2007 - June

[El Gordo]

I'm truly sorry to hear about the errant hounds. As one who loves the company of dogs (steady SP, steady!) I hate to hear negative stories. Local authorities take such incidents seriously. Recent high profile cases involving children means they have to take swift and decisive action. You were right to report it.

I was surprised (and impressed) by how seriously the police took it. It wasn't pleasant, but I would have been very anxious if I'd had young children with me, or were a child myself.

But I appreciate that most dogs/dog owners are fine. I was pissed off that these ones were completely unsupervised though. They were surrounding/barking at me for some time without anyone coming out to investigate. For all I know the tinkers (as my mother would call them) were down the pub, leaving the dogs on guard duty. I've no doubt they were following their natural, territorial instincts, so it's really their owners I'm pissed off with.