Soldato
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Hi all.
Myself and my partner went on a walk down the Cromford canal today doing the small loop. The first leg is a 1 mile or so walk along the canal path and then an uphill walk up the old train line that soon levels off and is running along some farm land with a stone wall beside us with the aim to end at Cromford itself.
All was going well with the walk until Dexter, our 7 month Labrador decided to dig a hole where there was millions of ants.. We thought nothing of it and told him to get away, which he did. A few seconds later I heard a shout of "Dexter .....NO".
I turned to look and saw a yellow tail and back legs disappear behind the stone wall. A second later a "Yelp" was heard.
We both ran to the wall only to see Dexter lying on the ground below us in a field.
30 feet below us.
He scaled the wall and fell that ammount. Needless to say my missus was in a state of near hysterics and I was well, pretty much the same.
He just lay there looking up at us.
We feared the worst.
I ran back down the path and joined the road and managed to get on the field. The owner of the field was seen walking towards Dexter as she heard the screams of my missus. As I got to him he was sitting up and wagging his tail.
He was fine. To make sure we called the vet to see if we could take him. We walked the rest of the way down the main road to the carpark and then went to the vets. He was checked over and was given the ok. We was so relieved and angry at oursleves at the same time. We are not irresponsable dog owners but felt like we were at that time.
Deffinatly an eye opener for people walking dogs next to sheer drops.. Get the lead out, we will from now on. He normaly is on a lead but as there was no one around we let him loose. He is trained to come back and is quite good at it to but you cannot foresee this happening.
Hi is now asleep in his cage.
Very worrying moment there.
Edit: I have a photo of the drop taken from the main road. I shall upload it tomorrow so you can see how far he fell.
Myself and my partner went on a walk down the Cromford canal today doing the small loop. The first leg is a 1 mile or so walk along the canal path and then an uphill walk up the old train line that soon levels off and is running along some farm land with a stone wall beside us with the aim to end at Cromford itself.
All was going well with the walk until Dexter, our 7 month Labrador decided to dig a hole where there was millions of ants.. We thought nothing of it and told him to get away, which he did. A few seconds later I heard a shout of "Dexter .....NO".
I turned to look and saw a yellow tail and back legs disappear behind the stone wall. A second later a "Yelp" was heard.
We both ran to the wall only to see Dexter lying on the ground below us in a field.
30 feet below us.
He scaled the wall and fell that ammount. Needless to say my missus was in a state of near hysterics and I was well, pretty much the same.
He just lay there looking up at us.
We feared the worst.
I ran back down the path and joined the road and managed to get on the field. The owner of the field was seen walking towards Dexter as she heard the screams of my missus. As I got to him he was sitting up and wagging his tail.
He was fine. To make sure we called the vet to see if we could take him. We walked the rest of the way down the main road to the carpark and then went to the vets. He was checked over and was given the ok. We was so relieved and angry at oursleves at the same time. We are not irresponsable dog owners but felt like we were at that time.
Deffinatly an eye opener for people walking dogs next to sheer drops.. Get the lead out, we will from now on. He normaly is on a lead but as there was no one around we let him loose. He is trained to come back and is quite good at it to but you cannot foresee this happening.
Hi is now asleep in his cage.
Very worrying moment there.
Edit: I have a photo of the drop taken from the main road. I shall upload it tomorrow so you can see how far he fell.
