Just walk the first 5, and then go another walk with the other four?
>Hilary said: “It’s ridiculous. I can control nine dogs. I have more control over nine dogs than a lot of people have with one dog. I don’t know why the council have done it.
Probably due to people saying the exact same thing, quickly followed by “I had no idea that Piddles would brutally rip the throat out that toddler”
She has exactly 0 control if the dogs decided to pull simultaneously, or if a dog escaped and was attacking someone while she deals with the other 8 dogs.
I mean if she is a professional or highly skilled with obedience training then she may be one of handful of people in the entire country who may be able to be in control of 9 dogs at the same time, but literally everybody else can barely control 1 dog and maybe not 100% of the time so while I feel for her I don’t see the problem with the rule.
Then don’t have 9 dogs?
It’s excessive. I think my two chihuahuas are a handful at times.
Some people don’t share the same reality as the rest of us.
If she’s an expert in training dogs, fair, but the limit is there because not everyone else is.
She should be allowed to take them all at once provided she can hook them up to some sort of chariot
I’m phobic of dogs. I can handle people walking one or two dogs in a park if they stay at least ten feet away but if I saw a pack of dogs coming I’d have to leave. So surely I should be justified to phone the police and report a member of the public causing me undue fear and alarm if they’re walking a pack of dogs?
Thing is any number has to be applied to everyone. How would you check that she can control 9 dogs at a time where someone else can’t? It’s a bit like “speed limits shouldn’t apply to me cos I’m an awesome driver”.
Nonsense article and she needs to give her head a wobble.
I say you cannot guarantee because you can control them until you suddenly can’t. No matter how much of expert you think you are
You have control over 9 dogs until they decide you don’t.
Lewis Hamilton is perfectly capable of driving a car at 200mph, we should double the national speed limit!
Local hunt passed me on Saturday with 30 plus dogs running all over the road doing what they liked? Guess they’re exempt as usual.
Dogwalking is pretty commercial these days… Plenty of people earning £100+/hour walking a lot of dogs.
We normally try to restrict people using everyone’s shared space for private gain – for example, burger vans in the park.
Walking 6+ dogs is, in almost all cases, commercial, so it makes sense it should either be banned, licensed, or a fee charged.
>I have more control over nine dogs than a lot of people have with one dog. I don’t know why the council have done it.
That’s exactly why the council have done it. Because, as you’ve clearly said, most people (who aren’t dog trainers) can’t control their dogs. Especially if there are lots of them.
I personally think you shouldn’t have an animal in public that you can’t physically overpower. Because if worst case scenario it attacks a child you should able to stop it.
So many people are not in control of their animals. I know I could not overpower a large breed so I feel that it’s irresponsible, in that moment the dog is in charge not me. So it’s not responsible ownership.
None of them appear to be Bullys, they look like friendy doggos
*I’ll allow it*
Dog ownership should be controlled such that you can’t realistically own 9 dogs without a lot of public liability insurance.
How many people actually own 7+ dogs.
This isn’t actually an issue, seriously.
I have never in my entire life seen someone walking 7+ dogs, and I walk my dog 4 hours a day all over the UK.
Why did this rule need to even been made. Is this woman actually a menace with her dogs and caused this or does she live in some dogtopia where everyone breed dogs and walks them like a horizontal version of ‘Up!’
There’s an eccentric Brazilian woman here in my town that minds and runs dogs around the town, about 6 at a time. They look like they’re have a great time, getting exercise, thet/she seems to run for miles. She looks super fit, ready to run ultra-marathon, so I assumed her thing was some sort of heath obsession that she combined with dog running, but I notice the rare times she’s not running it’s for a smoke break.
Anyone saying it doesn’t matter how quick you walk, yes it does if I can walk two miles in under 30 mins. Then it’s no longer two hours of walking a day it becomes a hour.
Does that mean you’re limited to six huskies to pull your sled?
Woman with mental health problems thinks it should be nine dogs, other person with mental health problems thinks it should be twelve and so on. There has to be a cut off point, has to be.
I’d be interested to know how many incidents there have been where more than 6 dogs per person were being walked. It has the feel of “something must be done” but that something not actually being evidence based.
I occasionally walk in that area and see a couple who have about 15-20 spaniels, all off lead and all impeccably behaved. They have far more control over those dogs than many people have over one.
It would be fairer to make the rule apply only to commercial dog walkers, and exempt those who actually own the dogs they walk.
Do we just accept animal hoarding if the person is posh?
>Hilary said: “It’s ridiculous. I can control nine dogs. I have more control over nine dogs than a lot of people have with one dog. I don’t know why the council have done it.
Does she even hear herself? Like good for her that she has that much control, but as she says herself, many don’t….
Given the size of the average UK home 9 dogs seems a bit excessive. I doubt training is full proof so there should be limits set on the amount of dogs safe to walk at one time. This may also differ by breed as some dogs require one owner (above a weight class) and one dog on a double safety lead and with a muzzle to keep others safe imo. The situation with dog ownership has gotten out of hand, collect Pokémon instead.
Women should not be walking so many dogs alone. Nvm big dogs. Idc if this sounds sexist. Even 1-2 large dogs are impossible for 9/10 women to control , when the dogs prey drive has become triggered, ie when it sees other dogs etc. The avg woman simply is not strong enough and can not control big dogs. Period.
Now imagine all of those dogs, or even just 2/3 of them went mad. She has no chance..
Before someone talks nonsense- I have big dogs and have for years. Akita’s and Presa canario
I personally don’t think you should be allowed 9 dogs , bet her house stinks
Some very valid points here but the biggy for me is how bad does her house smell with 9 dogs running around ?
They would be better off aggressively targeting the ‘wrong uns’ primarily responsible for the production and distribution of dangerous dogs but of course they won’t.
