does have to tidy up after the 1% of non scoop the poopers. They also do have to dispose of the contents of the dog waste bins. As for

 

[Thorpedo]

Not sure I agree with the idea that dogs (owners) are all well behaved although I'm sure your's are Lisa and Steve.

Despite site rules too many people let the dog roam off the lead, and on sites with dog walk areas it never ceases to amaze me how many people still can't manage to pick up the dog poo.

I took one bloke to task once while he stood and watched his dog off the lead **** his leg and pee on my car, lucky it wasn't the awning. he told me to P..s O.f

What about that Andrex dog and his behaviour with a toilet roll, you can see it in his eyes, he'd have that toilet roll down the loo in a jiffy if he wasn't being watched by 10 million viewers. More importantly why doesn't he get any older, is it drugs? ;-)

 

[Steve L]

I must confess that picking up my dog's left behinds physically makes me wretch at times, but as part of my duty of care, I still do it, sick or not!

The chap you spoke to Thorpedo, is the Mr 1% who spoils it for the rest. The couldn't give a s*1t brigade.

My chocolate Labrador doesn't do the andrex add but waits for the empty roll center. He loves to play with it and chew it to bits. But that's the only chewing he does.

Our white Labrador is trained to go to the toilet on comand, so perhaps you might want to borrow her for a bit of retaliation. (fire one to the guy with the foulin gdog and the foul mouth!!)

I did have to deal with a simlar incident myself. The dog did target practice on our awning. I collared thescamp and returned him to his owner. Then after a simlar non concerned response from the owner, I collered him and made him clean the mess up.

Irresponsable dog owners bug me! After all if the dog has not been trained and looked after he knows no different.

I go for the "train the trainer" approach, but the I am a rugby fan and well built.

Steve L.

 

[Lord Braykewynde]

We've just been to Crossways and arrived on the day it opened. On day two there was already dog dumps on the dog walk, obviously from a small dog. Apart from ours and the wardens dog there was only one other dog on site, a Yorkie. I know that they did pick up because I saw them using the bin but as soon as they got to the walk they let the dog off the lead. This verifies the point I was making in another thread, when they are in front talking the dog is dumping behind. This is why I believe that dogs should be on leads at ALL TIMES when on site. When they are on a lead you are in control and you know when your dog stops to dump but we know that some don't wish to know. How many times do you see people letting their kids take the dogs, how many times to you see kids disposing of the dumps?

These are the people who are beyond educating and nothing but an outright ban will get them to pick up.

 

[welshlass]

28 Mar 2008 10:45 PM

thanks for all your kind comments ha ha. we will not be going to the haven wales site but i have thought about yorkie puds idea not bad.

i do have my priories in order i have a wonderful grandson who is three who loves coming with us in our caravan i have no qualms about paying extra for him as he will be using the facilities with our assistance. all the dog will be doing is sleeping with his lead constantly around his neck. i do believe in keeping the dogs from the childrens play area for obvious reasons (the dog wants to play)ha ha joke!!!! but be fare he doesnt drink in pubs or uses the showers and we clean up after him using our own doggie bags and put them in the normal refuse bins because no other dog bins are provided to no extra expense to the camp site. gosh i am harpering on but this one has really got my back up. the majority of the sites we go to all charge for unit 2 adults 2 children so we usually over pay anyway we do not get reduction for having no children. that i do not mind, but do not take the p... by charging extortionate prices for a dog

 

[LMH]

We were on a site in Cornwall and there was a couple pitched next to us with large caravan and awning.

They had four collies. Anyway, they spoke to Phil quite a bit about our dogs and they went to great lengths to tell him all about how their dogs excelled in obedience and agility and had won this and that events.

There was a ten acre field on site (rough ground) for walking/exercising dogs, no leads needed which was great.

When they packed up and left, guess what? Where their awning had been sited, was the most dog mess I'd ever seen in my whole life. Four x dogs over several days. The lazy barestewards had let the dogs use that area as a toilet and hadn't bothered to clean it up. Phil cleaned it up before the site owner saw it.

Lisa

 

[Steve L]

Lisa, how about this for a solution to non compliant dog owners.

If phil had taken a picture of the offending caravan and car showing the number plate, then the site owner could be informed as to who the culprit is.

If I was the site warden/owner, I would then set up a data base on my pc with the control search being the surname and car registration number. Doing it like that would take reasonable precaution to avoid faulse accusation should the owner change their car frequently. As only a perfect cross match would show.

Now if we could network that across all caravan sitesm there would be a good tool to desuade offenders or enforce a total ban.

You see all the receptionist would need to do when either a phone enquiry, online enquiry or they turn up in spec, would be to use the name and reg no as a request for pitch avaiability. Then if the pc flagged up the party as dog foulers, or any other undesirable reason, the old cherry of "sorry we are fully booked" could be used.

I must admit I realy do get annoyed when I catch other owners not looking after their animals. Often people tend to palm the excersise of the dog off on the kids and then pass the blame stick if the kids don't clean up after the dog. Again, that is wrong. As a respossible parent one should help the kids if they can't scoop poop.

I'm quite sure the sites where there higher than average charges, have been blighted by irresponsible pet owners in the past and are descreetly trying to deter dogs. But then that is penalising the 99% of good owners to get rid of the 1% who spoil it for the rest.

Steve L.

 

[ally_374305385]

Lisa, how about this for a solution to non compliant dog owners.

If phil had taken a picture of the offending caravan and car showing the number plate, then the site owner could be informed as to who the culprit is.

If I was the site warden/owner, I would then set up a data base on my pc with the control search being the surname and car registration number. Doing it like that would take reasonable precaution to avoid faulse accusation should the owner change their car frequently. As only a perfect cross match would show.

Now if we could network that across all caravan sitesm there would be a good tool to desuade offenders or enforce a total ban.

You see all the receptionist would need to do when either a phone enquiry, online enquiry or they turn up in spec, would be to use the name and reg no as a request for pitch avaiability. Then if the pc flagged up the party as dog foulers, or any other undesirable reason, the old cherry of "sorry we are fully booked" could be used.

I must admit I realy do get annoyed when I catch other owners not looking after their animals. Often people tend to palm the excersise of the dog off on the kids and then pass the blame stick if the kids don't clean up after the dog. Again, that is wrong. As a respossible parent one should help the kids if they can't scoop poop.

I'm quite sure the sites where there higher than average charges, have been blighted by irresponsible pet owners in the past and are descreetly trying to deter dogs. But then that is penalising the 99% of good owners to get rid of the 1% who spoil it for the rest.

Steve L.

Well folks I enjoyed the dog debate, we run a campsite on Skye and we are dog lovers, when dogs bring their owners to Skye we only charge the dogs for their owners we let the dogs in free

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