Animals on the f&*%$ing road...

[DarkLord]

Hehe... tractor on acid.

I don't really want to hurt the thing. Just giving it a decent enough scare (or the owners a decent enough fine) to stop it doing it again would be more than satisfactory for me.

Thing is, if it's not me, someone's going to hit it, and with the way I've seen some people drive down my street the dog is definitely going to come off second best.

[wickle]

Try a squirt bottle with an watered down ammonia product in it aim at dogs nose, might be easy for a pillon passenger to do, otherwise try dog ranger or all else fails , catch dog, park bike on its tail family friend did that with his sheepdog that always chased car tyres, it worked

[monkeymcbean]

The thing to do with dogs that chase bikes - is to chase them! A yappy little dog used to come out at me every day...so I took the time to chase him around the streets,and right onto his front lawn! Big donuts on the grass.Did that a couple of times and whenever he saw me he'd run inside his gate.Even little bikes can sort big dogs - a German Shepard used to come out and have a go at my C50 every day...I took to aiming at him and running across his front lawn.Soon when he saw me coming down the road he'd go back in his kennel.The owner of that dog was a workmate....he never mentioned me chasing the dog on his property,and I never raised the matter either.

Ha ha These antics reminded me of push bike touring round Europe, in France riveria they have big dogs behind big fences as security for the ritzy houses and we would ride past with these dogs giving us the wind up with barking etc.
We would give a bit of taunting back just to see how high they would try to jump to get over the fences. It was all fun until one dog got through a gap in the fence at the end.... it was the days when drink bottles and pumps fastened to the frame of your bike...so these came in handy for defense weaponery...pretty dumb really, got the adrenilan levels up.

[caseye]

Well first thing, go talk to the neighbour, ask him to make sure his dog is properly contained on his property.
If that doesn't work, ring council three times in one week, about this yappy dangereous "in the street dog" then they have to come out and remove the dog.
Last resort turn it into a slipper! yep a swift kick up the gunga and shes a slip on! like ol FJ said though, make sure yer wearing good footwear.

[CookMySock]

The thing to do with dogs that chase bikes - is to chase them! A yappy little dog used to come out at me every day...so I took the time to chase him around the streets,and right onto his front lawn! Big donuts on the grass.Did that a couple of times and whenever he saw me he'd run inside his gate.Even little bikes can sort big dogs - a German Shepard used to come out and have a go at my C50 every day...I took to aiming at him and running across his front lawn.Soon when he saw me coming down the road he'd go back in his kennel.

Hell yeah, this works really well, and its funny as fuck too.

I don't really want to hurt the thing. Just giving it a decent enough scare (or the owners a decent enough fine) to stop it doing it again would be more than satisfactory for me.

Yeah, try what we're saying.. Ride full noise and swerve right at him and hit the horn.. watch that tail go between his legs and stay there! Fucken funny as.

I've run over a fully intact possum at about 100, hardly noticed a thing... Could be different with less momentum?

Yup. Just hit 'em hard and you will be fine.

Steve

[scracha]

Ignore hillbilly sick fucks advising to kick, run over or kill the dog. It's the owners fault. Have quiet word in owners ear and if that doesn't work, phone the council. End of.

[caseye]

Ignore hillbilly sick fucks advising to kick, run over or kill the dog. It's the owners fault. Have quiet word in owners ear and if that doesn't work, phone the council. End of.

LOL.

If any councils dog control section gets three! phone calls in one week, they are obliged to go and remove the dog, simple as that.
It doens't matter that you made all the calls,even if you made them one after the other.
I've tried talking to owners before, as in myfirst post, thats the first thing you should do.
Unfortunately those who own this sort of yappa don't understand how dangereous their uncontrolled/running free mutt can be to a motorcyclist.

Nor how loud they can be! We have two across the main road, it's four lanes wide through two houses, 2 six foot high fences and through 12mm laminated glass I can hear them both as clear as a bell when they bark/Yap at any and all passers by from behind their wrought iron gates.Day and night 24, 7!
I tell ya they are fast becoming a candidate for the instant slipper treatement, bonus? theres two of em no waiting till I get a matching pair.

[MarkH]

Ignore hillbilly sick fucks advising to kick, run over or kill the dog. It's the owners fault.

scracha is right - run over the owner (best done with a car rather than a bike).

[caseye]

Now theres an IDEA! LOL nice one MarkH.

[Motu]

Chasing dogs usually prefer to "attack" from behind (rarely head on) - so it will head to the side of you then around to the back wheel.

That's why the frontal attack works best - keep aiming at them,then they turn to run.Keep it up,keep chasing....you are now the big boy,they will run whenever they see your bike.

[shafty]

I'd agree with those recommending the "Call the Council" route.

The only thing I'd add (from experience) is to get some digi photo's of the dog on the road - maybe from your doorstep on zoom, whatever - it avoids any squirmming out of it by the Owner AND the Council.

Good luck.

Take 8 Heinikens and call me in the morning.

Dr Shafty

[gatch]

1 tell owner to sort it out
2 if that fails call the council
3 you will only need to run it down once..

[Mikkel]

While I wouldn't advise you to run the dog down, as has been said there are better ways to sort the situation out. In case all else fail - hell those small yapping dogs are rather annoying, aren't they? - just make sure to be going in a straight line and don't touch your brakes. Conservation of momentum will sort out the situation for you.

[DarkLord]

Big ass bump -

This happened again the other day. Same story - coming home, trundling down my street at about 30kmph, stupid yapping dog runs out in front of me.

However, this time, I pulled over, put the bike on it's stand and stormed up to the neighbour's front door.

They wouldn't have needed to bother heating their home that evening after all of the hot air I generously donated them. The lady apologized profusely. I didn't swear, and I stuck to the facts - but I made it clear I was VERY angry. I made my point and then left.

One time - it happens. Two times - it does happen but starting to push it. Three times - this was when I posted this thread and glared at the owner who just glared back at me. But four times - something needs to be said.

[Genie]

terrbile things those yappy little dogs...slingshot with a marble may help.

Like many have said...ring the dog control. stupid thing is out of control.