Michael Lester wrote:
> Around here, a dog leaving the yard and coming onto the
> road (not just running along side of me but at me) gets a
> face full of Halt from me and the owner gets a visit from
> the dogwarden the next day. I didn't use to report them,
> but the warden is a friend of my wife who told her about
> one dog owner who chased me down in his truck. She asked
> me "what if it was a little kid riding by next time?"
I once lived in a town where the dogs were a major problem
that way. Then the town got an animal control officer who
started actually controlling the problem. Boy, that led to a
lot of protest politics in town meetings, right down to bits
of parliamentary procedure which dog owners didn't
understand... heh heh.
> Strangely enough, I have never seen that dog again after
> her little talk with the owner.
I once saw a dog go out on the street to chase me - *and* it
ran in front of a car to do it. I yelled at the owner inside
his house, "I don't know if you care, but your dog almost
died!" The owner yelled back, I forget what, but I never saw
that dog again.
> Dogs coming on to the road after a bicyclist is agressive
> behavior, report it right away.
Amen.
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