FENTON!!!

[Booldawg]

sorry if you've seen this already, over 6.5m views theres every chance. I'm sure most dog owners have had these moments!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3GRSbr0EYYU

[AB Editor]

LOL, how did you miss it? It was on the national news at the time :)

[EvianBaby]

This is pretty old now and there were quite a few posts when it was first put on line - I got told off by quite a few who really couldn't see the funny side. Thanks for reminding me though, I still think it's hilarious. :)

[jno]

news isn't news until it gets onto AB

[AB Editor]

This is true Jno :)

[Kiki-frog]

I've seen this many times, but it's still hilarious. That poor man!

[islasmum]

I expect that Fenton is restricted to an extending lead nowadays!

[Booldawg]

haha, I'm not Mr Current Affairs - how old is this?

[EvianBaby]

Can't remember exactly but it was definitely before Xmas (I remember seeing a micky take with father christmas on it).

Turns out the dogs name is actually Benton too.

[bibblebub]

roughly 1 dog month

[ladybirder]

This annoyed the hell out of me the first time I saw it. Idiot bloke. Warnings all over Richmond Park telling you to be careful of the deer.

[wolf63]

There were many people up in arms about various aspects of the video - welfare for deer, disobedient dogs, the various awful things that could have happened.

They all seemed to miss the point - it could have been any dog owner. At some stage even the best behaved dog lets its inner wolf free and we are powerless to contain it - I am not talking about vicious dogs.

This guy will never live this incident down - but he will have learned a lot from it. The main message is - make sure nobody is carrying a camera.

[Booldawg]

A similar incident happened to me about 10 years ago. I was walking my dog along a path we always use. She was off the lead as the fields are arable. Not on this one day; the field was out of view behind a hedgerow until I was right on top of it. It had about 100 sheep in.

My dog made a bolt for them and the whole herd stampeded from one end of the field to another. It was like 'One Man and his dog' on steroids. One poor sheep ran straight through the wire fence and carrried on going into the sunset.

[FredPuli43]

You have to be lucky with your breed.All breeds are capable of it but if you've got sight hounds; salukis, Irish wolfhounds and the like; you've got no chance ! I've got sight hounds. I asked an Irish breeder "Do they wander?" "Ah, no Sir, they stick to you like glue......[long pause]... but if they see a hare, you'll need a helicopter!"

[factor-fiction]

Has someone done a spoof where someone shouts "Trenton" as a man is seen swimming towards the Oxford and Cambridge boats on the Thames

[RATTER15]

I agree fred, however we thought we were going to have an incident with some horses when we were out on an old footpath, the dogs were off lead but nearby when all of a sudden 3 horses and riders came around the corner, the dogs ran for them but amazingly hearing the desperation in our voices they stopped and returned, we were even impressed ourselves and the horses passed us without incident, it could have gone wrong though. We would never let them off lead if we know there is stock on the land. They are used to horses as they see them pass the house everyday, I think that's why they returned so easily.

A lady in the village had a Staffie escape last year and it ran down the road to the natural rough land adjoining the beach where sheep graze, it killed nine sheep!! the dog was destroyed.

[factor-fiction]

Yes, here it is
Trenton Oldfield

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nzrsHmdORBA

[rowanwitch]

late MIL had a lassie type collie she herded people at the pub... at least she thought she was herding them she would wait til they came out into the garden and she would 'guide' them back to their tables and get really mithered if say three had left and only two came back... going back and forward to the doors until the missing person appeared to be shepherded back to their part of the 'flock'

[FredPuli43]

Ratter, you should have seen the look on the wolfhound pup's face when he first set eyes on a horse in the paddock . He stopped dead in his tracks and stared. You could see him thinking "Blimey! My dad is a big dog, but that dog is bigger than him !" They're no trouble with horses; I suppose they think they're too big to bring down and eat. They ignore all small prey; rats, squirrels and so on; presumably on the grounds that these are too small to bother with, but hares and muntjac are another matter.

But I had a standard poodle bitch whose great delight was to go up to the horses and try to get them to move. If they did, she'd try to get them to trot, then canter...she was only happy if she got them to full gallop, even for a second or two, then she'd stop, object achieved. Trouble was they got wise to this game and just stared back at her, unmoving, or raised a warning hoof. Outwitted by a horse; what an insult!

[wolf63]

FACTOR - I hadn't seen the boat version of Fenton. At least the original Fenton had more brains than the swimming version.

My first puppy was a bull-mastiff/GSD with a habit of chasing mopeds. He never caught one but did frighten a few riders. Another trick was to run up to someone riding a bike (usually in the park) and stopping dead at the last moment. The cyclist was usually so traumatised by the sight of the charging hound that he had stopped cycling and frozen in fear - causing him to topple over. His antics still make me smile many, many years later.