Dogs?

[TrekTheKaty]

A few pebbles in my Bento Box....I pop them with a spray of little rocks. Have never had it NOT work, but there is always a first time.

Good idea. Gonna need a bigger box!

[tctrek]

I just ride like h*ll... has anyone here not been able to outrun a dog? I am absolutely terrified of dogs both on and off the bike and when one chases me on the bike I just hammer down and take off. My DH frequently slows down and tells them "no" and stuff, but I am G-O-N-E!

[channlluv]

Oh, good, so you don't need to outrun the dog, you just need to outride your husband. Ha!

Roxy

[Andrea]

Just consider it to be "training with Eddy!"

(there's a naughty word at the beginning of this... if you have virgin ears, you should not watch it)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gfv2diohUXE

[BleeckerSt_Girl]

I just ride like h*ll... has anyone here not been able to outrun a dog?

The only dogs I would be able to outrun on my bike would have to be about the size of mice.

[Biciclista]

has anyone here not been able to outrun a dog?

doesn't always work. Ever try to outrun a dog uphill? I don't think you can. They love to chase.
Of course, if you have a big head start, that's different, but dogs can run really fast!

[tctrek]

Yeah - there's a dog on one of our regular routes who comes running from way out in a field. As I'm approaching the field, I can see that he sees us and that he's charging out to the road. There's a moderate hill right there and I sprint up it out of the saddle with my heart rate pegged at about 180. DH is back there yelling at me not to run and telling the dog "no". It's my own personal interval.

When you have a dog-phobia, it's an irrational fear and you can talk all you want about doing something different, but when confronted by the fear you just can't seem to find your way into doing something different, other than run. I'm the same way off the bike and have had this phobia since I was a little girl.

Guess I need a shrink, although I don't think you can teach this old-dog any new tricks

[txred9876]

I normally stop (now...learned my lesson after falling with my new clips several months ago...and still have scars) and just yell at them in a mean sturn voice. I am not afraid of most dogs...I have had many and currently have 4. If a dog knows you are afraid they will probably attack. I get tired of stopping through, and if it continues I just call the sheriffs dept. and report it. NORMALLY that gets the owners attention enough to keep their dog contained. Most of the trouble dogs have fences where the owners are to lazy to close them!

ANyway....thats my two cents on it....

[Trek420]

Just consider it to be "training with Eddy!"

(there's a naughty word at the beginning of this... if you have virgin ears, you should not watch it)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gfv2diohUXE

Thanks for reminding me. Ah, nostalgia. The music, the mushroom helmets, the steel racing bikes with downtube shifters , the huge team cars, all in a big film made for a USA that obviously knew nothing about cycling ....

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h_cmo...eature=related

[Ann G]

After reading the posts here, my new strategy for dogs is to ride by the houses where there are dogs in the yard very slowly, so I don't give them anything interesting to chase. For the most part I know where the dogs are and this has worked really well.

[kenyonchris]

I meant to post this to this thread a bit ago but forgot...I was running a new (and, hoped shadier) route and a GIGANTIC dog came flying off the front porch at me. I didn't even have my bento box with my little rocks (which this particularly large canine would have laughed at)....it was going to be hand to paw combat for sure. He was doing that bark/growl/snarl thing as he flew toward me...I spent the last few moments of my thinking of the very little time I had with my new bike....
and then the beast stopped dead. A mere foot in front of me. I opened my squinched up eyes, relaxed my clenched fists, tried to unkink my body that was braced for impact and stood face to face with the snarling beast. He was growling menacingly at me, but made no move to come further. Then I noticed his collar and recognized it as an invisible fence collar. I thumped myself on the chest a time or two to restart my heart, and jogged on.
There should be some sort of warning system for pedestrians, cyclists, and joggers passing houses with these things. That was just WRONG.

[BleeckerSt_Girl]

That really IS wrong. SO wrong. I would talk to the police about whether the owners can be made to put up a big sign for invisible fence at the very least. I see signs like that up here and there.

[tulip]

I've found that dogs in invisible fence yards are pretty aggressive. It's way better to actually train your dog than to just zap it with an invisible fence. I swear they are more aggressive for some reason.

[KSH]

I just ride like h*ll... has anyone here not been able to outrun a dog? I am absolutely terrified of dogs both on and off the bike and when one chases me on the bike I just hammer down and take off. My DH frequently slows down and tells them "no" and stuff, but I am G-O-N-E!

My friend tried to. The dog all of a sudden swerved inwards and went under his front wheel. Sent him flying into a ditch and having to call for help since he couldn't ride home.

Dogs are DANGEROUS even if they are just chasing or playing around. A dog under the wheel could cause a serious wreck and cause you an serious injury and damange your bike.

[Becky]

I've found that dogs in invisible fence yards are pretty aggressive. It's way better to actually train your dog than to just zap it with an invisible fence. I swear they are more aggressive for some reason.

Absolutely! If you got zapped every time you approached a jogger or a cyclist, you'd learn pretty quickly to hate joggers and cyclists. When I was volunteering at the shelter, we saw some pretty screwed-up pups who had learned to hate or fear things that they associated with the fence zap.

And then there were the super-smart ones who figured out how to defeat it....