Dog bite

[eileithyia]

'It wasn't scared it was aggressively out of control'.. .. both statements can be true of any animal, including humans. However in my own experience of animals... most tend to react aggressively when they feel threatened on sometimes even surprised, or even in discomfort from an aliment.

Or if they just like biting people.

Indeed, as apparently it's likely it's bitten someone before.....

[Bmblbzzz]

Most bites of humans by dogs in the UK are within the home and by dogs that know their victims.

Jonathan

As is true of attacks by humans on humans, of course.

[arnsider]

I have been savaged twice and both by aggressive little terriers.
I was coming up to the junction of Page Lane and the main A361 Glastonbury to Cannards Grave road.
A Jack Russell bolted out of the front door of a roadside cottage and bit through my left cycle shoe. There was no blood and I agreed to let it rest after words with the dogs owner.
Then, after flogging up Long Gill from Rathmell to Tosside, two Black Patterdales appeared from an open farmhouse doorway and again, one bit through my shoe. I had in fact lined up a punt with my left foot, but the perisher had gone through my wheels quite acrobatically to plant the bite. I had managed to lift the howling hound it and it fell into a stinking catch drain, The owner was an old woman who was entertained by all this and cackled after me with foul mouthed insults.
One Rene Galand designed a two shot revolver for defence against dogs.
The description in a catalogue of small arms relates how it could be loaded with pepper, potatoes, cork and wood, going on to say that a bulleted round had a more permanent effect! It would blow the assailents head off!!

[Mike Sales]

I have come across a quotation from Strindberg, the Swedish dramatist.
"I loathe people who keep dogs. The are cowards who don't have the guts to bite people themselves."

[arnsider]

Dwight D Eisenhower said;
"What counts is not necessarily the size of the dog in the fight- It's the size of the fight in the dog"
He may have been alluding to Terriers!

[warey4life]

I got chased by a Labrador which wasn't on a lead whilst cycling along the grand Western Canal in Devon. It managed to jump up and bite my calf muscle, which swelled up for a few days. My reaction was to try and Kick it away and the dog let out a bit of a yelp when I kicked it on its nose. The owner caught up and rather than restrain the dog he started shouting at me and threatening to call the police because I kicked his dog!!
I should have got my phone out and took a photo of the owner, but the dog was still jumping up at me so I didn't stick around.

[pwa]

I may just be lucky, but in all the years I have been cycling in rural areas (where most of my cycling is done) I have never had what I regard as a serious dog incident. The dog incidents I have had have been of the manageable dog-chasing-ankle variety, where the dog is less aggressive if you pause your movement. My own dog is liable to chase after cyclists' ankles (though not biting) as a sort of chase game, if I let her, so I don't let her. On shared use paths (which I avoid where possible) she is on a normal dog lead, not one of those hyper-long reel things, and I try to use that controlled situation to train her to be calm around bikes. But I understand this errant behaviour, so it doesn't worry me too much if I am on the receiving end. It annoys me, but I'm not scared and I don't end up bitten. So far.

[Cowsham]

It's the dogs running out of a lane or driveway, with no one to restrain them or call them, chasing you down the road that's the biggest problem but I have I rather brutal way of dealing with them which the owner will probably need to fork out a big vet bill for -- if it survives.