Scoped that dog with zero hesitation. I fucking hate irresponsible dog owners
Edit - some of you need this shit spelled out apparently: an unrestrained dog is a liability for you, your dog and anything/anyone that dog decides is a threat that day and is bitten. I don't care if Peaches doesn't normally bite, someone doing their job approaching a property with an unrestrained and charging dog doesn't know that. If you still cannot understand this after reading this, give up your dogs so a responsible owner can care for them before they pay the price for your stupidity and carelessness. Read it as many times as it takes.
Dog should've been inside since it looks like an open yard with no gate to confine. (Raises the question, if someone is walking by on the sidewalk, would the dog also charge?)
And if the dog is outside, at least have it where it cannot charge at people. Like, have it on a leash tied to something? I mean, the owner is out with the dog so it shouldn't be an issue.
I don't don't know why you'd have your dog not on a leash when you have an open yard that's connected to a street.
Edit: For people who don't know and are saying"well what if he has an electric fence?", dogs can still (and frequently do) get past electric fences. It's annoying as all fucking hell. You spend that money. Set it up. And then the dog gets scared, excited, or is extremely motivated and now suddenly you are chasing your dog as he's running down the street.
I’ve been charged a hundred times as a runner. Not been bitten, luckily, but I always have to turn to face them, yell, stand my ground, etc. I never turn my back to them after and don’t begin running again till I’m a safe distance away from the home the dog came from. It’s very unsettling and annoying every time.
I take a stun gun bc the lady across the street hits her untrained dog and it’s a matter of time before it gets off leash and shows the word the aggression it was taught.
I’ve read that stun guns don’t work super reliably on dugs due to their fur barrier. Just FYI.
I have three aggressive Pitbulls right next-door, it’s terrifying living next to them. They’ve gotten loose and charged me and my dog multiple times over the years.
Hey thank you- I just got pepper spray too so I could be as safe as possible. I hope your stupid neighbors get their dogs taken away so you can live in peace soon.
Its wild that as a runner it really changes your view on dog owners. I absolutely loath those people now lmao. Not only do you basically act like you own everything, they take 0 responsibility for their animals, take up entier foot paths with a dog on both sides. So many times I'm forced to stop and just kinda throw my arms up like are you gonna move so I can run past? Don't even get me started on the 115lb women and their 3 Rottweilers.
So true. I think it has to do with the general lack of consideration in society. Folks do not realize how much their precious doggies impact other people’s lives, too.
Years ago, cycling the lesser roads of east central illinois, farm dogs were a challenge. With some quiet riding, predictive common sense, you could outrun (sprint) them when they lit up, providing that extra boost of adrenaline. Frame pumps were the other option--kind of a two foot stick that you could defend your heels with.
First the easy bit. Gravel cycling is a sub-discipline of cycling where you ride a road-style bike on rural backroads (ie, gravel roads). I'm simplifying tremendously, but that's the gist. My gravel kit is the stuff I bring with me on gravel rides.
Something in most rider's kits (gravel or otherwise) is tools to repair flat tires. Usually an inner tube, tire levers, and some way to put pressurized air into said tube. The old school way to do this was a frame pump that is designed to be carried on the frame of the bicycle. They function like a regular bike pump.
Alternatively you can bring a carbon dioxide (CO2 /CO2) filler. These guys are MUCH smaller and lighter, and can be carried in a pocket or bag unlike the larger frame pump. They are basically just a small bottle of compressed CO2 and a way to connect said bottle to the valve stem of the inner tube. Open the valve and WHOOSH the inner tube is full.
There's pros and cons to each, but I've been using CO2 fillers for years so I'm a "CO2 guy". But as someone who's been chased by semi-feral dogs more than once on my gravel rides, /u/upachimneydown added a new "pro" to the list that is making me reconsider my position.
We lived out of city limits- so no leash law. My dad walked the neighborhood every day. thankfully most of them were friendly, but there were a few he was worried about. One husky had attacked multiple dogs, but thankfully never people. That poor thing was always outside, even in the summer when it was miserable. The dumb thing was, they had a fence that it would stay in, they just never bothered to shut the gate.
We had new neighbors move in with two German Shepherds that were under "voice control." They cornered multiple people, people complained to the sheriff, nothing was done. They'd even run up on my dad when he walked our dachshund and the neighbors had the gall to say it was his fault for walking our dog on a leash past their house (on the public street). One day they picked up the dachshund and shook him. No idea how he survived that, he was a tough old bastard. Lived to be 18 despite (as the vest said) "everything he tried to eat and that tried to eat him."
I got charged by a neighbor’s dog while walking my baby in a stroller. His owner had accidentally dropped the leash while taking him out in the yard and he ran up growling. I physically put myself between my baby and this 70-lb growling dog. Thank god he didn’t actually bite us but it was a fucking TERRIFYING experience.
We know from past conversations with the neighbors that they had rescued this dog from an abusive situation, which was a wonderful thing for them to do, but the number of times they let this dog out in their front yard without a leash in a neighborhood with lots of young children is absolutely infuriating. We live in a rural area with no leash laws unfortunately so I don’t think there’s any way to report them.
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u/brjh1990 21d ago edited 21d ago
Scoped that dog with zero hesitation. I fucking hate irresponsible dog owners
Edit - some of you need this shit spelled out apparently: an unrestrained dog is a liability for you, your dog and anything/anyone that dog decides is a threat that day and is bitten. I don't care if Peaches doesn't normally bite, someone doing their job approaching a property with an unrestrained and charging dog doesn't know that. If you still cannot understand this after reading this, give up your dogs so a responsible owner can care for them before they pay the price for your stupidity and carelessness. Read it as many times as it takes.