Screaming kids or yapping dogs.?

[PP Bear]

You can’t move anywhere in Germany without saying “Morgen“ it’s everyone you pass has to greet you with it, I love it and always reply with the greeting, and if I know them it’s followed by a quick “wie gehts einen”

I was lucky to have been stationed in Germany for 20 years and absolutely loved the place, how clean it was, how quiet, the way they would turn off their cars at every set of lights and just how polite they all were.

Last trip was Yorkshire, where SWMBO has family and everyone was friendly, lots of good mornings etc. Surprised me a little, when arriving in Northumberland, that they’re more reserved and only a few engage in good mornings etc. Some even look at me like I’ve got two heads. Heading back down to Northallerton next week, where the locals say hello.

Also noted, how much more dog tolerant they are here, with dogs welcome signs everywhere. Which is great, inc the club restaurant, however when the little yappy ones start their vicious attacks and barking at the other dogs, then surely it’s time for them to leave. Don’t want to sup my ale and eat my pizza listening to the dogs having a go at each other. Think that might have been a rant

 

[Jim]

I love kids, my site is adults only, but only because I can't and won't make it child proof. I'll leave mowers out, or an axe by the wood pile etc. But kids at play is one of my favourite sounds in the world. When I want to concentrate and block out the world, I will often have playground sounds playing low into a headset. That or thunderstorms, but never yappy rats.

 

[SIFTA SAM]

Nah. Shoot the dogs, then the kids, then the adults.

You must have lots of money to afford that amount of ammunition?

 

[pagey]

Shoot the kids,the parents,the dogs and the wardens you know it makes sense

 

[SIFTA SAM]

You can’t move anywhere in Germany without saying “Morgen“ it’s everyone you pass has to greet you with it, I love it and always reply with the greeting, and if I know them it’s followed by a quick “wie gehts einen”

Does that still happen in the cities when you are accidentally walking in their cycling lane?

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[PP Bear]

I love kids, my site is adults only, but only because I can't and won't make it child proof. I'll leave mowers out, or an axe by the wood pile etc. But kids at play is one of my favourite sounds in the world. When I want to concentrate and block out the world, I will often have playground sounds playing low into a headset. That or thunderstorms, but never yappy rats.

We love kids, just can’t eat a whole one, too much fat these days

My go to music is Pink Floyd, Animals or Dark Side of the Moon. Also Supertramp, especially their album Crime of the Century.

 

[PP Bear]

Does that still happen in the cities when you are accidentally walking in their cycling lane?

Can’t hear them over the ding ding of their bells. Soon tell you to get out of the way

 

[Silver-Fox]

We are en route to our villa in Spain.

The house is in a kind of valley. We have a handful of neighbours who put their dogs out from around 7-8am and leave them out all day, barking until dark.

We have another house where, they put the dog out when they go out for dinner. The dog barks constantly until the owners return at around midnight.

One night, a house down in the very bottom. The dogs had been barking all day. It’s a brand new build , was just a little casita. I think they use them as guard dogs. Come 10pm , the dogs were still barking from 8 am in the morning.

So I got in the car, drive down, no doorbell / intercom installed yet. So I beeped my horn a couple of times, nobody came to the door. So I blew the car horn twice, for around 10 seconds. Still nobody came to the door. Drove back home and they took the dogs in and the barking stopped.

It is mental torture some days. One dog sets another off, sets a os k off . Then all of a sudden, we have a chorus of dogs howling for hours.

What can we do about it ?. Nothing apparently, so long as the dogs have food , shelter and water.

But some stewing meat ins put some sedative in it.

Lob over the wall, then happy days

 

[Jev88]

I was reading a Facebok post about a chap thinking of opening a CL and asking what basics people needed. Several mentioned they are more likely to visit if adults only...... Man alive the number of people that slated the idea!!!
Personally I like the option of adults only for peace and quiet. Happy to interact with well mannered children any time - New Forest a few months ago a 7? year old girl was absolutely fascinated by us having travelling cats and waited patiently on the roadway until we said she could come over to play with the fluffs....... As opposed to the all too common rabble running round and playing hide and seek under the vans.

