Annoying Beagle encounter

[DebW]

While a dog chasing a lone cyclist will tend to stay behind or to the side of the bike, generally allowing you to keep pedaling and outrun the dog, I once had a different situation. I was pedaling with a group and the dog went for the bike ahead of me. I couldn't avoid it, hit the dog, and went down. My bike and I weren't hurt, but my wool Stil-long long underwear pants (worn under my shorts) were torn at the knee. Given that these were expensive wool long underwear and I was a poor student at the time, I actually went to the home that the dog came from and knocked on the door. My attempts to get the owner of the dog to pay for a new pair of Stil-longs were unsuccessful, and I later was able to patch them. Just a note that dog encounters don't always end as positively as Lisa's.

Then there are the country dogs that will wait for you 1/2 way up a hill...

[mimitabby]

Then there are the country dogs that will wait for you 1/2 way up a hill...

Yup, that's the kind I get off the bike for and start purposefully walking towards and tell them to GO HOME.

[Jo-n-NY]

Lisa, you dog encounter made me laugh. If I wasn't afraid I could see myself doing the same thing.

The rides you take sound so lovely to me also. It doesn't matter the pace, the main thing is you are enjoying yourself and becoming fitter at the same time. I think it is wonderful!!!

~ JoAnn

[liberty]

Once I was flying down a hill and saw two huge dogs at the bottom, lying in the middle of the road. They got up and began to act all aggressive towards me, and I knew I wouldn't be able to stop by the time I reached them. So I began to scream and shriek at the top of my lungs. Freaked the poor things out. They jumped out from in front of me. Makes for a nice story, but there's no way I'll go down that hill that fast again. Dogs are awfully unpredictable. Good thing they don't drive cars.

[BleeckerSt_Girl]

Once I was flying down a hill and saw two huge dogs at the bottom, lying in the middle of the road. They got up and began to act all aggressive towards me, and I knew I wouldn't be able to stop by the time I reached them. So I began to scream and shriek at the top of my lungs. Freaked the poor things out. They jumped out from in front of me.

I would have loved to have seen that.

Speaking of startling a dog...
Many years ago my mother was visiting me in Puerto Rico. My mother was a real unique character- never a dull moment. Strange things always happened to her. (probably because she instigated them)
My neighbor Annie had a little pekinese that was rather nasty and would sometimes bite people, but she kept in inside her gated patio. I was walking with my mother and we stopped to say hello to the neighbor through her iron grated fence. The little pooch was there behind the iron fence with his eyes bugging out hoping to get lucky and chomp down on someone.
Well while Annie and I were talking, my mother unexpectedly suddenly reached down and put her hand inside the bars to pet the little dog's head, and Annie and I were jumping to stop her, but it was too late to stop what was happening!
HOWEVER...as my mother's hand reached down and the little dog simultaneously leaped up with mouth open to chomp down on her hand, somehow her finger went right down the dog's throat! I honestly don't know who was the most surprised- the dog, my mother, the neighbor or myself! But the wee bug-eyed doggie jumped back gagging and ran off all distressed into the house to escape the Strange Lady, and my mother couldn't figure out how her finger wound up going down the dog's throat and started apologizing. Annie and I had a good laugh over that one for months afterwards. Whenever we wanted a good laugh one of us would simply make the finger-down-the-throat gesture...