Wow, your back Judith.
Where you been for the last 6 months?
Checking out all the dogs on the road I guess, LOL.

Rosie, I see your point. Dog-owners aren't all the same and the nice ones with the good dogs get lumbered in with the not-so-nice OP with poorly trained dogs. Not usually the dogs fault.

I'm keen to have a dog, but my partner keeps finding reasons not to, and most of those reasons are OPD's.
I'd actually like to ask if that spare lightning bolt could be used on the cat-owners who let their cats out overnight to predate on so many native birds, especially when they are nesting/raising chicks at this time of year.

hi ron and shirley,,,,yes i'm back and i'm still out there harassing dog owners,,,i like your bolt of lightning idea but i recon a slug gun is the answer,,,when the leg gets ****ed the slug gun goes off,,,lots more fun 

DOGS....!!!!! Responsible dog owners keep them ON THE LEASH, or tied up with rope under
the awning. Also control your " dog fleas ". Our free camp site in St Laurence Qld was
riddled with bl.....dog fleas we had to flea bomb the motor home. Wash your dogs and apply flea control.

You don't use soap and water ???????  Pick up what's left behind ?????

It's not the dogs.....give the owners a good kick up the rrrrrrsr.

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-- Edited by Vanderee on Saturday 7th of December 2013 01:13:16 PM

HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA ........Judith AND Vanderee you both crack me up. HA HA HA HA You guys are soooo bloody funny......

Vanderee wrote:

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From now on we use pepper around the site, they only sniff "once"
and.... sneeze a few dozen times and....they don't come back either.

As a second back up I got a water gun filled with citronella spray,,,make my day !
This stuff works good. Got plenty in stock.

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 I trained my dogs with a water spray bottle. Obedience training say never to reprimand your dogs ( today's world!!) but a squirt of water had them knowing they were naughty. 

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My biggest problem is with ODPs (Other Dogs' People).

IME 90% of dog owners are rubbish.

Last night some dog down the street barked nonstop for several hours. Before that, some yappy rodent barked on and off for most of the afternoon. During the day, EVERY DAY, my sh*tbag neighbour's dozen rodents yap every time their backsides itch.

Then there are the cats who defaecate, urinate, and excavate in other people's yards and treat them as their own nocturnal playgrounds.

BTW, I'm a dog owner myself. To those other dog owners who are watching this thread, I would venture to guess that there are many more people with the same opinion as judith (that's meant to be lowercase, isn't it?) who have kept quiet out of diplomacy.

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 Seems like you are talking about the situation at home, Dorian.

That's a diferent issue, in my book. You can discuss it with your neighbour- especially as they are permanent, and you have a relationship with them which is longer than with neighbours on the road. In addition, you can complain to the council rangers about noise etc.

On the road, its a whole different dynamic. Relationships are brief, transient or non existant, and there's no point calling the rangers who won't come for a temporary transgression. Even CP owners don't take action unless there's money involved somewhere.

I can truthfully say that in every free camp I have ever been in, unless we are there alone, we have seen at least 1 dog running free, and always a large dog.

We are still in the lucky country. We can free camp in Australia and when you have dogs you have to respect
the rights of other campers around the site "the on the leash protocol" is the friendly one, and pick up the "doos"
so you carry a plastic bag and pick it up, respectfully.
We motor homed through the USA and Alaska for over a year and everybody has dogs
there in RV parks (50 acres minimum size) $15. per night, and National Parks (100 acres average), $12. per night in all National Nature parks all have toilets and showers (some cold only), and...if your dog is loose, off the leash, you get evicted "on the spot" every where. There are dog bag stands everywhere. No such thing as free ove rnighting anywhere.
No freebies anywhere accept parking free over night at the big Walmart stores, or Alaska in the wilderness
with the bears, most give that one a miss. We had bears roaming through at night in the national parks, so you carry a flash light.
Then there are many big rest stops along the free ways with big toilet blocks, cold showers,
and free wi-fi (big enough to park 200 trucks and 200 cars) no overnight camp stops allowed. Daytime parking no problem.
We find in Australia that it's all "anti dog" from councils ,beaches, RV parks to national parks, and caravan parks would do more
business if they had a "dog section" at the back with dog walks, but most are very small, amateurish set ups, where I cannot even
get my motor home through, forget trying to turn around. We have thousands of acres here to set up big RV parks if the Councils
and National parks would get off their hands. Meanwhile though we are lucky to enjoy free camping.

I had my chihuahuas in a carrier near my van and someone walking their chihuahuas came up to speak and one lifted his leg and peed on my dogs. lol Sometimes we can all do the responsible thing and stuff happens.

I have 2 rescues from a puppy farm who have had no human contact I'm sure up until they were rescued, and it is terribly scary for them when a big dog comes up to them. I think I've been fairly lucky to run into mostly lovely dogs and owners.

My neighbour's cat is funny with them and they don't mind her hitting them on the bum with her paw, but now jumps on the little one, which isn't so nice.lol

 Judith, your like a dog with a bone.

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the problem today is there are so many dogs on the road,,,every second van has one two or more dogs...it is getting that bad that you can actually smell that a dog has camped where you are camped,,,i hear a lot saying they have the dogs for security which is fine but lets face it they would only keep the honest out,,,,the trouble now is,,,,,, councils are closing free parks down because of this problem...imagine in ten years time free camps will be a memory only to us, the future nomads won't have a chance to experience what we have,,,,,i have heard that free camps are now non existent in new zealand 

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Judith, I think you've reached the end of your leash, why not troll somewhere else.

We had an attempted break in at our house last week if it was not for our dog barking we would have had our place robbed.
So lucky to have our dog

 

Judith the only posts you make on this forum is to complain about dogs, It would be nice to see you write on a different subject

-- Edited by Pondy on Tuesday 10th of December 2013 09:20:36 PM

The only smell we have been aware of in free camps is human excreta and garbage! Cant blame dogs for that.

pawsoz wrote:

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....................................people who don't clean up after their pets are most likely the ones who also don't clean up after themselves too, they probably are like that at home s well, people tend to be either responsible for their own actions or not................................................................I am far more annoyed by the travellers who leave camps filthy for those of us that do the clean up thing before moving on, ........................................................... But what I really do not like at all are the people who decide 'I don't like dogs so no one should have them or travel with them. annie

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 Totally agree with you Annie.