 

[Soycd]

Granted, screaming kids are bad news when you want peace.
But at least they are human.
Dogs....not human..... not going to secure the future of humanity......don't really understand much except being fed and warm (neither of which they will pay for)...will go with whoever provides this.....have no place in a restaurant where humans go for human food....No-one takes cattle or poultry to restaurants, do they?

I'm pretty sure I have disrupted other humans by having tantrums/strops when I was a child, but I am also sure I have never pissed on someone's picnic basket/chair/ bike. Nor have I sh@t on someone's lawn/ footpath.
I would like to think that no-one has ever had to scrape my sh@t off of their sandals.
Not a fan of dogs....shoot me down dog lovers.....

Whilst the vast majority of dog owners look after their pets, some don't. I pisses me off when I go for a walk down the beach and a dog comes bounding up and terrifies my wife (very scared of dogs) Then the owners will say something like "he's just being friendly" or "she does not bite" Keep the bloody thing under control so we can all enjoy the beach! And whilst on the subject, why is it perfectly acceptable to let a dog piss all over the place?? Lamp posts, garden fences etc. It stinks, stains and is just wrong. Sunday morning rant over.

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[SIFTA SAM]

Never understand why some won’t say good morning or even just an acknowledgement of some sort.
Lone woman camper on a site the other week, with a whippet, had the sourest face you had could ever see and there was no way she was going to crack a smile, let along say anything!

Are you referring to the dog or the owner?

 

[EuroTrotters]

But some stewing meat ins put some sedative in it.

Lob over the wall, then happy days

I am tempted.

We have ankle biters next door, they bark at and chase the cleaners all day who just ignore them.

I think the sedatives might finish them off.

 

[EuroTrotters]

Whilst the vast majority of dog owners look after their pets, some don't. I pisses me off when I go for a walk down the beach and a dog comes bounding up and terrifies my wife (very scared of dogs) Then the owners will say something like "he's just being friendly" or "she does not bite" Keep the bloody thing under control so we can all enjoy the beach! And whilst on the subject, why is it perfectly acceptable to let a dog piss all over the place?? Lamp posts, garden fences etc. It stinks, stains and is just wrong. Sunday morning rant over.

Or I walk across our field to the pub in my clean clothes. And a dog bounds up and pounces toward you, “he’s only being friendly”

 

[scotjimland]

I love kids,

We also love kids, wouldn't have had six of our own otherwise.. and they all went camping with us.. sadly no more, and yes we do miss them.. they made the holiday special and were always an excuse to go and do kids things... dig sandcastles, etc

but now look for adult only sites to avoid the ones who run amok .. not the kids fault it's the parents who don't give a toss what little Johny is up to..

to be fair, they are not all are like that, many are well behaved, it's the few who give all a bad reputation ..

 

[Silver-Fox]

I am tempted.

We have ankle biters next door, they bark at and chase the cleaners all day who just ignore them.

I think the sedatives might finish them off.

Would be quiet then

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[pelican]

Dogs. No dogs please. No barking fur babies please. No-one's kids have ( as far as I know) ever pissed on my chairs, sh@t on the Aire, gone mental when another kid is within half a mile of them.
Portugal and Spain it's dogs barking all night. No-one tells the dog to shut up. Every night
Dogs....sorry dog owners....no dogs pleeeease.

The expression Fur Babies used by some brings on nausea for me.

 

[seasideBill]

Whilst the vast majority of dog owners look after their pets, some don't. I pisses me off when I go for a walk down the beach and a dog comes bounding up and terrifies my wife (very scared of dogs) Then the owners will say something like "he's just being friendly" or "she does not bite" Keep the bloody thing under control so we can all enjoy the beach! And whilst on the subject, why is it perfectly acceptable to let a dog piss all over the place?? Lamp posts, garden fences etc. It stinks, stains and is just wrong. Sunday morning rant over.

