Dogs (with four legs)

[Bikernereid]

I was wondering if anyone can tell me what the score is with dogs here. I have been on two ride outs in the last week or so where a number of riders have nearly been taken out by bloody dogs. The first one was a farmer on a quad bike who let his dog roam all over the road, luckily none of us were hit. Tonight down near New Plymouth there was another incident where the first bike was nearly taken out by the dog, the second bike luckily braked and had a near miss but the dog obviously thought third time is a charm and went for our bike. Nadorj did the sensible thing and stuck his foot out, maybe the dog learnt a valuable lesson.

I am a country girl and an animal lover but at the end of the day if you hit a dog in a car something is going to get hurt and damaged but nothing like if you hit a dog on a bike going at a resonable pace.

Do you not have legislation here that prohibits dogs from being with thier owners without a lead or that prohibits owner from letting their dog roams the back roads as they want? At the end of the day noone wants to bin thier bike
or bugger themselves avoiding or hitting a wandering dog.

[98tls]

I was wondering if anyone can tell me what the score is with dogs here. I have been on two ride outs in the last week or so where a number of riders have nearly been taken out by bloody dogs. The first one was a farmer on a quad bike who let his dog roam all over the road, luckily none of us were hit. Tonight down near New Plymouth there was another incident where the first bike was nearly taken out by the dog, the second bike luckily braked and had a near miss but the dog obviously thought third time is a charm and went for our bike. Nadorj did the sensible thing and stuck his foot out, maybe the dog learnt a valuable lesson.

I am a country girl and an animal lover but at the end of the day if you hit a dog in a car something is going to get hurt and damaged but nothing like if you hit a dog on a bike going at a resonable pace.

Do you not have legislation here that prohibits dogs from being with thier owners without a lead or that prohibits owner from letting their dog roams the back roads as they want? At the end of the day noone wants to bin thier bike
or bugger themselves avoiding or hitting a wandering dog.

What your saying is quite right but unfortunately when copies of said legislation was sent out to all dogs various rebel dogs spread throughout the country decided they had had enough of legislation and said "we are free ranging canine and from today we roam free"

[Bikernereid]

Guess there was a conspiracy with those bloody chickens!!

But seriously I blame the bloody owners and they should be fined!!

What your saying is quite right but unfortunately when copies of said legislation was sent out to all dogs various rebel dogs spread throughout the country decided they had had enough of legislation and said "we are free ranging canine and from today we roam free"

[98tls]

Guess there was a conspiracy with those bloody chickens!!

But seriously I blame the bloody owners and they should be fined!!

Agreed but if roaming chances are there not registered so tracking down the owner will be hard,if one causes a bad accident then i doubt the owner will put there hand up.

[koba]

HTFU

It's just another road hazard really, part of riding...

I did hit a labrador at about 120 on my old 250 once.
Scary thing is i was fine, bike was fine apart from a bit of fur in the front tye and the bloody dog lived - for a while at least...
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[Bikernereid]

Most of our dogs n cats are tagged and/or microchipped. The bloody farmer with the dog the other day deserved a damned good kicking.

Agreed but if roaming chances are there not registered so tracking down the owner will be hard,if one causes a bad accident then i doubt the owner will put there hand up.

[Bikernereid]

Some hazards you can't avoid such as cars!!! You know what I mean.

I hit a goose once and it freaked the crap out of me and I couldn;t drive immediately afterwards.

HTFU

It's just another road hazard really, part of riding...

I did hit a labrador at about 120 on my old 250 once.
Scary thing is i was fine, bike was fine apart from a bit of fur in the front tye and the bloody dog lived - for a while at least...
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[koba]

Some hazards you can't avoid such as cars!!! You know what I mean.

I hit a goose once and it freaked the crap out of me and I couldn;t drive immediately afterwards.

Cars are different to dogs; if you hit a car you die.
If you hit a dog you probably wont but the dog probably will.
I don't swerve for dogs.

[98tls]

Cars are different to dogs; if you hit a car you die.

Ive hit 2 and am still here...........i think

[Bikernereid]

My dad got hit by a car and was lucky, my uncle on the other hand went round a blind bend at night and a dumb ass lorry driver (not all of them are dumb asses, OWNER this includes you) had not left any lights on and he went under it and his head was cut in half. Luckily he died on impact. That is another bloody hazard; dogs I guess pale in comparison really.

Cars are different to dogs; if you hit a car you die.

[sunhuntin]

ive been rushed once while leaving my own driveway. luckily, i left at a faster clip than normal, and so by the time the dog got there, it was at the back tyre. at my normal pace, it would have been my foot.
i rang dog control, and they did nothing.

[Bikernereid]

If control wont do anything I would go to the owner and ask them if they like thier dog in one piece!!

ive been rushed once while leaving my own driveway. luckily, i left at a faster clip than normal, and so by the time the dog got there, it was at the back tyre. at my normal pace, it would have been my foot.
i rang dog control, and they did nothing.

[sunhuntin]

the owners were right there... typical state house types... theyd likely as not break my teeth than listen.

[Bikernereid]

Oh those type of people. So not bothered if you got hurt but would make hell if you hurt the dog they proabably don't give a crap about.

the owners were right there... typical state house types... theyd likely as not break my teeth than listen.

[sunhuntin]

thats them. i think they may have moved out, but now the new ones have a bull dog. least it looks too fat to move fast.

almost collected this old ladies corgi today... saw her crossing, so slowed down. did not expect her freakin dog to follow AFTER she had already reached the other side. dopey woman should have had it on a lead, to keep it safe more than anything. [dunno which was older, actually.]