Sodding dogs!!

[Saluki]

Does not compute ... Sorry, no. I'm strictly low tech. Seem to remember it was on the opposite side of a mountain from a place called Duilhac. Would have been a PB Strava segment for me though.

Strava is a new thing for me. I like my gps as it works out routes for me. Well, in reality it means that I can explore and not worry and then, when I've had enough exploring, I can poke it and it will take me back to my start point.
I got chased up the road by some cows once. They'll do damage if they run you over, but dogs will tear lumps out of you. I think I'd have cycled like the clappers too.

 

[bonsaibilly]

I did read your post, you accepted the existence of working dog but objected to dogs as pets.

Working dogs do not work until they die, they cease to be useful to their employers' often young in life.

Logicality therefore what happens to them in your (aptly) tinpot world?

You make a distasteful statement, receive fair challenge on it, fail to answer a simple question arising from your own attitude and get increasingly rude and evasive to avoid justifying the conclusion of your own distasteful prejudice. Typical bully behaviour.

If you can't stand or justify even the slightest challenge to your prejudice without getting so obnoxious then maybe it's not one you should air in public.

I'm putting this on ignore now to save further thread derailment or the mods intervention.

Can't they just give them coaching and mentoring roles to younger working dogs, or have them photocopying the new intakes' registration forms, paying them in dental plans and easy-chew jumbones?

 

[markharry66]

I lived in Bali for a while. Over the threat of Rabies is very real and the medical help the same.
My ex father in law used to carry a cosh type weapon to smack dogs over the head if they came to close.

 

[Newman8]

 

[leedsmick]

I used to love riding on a dirt rack route that leads to some woods near me but twice have swerved and come off avoiding dogs. I have a dog and love them but they are a nuisance out riding so I now avoid that route

 

[phil-b]

today I saw a guy exercising two large dogs (both on a leads) whist riding his mountain bike. I was totally bemused. I am not sure what he was thinking

 

[Fab Foodie]

today I saw a guy exercising two large dogs (both on a leads) whist riding his mountain bike. I was totally bemused. I am not sure what he was thinking

Whose that ugly git staring at me?

 

[Saluki]

today I saw a guy exercising two large dogs (both on a leads) whist riding his mountain bike. I was totally bemused. I am not sure what he was thinking

Maybe they are well trained, obedient, dogs.
I used to take my GSD out when cycling. He was well behaved and very well trained. Only along The Marriotts Way and similar places, not on the roads or anything.

 

[phil-b]

Whose that ugly git staring at me?

Oh shut up big nose

 

[buggi]

Shouldn't this thread be titled "sodding dog owners".

All problems with dogs are caused by their owners, from not picking up shoot to letting then run off the lead into the paths of bikes

 

[Fab Foodie]

Oh shut up big nose

Oi, I resemble that remark ....

 

[Newman8]

I ride my bike on the road & walk my dogs well away from the road mostly.

I have used ‘shared paths’ (& indeed many of the roads around the local villages too, which are narrow, without paths & shared by cars, bikes, pedestrians, dogs, horses & farm vehicles alike) & ride very carefully, giving right of way where appropriate & get onto a proper road as soon as I can. It’s sad that many urban riders feel like they should be on a path instead of the road because (unless you’re into mtb) you REALLY should be on the road.

Also - If I’m anywhere near traffic with my dogs, they’re on a very short lead. I’m lucky to have loads of countryside, woodland, moors & beaches for them to run free, but even if you don’t, there’s no excuse for being reckless near traffic – however well behaved you think your dog is – how would you feel if it got run over & you could have prevented it.

Really no excuse for us all not getting on.

 

[russ.will]

I've only scan read this thread, because it's mostly worthless but:

If it's a shared path, the onus is on the faster moving user to slow down for the slower less predicable users - end of. I have a dog, walk him on shared paths off the lead which I also do with my son, since he was three. Funnily enough, at that age he wasn't predictable, was only theoretically marginally above the mental age of my Collie and prone to randomly darting in all directions. Nobody would question that...

To the farktards who don't get it - When a path is shared, the onus is on you to slow down and minimize the hazard for all concerned. People were walking children, dogs and horses along these routes long before cyclists, so quit with the self righteous it's-got-a-cycle-in-a-blue-circle-sign shoot. You're sounding like car drivers that shout at road bike users who aren't on a cycle path,or worse - Car drivers that insist that they must drive at the speed limit in town, because a sign gives them the right.

We've all been on the end of that driver and their reluctance to wait, because braking, waiting and changing gear is SO hard, but step it down a notch to cyclists v pedestrians and animals and suddenly, we're in the right?

Russell