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Sky	Mar 13 2009, 08:13 PM
Chatterbox Posts: 1,513 Group: Full Members Member #136 Joined: November 23, 2005	Maggie has always been a problem with fireworks, guns etc but one of the walks I do regularly is really becoming a problem. I walk with a friend once a week near where she lives. It is a lovely walk and up until recently Maggie has loved it. However, there are now lots of bird scarers (lound bangs) going off in the farm fields around this walk and poor Maggie has got progressively worse with this over the last few weeks. I now have to keep her on a flexi lead to stop her running away and hiding and she spends the whole walk trying to escape into any ditches or holes available. It is so distressing seeing her so frightened and I have now decided that I will actually have to leave her at home when I do this walk. Pete is no problem. My friend and her dogs cannot travel to another walk so if I am to walk with this friend and her dogs which I personally really enjoy then the only alternative is to leave poor Maggie at home and walk her somewhere else later in the day :( I know that when the time comes and I have to leave her at home and take Pete then I will feel awful but I really can't put her through this any more. Am I doing the right thing and does anyone else have this problem?


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