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Never a dull moment on the Quantocks
- AONB Rangers Tim and Andy were out on the busy bank holiday
Posted by Tim Russell on 05 September 2011
There are always issues to deal with on such potentially busy days and August Bank Holiday Monday is usually a good one! What was it going to be today … hill fires, motorbikes, lost people or sheep worrying?
The picnic/bbq site in Ramscombe was expectedly busy with visitors making the most of a Bank Holiday without rain!
We met up with one of our Volunteer Rangers (Peter Verge) litter picking at Withyman’s Pool and dropped him off on Thorncombe Hill so that he could do a foot patrol. We then headed north and were soon approached by a couple of walkers who had witnessed a dog with sheep carcass near Holford Combe. We took the description of the dog and thanked the walkers for their helpful information. Almost immediately (using binoculars) we could see a dog answering the description chasing sheep on Hare Knaps … we alerted one of the Commoners to the situation and headed there ourselves.
We both reached the area simultaneously and the guilty dog was duly apprehended. We now had a pit bull in the back of the Ranger truck on a bank holiday … what were we going to do with it? There was no sign of possible owners anywhere to be seen. After a series of phone calls we were relieved to find that we could drop the dog off at Sedgemoor District Council’s emergency dept in Bridgwater… success! We are currently following up the incident with the Police.
There’s never a dull moment patrolling these hills, we enjoy the variety and helping visitors and hill farmers alike. It is blatantly clear on such days that having Rangers and volunteers around to deal with the issues that are bound to arise is a vital element to the work of the AONB Service.
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