AHG Creative
28-06-2009, 16:27
Last week our dog was attacked and savaged by a black lurcher on Worsborough Common in Barnsley.
Our dog is a 15 month old bearded collie/boarder collie cross and has tons of energy, so we often take him out either late at night or early in the morning when few people are around, so that we can let him off his lead and run without being a pain to other dogs/owners. He is a very pleasantly natured dog, but is quite boisterous.
Early on Thursday morning (about 5am), my wife took him to walk in the fields adjoining the common. She was about to leave by the bottom gate when a man entered the field by the top entrance, with a light coloured greyhound on a lead and a black rough coated lurcher with a white patch on it's chest, off the lead. The lurcher saw our dog and ran the length of the field to attack it. My wife only just managed to get the lurcher off of him but not before it had bitten our dog quite badly on his front legs and rump.
I know that sometimes, it's just one of those things and dogs will fight, but the lurcher owner made no attempt to control his dog, call it off or even apologise and ask if our dog was OK. I wish I had been there myself!
Our dog was badly injured enough to need a course of injections at the vets and pills for the next week. Fortunately, we have pet insurance but I still had to pay £60 excess just because this idiot was too ignorant to control his own dog.
So firstly, please take this as a warning that if you come across someone with the two dogs described in or around Worsborough Common, be very careful as his lurcher is dangerous. Also, if by any chance anyone may know the owner of the lurcher, I am very keen to find him, tell him what I think of him to his face and hand him a bill for £60 in vet's fees.
Our dog is a 15 month old bearded collie/boarder collie cross and has tons of energy, so we often take him out either late at night or early in the morning when few people are around, so that we can let him off his lead and run without being a pain to other dogs/owners. He is a very pleasantly natured dog, but is quite boisterous.
Early on Thursday morning (about 5am), my wife took him to walk in the fields adjoining the common. She was about to leave by the bottom gate when a man entered the field by the top entrance, with a light coloured greyhound on a lead and a black rough coated lurcher with a white patch on it's chest, off the lead. The lurcher saw our dog and ran the length of the field to attack it. My wife only just managed to get the lurcher off of him but not before it had bitten our dog quite badly on his front legs and rump.
I know that sometimes, it's just one of those things and dogs will fight, but the lurcher owner made no attempt to control his dog, call it off or even apologise and ask if our dog was OK. I wish I had been there myself!
Our dog was badly injured enough to need a course of injections at the vets and pills for the next week. Fortunately, we have pet insurance but I still had to pay £60 excess just because this idiot was too ignorant to control his own dog.
So firstly, please take this as a warning that if you come across someone with the two dogs described in or around Worsborough Common, be very careful as his lurcher is dangerous. Also, if by any chance anyone may know the owner of the lurcher, I am very keen to find him, tell him what I think of him to his face and hand him a bill for £60 in vet's fees.