Reminds me of a similar (or, well, maybe not!) experience when I was cycling the back way to the town past a farm...Cowsham wrote: ↑6 Jan 2024, 8:57pm I had a black lab pup run beside me on the bike for about a mile and a half -- it seemed to be laughing at me all the way. Looking round with a smile on it's face. I did try talking to it telling it that it was a long way from home but it didn't work. I had to out pedal it -- that mutt could do 22MPH!
Out of the corner of my eye I saw a dark shadow that looked like maybe a dog bounding across the garden beside the farm then bursting through the hedge and coming after me...
I thought, 'Sh** - Rottweiler!!!'
But then I thought, don't be silly, it's just a big black lab.....
But then I did a double take and... it really was a Rottweiler! (I later learned its name was Jake, but that wasn't much use at the time.)
I tried to outrun it but that wasn't going to work, but I've had dogs all my life so I resorted to Plan B - I got off the bike, Jake stopped in his tracks and I shouted (hopefully the mods will allow this since it was a matter of life and death), "F*** OFF, YA F***IN' BAMPOT - GO HOME!!!"
Jake tilted his head to the side, thought for a bit then turned tail and headed for home - it worked!
Actually, though, I had a whippet called Josie who used to do what your wee lab pup did - run ahead of other dogs, jinking from side to side, looking over his shoulder as if to say, catch me if you can except he knew they couldn't.
He didn't really care whether he was chasing or being chased - he was like, running is life; anything before or after is just... waiting.