Lapland New Forest (and Lapland West Midlands) Reviews & Discussion!

[terry brent]

Huskies are the most amazing soft animals around children, They are not wild animals. in fact they were bred so that in the winter they slept on the kids beds to keep them warm, thats where the saying "three dog night" came from, ie a cold night men't 3 dogs on the bed
Cheers
Terry

 

[Tubbette]

I have not been to this "attraction" and can not comment on whether it represents good value for money or not. However, as someone who owns and races a small pack of working siberian huskies I can comment on them! Please read and learn.

1) The huskies are chained because YOU CAN NOT LET A HUSKY OFF THE LEAD EVER, FULL STOP, PERIOD. This is because a husky has two major instincts - run and hunt. They are very good at both, and will go from nothing to scaling a six foot fence and running 50 miles at the drop of a hat or the lead. They will go from friendly doggie to efficient hunter and killer in 0.2 seconds.

Would you rather your kids saw the cute fluffy husky rip open and eat Santa's reindeer?????? I thought not.

2) I have never met these huskies but from the pictures shown they are not skinny or underweight! HUSKIES ARE LEAN, WELL MUSCLED WORKING DOGS. THEY ARE NOT LARGE/FAT FLUFFY HOLLYWOOD POWDER PUFFS. Those larger "huskies" you see in the movies are either malamuts ( a heavier set freight animal), mongrel cross breeds or poor OR FAT examples of a siberian husky. You have surely seen the documentary on Crufts and what happens when you breed for a show ring? Well, the huskies pictures are what happens when you don't breed for the American show ring.

3) HUSKIES DO HOWL: FOR FUN, OCCASIONALLY IF SAD, OFTEN IF HAPPY AND USUALLY JUST FOR THE SHEER HELL OF IT!!!! If you want quiet, subdued, you would never notice them dogs.... go look at a different breed!!!

4) SOME HUSKIES DO "TALK" OR "CHUNTER", OFTEN DESCRIBED AS MUSICAL, HERE BY SOMEONE AS "YAPPING". I have personally never heard a husky yap. Again, HUSKIES ARE NOT YOUR STANDARD PET POOCH.

5) I AM SURE THEY DID LOOK BORED AT TIMES. THEY ARE HIGHLY INTELLIGENT DOGS. THEY ARE MORE INTELLIGENT THAN MANY HUMANS I HAVE ENCOUNTERED... It has been said that you didn't get to touch them? They are living beings, why should they be mauled by hundreds of people and prodded by hundreds of children?????



PEOPLE SEEM TO HAVE MADE NO EFFORT TO FIND OUT ABOUT THE HUSKIES OR THESE RIDICULOUS COMMENTS WOULD NEVER HAVE BEEN MADE. Perhaps if people had engaged in talking to the people on the stall they would have found them to be like most husky owners, only too willing to share their love of the breed and explain a day in the life of a siberian husky.

Or perhaps they did and didn't like the answers they got back?

hypnorm and Terry, did you see this post a few pages back?

 

[terry brent]

Sadly I did and It worrys me greatly that this old wifes tale is still going strong,
I wouldn;t give up any of my huskies and my kids would leave home if I did,
Wonderful family dogs in the right hands, Please people don;t think that huskies are wild animals they are wonderful DOGS
Honest Tubbette. Are mine the fat ones then. or the Show trotting powder puffs
Terry

 

[terry brent]

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We do a lot of fundraising for our breed welfare, the dogs do a hug a husky stand and we have some wonderful pictures of kids (young and old) hugging a husky
Terry

 

[masi]

They are beautiful Terry!!

 

[terry brent]

Thanks I adore them and they are wonderful to live with,
My granddaugher Lily Rose comes though the door and hugs the first one she sees, then I get a hug then grandad LOL. She is just over 2 years old and has her priorites in life sorted
Cheers
Terry

 

[Ally_Kats_Mam]

This was just posted on the Money Saving Forum. I don't know how much of a rumour it is but with the website having been closed down, I am hoping there is some truth in it:

"UNOFFICIAL NEWS ALERT!

I have just spoken to my credit card company about getting a refund for tickets booked for 21st Dec and the lady said she is under the impression that tomorrow there will be announcement that trading standards will be CLOSING down the Winter Wonder Crapland... Yipeee.

She said it will be much easier to get a refund as it will be for "services not rendered" rather than a dispute.

HTH"

Fingers crossed!

 

[Stardancer]

Don't know if this has been linked, haven't time to check back through the thread, but this clip on the bbc news gives advice on refunds:

https://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/7759122.stm

 

[terry brent]

Thats fantastic news, fingers crossed
Terry

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[hypnorm]

YOU CAN NOT LET A HUSKY OFF THE LEAD EVER, FULL STOP, PERIOD.

They will go from friendly doggie to efficient hunter and killer in 0.2 seconds.

hypnorm and Terry, did you see this post a few pages back?

Yeh i did unfortunatley i did.
Huskies are getting quite popular as pets and having worked as a veterinary nurse i have worked with afew and have never met an aggressive one yet.
There are afew locals how happily let theirs of the lead and also do agility with them.
As for the killer comment!! ANY breed of dog can go from friend to killer in a matter of seconds so that comment is a load of poo!

but i dont want to get in to a doggie debate! i just feel sorry for the kids who are getting their christmases ruined.

