More Responses Like This, Please!
Seaford Town Clerk James Corrigan said: “Seaford Town Council has fully investigated the matter.
“The sheep are present on site for a few months, their grazing there is a vital to the restoration of this area of precious chalk grassland habitat. The locations we have the sheep in are rotated to ensure the whole site is restored eventually. This is a long-term project in partnership with Sussex Wildlife Trust.
“There are, however, signs warning of the fence and advising dog owners to keep their dogs on a lead. This is also important for other wildlife chased by dogs, ensuring owners clean up after their dogs and avoiding other potential hazards to dogs on the site such as snakes, foxes and badgers.
“While we are very sorry to hear about this incident, it was entirely avoidable by the dogs owner.”
Hurrah!
8 comments:
I couldn't read the whole article because most of it was blurred out. How was the dog injured? The point about electric fences is that they hurt if you touch them but don't actually do you any harm.
Stonyground
And that goes for your pet goat as well!!!
Hurrah for personal responsibility
Machiii
Bunny
I want coroners to be able to issue the statement 'death by stupidity' it has the advantage of honesty.
According to the article in the press the dog was tangled in the fence. The only way for that to happen would be if the dog took off to try and chase the sheep. So the fence did its job of preventing dogs worrying the sheep and the dog, and owner, learned a very useful lesson. Maybe the owner will now actually walk his dogs on leads and teach them how to behave when out of the house.
Hurrah for Seaford to have a "Town Clerk" and not a bumptious "Chief Executive Officer".
FrankC - amen to that.
"How was the dog injured? The point about electric fences is that they hurt if you touch them but don't actually do you any harm."
It got 'caught in the fence', according to the idiot owner. Well, they do say pets resemble their owners, don't they?
"I want coroners to be able to issue the statement 'death by stupidity' it has the advantage of honesty."
I suspect it'd become the leading cause of death in some areas!
"Hurrah for Seaford to have a "Town Clerk" and not a bumptious "Chief Executive Officer"."
Yes, that was rather a breath of fresh air, wasn't it?
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