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Just walk the first 5, and then go another walk with the other four?
>Hilary said: “It’s ridiculous. I can control nine dogs. I have more control over nine dogs than a lot of people have with one dog. I don’t know why the council have done it.
Probably due to people saying the exact same thing, quickly followed by “I had no idea that Piddles would brutally rip the throat out that toddler”
She has exactly 0 control if the dogs decided to pull simultaneously, or if a dog escaped and was attacking someone while she deals with the other 8 dogs.
I mean if she is a professional or highly skilled with obedience training then she may be one of handful of people in the entire country who may be able to be in control of 9 dogs at the same time, but literally everybody else can barely control 1 dog and maybe not 100% of the time so while I feel for her I don’t see the problem with the rule.
Then don’t have 9 dogs?
It’s excessive. I think my two chihuahuas are a handful at times.
Some people don’t share the same reality as the rest of us.
If she’s an expert in training dogs, fair, but the limit is there because not everyone else is.
She should be allowed to take them all at once provided she can hook them up to some sort of chariot
I’m phobic of dogs. I can handle people walking one or two dogs in a park if they stay at least ten feet away but if I saw a pack of dogs coming I’d have to leave. So surely I should be justified to phone the police and report a member of the public causing me undue fear and alarm if they’re walking a pack of dogs?
Thing is any number has to be applied to everyone. How would you check that she can control 9 dogs at a time where someone else can’t? It’s a bit like “speed limits shouldn’t apply to me cos I’m an awesome driver”.
Nonsense article and she needs to give her head a wobble.
I say you cannot guarantee because you can control them until you suddenly can’t. No matter how much of expert you think you are
You have control over 9 dogs until they decide you don’t.
Lewis Hamilton is perfectly capable of driving a car at 200mph, we should double the national speed limit!
Local hunt passed me on Saturday with 30 plus dogs running all over the road doing what they liked? Guess they’re exempt as usual.
Dogwalking is pretty commercial these days… Plenty of people earning £100+/hour walking a lot of dogs.
We normally try to restrict people using everyone’s shared space for private gain – for example, burger vans in the park.
Walking 6+ dogs is, in almost all cases, commercial, so it makes sense it should either be banned, licensed, or a fee charged.
>I have more control over nine dogs than a lot of people have with one dog. I don’t know why the council have done it.
That’s exactly why the council have done it. Because, as you’ve clearly said, most people (who aren’t dog trainers) can’t control their dogs. Especially if there are lots of them.
I personally think you shouldn’t have an animal in public that you can’t physically overpower. Because if worst case scenario it attacks a child you should able to stop it.
So many people are not in control of their animals. I know I could not overpower a large breed so I feel that it’s irresponsible, in that moment the dog is in charge not me. So it’s not responsible ownership.
None of them appear to be Bullys, they look like friendy doggos
*I’ll allow it*
Dog ownership should be controlled such that you can’t realistically own 9 dogs without a lot of public liability insurance.
How many people actually own 7+ dogs.
This isn’t actually an issue, seriously.
I have never in my entire life seen someone walking 7+ dogs, and I walk my dog 4 hours a day all over the UK.
Why did this rule need to even been made. Is this woman actually a menace with her dogs and caused this or does she live in some dogtopia where everyone breed dogs and walks them like a horizontal version of ‘Up!’
There’s an eccentric Brazilian woman here in my town that minds and runs dogs around the town, about 6 at a time. They look like they’re have a great time, getting exercise, thet/she seems to run for miles. She looks super fit, ready to run ultra-marathon, so I assumed her thing was some sort of heath obsession that she combined with dog running, but I notice the rare times she’s not running it’s for a smoke break.
Anyone saying it doesn’t matter how quick you walk, yes it does if I can walk two miles in under 30 mins. Then it’s no longer two hours of walking a day it becomes a hour.
Does that mean you’re limited to six huskies to pull your sled?
Woman with mental health problems thinks it should be nine dogs, other person with mental health problems thinks it should be twelve and so on. There has to be a cut off point, has to be.
I’d be interested to know how many incidents there have been where more than 6 dogs per person were being walked. It has the feel of “something must be done” but that something not actually being evidence based.
I occasionally walk in that area and see a couple who have about 15-20 spaniels, all off lead and all impeccably behaved. They have far more control over those dogs than many people have over one.
It would be fairer to make the rule apply only to commercial dog walkers, and exempt those who actually own the dogs they walk.
Do we just accept animal hoarding if the person is posh?
>Hilary said: “It’s ridiculous. I can control nine dogs. I have more control over nine dogs than a lot of people have with one dog. I don’t know why the council have done it.
Does she even hear herself? Like good for her that she has that much control, but as she says herself, many don’t….
Given the size of the average UK home 9 dogs seems a bit excessive. I doubt training is full proof so there should be limits set on the amount of dogs safe to walk at one time. This may also differ by breed as some dogs require one owner (above a weight class) and one dog on a double safety lead and with a muzzle to keep others safe imo. The situation with dog ownership has gotten out of hand, collect Pokémon instead.
Women should not be walking so many dogs alone. Nvm big dogs. Idc if this sounds sexist. Even 1-2 large dogs are impossible for 9/10 women to control , when the dogs prey drive has become triggered, ie when it sees other dogs etc. The avg woman simply is not strong enough and can not control big dogs. Period.
Now imagine all of those dogs, or even just 2/3 of them went mad. She has no chance..
Before someone talks nonsense- I have big dogs and have for years. Akita’s and Presa canario
I personally don’t think you should be allowed 9 dogs , bet her house stinks
Some very valid points here but the biggy for me is how bad does her house smell with 9 dogs running around ?
They would be better off aggressively targeting the ‘wrong uns’ primarily responsible for the production and distribution of dangerous dogs but of course they won’t.