- Location
- Cornwall , UK
This morning I did , get cross I mean , but am now wondering if it was my fault or theirs ? We had a thunder storm and torrential rain early this morning, bliss , so when the rain stopped and the air was cool and fresh , I took Nelly to Golitha Falls for a walk , it was busy . I volunteer as a Warden for Natural England who own the site , they avidly welcome dogs , on or off lead , it is a dogs paradise . About a third into the circular walk is a lovely area with a bench and a deep pool where dogs love to swim ( not Nelly because she doesn't swim ) and totally monopolising this area was a large group of about 25 people , they had brought folding chairs and were spread out in a large circle , picnic food all over the ground on paper plates ( guess you know whats coming ! ) . I could see that this was a group having some sort of meeting . However , as we approached , Nelly went to say Hello and was very roughly pushed away by this truly horrible woman who shouted at me , saying that Nelly was interrupting their meeting . At around the same time , a friend with her two Springers , arrived at the scene and began to throw dummies into the river for her dogs and got a similar reaction , " we don't like dogs " . Red mist descended , this is a public place for everyone to enjoy , not for a large group to completely take over in what I thought was a most rude manner ! Of course , calling Nelly had no effect whatsoever , and the owners of other dogs told the group that there was no way they were going to leave the area , just because they didn't take kindly to dogs ! I did tell the horrible woman that if she pushed Nelly away again , she must be mindful that her chair was very close to the waters edge ! Maybe we should have just walked away, but it does annoy me , there are numerous places where dogs are not permitted , so why on earth chose a dog friendly one ? Takes all sorts I suppose x
