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Canine manners have gone to the dogs

1 July 2023

9:00 AM

1 July 2023

9:00 AM

‘Do you want me to put my dog on the lead?’ shouted the woman on her phone, as she came towards me on the woodland path, her huge hound bounding ahead. It was not a polite question. It should have had ‘or what?’ on the end of it.

People not calling their dogs in and making them behave is normal.

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