Cyclists urged to slow in parks

[Crackle]

He's a cracker JTM. Do him another favour if you haven't already and buy him the proper non-rendered dried dog foods. Contrary to popular belief, dogs need stuff like rice and veg too.

Edit: not all dried stuff is non-rendered.

 

[4F]

After our last faithfull mate passed away last year we picked up a 3 year old labrador bitch on Monday and she is a cracker

 

[Cab]

You plainly don't like dogs so I'm not sure there's any worth in discussing this further.

Actually I love dogs. They're wonderful animals. Its the inherent hypocrisy of dog owners that I have a problem with.

You're also ignoring what I've written and are just re-stating the same things again.

No, I'm not. Please, point out which of your points I have ignored.

 

[Cab]

Nope I refuse to feel any guilt for owning a dog. Incidentally JTM, keep him regulalry wormed and he won't carry the Toxocara in his faeces which is the main public health concern with dogs.

Fantastic, thats the worms sorted out. Just a hideous cocktail of enteric bacteria to be concerned with.

The idea that wiping the ground with a bit of tissue or a plastic bag will effectively sanitise grass exposed to raw dog s41t is, if you'll excuse me, barking. By all means, keep a pet for your own entertainment; how is exposing others to untreated residue of your carnivores excreta (orders of magnitude more dubious than the fairly inocuous droppings of a horse) fair?

 

[Jake]

anyone seen the article in this weeks Time Out's letter page. There was a letter saying how bad it wsa people were using the towpath to cycle along and how they would ding their bells at walkers! Aweful! Don't know about you, but i ding my bell not in a GET OUT THE WAY type of ding, but a "Hiya, im approaching from behind shortly at a slow speed, but just be aware of that incase you want to wave your arms and bags around for some reason".

 

[BentMikey]

LOL, Jake, too true. I totally see how it's easy to wrongly interpret bell ringing though, from the other side. It's why I call out a cheery good morning or evening instead.

 

[Jake]

your too good to be true! Are you really felicity kendal in disguise?

 

[hackbike 6]

Unfortunatly its a few bad dog owners that give the rest of us a bad name. Bit like cyclists who jump red lights

Must admit I like dogs...(Never owned one though)

Recently I was traveling home from Liverpool Street on a 315 (train) and generally sit by the sliding doors non platform side with my bike and this sort of well big dog (dunno what breed it was) was sitting with his mouth on the floor right next to me...no trouble at all.Lovely big thing.

I must admit I was a bit nervous at first as you never know if they are going to start barking or the like.

 

[domtyler]

The petfood industry i worked in used sustainable meat...but not in the sense you'd think. Sustainable, in the sense there's a never ending supply of waste and offal that we would never eat. There's nothing fussy or caring about it.

Lungs, viscera, blood (by the tanker load), rabbits heads (by the lorry load), fish heads and spine (by the lorry load), even kangaroo or wallaby heads ...absolutely (or at least virtually) NOTHING gets wasted.
Cretins that eat this stuff to try to prove a point are just that..cretins. I've seen the maggots, the gunk and shite that gets used...even in Sheba, a premium product.

This of course has nothing to do with the topic....but having worked in that industry, i'm glad i'm not a dog or cat

I remember once when I was in India taking a trip down the Ganges in Varanasi and was treated to the sight of human corpses being hungrily devoured by the stray dogs there.

 

[hackbike 6]

Perhaps they were hungry?

 

[pinkkaz]

anyone seen the article in this weeks Time Out's letter page. There was a letter saying how bad it wsa people were using the towpath to cycle along and how they would ding their bells at walkers! Aweful! Don't know about you, but i ding my bell not in a GET OUT THE WAY type of ding, but a "Hiya, im approaching from behind shortly at a slow speed, but just be aware of that incase you want to wave your arms and bags around for some reason".

True! Before I started cycling it used to relally piss me off when cyclists "dinged" you.

Now I know better... but I still don't like to ding.

(and I don't have a bell. Whoops! Must get one)

 

[BentMikey]

Lawks Cab, you're very passionate about *everything*.

 

[hackbike 6]

I had a motorcyclist revving his engine up yesterday and this used to pee me off but I have actually started to find it useful.

 

[domtyler]

I prefer the AirZound to a little bell, far more effective at scattering peds I find!

 

[Jake]

do you wear your Hannibal mask too?