Scream!!

[TrekChick]

It happend to me, too!! I literally laughed out loud when I read your story, Nanci!! An uncontrollable, horror-flic/slasher-movie scream escaped my mouth last summer while riding the tandem with Hubby. We were being chased by TWO chow-mixes. We were coming up to a freeway overpass, and some of the other riders in our group were already on the other side of the overpass waiting for us at the stop sign. We could not see each other because of the hump in the road, but they HEARD me very LOUD & CLEAR! Of course being on the back of the tandem, the dogs were closing in my ankles, not Hubby's. I was just getting ready to click out & punt, because they didn't stop at MY scream, but they finally got too far away away from home, I guess, and turned back. I was shaking so badly afterwards. They almost scared the pee out of me! And I'm a dog-person!! The first dog I ever had (Nanook) was a 150-lb Rottie/Shephard mix - he LOVED to go MTB'ing with me! Then I had a 90-lb Wolf/Husky (Kodiak). Right now I have two "little" dogs - a 70-lb mutt (Brodie) that looks like a Greater Swiss Mountain Dog, and a 55-lb Shephard/Queensland mix (Chester), and also two tortie cats (Maggie and Itty-Bitty-Kitty).

There are several known-to-be-loose dogs on two or three road rides that I can think of. We even named one of the hills out in our MTB area "barkin'-dog hill" because I got chased by two dogs. The big black lab was wagging his tail while he was barking, so he didn't scare me too much, but the little, teeth-bearing, ankle-biter mutt had me pedaling for my life! Unfortunately for me, I'm the slowest! If only there was one person slower than me, then I wouldn't be the weak gazelle..... Oh well...

Stay safe! Good Luck!
~~~TrekChick