Bridget Beer

Comms & engagement freelancer. Loves horse riding, animals and spending quality time with lovely husband Alfie. We live in France.

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@CarlBovisNature Stunning, love a close up for the detail also like natural pics

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@ChukkaBennett So sorry to read this. What a character, such a loss for you 💔🐾

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Channel Eye is turning its attention to technology and innovation in June.

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On the second Sunday of April, a couple from Birmingham walked the footpath that crosses Brian's fell.

Their dog, a young border collie named Otis, was off the lead.

There were sheep in the field.

Otis went after the sheep.

The owners called Otis. Otis did not return. Otis was, in dog terms, six months into a lifelong relationship with sheep that had, until that moment, consisted entirely of seeing them on television.

Otis chased a small group of younger ewes for approximately eighty metres, which is, in Otis's own assessment, a successful afternoon.

Doris, who was on the section above the wall, observed this.

Doris did not run.

Doris walked, deliberately, at a measured pace, to a position approximately fifteen metres from where Otis was, by then, pursuing the younger ewes in a circle.

Doris stopped.

Doris looked at Otis.

Otis stopped.

There is, in the literature on livestock guarding behaviour, a phenomenon known as the calm interdiction. It does not require aggression. It does not require display. It requires only a confident, settled animal placing itself in the path of the disturbance and refusing, with absolute mildness, to be impressed.

Otis, who had, until that moment, been having the best afternoon of his short life, was suddenly looking at a Texel ewe who was not running.

The category had broken.

Otis sat down.

The owners reached Otis approximately two minutes later. Otis was on the lead by then. The owners apologised, profusely, to Brian, who had walked up from the gate at a measured pace and was holding his stick in the way that people who have not been to agricultural college nevertheless know how to hold sticks.

Brian: "You'll need to keep him on the lead from now on."

Owner: "Yes. Of course. We're so sorry. We didn't think."

Brian: "Most don't."

He could have said more. The law gives him the right to shoot a dog worrying livestock. The literature on stress-induced lambing failure is extensive. The young ewes, by the time Brian reached them, were panting hard enough that Brian made a mental note to check them again in the morning, and to tell the apprentice to do the same.

He didn't say any of this.

He said: "Have a nice walk."

He went back down to the gate.

Doris, by then, was already grazing again.

The young ewes recovered.

The lambing in autumn was unaffected.

British footpaths cross approximately 140,000 miles of farmland. They have done so since some of them were carved by mediaeval cattle. The system depends on dogs being on leads near livestock, on walkers closing gates, on the basic countryside code that takes about four minutes to read and is, somehow, still not being read.

Doris has not read it either.

Doris does not need to.

Doris simply stops, and looks, and the dog stops with her, and the system holds for one more afternoon.

It would be nicer if it didn't have to.

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@justin_ng I saw these and wondered where you had gone 🤔

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@CarlBovisNature Wren

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Cohen Family Law marks its first year — and Jersey family law is about to change in a big way. No-fault divorce is coming. Here's what it means in practice.

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@FEI_Global Just fantastic 🐴🤩

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@SgtMajFrenchie When was this? I gave a retired army horse called High Hat a home after his service. He was a lovely chestnut so not in this naughty group.

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This is how much your business needs to be spending on marketing.
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The next trust industry may not involve money...

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@ChrisG_CXG Those poor puppies 🐶 🥲😬

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@Bruadarach_labs Boris and Stella soaking up the rays 🐾🤩

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The change villains you’ll meet at work — and how to win them over.

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