10 million dogs in the UK amounts to a plague. My experience this week….. Tuesday
took my 3 year old to a local beach, had to go home early to clean the dog shit off him. Usual signs on beach ‘keep on lead’ etc ignored. Next day walk by the river to feed ducks, picked grandchild up only for both of us to be covered in shit as it was all over his shoes. Another beach trip yesterday, dog pissed all over my beautifully crafted sand-castle and another bounded up to grandchild and stole slice of pizza out of his hand. Owner seemed amused.
Seems to me dog owners pay little attention to signs, presumably thinking it only applies to other dog owners? I don’t dislike dogs per se, just by association with ignorant owners. As for dogs in prams, dog ice-cream, dog wine, puppucino, dog sun hats etc etc, the world has gone barking mad! I wonder what today might bring apart from the usual uncontrolled barking and locals & visitors struggling to control 3 or more dogs on ridiculously long leads in an attempt to try and prevent them killing passing dogs. I’m not a great fan of being licked by dogs who’ve been licking their arse all day either.

 

[DT]

Shoot noisy dogs is my vote. Kids you can growl at and they tend to stay away, growl at a dog and it might bite you.

 

[seasideBill]

Bet they are hard to find. But a great idea.

But not always what they seem… no dogs doesn’t mean they haven’t got 6 of their own who specialise in 5am barking. CL small holdings & farms are high risk.

 

[nicholsong]

Wildcamping usually solves problem of dogs and kids.

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[iandsm]

Been on several sites this last month. Sometimes one, sometimes the other, mostly both.

I vote to shoot the dogs. Sally votes to shoot the children.

And you?

Before anyone gets sanctimonious, just in fun.

I think you probably need to choose your sites with more care.

 

[dazandandrea]

Shooting is very noisy,drowning both is much quieter and more satisfying

Dark by name dark by nature

 

[GoldenVision]

.......then the kids

Or become an American and shoot anything that moves

 

[David and Sally]

I

I think you probably need to choose your sites with more care.

I think you are right.

 

[Onemanandhisdog]

Granted, screaming kids are bad news when you want peace.
But at least they are human.
Dogs....not human..... not going to secure the future of humanity......don't really understand much except being fed and warm (neither of which they will pay for)...will go with whoever provides this.....have no place in a restaurant where humans go for human food....No-one takes cattle or poultry to restaurants, do they?

I'm pretty sure I have disrupted other humans by having tantrums/strops when I was a child, but I am also sure I have never pissed on someone's picnic basket/chair/ bike. Nor have I sh@t on someone's lawn/ footpath.
I would like to think that no-one has ever had to scrape my sh@t off of their sandals.
Not a fan of dogs....shoot me down dog lovers.....

Everything you have described is a result of the human owner, not the dog. We could learn a lot from dogs, chop one of their legs off and they get on with life without any whinging. Man is most likely to end the future of humanity, by global warming or nuclear war, not dogs!

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[Steve and Denise]

We’ve got a dog and have/had three kids.
Prior to Moho tho but I can’t abide yapping dogs or screaming miserable kids near me.

We didn’t let our kids misbehave whilst around others and I won’t let our dog yap.

As said maybe the parents and owners need a bit of guidance

See you got rid of the kids and kept the dog

 

[Reallyretired]

We have just come from a site with loads of dogs, all well behaved and are now on one with a screaming child. Only one candidate for the shotgun as I see it through its the parents fault really. Our next spot is adults only, dogs welcome. Looking forward to it.

 

[Gina M]

Shoot the kids!! we were on a site once trying to set up our caravan, our dog was tied up, parents busy putting a tent up next to us and just letting their kids run around in circles and scaring the hell out of my dog they even ran inside the caravan and I stepped in and just shouted Get Out and pointed to the outside they ran off and we never heard a peep from them all weekend, although I was sh""ing myself in case the mum came over and punched me in the face for shouting at her little darlings

 

[Steve and Denise]

There are bad owners of both here first is I always clean up after my dog well clearly some one does not!!
Then the other senario it wasn’t my child!!
Can’t win either way really

 

[Soycd]

I love kids, my site is adults only, but only because I can't and won't make it child proof. I'll leave mowers out, or an axe by the wood pile etc. But kids at play is one of my favourite sounds in the world. When I want to concentrate and block out the world, I will often have playground sounds playing low into a headset. That or thunderstorms, but never yappy rats.

You are right. I like to hear kids out playing. Ours are all grown up and gone but next door have 3 and it's great. The parents, who are friends, often apologise when they make a racket, but we just laugh! Happy kids, playing, inventing stuff and having fun in the garden. What's not to like?

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