I personally have never had a dog attack nor do I know somebody who has. Do y’all really have that bad experiences with dogs?
I personally have never had a dog attack nor do I know somebody who has. Do y’all really have that bad experiences with dogs?
It must be nice to live in a gated community.
Wondered of things wrote:
I personally have never had a dog attack nor do I know somebody who has. Do y’all really have that bad experiences with dogs?
It's not an uncommon thing for runners.
because it's mostly runners here....most runners, like mailmen, eventually encounter aggressive dogs.
I was charged by a pitbull multiple times as a third grader on my bike. luckly never bitten. looking back on it, there's a good chance i could have been severely injured or killed.
the human race has shown them not responsible enough to own pitbulls.
yeah, i know, your pitbull never attacked anyone. you how i know that? because once it does attack someone, it usually gets put down. So thats why every pitbull owner thinks "Oh...not my dog. It's never harmed anyone.." Because no dogs harm anyone...until they do....and are putdown.
Wondered of things wrote:
I personally have never had a dog attack nor do I know somebody who has. Do y’all really have that bad experiences with dogs?
Yes. I have had multiple dogs attack me, once resulting in an injury which caused me to have to take time off from running. Dog attacks are no joke. Despite the fact that they are dangerous, laws forcing them to be controlled by fences, leashes, etc. are unenforced or nonexistent. This is a running site and we talk about the pitfalls that come with running. Dog attacks are a big one.
I love dogs but it never fails to startle me when they chase you down.
It's an instinct of theirs but reflects poorly on the dog owner as it means to us runners they never considered the outside public while letting their dog roam free.
A lot of people on LR live in poor rural/urban areas where lazy people let untrained dogs roam. If you live in even a middle class neighborhood, you will find that your neighbors keep their dogs fenced in or leashed. If you live in a ghetto or rural hellhole, you'll have pit bulls wandering around the streets.
Just look at the dog bite threads on here. I'm pretty sure the two most recent ones involved a dog owned by a homeless person and an attack in a poor town in the rural south. It's a poor people problem, not a dog problem.
YES! Where I have run it's middle class to the highest upper class. In fact the CEO of a major corporation lives right across the street. I'm looking at his house now. Their dog is well trained and very small. But other neighbors here, I'm talking 4 or 5 bedroom houses with an acre or three per house - almost all the dogs at one time or another have ran into the road after me while I was running. I let all these irresponsible people know that it is against the law. One person I even sent a letter to. One guy got in his car chased me and threatened me if I called the police! The latest event was last week.
Most people in the neighbor now dislike me because I yelled at most of them when there dog ran after me. I could care less. They are the irresponsible aholes Next time it happens I will do some Kung Fu kicks on those dogs and defend myself to the fullest extent of the law. Then I will call the police and report it. If I am bitten or suffer any injury I will call an attorney the same day. I'm not taking it anymore from these ahole dog owners. Why don't you get your dog professionally trained? Irresponsible aholes!
setrhs wrote:
YES! Where I have run it's middle class to the highest upper class. In fact the CEO of a major corporation lives right across the street. I'm looking at his house now. Their dog is well trained and very small. But other neighbors here, I'm talking 4 or 5 bedroom houses with an acre or three per house - almost all the dogs at one time or another have ran into the road after me while I was running.
middle class? 4-5 bedroom house? I assume we are talking about the dog house....
I was bit by a dog in 1983 outside of Pueblo, Colorado. Owners name was Tony Sandoval.
It wasn't THAT Tony Sandoval!!
I was bitten by a corgi.
hard to forget..... wrote:
I was bit by a dog in 1983 outside of Pueblo, Colorado. Owners name was Tony Sandoval.
It wasn't THAT Tony Sandoval!!
Back when Americans could actually run 2:10 in the marathon.
I was killed and eaten by dogs, but the moderators won't let me share my story and they deleted my thread.
setrhs wrote:
YES! Where I have run it's middle class to the highest upper class. In fact the CEO of a major corporation lives right across the street. I'm looking at his house now. Their dog is well trained and very small. But other neighbors here, I'm talking 4 or 5 bedroom houses with an acre or three per house - almost all the dogs at one time or another have ran into the road after me while I was running. I let all these irresponsible people know that it is against the law. One person I even sent a letter to. One guy got in his car chased me and threatened me if I called the police! The latest event was last week.
