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Pets & Working Animals => Dogs => Topic started by: happygolucky on June 29, 2013, 08:34:04 pm
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I asked this before, we do have loads of lovely walks around but some I do not go to due to sheep being too near the walk, or roads, we use some parts of the disued rail line but then some parts are far too hazados, funny thing I hardly meet any one but when I do its the same people, a vet or his wife and another couple and then a few others and a dog walker.
I love Devilla forest for being dog friendly, I either go around the boat house and Tullialan woods, stop for a chat with the lady who owns the boat house or go to Pepper mill dam, although giving that one a miss now due to fishing going on, sometimes the lines are left. I never go to Gartmorn as that can be too busy but is nice and we never go to Glen Devon, too steep in places. I love Culross but find the walks a bit dull unless we have a coffee there...so....I again, really want to take the dogs to a nice dog friendly beach, been to the one near Rosemary and was followed by soldiers but where else nearish to either Clackmannanshire or no more than 30 miles away.
We also are going tomorrow to Loch Leven, that's beautiful, then pop in for a posh tea at Loch Levens Larder :P , anyway......we want clean water and some sand please?
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cant help with sand but we joined the national trust and try and visit somewhere each weekend. the majority have walks included in their grounds, some walks are hours long.
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I suppose its just a change I want, it would be nice to get a rough beach with sand dunes etc rather than trees and lochs......as much as I love them!!
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We just came back from a lovely walk around a park of Loch Leven then afternoon tea in the Larder...super...there is sand all around and the parking is yards from the water, our dogs and our in laws dog, loved the swim.....nice place and I fancy going again........although I did actually want the sea or estuary but it was good enough......so back to the forest then!!
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I'm not sure about distance from you, but Blackness has a dog friendly beach walk - we went there again today and Crammond is also a good place to take them.
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I am thinking of getting an app together for dog friendly walks across the country. Seems like a lot of people don't know where to walk their dogs! Do you think there is a market?
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That sounds brilliant...a few years ago we saw a local forest with a few cars parked next to it in the lay bye so decided to have a look as it seemed popular..............................and it was...........with doggers :-[
We also like the idea of going to places where we can eat out with our 3 dogs
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I shall look how far Blackness and Crammond are from us.........thanks
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WhiteHorses, is Crammond the island in Edinburgh? and Blackness near Falkirk? They sound ideal.....need some new places to visit.
The phone rang so had to stop writing, but a list of dog friendly walks would be fantastic, not sure if there are many about but the other thing is parking, I like a walk to be away from the main road and not near to farm fields, although I trust my dogs but do not want to take a chance, once we heard a car stop and found that ours had gone up a bank on the disused train line and gone over to the other side of the road, it frightened me and it was good that the car was going slow, they were only a few feet away from us as well but mine love going up banks.
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we have miles and miles of different beaches and sand dunes here (aberdeenshire, usually you are the only ones on the beach. i couldnt ever move away from the sea, id love a place with beach frontage, even if i have to go further north.
today we were in aberdeen and were watching seals and dolphins in the harbour, made my day.
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Yes Blackness is very near Linlithgow EH49 7NH is the castle there. And there are woods as well as the beach. Yes- Crammond village is shore-side of Crammond Island on Edinburgh. The walk across the causeway to the island at low tide is lovely the island is interesting and the ruined farmhouse is fun to find, but beware of lots of broken glass near the buildings on the island itself if you do take the dogs across. Otherwise the beach to the easy of the causeway is a nice walk.
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Thanks, that's so funny as some one on my facebook was on about Crammond as well........
Shygirl, my ideal house would have sea one side and woodland the other but within a short drive to Tesco ha aha ahaha :roflanim:
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I am thinking of getting an app together for dog friendly walks across the country. Seems like a lot of people don't know where to walk their dogs! Do you think there is a market?
Can I suggest you include places where dogs can be let off leash without being able to escape - for instance hounds are known for sight chasing and many owners just daren't let them off.
The new deer fenced areas at Gartmorn Country Park (three of them) are ideal so long as idiots don't swing the gates back against the fence, although that has been rectified with retainer posts since I mentioned it to Susan the owner of the farm.
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I noticed Gartmorn had done that, its great for walks, we used to go there a lot but pnce Rohan stole someones lunch as we all passed by so I tend to keep away in the fishing season.....too many treats to temp them and too many people
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I don't go along the Dam shoreline at all now, no need since those three fenced areas are so good. Mine would run through the fishing lines too and there are ducklings and other baby waterbirds just now too, so I never used to go there at this time of year even before these fields were fenced. That was part of the reason Susan and her husband made these areas. It is a SSSI and a Nature Reserve after all, we need to care for the wildlife.
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Lots of dodgy goings on too, :innocent:
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but pnce Rohan stole someones lunch
mine have been guilty of that too :-[ :-[
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I've never seen anything, but as I say, I only go in the fenced areas, and in daytime.
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It was so embarrassing shygirl, as we walked by with the dogs on leads, Rohan lunged at his near by un attended lunch.....I did not even see it first it just lay there although I dropped my husband off at the train station and bought a bacon roll from McDonalds, left it on the seat to get some dog food from a near buy pet store and they did not touch it........I could not even offer to buy him another as it was half way around and I had no money even in the car!!!!
Anne, the Police have been here asking about a women and we saw her at Gartmorn with a man, :innocent: Some people go their for a rendezvous on an early morning walk, its well known for it, and in the day time, there was a police women nearly drowned there not too long ago, it was in the newspapers... and at night poaching!!!
We have not had anything bad happen their to us either but there are some funny meetings there!!! It is in a middle of a built up area.
There is wild life everwhere...unless we walk dogs in the towns!!
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I guess on the walk around the dam itself there are places to get up to mischief :innocent: but as I said I don't like my dogs even threatening the wildlife by pointing, so I choose to use the fenced dog walk areas. It's strange that you say there are things going on because anytime I have been there recently, there are loads of cars in the car park, some of them workmen, and lots of runners and fishermen. Lots of kids there yesterday, and previously on bank holidays, too, fishing with their parents. Perhaps the police have it all sorted. what happened to teh policewoman - was she pushed in? It's pretty low round the edge just now with all the repair work they've been doing, so perhaps she was dragged right in.
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I suppose its very busy now with school holidays, love children but not on dog walks :innocent: , I cannot quite remember but the case was heard recently, police were called to some young men messing around the cars at the Dam, they dragged the police women into the deep part and she nearly drowned!!.
When we first went there we walked up the trail to the forest at the top and not around the dam, it was nice.......I have loads of photos of that area, it was very pretty too but its often too late for us to go now as often Steve comes out with me after work and we take our food........and have it with midges :innocent: .
Pepper Mill dam is good too, again they have some better fenced off bits now and you can walk up to Devilla, not sure if they have finished felling trees there as again, we have stayed away from that bit for a while.......Fisher men/women sometimes leave too much around like pants, baite or line and its not great as I often get a dog with a fish in its mouth following me around, and of course the water is dirty with an alge....anyway.....Devilla suits us most of the time and I bump into the same people most of the time too...although not been there for a few weeks either....Loch Leven was lovely though :thumbsup: