The police and farming representatives are giving mixed messages to dog owners. I am doing exactly what this published advice from both police and the NFU Online tell me to do. He is ‘in sight’ and ‘close enough to come back to me on command’ Which he has never failed to do … But exactly the same would be true if he were hundreds of meters away from me on open land or hillsides? You can see how this confuses people. It’s difficult to define what ‘under close control’ means, but it makes it far e

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