Managing your bees alongside looking after your dog

[Millet]

Why distress an animal to no positive outcome?

PH

If the pooch learns to keep its distance it can only be a positive outcome, you kill two birds with one stone, the pooch is out and about exercising its self while you are sorting the bees out, which is much better than it being cooped up in the house and then have to be walked when you get back home.

 

[Poly Hive]

The weasel word there is "if"

Some dogs can and others cant. Some are more susceptible than others (from expert vet) and having seen two die I am not keen on experimentation.

It's an avoidable risk.

PH

 

[Beefriendly]

It's an avoidable risk.

PH

So is beekeeping and people die from it....ergo we should all stop beekeeping?
Wrapping everything in cotton wool appears to be a modern day phenomena. Soon we will need to fill out a risk assessment form and get elf and safety to approve it before we can even take the damn things out for a morning constitutional..... which we then have to pick up in small plastic bags.

 

[For want of a better word]

You could always flick the poo out of sight with your walking stick..... fed up with seeing all those witches knickers hanging in the hedgerows???

Nos da

 

[B+.]

we then have to pick up in small plastic bags.

You do...at least where I live. There are "poo bins" on routes favoured by dog walkers for people to drop the bags into...or, they can take them home and put them in their "black bins"

 

[Millet]

You do...at least where I live. There are "poo bins" on routes favoured by dog walkers for people to drop the bags into...or, they can take them home and put them in their "black bins"

Around here they are flung all over the countryside mainly decorating the hedgerow shrubs, yet another stupid idea from the government it is much better left on the ground where it is dumped for the slugs and other critters to eat it.

 

[mbc]

Around here they are flung all over the countryside mainly decorating the hedgerow shrubs, yet another stupid idea from the government it is much better left on the ground where it is dumped for the slugs and other critters to eat it.

Quite, it's unbelievably moronic to wrap dog toffee in a non biodegradable bag and then leave ir in the countryside as a pollutant and eyesore for years to come.
At least I hope it's ignorance rather than pure selfishness.

 

[Hivemaker.]

Around here they are flung all over the countryside mainly decorating the hedgerow shrubs

....and beaches, so they end up in the sea along with all the other plastic crap, time to ban the dog **** bag or make them from paper.
https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2012/mar/22/uk-beaches-balloons-dog-poo

 

[Millet]

....and beaches, so they end up in the sea along with all the other plastic crap, time to ban the dog **** bag or make them from paper.
https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2012/mar/22/uk-beaches-balloons-dog-poo

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