Not Such a Good Bike Run Today

[telegirl]

I feel your pain.....

[Duck on Wheels]

Geez Louise! Could it be that the kid on the bike carries a big stick because the big galumphing off-leash dog chases her? A dog owner with a brain might be asking himself who first made who nervous here. And even if we let bygones be bygones and concentrate on looking forward, letting the dog run loose on the bike path is hardly a solution to the problem!

[Python]

If it happens again, I'll report it to the police because large dogs are supposed to be kept under control by law. In the past month, Rottweillers have had very bad publicity here. Two of them savaged a baby to death - I wondered what the parents were thinking about leaving a little baby alone with two dogs anyway and the dogs had been trained to be aggressive guard-dogs (bad ownership) and another boy was badly bitten and scarred for life in another incident. People forget that these large dogs, if not trained properly, can be lethal. What is a cute puppy can turn out to be a dangerous adult in the wrong hands. I have a GSD and any time I am out walking her, I only let her off the lead if it is safe to do so. If I see anyone, be it a cyclist, someone walking or other people with a dog, I'll call her back and clip the lead on. Better safe than sorry.

As for Rottweillers, unfortunately, they do have a reputation of being unpredictable, and that particular dog I met struck me as ruling his owner, not the other way round. Not good.