He couldn’t have stopped because the second dog. Bu I do agree he could at least felt bad about it.
…By this point I’m a hundred feet or more past the yard the dogs came from. I feel bad about the 1st dog, but I presume the 2nd one is still loose back there somewhere…
Have you ever had a dog??? Do you know dogs just like to chase things and bark when they’re excited??? If you had stopped right after hitting the small dog, the bigger dog would come right up to you but I very much doubt that he would have attacked you. He probably would’ve just wagged his tail and barked. You run over someone’s dog, you stop and apologize. If this dog had been mine, I would’ve chased you in the car, cut you off, and beaten the fucking shit out of you. You wouldn’t have been able to do shit for a month or more b/c your face would be hamburger. You’re a fucking bastard as far as I am concerned.
It’s psychos like you that make me inclined to not stop if I ever hit a dog. If dog owners are going to respond like this, I suppose it answers a question our group has had regarding if we should conceal carry while riding since there is an aggressive dog on our route.
We had a local dog slam into our back fence, break through, and maul one of our dogs to death. I have absolutely no inclination to wait for a very vocal dog chasing me, much less a screaming owner who probably isn’t thinking straight either to see if either is going to be hostile. By the time she hops in the car and chases, the answer is very clear that she is being hostile.
Apparently my experience with dogs has been very different from most of you. I’ve been cycling and running for about 15 yrs on a boulevard which has a large park next to it. The blvd is a 5.2 mi loop and the safest place to ride in my area. The large park is about 3.0 miles on its perimeter. It is not a dog park per se but, acc to those who’ve lived there their whole lives, it has been standard practice to let dogs run free in this park, since at least 1980. Every 6 months or so, Animal Control will come off and on for a week or two but then they let us be. In running with my dogs through this park, I’ve only ever encountered 2 hostile dogs out of at least 5000 or so dogs in our 15 yrs, and both of those dogs were actually on leashes. I’ve always had Golden Retrievers and Golden mixes so all of my dogs have been very gentle.
I got bit on Memorial day weekend by a retriever mix. By a park I run by every week. Jackass took his dog and rode off, so I got to get the rabies shots.
2 years ago I got chased by a dog on a busy road. It made it halfway through the street and got nailed by a car.
I have two dogs, and the situations will never happen with mine because they are always leashed. Way too many people overestimate how much control they have on their dog.
Btw, you’re an idiot. I would have have rode on as well. The lady in the story didn’t seem to give a shit about her dogs if she let’s them run free, so why should he?