tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12831567.post2970944730149701840..comments2024-03-28T08:40:23.164-05:00Comments on Guitar Ted Productions: Relax! It's Just A Dog!Guitar Tedhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10960580677548417562noreply@blogger.comBlogger12125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12831567.post-46897239957833834472021-03-01T10:34:01.114-05:002021-03-01T10:34:01.114-05:00Great advice, but I have a gravel dog that has a p...Great advice, but I have a gravel dog that has a particular set of skills...<br /><br />I ride by a farm just at the top of a little incline on a local gravel route I frequent. Between the road and the farm is a ditch with tall grass and a row of thick pine trees, so I can't see the property/yard, or the mid-sized dog that I can only assume is winding up his death run for a good 30 yards before shooting out of the grass onto the road. Unlike other dogs I encounter, he isn't chasing from behind or at an angle, but rather coming at me directly from the side or from in front of me. I think he's trying to bite the back of the front tire or my foot, but usually he's so out of control and at such speed that he wipes out and slams into my bike from the side. After that, he's done and runs back into the grass. It's certainly a unique technique. It's happened multiple times now, once almost taking out my front wheel. What seems to work best is to (1) slow down to maintain control, (2) put my foot out and let him smack into that vs hitting (or going under) a wheel, (3) question my life choices.<br /><br />Having grown up on a farm in Iowa, I know that dogs with the "car chasing" gene usually don't make it very long, but this pup is a scrapper. I kind of admire him for his conviction. :-)Christopher Weishttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11853701139547347993noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12831567.post-53458536941287543092018-03-23T10:00:40.543-05:002018-03-23T10:00:40.543-05:00Yep, this and yelling at them to go home. I usuall...Yep, this and yelling at them to go home. I usually get a look like, how did you know my master's commands...lol.Michael W. Hersmanhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16157991070102798820noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12831567.post-61416673406760672432018-03-19T18:18:35.275-05:002018-03-19T18:18:35.275-05:00I wonder if you saw my facebook post a few weeks a...I wonder if you saw my facebook post a few weeks ago lol(which was posted foolishly with 200% adrenaline shortly after it happened). Yeah I had 2 pits come out of a yard at a full burst on me. I wonder now, after reading your article, if I could have dismounted and talked to them? I guess I will never know. I seen them coming, panicked, and put the pedal to the metal. I was going into a 15 mph headwind and I was a little tired after already cranking out a few miles. Fueled by adrenaline I managed to outrun them a half mile to the nearest highway. Then I figured I better take highway instead of gravel as they were still in pursuit. So I turned left and cranked it downhill on pavement when to my surprise they cut across the field and caught back up to me. I managed to finally outrun them after a mile or mile and a half. I was scared and upset after I was far enough away that I was able to stop and take a break. I appreciate this article. It was very informative and every rider needs to be aware of these things.Coryhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/18174273398089062444noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12831567.post-27875135894137805982018-03-14T14:29:50.754-05:002018-03-14T14:29:50.754-05:00I also seem to remember a herding dog joining us o...I also seem to remember a herding dog joining us on the Death Ride in 2014, somewhere right after Wadena. I think he'd still be with us if we hadn't hit 30mph on the downhill to get away from him.Michael Lembergerhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17749139439039241349noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12831567.post-21060807700034449972018-03-14T14:23:34.576-05:002018-03-14T14:23:34.576-05:00Back in the summer of 2012, my buddy Steve and I w...Back in the summer of 2012, my buddy Steve and I were rolling south on a county highway a little ways outside of Belleville, and it had just started to rain on the brand-new asphalt. As we were passing this farm with a huge green lawn out front, Steve said to me in this calm deadpan voice, "Dogs. Sprint." and I'm all like oh, yeah, dogs sprint. Wait, what? So I turn around and there are two Chesapeake Bay Retrievers charging across the lawn toward me at that intercept angle. The portly older one soon slowed down and was content to bark at me from the lawn, but the young one, all full of piss and vinegar, came roaring out of the ditch with his eyes on my right anklebone. I was having none of it and gave him a mighty "HYAAW" right in the face, using the "voice of God." [side note: it has to come from the diaphragm, and nowhere elseājust imagine you're one of those horns on top of a diesel locomotive] The poor young buck put on the brakes so hard, he slipped and wiped out on the wet pavement. Last I saw, he was slinking back across that huge lawn for the safety of home.Michael Lembergerhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17749139439039241349noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12831567.post-81900968338709485362018-03-13T19:11:44.911-05:002018-03-13T19:11:44.911-05:00When cats come at you with their tail up it's ...When cats come at you with their tail up it's generally a friendly greeting. <br /><br />I was on a gravel trail a few years ago and saw a dog hanging out with two goats. I was more worried about the goats ramming me, so I dismounted (took a few pics) and then walked my bike with the bike between us. <br /><br />I rode another mile down the trail and saw someone walking and asked her if she knew anyone missing a dog and a few goats. She said "ahh shit, they got out again?" and went after them. Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12060470343796205833noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12831567.post-38848091417723915662018-03-13T10:11:39.289-05:002018-03-13T10:11:39.289-05:00We call it the "voice of God", what you ...We call it the "voice of God", what you refer to as the command. Just tell the dog "no" in a very authoritative voice and it can diffuse many situations. The particular dog may be trying to assert their alpha and you have to go one bigger than them. It's a kind of dog psychology basically. onoffrhodes.comhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09076603019674041266noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12831567.post-90157194409465247302018-03-13T09:37:53.031-05:002018-03-13T09:37:53.031-05:00Yelling "NO!" just like I'm scolding...Yelling "NO!" just like I'm scolding the animal seems to work pretty well. So far, at the very least, it stops them in their tracks and makes them reconsider for a bit.Jon Sagarahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00489449594850365918noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12831567.post-73329976438232844342018-03-13T09:15:54.882-05:002018-03-13T09:15:54.882-05:00I had had a dog making a bee-line for one of my an...I had had a dog making a bee-line for one of my ankles once. I grabbed frame pump off my bike and gave it that chew on instead. I guess it did like the taste as it gave up on the chase. <br /><br />Michaelhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11683137564994734073noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12831567.post-69980752054409249242018-03-13T07:51:49.058-05:002018-03-13T07:51:49.058-05:00Living in KY, which is pretty renowned for its dog...Living in KY, which is pretty renowned for its dogs among TABR riders, I stop and pet them.Barturtlehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11254508016010291461noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12831567.post-52596081908885867512018-03-13T07:10:24.582-05:002018-03-13T07:10:24.582-05:00In the moment, I grabbed my sports drink bottle an...In the moment, I grabbed my sports drink bottle and flushed the dog's face. Startled, he stopped cold, started licking his face and then decided he wanted more of that! The chase was back on! Now, in earnest!CrossTrailhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02837193725204106745noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12831567.post-88556940813699217652018-03-13T05:44:26.431-05:002018-03-13T05:44:26.431-05:00The squirt in the face tactic seems to work for me...The squirt in the face tactic seems to work for me about 90% of the time and it does no real harm to the animal. Sometimes the dogs lock up all four brakes which can be sorta comical.Phillip Cowanhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01553979458131339924noreply@blogger.com