Dogs

@gaiters: I feel your pain. My muttly did a bit of tramping with us and she was trained to ignore birds. We were rounding up the chooks once and she decided to give us a hand by grabbing one. The telling off put her off birds forever! Sometimes I think if I ever got another dog, I'd get a chihuahua so at least I could conceal it if it was unwelcome.

I'm getting the sense that rather a lot of people understand the risks some dogs pose to wildlife if left to roam, but - knowing their own dogs well enough and the requisite levels of control over them - are happy enough to take their chances with the potential penalties.

I think its the few irresponsible owners of dogs that ruin it for the rest of us

@gaiters: I feel your pain. My muttly did a bit of tramping with us and she was trained to ignore birds. We were rounding up the chooks once and she decided to give us a hand by grabbing one. The telling off put her off birds forever! Sometimes I think if I ever got another dog, I'd get a chihuahua so at least I could conceal it if it was unwelcome.