https://www.vetsurgeon.org/f/non-clinical-questions/13248/oh-deer (who said Americans are dumb.........) en-USTelligent Community 10https://www.vetsurgeon.org/thread/75881?ContentTypeID=1Fri, 26 Oct 2012 09:54:08 GMT146601cc-3922-4be7-9974-7e1d4e45a66b:0a0eb95b-84d7-4e97-b3f0-091a12acdca2Hannah Wynne Richards<p>No dafter than in 2001 during the height of FMD There were unfenced public footpaths in the Lake District,and after TonyBlair said &quot;the countryside is open&quot; notices were put upnext to the pathways saying &quot;Foot and Mouth Disease Please keep to the pathways &quot; whilst sheep were grazing adjacent to those paths-with no fence to stopthem walking over the path and onto the grass the other side</p> <p>How stupid was that-and DEFRA veterinarians (presumably ) went along with it</p> <p>Wynne</p><div style="clear:both;"></div>