"John Gibson" <
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> It never ceases to amaze me peoples double standards, and you might think I give cyclists a bad
> name but we will never be as anti social as people who let their flea bitten mutts **** all over
> the path.
>
> So dog owners get the massage. Eat my brake dust shitter.
About a year ago, I cycled to my local woods to pick mushrooms. There I am, bike leaned against a
tree not far away, and a big black dog comes sprinting through the undergrowth towards me barking
and snarling. I held my basket in front of me, and tried to talk calmingly to the mutt, while
circling to get behind my bicycle for protection. It continued to snarl while I was doing so, till
its owner shouted for it. She said, unapologetically, that it was obviously scared of my basket!
Small, square, whickerwork, largely full of mushrooms and unthreatening as it was, the best excuse
this woman had for her dogs behaviour was that I had a basket. I let her have a full earful of why
she ought to have her dog on the lead, and she was still entirely unapologetic.
A large dog is a dangerous thing if not kept under control. If it isn't taught how to behave then it
might well turn out quite monstrous. Allowing people to own them with no need to demonstrate safe
handling is like allowing people to keep guns in their homes, it allows very irresponsible people to
be in possession of highly dangerous living weapons.
I'm a real dog lover, and I strongly feel that these idiots get dog owners a very bad name.
