iconicflux

I was riding today up a climb pulling my daughter in a trailer when a guy was walking his Breed of Peace down the hill. It tore the leash out of it's owners hands and hauled ass straight at us all teeth and snarls. I'm doing maybe 8mph up this climb at this point and there's simply no where I could go. If I got off the bike the damn dog could have gone after my kid in the trailer.

Thank god I charged up my AirZound yesterday!

I laid on that horn, the dog skidded on it's butt trying to head in the other direction, and I then chased the damn thing all the way back to it's owner with my horn blasting whenever it slowed down. The owner grabbed the leash and apologized profusely as the dog hid behind him and I kept pedaling up the hill.

Damn I love the AirZound!

Kevin

electrik

Hope ya told him sorry wouldn't have cut it if the dog had laid into you and that if he cared not to watch his animal destroyed to take better responsibility for handling a dangerous animal in public.

yadda yadda!

CitiZen

"Breed of Peace?" What kind of euphemism is that?

iconicflux

I'd have stopped to talk to him about his ill behaved dog but as I had my heart rate going above 180 I wasn't doing much talking and I really didn't want to start off on a hill again.

Hopefully he'll understand how close his dog came to being a statistic.

iconicflux

Breed of Peace is an Internet colloquial term for "pitbull". If you look at the statistics of deadly dog attacks, the largest number of them are pitbulls or mixed breeds with some pitbull in it.

electrik

Stopping is the important part, tell them that the dog being destroyed would be only the beginning of his trouble - as you would sue him.

I have had good luck scaring the **** into some good dog owners gone bad. As for the bad owners, no need to fret for them.

GriddleCakes

Funny, when you Google "breed of peace" with the terms "pit bull" and/or "pitbull", you get only a few pages of hits, most of which are from Free Republic. Looks like more of a freeper colloquialism than anything, which would explain why it sounds so stupid.

iconicflux

If the dog had actually been off a leash that may have been more important but in this case the owner was fairly old and the dog's sudden charge simply got the best of him. I saw the leash get torn out of his hands from about 40' away.

Yeah, the outcome may have been the same if the dog didn't stop but it wasn't as though the owner took no action to control his dog. The dog was simply stronger and faster than him. I guess I could have told him that one of those mouth attached harnesses would curb the full on charge if I had stopped.

Perhaps next time I'll have the forethought to stop and talk to the owner about methods of controlling his dog's charge.

iconicflux

"breed of peace" actually originated on fark.com as far as I'm aware.

iconicflux

Damn it. Leave it to some lame grassroots conservative group to ruin a good phrase. I shall have to find something new to call pit-bulls so that people don't associate me with freepers.

I feel dirty now...

GriddleCakes

Given how often the 4chan/somethingawful/fark Troll Militia trolls Free Republic, it's not surprising that there's some bleedthrough between them.

The last dog that lunged at me was a German Shepard. I didn't feel the need to insult the entire breed with some sarcastic title. I wasn't even mad at the dog, just the owner. Temperament has a lot more to do with how a dog is socialized than its breed.

lechatmort

Every pitbull i've ever seen was friendly and playful, but their strength makes them scary as hell...

Dchiefransom

You should have reported it as an attack. Next time might be someone without an AirZounds.

ItsJustMe

The problem is that sometimes some factor triggers an attack response in them, and once they trigger, you have to pretty much beat them with a bat to get them to rethink.

Glad the airzounds worked for you. I think I'll order one up, I've been thinking about it for years and in the last few weeks I've been getting close calls, after years of no problems at all.

electrik

What you don't see can't hurt you?

sanitycheck

Heh. I got what you meant in your original post...but just so you know, even without having heard the phrase before or associated it with freepers, I did immediately assume it was an offshoot of a particular religious slur, and thought you were a bigot.

I understand now that you are not, but even if the phrase isn't from freep, it'll probably get you misunderstood.


EDIT: Oh, and nice job with the AirZound!

MitchL

a dog's temperament is product of their raising not their breed. unfortunately bad people are often attracted to the strong breeds, and raise them as bad dogs. i have two pit bull mixes rescued from the pound that are amazing.



cyclists have many stories about being chased by every breed of dog.

iconicflux

I guess it could have been taken to mean many things. I mean... I could very well use the same term about truck drivers. It would seem that a large proportion of auto v. bike incidents involve some "rural" acting guy in a truck. Infact, I'd even go so far as to claim that the majority of them involve males between 30 and 40 years old driving a white truck. But that's just me...

skye

Here's an ******* comment for you: My wife and dog were once brutally attacked by a neighbor's "well-trained" pit bull. Injured my wife and nearly killed my dog.

Frankly, if another pitbull comes within 20 feet of me or mine, he's dead.

iconicflux

Ehh.. I hear ya skye.. but let it go..

It's not the dog's fault that there are so many puppy mills out there and people that don't know how to raise and/or train animals. I don't dislike pitbulls for being dogs with a reputation. I dislike them specifically because of the poor breeding, raising, and training that has caused the breed to become the sum of what causes their reputation.

I feel there are some very good pitbulls out there... unfortunately... there are far more bad ones...

unterhausen

don't see how this can go anywhere positive, locking