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AskBecks, Langport (2026)

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31/01/2020

✨Need some help around the house or know someone that does?!
Feel free to get in touch! ✨
T- 07955744319
E- [email protected]

05/07/2019

Ho Chi Minh city 🌃

30/04/2019

Walks with the giant fluff balls 🐶😍

12/04/2019

Think Positive thoughts and positive things will happen ✅

03/04/2019

Satisfying Carpet cleaning day. So surprising how much pet hair can be ingrained into carpet. Now it looks and smells brand new ✨🌸 @ Street, Somerset

03/04/2019

WE NEED TO TALK ABOUT DOGS.

Our sheep were attacked by a dog last year. I was alerted to it by a phone call from a neighbour who happened to be passing our field, and spotted a dog chasing down sheep and attempting to maul them. I was at the field within three minutes, but despite my best efforts, I was unable to catch the dog who ran on to the next sheep when I got close. And the next, and the next. At that point, I made the call that no-one wants to make and had someone bring their gun down to the field.

That was one lucky dog, as the owner got to the field before the gun. He was apologetic, his dog was a ‘lovely, family dog’, he had lost sight of his dog for ‘only a moment’, and this behaviour was ‘so unusual for dear Harry’. The sheep too were lucky (if you can call it that) as the alertness of our neighbour and my immediate presence meant that the sheep were shaken and cut but not badly injured.

According to the organisation SheepWatch UK, 15,000 farm animals were killed by dogs in 2016. Further to this, a recent survey highlighted that just 39% of farmers reported all incidents to the police, so the figure is likely to be much higher.

My message this month is a serious one: every dog - yes even your dear, beloved pooch - has it in them to be a killer. Please keep them on a lead at all times.

Oh, and please clear up their mess wherever they leave it. You see, the second most horrific incident I have seen on our farm is a sheep affected by coenurosis (Gid). Coenurus cerebralis is the larval stage of Taenia Multiceps; a tapeworm that infests the small intestine of dogs. Contamination of pastures grazed by sheep with dog faeces can result in larvae ultimately feasting on the poor sheep’s brain and central nervous system. The symptoms, and slow death, are extremely unpleasant. Please clear up after your dog, even on empty fields or footpaths, as who’s to say the farmer may not move sheep there just a few minutes after you pass.

Do please also follow your vet’s advice regarding worming your pets. As a Red Tractor farmer, their high standards demand that all farm dogs must be treated for worms and other parasites on a set, regular basis. We need your help in ensuring that disease and parasites are kept away from the livestock we care for.

Our farm dog is a lovely dog; truly man’s best friend, but, much as I wouldn’t leave him alone with a small child, I’d never allow him to stray near sheep, and when he poops, I scoop!

So, whether you’re the pooper, or the scooper, have a fantastic April!

Guardian The Telegraph BBC News BBC Look East NFU RSPCA (England & Wales) PETA (People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals) RSPB Love Nature Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs (Defra)

02/04/2019

Bear joining us on our lunch break while cleaning holiday lets 🐶✨

07/03/2019

Just a little reminder for some people. Not all dog want to play. Please be considerate, thank you! 🐶❤️

27/02/2019

Such a lovely walk with such a lovely dog. 🐶

01/02/2019

Some good advice from Bert! 😊

30/01/2019

New build all clean and all ready for someone to move in 👌🏼

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