Has Anyone Else Had a Random Dog Just Start Running With Them?

Happens to me all the time at the park I run at. Nobody ever heard of the leash law there so many times the dog just wants to run along for a while. Then the owner finally calls for the dog and the dog bums out and turns around.

you took a dog on a run and abandoned it it the middle of nowehere???!!! i'd hate to see what you would do if you found a missing kid.

jerk!

I once had an ugly chick start running with me? Does that count?

I've had this happen a few times. I run about 80% of my mileage on gravel roads out in the country. For a while the same little dog would follow me when I ran by a certain farmhouse. The first time I tried to run back and make the dog stay, but it wouldn't. It kept up with me for 10 miles and followed me back to my apartment in town.

Just last week a dog started following me in the country again. Normally I don't mind, but this dog was breathing SO heavy it was making me tired. Then, he started getting tired and swerving into me. I gave it a swift kick in the ass and it slowed way down and stopped following.

I'll do you one better - a cat ran with me once for about 100 yds and then tried to go under my feet to force me to pet it.... I scratched it's back for about 5-10s and then took off.

StudBoy wrote:

I once had an ugly chick start running with me? Does that count?

lol

I had a three-legged dog run with me for about 5 miles. What a champ, he gave it all he had despite his handicap.

There was one summer when I was doing early AM runs where this bunny rabbit would be at the same spot every day for 4 straight days one week, run alongside me for 10-12 strides then dart into the woods.

Never could figure that one out.

Way to blow him away, that poor dog! Now lost and lonely, he's also exhausted and dehydrated after his new friend leaves him in the dust. :( Hope he was street smart...

...or a random deer. The boys and I were doing a couple of laps at Salem Lake a few years back when this young waist-high deer came out of the woods and ran alongside us for a few hundred meters. Strange but true.

One time I was running down a dirt road doing a tempo run and like three dogs started following me! I didn't know what to do!!! Two of them dropped off and one started chasing a cycler.

Yes, right in mile 5 of a 10K two weeks ago. Hapless, helpless, hopeless owners parked right in the middle of the street and watched.

But that was back when most dogs emphasized mileage much more than the current bunch of curs. Running through chutes and up little inclins and back down, pure anerobic stuff in todays mutts.

back in the day puppy's coud easily handle this kind of mileage so it didn't suprise me at all.

It was quantity back then. Now dogs know that the only way they can get recognized and earn a decent living is through running through those hoops, upand down inclines and doing the karoke through those posts.....

10 points for sheer brilliance.

oooh you used the word "random", you must be so cool.

Yes, actually I was doing 800s on an indoor track, and one of the coaches had brought his dog in and was just sitting on the track talking to some people. Well as I ran by, the dog decided to run with me, and he made it one lap around the track, stayingin lane three the entire time. I thought that was the funniest part...it was as if he were trying to obey the rules!

It happens other times as well, but not generally for long periods of time (certainly never for four miles!)

since the dog could go for 4 miles, it makes me wonder if his owner took him running.

The dog is lucky I didn't take it home and put a bullet in its head.

Mrs. Mulberry wrote:

you took a dog on a run and abandoned it it the middle of nowehere???!!! i'd hate to see what you would do if you found a missing kid.

jerk!

I had two dogs follow when I ran through the city. I kept trying to get them away because I was in traffic. Well, two miles later one of them gets hit by a car and gets his leg mangled beyond description. No owner anywhere (there were tags as I recall but the number didn't work)to be found and the other dog sits next to it and does that doggy cry for the 20 minutes it took for animal control to come get them. I was so pissed at the owners. One of the worst running experiences I have ever had.