 

[FEDup1981]

its on the ITV news tonight about 1000 people complaining about the place

 

[Anon-nymous]

Hi peeps now i cant say where im from but lets say i have some info but dont want to risk certain employment lets just say ive heard figures of 3000 complaints alone and in excess of him making £1 million
Trust me i believe they will not close them down as they are powerless.
ill keep checkin so ne questions u want answering ask them here and ill try and adv.

 

[Anon-nymous]

sorry meant to say 3000 just today.

 

[Mammabling]

Hi peeps now i cant say where im from but lets say i have some info but dont want to risk certain employment lets just say ive heard figures of 3000 complaints alone and in excess of him making £1 million
Trust me i believe they will not close them down as they are powerless.
ill keep checkin so ne questions u want answering ask them here and ill try and adv.

Anon-nymous, thanks for the information. The figures aren't surprising. If you're in the know, perhaps you can give us some pointers or ideas on how we DO go about getting this scam closed. Who does have the power? I've put a call into the areas local MP and am waiting to talk to him, but in the meantime ALL and ANY ideas are very welcome. This should not be allowed to continue. Thanks

 

[hotsexymum]

Hi peeps now i cant say where im from but lets say i have some info but dont want to risk certain employment lets just say ive heard figures of 3000 complaints alone and in excess of him making £1 million
Trust me i believe they will not close them down as they are powerless.
ill keep checkin so ne questions u want answering ask them here and ill try and adv.

do you work there ????

 

[Anon-nymous]

lol no i dont work for them sorry for all the hush hush if youve complained chances are i might of spoken to some of you.
Lets just say ive been spending all day working with people like yourself trying to help them in the best possible way to try and get some kind of recompence.
Although have to say in my experience your money is gone although would be great if for some reason you got it back.
Past 2 days id say id spoken to at least 300 people on my own with ref to this situation.
General opinion within people around me believe unless Trading Standards go to try and shut this company down for some reason then under something called the enterprise act they may be able to do it, however what im saying is they do not have the powers and certainly cannot react quick enough like people think.
Thats not there fault there hands are tied also.
So if they go under that act then im guessing would be at least March before they did anything but hey its just my opinion by which time it is too late.
Ive seen some companies but this is by far the biggest thing ive seen relating to this kind of situation.

An even bigger problem is the people who have paid are in an even bigger catch 22 as technically in their contract they cannot hold the trader in BREACH OF CONTRACT as they have not experienced themselves meaning being able to persue them for any kind of money back means even though they have heard all these terrible things they have to still go to this event so they can then persue for damages through the supply of goods and services act'82.

 

[Bunnies]

I was reading comments from one of the newspaper articles and was upset by heartless people. They made out that we are fools who have spent all that money on Lapland. I do feel silly now but at the time I was excited about seeing my childrens faces when they experienced the magic....I think that's what being a child is all about. I guess I've learnt my lesson. And to those people who think we have lost the real meaning of Christmas.....it is not true. There is room for both - Father Christmas, Magic and Jesus!

If that is what you wish!

 

[zoomoo]

Huskies are getting quite popular as pets and having worked as a veterinary nurse i have worked with afew and have never met an aggressive one yet.
There are afew locals how happily let theirs of the lead and also do agility with them.

From the kennel club type sites that give info on breeds it is very clear that huskies are fantastic with children / people but need to be handled and trained by people who know what they're doing (presumably to stop them running off / pulling on the lead if their instinct is to run?).

I think the issue from the posts on Lapland New Forest is that the huskies there are either not trained at all so are basically being displayed in the same way that wolves are in a wildlife park, and/or are being handled by youngsters who possibly (probably?) don't have the expertise to recognise when the dog is getting fractitious or unsettled by attention.

Hopefully no children will be injured in these circumstances at LNF even if they've been upset and disappointed, if anyone is still going? The reports back from it seem to have dried up since the weekend!

 

[brian]

Hi I've just joined as I found this forum when searching for info on New Forest Lapland.

We're tempted to go as it does look good but I've never heard of it before so I think it's new this year. I've checked the company name at Companies House & there are no filed accounts and the company was first registered in August this year, so not sure whether to book or not........if I do I'll make sure I do it by credit card.

Has anyone else heard of them?

LOTS OF DISSATISFIED CUSTOMERS
THINK THEY ARE BEING LOOKED AT BY TRADING STANDARDS TODAYS NEWS ON YAHOO

TRY LAPLAND UK THEY LOOK EVEN BETTER THEY HAVE PUT A BANNER ON THEIR SITE SAYING THAT THEY ARE NOT CONNECTED IN ANY WAY

 

[gurn13]

We have got tickets to go this Sunday and will have to go to stand any remote possibility of reclaiming our money through Barclaycard, I am so worried about going as we have two toddlers who think the world is a magical place and now I'm worried that they'll go and see this dump and the whole magic of Christmas will be ruined. We are not mentioning to them that we are going to lapland we are just telling them that we are going to meet Nanna and Grandad we will stay as short a time as possible and then go and find somewhere nice to go afterwards.
I'll let you know how we get on.....