Chasing Dog

Wacker07

Hi ,
Anyone encountering a dog on the Limerick to Birdhill route? Earlier this year I was chased twice by a fairly agressive looking dog opposite the garden centre.
Wondering if he is still around?

Wacker07

derealbadger

Unless he is an oaks winner advice would be HTFU

godtabh

Last time I was chased by a dog I got a PB

florawest

Haven't tried it but heard that if you squirt them with bottle water they will stop

BoardsMember

I screamed terrible abuse at dogs chasing me in Wexford a while back, awful language, and they gave up. Unfortunately there were kids in the back garden a little further down the road. Woops!

Beasty

godtabh wrote: »

Last time I was chased by a dog I got a PB

My dog's got his own Strava account - not as many KOMs as me yet, but there are one or two around here that if given a decent enough handicap can lead him out to some decent times....

JBokeh

My dog stands at our boundary barking at cyclists and tractors, he is a newfoundland lab cross so he is the size of a Yaris, gives everyone a right good fright :pac:

If one goes on the road and chases you, squirt them with the bottle, lock the back wheel and whip it towards them, or if they're trying to chew the front tyre knock em in the nose with it. I don't think that dogs are really out to bite you, they just want to hunt you off their turf, unless they're puppies, and they probably see the bike as something expensive to chew :P

diomed

So disappointed this thread is not about cyclists chasing dogs.

Borderfox

Got bitten by one on Thursday off the bike and chased by a boxer on Friday trying to ruin my day, zefal size 5 metal pump in the head rules the day.

Boxer 0 kJ 1

Luxman

A splash of water towards the mutts nose usually catches them off guard.

godtabh

The last time I got chased by a dog it was the road up to stepaside garda station/step inn. Little fecker kept it going most of the way up.

Turned around and descended. He had nothing on me then.

Wishbone Ash

Got chased by one on a brutally steep bit of Priest's Leap last Thursday. As if I hadn't enough horror on my hands!

neris

diomed wrote: »

So disappointed this thread is not about cyclists chasing dogs.

I did that once years ago dog wouldnt **** off and leave me alone, its not easy running in a pair of cleats after a dog and trying to line up a good kick to its backside

Plasid

Could be worse... https://pbs.twimg.com/media/CAd93EMUsAAoywH.jpg

Redderneck

I cycle that road a bit and no issue with any dog. Although I'd be moving so slowly it's not like the sudden blur of movement would startle any dog enough to make them want to chase me.

Ooozing on by...

nordicb

So... is it you or the bike you worry about? Choose the answer carefully

ThisRegard

There used to be a bunch of them at a house just at the bottom of Slade Hill heading out of Saggart. We used to make noise as we went by for the craic because the old adage being that all you have to be is faster than the slower one in your group.

irishrover99

Cycle along the strawberry beds if you are looking for a good chase. Regular lunch route for me and two dogs always come out from one of the gardens. Have seen another boardies mention them as well.

wilhelm roentgen

This would freak me out :eek:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AUXvqgv3-_4

ThisRegard

Saw that a while ago and thought the biker was a big girl with his carry on, all he did was excite the dogs even further.

thesimpsons

Wacker07 wrote: »

Hi ,
Anyone encountering a dog on the Limerick to Birdhill route? Earlier this year I was chased twice by a fairly agressive looking dog opposite the garden centre.
Wondering if he is still around?

Wacker07

Not seen a dog out there but there's a viciously fast dog on the Tipperary road - looks like a cross of a labrador and a greyhound. Squirted him with water and he backed off but once he realised it was just water he came again. Left hand side heading in towards limerick

shaka

Squirting some water usually works if htfu doesn't 😀

Bloggsie

I was one of the chasee's by the wee hoor in the strawberry beds. I have amended my commute to going up rugged lane & carry on in through castleknock & into the park & farmleigh.

Spoke to Fingal CoCo & they advised that while they recorded the incident unless the dog warden sees it out on the public road theres not much they can do bar calling to the address on a licence check & make the owners aware of the complaint. Other than that its up to me to go to the district court a file a civil case.

smacl

ThisRegard wrote: »

Saw that a while ago and thought the biker was a big girl with his carry on, all he did was excite the dogs even further.

In a country that has been rabies free up until a couple of years ago and now has it back again letting bunches of dogs run wild in packs is plain ridiculous. Its one thing getting a nip from a dog you don't know here or the UK, something else again in most of southern Europe where rabies is endemic.

That aside, being surrounded by a bunch of snarling dogs in an remote location is going to be pretty scary for many people, which has the unfortunate side effect of increasing the likelihood of getting attacked, as dogs tend to go for people who are afraid of them.

ThisRegard

True enough, and I think that's part of the reason you'd see a lot of kids whose parents wouldn't have grown up in Ireland or the UK being absolutely terrified of walking by even small dogs. However from what I remember wasn't that guy cycling through someones farm, so I don't see an issue with them having a pile of dogs on it.

youtheman

Slightly off topic, but the worst day I ever had on the bike was when I was overtaken by a little terrier as I struggled up a very small incline. And to make matters worse he wasn’t even running, he was barely trotting (with legs about 2 inches long). And to compound it he pulled in a let me pass and then took off and passed me again. And this went on for several iterations. The holy mortification shame of it.

smacl

ThisRegard wrote: »

True enough, and I think that's part of the reason you'd see a lot of kids whose parents wouldn't have grown up in Ireland or the UK being absolutely terrified of walking by even small dogs. However from what I remember wasn't that guy cycling through someones farm, so I don't see an issue with them having a pile of dogs on it.

If you believe the commentary from the cyclist, it was a public road even though it passed through the farm. I don't know rural Greece, but having travelled in rural Portugal the bulk of the equivalent of our L-roads are unpaved bohereens that pass through farm land and tend to be public roads unless they're cul de sacs. Interesting that it was a sheep farm, can't see too many Irish sheep farmers keeping a pack of 25 odd dogs on land with sheep. A couple of trained collies for herding maybe, but 25?

ThisRegard

smacl wrote: »

Interesting that it was a sheep farm, can't see too many Irish sheep farmers keeping a pack of 25 odd dogs on land with sheep. A couple of trained collies for herding maybe, but 25?

Must have been a EU grant scam, photographed from the air the farmers looked like they had more sheep than they actually owned.

Invincible

ThisRegard wrote: »

Must have been a EU grant scam, photographed from the air the farmers looked like they had more sheep than they actually owned.

Dogs (wolves) dressed up in sheeps clothing