Im up in the scottish highlands with the beasts this week and while the views are great ni where allows dogs in and there are very few places they can be off lead. On the plus sidepeople can actuallt recognise a deerhound.pictures will follow once i get back and have computer access

Wow! I'm amazed at that. I've only been back in England for a couple of years, after having spent more than 10 years living in Scotland. Dogs were part of everyday life - mine came to work with me and Fergus often lay beneath a meeting table! Obviously, I couldn't take them into the city but they were just accepted everywhere else I went. Ive found it much less tolerant down here, apart from the Lakes!

Managed to sort one photo so far as its been a bit chaotic here

Hello Vikingxc,

Very great photo from your Loki in the Highlands.


Regards
Joerg and Yoki

Hi we live up here in the Highlands of Scotland (Caithness) and we never have any problems with our two deerhounds everyone is very accommodating towards them and will help in any way they can,it may be just local knowledge but we have loads of places to let them run free.

Great photo. This is where I want to be next year for the holidays.

What a beautiful photograph! You clearly have an eye for a good picture. Where was it taken?

Sorry to hear you found things tricky with the dogs, like Farnorth said - maybe it's a local knowledge thing? If you ever head to Aberdeenshire, drop me a line and I'll let you know a few places to go.

At home in the holiday cotage



The hermitage



Invermoriston



Loch Morlich







Loch an Eilein











Loch Morlich again


Added a few more pictures for you all thanks for the kind comments on the original one. Next time i head up that way i may post up on the forum asking for some local knowledge i think.

Hello Vikingxc,

Thanks for the very nice new pics from your hounds in the Scottish Highlands.
You are a great photographer.


Regards
Joerg and Yoki

Hi Rich
Good to see you are up and about. Where abouts did you go?
We were in Scotland in Aug, think I'll post some of our pictures.
Spring

Cheers Spring yep up and about but still finding it hard to walk any distance. We stayed in a place called Dalwhinnie but drove over 2000 miles exploring the area im not great with locations but i will get Amanda to edit tne post with locations in the next few days

Hi the photos are brilliant we are about 180 miles farther north about three hours drive time so cant help with local knowledge in that area.

I'm just back from Loch Alsh area too! Here's a photo of one of the local hazards!
We were beside Loch Hourn and managed to find a couple of lonely beaches where Dirk and our lurcher Biddy could run about, but generally in the mountains we had to keep them on leads because of sheep and deer. Most people thought Dirk was a wolfhound but delighted to hear he was a deerhound. The place was so remote we didnt get to go to any cafe's or bars so I dont know if they would have been allowed in!

Here we are, a picture of Callie and Fergal on the way to the summit of Ben A'an (can you spot Robert?)

Spring

Great pictures trowsahound and spring

Lovely photos. Really beautiful.

I live in Argyll, west coast, there are lots of places here to let hounds run free. Sorry you had a problem. Beaches or Forestry Commission tracks are usually good for lead free walks wherever you are in Scotland.

best of luck next visit.

Wendy

It does help to know the area. My good friends live in Grantown on Spey and Alan trains gundogs. They also have some difficulty nowadays as so many of the old estates has been bought up by non locals, so they actually have to rent land for training. Very different to my memories of the area. However I have just come back from Ayrshire and Argyll where there were lots of dogs on forest trails, hill walking and beaches. Hope all the beautiful scenery made up for it!

A couple more:
At the sea-side, can't remember where but we drove all around the Firth of Forth stopping at all the little towns and letting the hounds run around, they loved it.

At Castle Campbell (or Castle Doom as it was Known!!)

We could have bumped into you Spring! Here's Righ, Banrigh and Rashie at Elie when we were up for the SKC show in Aug.

Thanks for all these great photos.