an unfortunate incident

[shootingstar]

-- gnat! (There is the one guy whose dog is so well trained that he can tell it to sit from hundreds of yards away, and the pooch goes off the path and plops his butt down perfectly until I've gone by... this guy and dog gets my respect)

To match your example of a positively well-trained dog, I was cycling to get onto a multi-use path from road. At the corner, a walking dog-owner yelled at her dog (on leash): "BIKE".

And the dog stopped and moved over aside to let me through.

Something so rare as that, deserves a videotaping for the record!