any one tried those new dazer gadgets ?

[k979aaa]

you people seem to have been licking too many envelopes. or sniffing the glue on the back of too many stamps. is there anyone out there that can give me a tidy answer to a tidy question ?

Not the ones by Royal Mail but I do have one of my own and its very good. I have not yet used it in anger on the job, but I did inadvertently set it off once and both my cats shot off through the window and did not come back for 1/2 hour at least. My neighbour also mentioned a few days later that she was worried about her dog as it was lying in the front room and all of sudden shot up and looked frighted. Oops but at least it works.

Only thing is tbt is it don't work on deaf dogs for how do you know a dog is deaf before you come face to face with one

I found that out the hard way, trying to deliver to a schoolhouse. I was confronted by about 4 dogs, I pressed the dazer......3 stopped in their tracks but 1 kept coming! I managed to get away and later found out from the caretaker, that one of them was deaf!!!!! A warning sign would have been a godsend!!!!

Are you ok not hurt by the dog

[paul_skinback]

Have Royal Snail got these in the stores? Just wondering if they would work?

http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/Remote-Control-Fa ... 286.c0.m14

[paul_skinback]

Have Royal Snail got these in the stores? Just wondering if they would work?

http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/Remote-Control-Fa ... 286.c0.m14

LOL. Got to have one of those! Well found though i cant think what was going through your mind to be looking on ebay for a **** machine but love it.

If I told you why i want one I woud have to kill you But I will let pegasus the flying postman do that!

[POSTMAN]

pentrabane

[heapsy]

Has anyone had any success with the dazer gadgets? supposed to frighten the dogs away, but not one postie in our office had any luck with it at all, in fact it seemed to make the dog want to attack us more. I think we should use cap guns, the noise will frighten the s**t out of the dog , but it wont hurt it

Can remember having something like this issued way back in the early 90's. Can't remember what happened to mine but can remember that we never had the batteries to operate them.

[ade@cambs]

Anyone been issued with BITEBACK yet. This is from 1997 but i thought they were meant to be rolling it out Nationally....could be wrong though.

Postmen bite back with dog deterrents
By Sean O'Neill

POSTMEN have been issued with a new weapon in their unrelenting battle with dogs.

The Royal Mail has equipped its staff in the South West and south Wales with a cannister that sprays a peppermint-scented cloud into the face of a dog, distracting it and leaving it marked with a red dye. The initiative was taken in the region after 900 attacks on postmen in the past year which resulted in 1,000 working days being lost. The deterrent - called Biteback - is made from natural substances that do not harm the animals.

Colin Toogood, Post Office area manager, said: "Our number one interest is the safety of staff. " The spray is for use in surprise attacks, when the dog appears from nowhere and traps the postman. It is carried on a voluntary basis only. The strong peppermint smell completely distracts the dog and will give the postman time to escape. It also has a vegetable dye in it so that the owners know what has happened. This is not a canine version of CS gas. Our spray has no permanent effects."

Bet this would work

[paul_skinback]

Anyone been issued with BITEBACK yet. This is from 1997 but i thought they were meant to be rolling it out Nationally....could be wrong though.

Postmen bite back with dog deterrents
By Sean O'Neill

POSTMEN have been issued with a new weapon in their unrelenting battle with dogs.

The Royal Mail has equipped its staff in the South West and south Wales with a cannister that sprays a peppermint-scented cloud into the face of a dog, distracting it and leaving it marked with a red dye. The initiative was taken in the region after 900 attacks on postmen in the past year which resulted in 1,000 working days being lost. The deterrent - called Biteback - is made from natural substances that do not harm the animals.

Colin Toogood, Post Office area manager, said: "Our number one interest is the safety of staff. " The spray is for use in surprise attacks, when the dog appears from nowhere and traps the postman. It is carried on a voluntary basis only. The strong peppermint smell completely distracts the dog and will give the postman time to escape. It also has a vegetable dye in it so that the owners know what has happened. This is not a canine version of CS gas. Our spray has no permanent effects."

Bet this would work

Nice but I use one of these they dont like it uppem!

[Beefy_Curtains]

you people seem to have been licking too many envelopes. or sniffing the glue on the back of too many stamps. is there anyone out there that can give me a tidy answer to a tidy question ?

