Do dog walkers in your city apologize of their dog chases/bites you while you're running?

Why is your running path intersecting dog walkers?

Don't they have a track for them or something?

jamin wrote:

From my experience, they usually don't say sorry

Dude, I had an encounter yesterday. I like to run loops when training, so I'll find an area, usually in the suburbs, that is about

1200 to 1 mile long and loop that. It makes it easier to do different running workouts, and to calculate distance.

Anyway, as I was heading into 3/4ths of the loop, a dog ran out of a house without permission. A girl came out yelling at the dog to return to the house. The dog didn't pay her any attention, and just started sniffing away at the ground. I noticed that the canine was some kind of Shiba breed, medium size, and appeared to be friendly - It was not friendly.

It looked up , and it saw me coming ( I actually stopped when I saw it run out of the house that it was in.) It immediately charged at me. I was about to run, but I didn't. I stood still for a moment, but it kept charging at me. Once it got close, I ran to a tree and put my leg up in defense, and yelled " someone better come get this dog!" It stood in front of me barking, so I backed up, and it kept coming at me. I put my hand up, and it started sniffing at me, or sniffing at the air to get my scent. It barked a couple of times, and then it went to the side and just started sniffing at the ground. I guess I had become cool at that point, not sure. It just went about its business, and I got back into my running for a bit, but I didn't return to that side of the running route.

It wasn't cool at all. There was major fear in me at the beginning of the encounter, but then I had to swallow it because we were both in the middle of the street, out in the open. Plus it was easy run day, and I had on 9 oz running shoes. They feel like lead boots when running faster then 7:00 min pace. No way in hell was I going to really be able to put it into high, high gear if I had to.

That is my second dog encounter within one month.

Not the entitled and snobby ones because their dogs are more important than human beings. Even their own kids. They can bite anyone and it's okay because that's always the dogs "first bite" lol.

I would pay a premium to live in a neighborhood with no dogs! I don't hate dogs, there are just way too many of them here.

Saw the worst variety of this particular type of idiot the other night. Out running along our canal towpath, this woman was jogging with her dog unleashed - the dog was going nuts running along and jumping up at everyone passing whilst she happily waved apologies!

What kind of person - as a runner and therefore presumably aware of how annoying leaping dogs are - would do this?

Alaskan Malamutes are the best dogs. Why can't we get rid of some of the crap breads and have more Malamutes knocking about?

I love dogs. But I don't love being chased, snarled at, barked at, nipped or bitten while running. I've had a lot of dog encounters over the years. What I've found to work the best is to act the alpha dog. Stand up to the dog, face off towards it, make yourself big, and speak to it in loud, confident tone to get away.

This has gotten me out of some scary encounters. I'll admit I have not tried it on dangerous breeds like pit bulls, dobermans etc. There have been times when I could see big, potentially scary dogs up ahead and I have picked up a big rock to have handy just in case I needed to fight it off. So far - knock on wood - I have not had to hit or fight a dog.

A friend of a friend took a different approach. He mad martial arts skills, and some angry dog in the country ran out after him and tried to attack. My buddy's buddy gave the dog one swift, sharp kick, broke its neck. I hope to never have to try that. As I said earlier, I love dogs.

Often they tell me its MY fault eg 'you frightened him' or even 'sorry but you came between me and the dog'. Sometimes they shout 'stand still' and I genuinely can't tell if they are talking to me or the effing dog.

Hardloper wrote:

I would pay a premium to live in a neighborhood with no dogs! I don't hate dogs, there are just way too many of them here.

Just take jamin back and move back in together, problem solved.