Classic dog moment.

[Arch]

Riding along on the bike path this morning, see a chap with a loose dog. Dog crosses my path away from chap (I'm not going very fast, and covering brakes), and I go to ride behind it, whereupon chap sees dog, and me slowing and 'helpfully' calls dog to him - with result that it turns straight back into my path and stops!

Luckily I was going slow, and stopped in time, although there was only an inch or so in it. The chap did then immediately apologise, and the dog (a nice old black lab cross of some sort, grey round the muzzle) came up and nuzzled me and wagged its tail.

I gave it a pat, and pointed out politely that I had been going behind the dog, but maybe I could have been more explicit about when it's better to call a dog and when not. Anyway, maybe he's learned a lesson, and me giving the chap instructions might just have irritated him and made him feel stupid...

Anyway, I rode on happy enough. At least he apologised and it was a nice old dog.

 

[hackbike 666]

A blast of the airzound would have sorted it.

 

[Crackle]

That's the trouble with shared use paths. I use one sometimes to walk the dog and he's pretty much trained now. So I can call him to sit where he is, come back or come to heel. But he's young and sometimes a passing leaf distracts him and it all goes a bit wrong and he gets in the way for which I apologise.

Sometimes calling him would be the worst thing and so I don't and just mention him as the cyclist comes past.

Most are very good but some really are extremely grumpy and also going too fast in my view, considering it's shared use with signs saying give way to walkers.

It's one of the pitfalls of shared use paths. Mind you sometimes I'm on my bike and he's running next to me. Not sure what the etiquette there is.

I must admit if it was a pure bike path I wouldn't walk my dog on it in the first place but I know there's many in York which are next to fields and things so you do tend to get people and dogs wandering about on them.

 

[Tarbo]

Cycle path

I use a cycle path daily on my way home from work. This is a dedicated cyclepath, not a shared route, (or it isn't supossed to be). Most people call their dogs to heel when they see you, some don't give a toss and just let their dogs run wild, but what really winds me up is the selfish b**tards who just let their dogs foul on the path and don't bother to pick it up...

There, I feel better now....

 

[hackbike 666]

In the old days nobody every cleared it up and I used to occasionally find it on me yuk.

Ahhh the good old days.

 

[col]

I was riding along a cyclepath thats shared the other day,and a lady with her dog were there,i stopped and waited while she and her dog came passed me,as animals can be so erratic sometimes,she said thanks,i said no problem and we went on our merry way

 

[purplepolly]

Surely dog walkers should keep their dog on the lead and walk at the side of the path so that they don't get in the wway of faster moving path users. THey're displaying very inconsiderate behaviour.

 

[col]

Surely dog walkers should keep their dog on the lead and walk at the side of the path so that they don't get in the wway of faster moving path users. THey're displaying very inconsiderate behaviour.

There is great wisdom in your post

 

[Arch]

I must admit if it was a pure bike path I wouldn't walk my dog on it in the first place but I know there's many in York which are next to fields and things so you do tend to get people and dogs wandering about on them.

This is a shared path nest to a big green space, so there are all sorts on it, peds, kids, joggers, dogs, bikes.... At the point this happened this morning, two paths join like slip roads, one from the riverside and one from over the bridge, so it pays to be going slow in case someone comes over the bridge fast on a bike...

My friend who trained as a vet reckons any dog could and should be trained to drop and stay still on a word of command. If only!

 

[Arch]

A blast of the airzound would have sorted it.

Maybe, but I'd have had to turn round, and go buy an airzound, and I expect the dog would have been gone by the time I got back....

 

[marinyork]

I've only ever had problems with two dogs and on both occasions it was in York. One was on Rape Alley where some dog had a suicide bid and ran straight for my wheels the other being on the cycle path by the river when I was going about 5mph anyway and slowed to about 2mph and someone called their dog and they ran straight for the front wheel and I stopped mms infront of it. I think it's just one of those things. The dogs on the eastern stretches away from the river are very numerous but always seemed to be very well trained, the ones by the river much less so.

 

[hackbike 666]

You could whisper sweet nothings in it's ear.

Have a word in his shell-like.

 

[yenrod]

Riding along on the bike path this morning, see a chap with a loose dog. Dog crosses my path away from chap (I'm not going very fast, and covering brakes), and I go to ride behind it, whereupon chap sees dog, and me slowing and 'helpfully' calls dog to him - with result that it turns straight back into my path and stops!

Luckily I was going slow, and stopped in time, although there was only an inch or so in it. The chap did then immediately apologise, and the dog (a nice old black lab cross of some sort, grey round the muzzle) came up and nuzzled me and wagged its tail.

I gave it a pat, and pointed out politely that I had been going behind the dog, but maybe I could have been more explicit about when it's better to call a dog and when not. Anyway, maybe he's learned a lesson, and me giving the chap instructions might just have irritated him and made him feel stupid...

Anyway, I rode on happy enough. At least he apologised and it was a nice old dog.

Wonder what his thoughts where...

 

[BentMikey]

Funnily enough I had something almost exactly like this today on the Serpentine Road.

 

[Bollo]

I've had a few dogs on leads lunge at me from the pavement as I've been passing on the road recently. So far I've seen them early and been ready for it, but there's always next time.....