Not the ones by Royal Mail but I do have one of my own and its very good. I have not yet used it in anger on the job, but I did inadvertently set it off once and both my cats shot off through the window and did not come back for 1/2 hour at least. My neighbour also mentioned a few days later that she was worried about her dog as it was lying in the front room and all of sudden shot up and looked frighted. Oops but at least it works.

Only thing is tbt is it don't work on deaf dogs for how do you know a dog is deaf before you come face to face with one

Bit like car airbags. They aint no good whatsover if you smoke a pipe are they?

[Beefy_Curtains]

Anyone been issued with BITEBACK yet. This is from 1997 but i thought they were meant to be rolling it out Nationally....could be wrong though.

Postmen bite back with dog deterrents
By Sean O'Neill

POSTMEN have been issued with a new weapon in their unrelenting battle with dogs.

The Royal Mail has equipped its staff in the South West and south Wales with a cannister that sprays a peppermint-scented cloud into the face of a dog, distracting it and leaving it marked with a red dye. The initiative was taken in the region after 900 attacks on postmen in the past year which resulted in 1,000 working days being lost. The deterrent - called Biteback - is made from natural substances that do not harm the animals.

Colin Toogood, Post Office area manager, said: "Our number one interest is the safety of staff. " The spray is for use in surprise attacks, when the dog appears from nowhere and traps the postman. It is carried on a voluntary basis only. The strong peppermint smell completely distracts the dog and will give the postman time to escape. It also has a vegetable dye in it so that the owners know what has happened. This is not a canine version of CS gas. Our spray has no permanent effects."

Bet this would work

Why would a dog be scared of a dildo?

[DGP1]

Anyone been issued with BITEBACK yet. This is from 1997 but i thought they were meant to be rolling it out Nationally....could be wrong though.

Postmen bite back with dog deterrents
By Sean O'Neill

POSTMEN have been issued with a new weapon in their unrelenting battle with dogs.

The Royal Mail has equipped its staff in the South West and south Wales with a cannister that sprays a peppermint-scented cloud into the face of a dog, distracting it and leaving it marked with a red dye. The initiative was taken in the region after 900 attacks on postmen in the past year which resulted in 1,000 working days being lost. The deterrent - called Biteback - is made from natural substances that do not harm the animals.

Colin Toogood, Post Office area manager, said: "Our number one interest is the safety of staff. " The spray is for use in surprise attacks, when the dog appears from nowhere and traps the postman. It is carried on a voluntary basis only. The strong peppermint smell completely distracts the dog and will give the postman time to escape. It also has a vegetable dye in it so that the owners know what has happened. This is not a canine version of CS gas. Our spray has no permanent effects."

Bet this would work

Why would a dog be scared of a dildo?

There is a joke in there but my wife sometimes reads my posts so I'll not make it

[heapsy]

Think it's a good idea to have something, as I havn't always been able to get my size 8 within range of the dogs head.

[k979aaa]

Anyone been issued with BITEBACK yet. This is from 1997 but i thought they were meant to be rolling it out Nationally....could be wrong though.

Postmen bite back with dog deterrents
By Sean O'Neill

POSTMEN have been issued with a new weapon in their unrelenting battle with dogs.

The Royal Mail has equipped its staff in the South West and south Wales with a cannister that sprays a peppermint-scented cloud into the face of a dog, distracting it and leaving it marked with a red dye. The initiative was taken in the region after 900 attacks on postmen in the past year which resulted in 1,000 working days being lost. The deterrent - called Biteback - is made from natural substances that do not harm the animals.

Colin Toogood, Post Office area manager, said: "Our number one interest is the safety of staff. " The spray is for use in surprise attacks, when the dog appears from nowhere and traps the postman. It is carried on a voluntary basis only. The strong peppermint smell completely distracts the dog and will give the postman time to escape. It also has a vegetable dye in it so that the owners know what has happened. This is not a canine version of CS gas. Our spray has no permanent effects."

Bet this would work

Royalmail earned it's £177 million half year profit's at the expence of it's own staff had the postman who so nearly lost his life had one of these he maybe in a lot better shape now!.

[java]

try the mace spray that Royal Mail supplies, not tried it myself but if the dazer don't work.....

[postie40]

Have a look at this clip! http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hysAJfcJ7FA" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;
This will be the way forward, sod the dogs

[norfolk n chance]

try the mace spray that Royal Mail supplies, not tried it myself but if the dazer don't work.....

yes that stuff works i've tryed it the dogs cant stop sneezing
gives you time to walk away.