Most people in the neighbor now dislike me because I yelled at most of them when there dog ran after me. I could care less. They are the irresponsible aholes Next time it happens I will do some Kung Fu kicks on those dogs and defend myself to the fullest extent of the law. Then I will call the police and report it. If I am bitten or suffer any injury I will call an attorney the same day. I'm not taking it anymore from these ahole dog owners. Why don't you get your dog professionally trained? Irresponsible aholes!
Agree 100%. If these a holes argue “oh it’s just their instinct to attack”, that means they are not domesticated animals. How’s it any different than getting chased by a mountain lion? Carry a pocketknife on your runs and stab the ugly beasts. Stupid fatty owners.
Two separate dogs tried to attack me on my run today. Fortunately, this time, both dogs were leashes and the owner’s were in complete control. It doesn’t always end that well, though. Once I was running on a trail in a park and a big, unleashed dog came out of nowhere and knocked me to the ground. The owner then yelled at me, like “what’s wrong with you, lady? He’s just trying to play!”. ?
There are really large regional differences. Few complain about dogs where I live, even though most are off leash, including mine. Most runners/walkers/bikers will have an off leash dog, and they get along great. Other places, people are much more uptight, and there are more restrictions, you'll see few runners, no cyclists with dogs. Of course you got the rural areas too with unaccompanied, loose dogs. So dogs can be a real problem, or not at all depending on where you live and run.
zzzz wrote:
There are really large regional differences. Few complain about dogs where I live, even though most are off leash, including mine. Most runners/walkers/bikers will have an off leash dog, and they get along great. Other places, people are much more uptight, and there are more restrictions, you'll see few runners, no cyclists with dogs. Of course you got the rural areas too with unaccompanied, loose dogs. So dogs can be a real problem, or not at all depending on where you live and run.
requiring dogs to be on leashes is not being 'uptight.'
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i don't like to be bitten wrote:
requiring dogs to be on leashes is not being 'uptight.'
So you think that things must be a hell for runners where most dogs are off leash? You just know where you run then, because it's not true for where I live. It's actually better. Dogs that have always been on leash are defensive, don't know how to get out of the way without being pulled in by owners, etc. Leashes are necessary for those dogs that are overly aggressive, not good with other people or other dogs, but those owners already know that if they are on the trails. Dogs that are running off leash with runners and cyclists just go by others, without a command needed because that's what they are use to doing. I've run a ton of mileage for the past 20 years where I live and not been attacked by the often dozens of off leash dogs I see every day.
Other things that are regional: There's mountain biking/hiker/equestrian animosity in Bay Area of CA, with those with more power blocking use of bikes on a lot of popular trails. I'd call those hikers/equestrians uptight too. But several thousand miles away, where I live, it's inconceivable that those user groups would be against each other.
zzzz wrote:
i don't like to be bitten wrote:
requiring dogs to be on leashes is not being 'uptight.'
So you think that things must be a hell for runners where most dogs are off leash? You just know where you run then, because it's not true for where I live. It's actually better. Dogs that have always been on leash are defensive, don't know how to get out of the way without being pulled in by owners, etc. Leashes are necessary for those dogs that are overly aggressive, not good with other people or other dogs, but those owners already know that if they are on the trails. Dogs that are running off leash with runners and cyclists just go by others, without a command needed because that's what they are use to doing. I've run a ton of mileage for the past 20 years where I live and not been attacked by the often dozens of off leash dogs I see every day.
Other things that are regional: There's mountain biking/hiker/equestrian animosity in Bay Area of CA, with those with more power blocking use of bikes on a lot of popular trails. I'd call those hikers/equestrians uptight too. But several thousand miles away, where I live, it's inconceivable that those user groups would be against each other.
lol, don't tell me you're a biker too? haha, fan of off-leash dogs and a biker.....explains a lot.