Just hit a dog

I think that dogs should be licensed and owners have third party liability insurance.

I've had dogs for a lot of my life and it may seem controversial but a member of my family was subjected to serious injury by a unsupervised dog. Perhaps if there were consequences to owners they might take a more responsible attitude and think before letting them loose.
 
Because cats generally roam unsupervised and many are therefore hit.

My dog insurance includes third party - should indeed be required for everyone.
 
Marlon said:
How come you can squish a cat and carry on regardless?
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Because a dog used to be a licensed animal !
When the requirement of a licence was dropped it seems the status remained.
 
pvr said:
My dog insurance includes third party - should indeed be required for everyone.
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+1, also believe that licensing should also be mandatory. Both mine are fully insured, fully on and off lead trained, and are never in public areas unless on the lead. Anything less IMO is not being a responsible owner.
 
I remember around 15 years ago I was in a private hire taxi and when the woman picked me up I noticed there was damage to the front of the car.
The taxi driver said she had hit a dog a few hours earlier.
The dog was a large rottweiler and after breaking the headlight, bumper and wing walked away with nothing visibly wrong with it.
 
An old colleague hit an Alsatian at speed - the front of the car looked like he had parked it into a lamp post !
 
pvr said:
cats generally roam unsupervised .
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because they don't need anyone to tell them - well, let's be honest, they don't listen anyway to any mere human :lol:

Dogs on the other hand are just daft and need a much help as possible :rofl:


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Wish I had read this thread before I hit the bloody dog!

Then I would have had the mindset to get the owners details and would be making a claim for damage. Having said that, the incident happened at rather a dodgy part of town, and the owners didn't look like they would have anything sensible like insurance. In fact they didn't even seem that bothered about the dog!
 
Taz said:
slightly off topic, sheep can make a real mess of a car so becarefull on the hills
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So can deer, plenty around these parts and plenty of damage done...at least you can eat deer I suppose :)
 
firebobby said:
So can deer, plenty around these parts and plenty of damage done...at least you can eat deer I suppose :)
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As I understand, you cannot pick up as "roadkill" any animal you have run over, but you can collect the roadkill by anyone else!
 
exdos said:
firebobby said:
So can deer, plenty around these parts and plenty of damage done...at least you can eat deer I suppose :)
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As I understand, you cannot pick up as "roadkill" any animal you have run over, but you can collect the roadkill by anyone else!
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Yep that was my understanding also. Unless of course it is a swan which IIRC you are legally obliged to report??
 
simonlpearce said:
exdos said:
firebobby said:
So can deer, plenty around these parts and plenty of damage done...at least you can eat deer I suppose :)
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As I understand, you cannot pick up as "roadkill" any animal you have run over, but you can collect the roadkill by anyone else!
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Yep that was my understanding also. Unless of course it is a swan which IIRC you are legally obliged to report??
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Depends on where. The Crown retains the right to ownership of all unmarked mute swans in open water, but The Queen only exercises her ownership on certain stretches of the Thames and its surrounding tributaries.

As for roadkill - you're correct that you cannot pick up anything you hit, but are free to pick up anything someone else hits. However, deer when hit by a car may not be fit for consumption - reason being that deer digest their food by bacterial action, not acid reduction. If the rumen is broken in the collision, the bacteria will be circulated by the bloodstream before the deer's heart stops beating resulting in the meat being tainted.
 
markeg said:
As for roadkill - you're correct that you cannot pick up anything you hit, but are free to pick up anything someone else hits. However, deer when hit by a car may not be fit for consumption - reason being that deer digest their food by bacterial action, not acid reduction. If the rumen is broken in the collision, the bacteria will be circulated by the bloodstream before the deer's heart stops beating resulting in the meat being tainted.
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What an odd bit of information to have tucked away in your brain, but thanks for sharing, will be sure to not eat deer roadkill :rofl:
 
simonlpearce, am a country boy at heart, hit a couple of deer in the past, but not eaten any yet :) BTW if driving in Scandanavia or Canada/US, the same holds for moose or elk :wink:
 
A fella I knew hit a deer on the way to the airport early one morning. He decided to move the carcass and got his white shirt bloody !
This was many years ago and there was no shops in those days so he had to wash his shirt front to try and look respectable with his suit jacket buttoned.

He says he got some strange / worried looks!
 
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