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[walklist] Re: Dog attacks

At 10:00 PM 3/29/00 EST, you wrote:
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>From my own experience, it seems that mean dogs are owned by mean people. If
>they approach you for upsetting their dog by walking down a public street,
>throwing a few dog bones at them probably won't work. Hit them with the
>pepper spray too then run, run, run.

If you use pepper spray, don't give a little spritz like it was perfume.
Empty half the can straight in their eyes, and then run like hell.

John Z Wetmore
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Producer of "Perils For Pedestrians",
The monthly cable television series.
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Thu Mar 30, 2000 3:21 am

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Baguette was attacked by a pit bull on our morning walk the other day. She's fine. I have bought pepper spray, which I'll use if I can't avoid the attack...
Lucy Krupp
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Mar 29, 2000
5:27 pm

Lucy, I've only been bitten once while walking/running, and that was last year by a little yappy dog...completely unexpected because for years this dog came...
Blaithin
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Mar 29, 2000
5:45 pm

Lucy, Back in the early nineties, I took my exercise by road biking the local Farm-to-Market roads. Country dogs were more nuisance than menace, except for...
Darwin White
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Mar 29, 2000
7:48 pm

At one time I ran a dog boarding kennel and to stop the barking and get a dog's attention I used to toss a handful of small pebbles against the chain link...
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Mar 29, 2000
8:45 pm

Hey Lucy, We had a volksmarch club meeting last night and the guest speaker was Sheriff Lott (Richland Co, SC). He spoke to us about safety and how to avoid ...
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Mar 30, 2000
3:00 am

... If you use pepper spray, don't give a little spritz like it was perfume. Empty half the can straight in their eyes, and then run like hell. John Z Wetmore ...
John Z Wetmore
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Mar 30, 2000
3:21 am

After reading all the replies, I just had to add my two cents. After many years of walking and running, aggressive works for me. Try to dominate the dog...
Ken Briggs
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Mar 30, 2000
5:22 pm

Yes,---, a bull let! Owners of these dangerous dogs are particularly insensitive to others and usually are somewhat mentally deficient---IMHO. The best thing...
Bill (William) J Woo...
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Mar 31, 2000
2:43 am

Bill, My feelings exactly! We were kind of getting the idea that none of the county officials were going to do anything unless someone was killed. I can't...
Randy & Becky Adams
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Mar 31, 2000
3:35 am

I don't want to get a debate going in another direction, but no one has yet addressed an obvious solution to dangerous (and potentially murderous) dogs. A...
WellBaby@...
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Mar 31, 2000
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We had a case here locally in Hillsboro, Oregon where an off-duty Portland policeman was jogging, was charged by an unleashed dog, and pulled his very-legal...
Wendy Bumgardner
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Mar 31, 2000
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