lucky13 wrote:
Gawwwd I HATE pussy runners like this guy. Guys that are scared of dogs turn me off and a lot of runner guys seem to be this way. Real men tackle dogs, not kill them with rocks.
My guess is you've never been around a pack of wild stray dogs. They're different than the little dog behind the electric fence in suburban America.
I went to India last fall with my wife, to visit my sister in law. She was living in Darjeeling at the time, finishing her research for her PhD. One thing that she warned us about, as we wandered the town were the stray dogs.
The people in Darjeeling don't have a 'dump', there's just a couple of places in town that you throw your trash. The dogs will go through and find what they want, and every other day, someone comes by and burns the rest of it. It's just how it's done there--and to tell you the truth, I didn't see any trash on the sides of the road at all.
Anyway, there were lots of dogs, wandering from place to place, mostly within a confined area. Some of them had caretakers (the butcher, for example), but most of them just made their way around looking for food. I had to run across town to meet my wife and sis in law, and as I approached a pack of a half-dozen dogs, they got really aggressive, started barking and growling, and actually did pursue me for a few hundred meters. I ended up just keeping an eye on them and wasn't terribly concerned, but yeah, they could have easily taken a hunk out of my leg.
Dogs in foreign countries are nothing to mess around with. Especially if the locals warn you about them.