Faulkner
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I've shared in another thread about how I was attacked last month by a neighbor’s dog and how I dealt with it. Short version, while riding my bicycle on a rural country road a pack of dogs allowed to run loose by my neighbor chased and harassed me as I rode by each day. I advised my neighbor of the issue, he did nothing. One dog in particular became more brazen and eventually bit me. Afterwards I went home, fetched my 1911 and walked back down the road. As I neared where the dog lived it came out into the road heading in my direction in an aggressive manner. As it got within pistol range I shot it between the eyes. Police were called, no charges filed, dog owner was advised to keep his dogs up. The incident has since died down.
The second attack was just in the past few days and nowhere near the original incident. While riding my bicycle down a slight incline at just over 20 miles per hour I looked ahead and catch a glimpse of the familiar site of a big dog coming in for the chase. Only thing is, this one is running right at me, never waivers, and slams right into my front wheel. I flew over the handle bars onto the county road’s chip seal pavement and my brand new high dollar bike tumbles to the side of the road. As I sit up to take stock of the situation, the dog is just a yards away, the hackles on its back flared and he’s barking at me quite aggressively. With blood running down my right knee and elbow, I crawl a few feet over to my bike and retrieve my OC spray. I was not otherwise armed. The dog was just out of range of the OC spray, but I sent a couple of spurts in its direction and I guess he got the hint because he lost interest and pranced his happy self back where he came from, his mission accomplished. I was able to ride back home but as I write this I have a bandaged knee, a brace on my right elbow and my wife has me on anti inflammatory medication to reduce the swelling.
I'm giving due consideration as to how I want to follow up with this incident. Had I been armed I would have shot the dog on the spot. OC spray has been working as a dog deterrent for the most part, though I’ve been through two cans in the last two months. I'm not on a crusade to kill every loose dog in the community, but once word got out about the first incident I received a lot of positive feedback. I’m a dog owner and have been all my life, but I don’t like coming out on the short end of a meeting with someone else’s dog that that’s allowed to just run loose. I certainly don’t want my wife and son to either. I don’t plan to go confront this dog like I did the first time, though once I heal up I will be riding fully armed. I realize killing other people's dogs is not real humane, but as I look at my bandages I'm not feeling very humane at the moment. I may go talk to the dog owner if I can determine who owns it.
Just for conversational purposes I’d entertain some feedback from the forum on addressing this situation.
The second attack was just in the past few days and nowhere near the original incident. While riding my bicycle down a slight incline at just over 20 miles per hour I looked ahead and catch a glimpse of the familiar site of a big dog coming in for the chase. Only thing is, this one is running right at me, never waivers, and slams right into my front wheel. I flew over the handle bars onto the county road’s chip seal pavement and my brand new high dollar bike tumbles to the side of the road. As I sit up to take stock of the situation, the dog is just a yards away, the hackles on its back flared and he’s barking at me quite aggressively. With blood running down my right knee and elbow, I crawl a few feet over to my bike and retrieve my OC spray. I was not otherwise armed. The dog was just out of range of the OC spray, but I sent a couple of spurts in its direction and I guess he got the hint because he lost interest and pranced his happy self back where he came from, his mission accomplished. I was able to ride back home but as I write this I have a bandaged knee, a brace on my right elbow and my wife has me on anti inflammatory medication to reduce the swelling.
I'm giving due consideration as to how I want to follow up with this incident. Had I been armed I would have shot the dog on the spot. OC spray has been working as a dog deterrent for the most part, though I’ve been through two cans in the last two months. I'm not on a crusade to kill every loose dog in the community, but once word got out about the first incident I received a lot of positive feedback. I’m a dog owner and have been all my life, but I don’t like coming out on the short end of a meeting with someone else’s dog that that’s allowed to just run loose. I certainly don’t want my wife and son to either. I don’t plan to go confront this dog like I did the first time, though once I heal up I will be riding fully armed. I realize killing other people's dogs is not real humane, but as I look at my bandages I'm not feeling very humane at the moment. I may go talk to the dog owner if I can determine who owns it.
Just for conversational purposes I’d entertain some feedback from the forum on addressing this situation.
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Back in my riding days, I was out on fairly rough country roads usually riding 15-20 MPH. I had one really bad incident with dogs and another one that could have been even worse (a Great Dane pushed me across the road into on-coming traffic, but lucky for me, the motorist saw what was happening and was able to get stopped in time). 
