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He has seen me in the morning.

An Italian kind of psychopath

I see. I dread to think what the rest of your gaff looks like but I'm more sympathetic to you wanting to drink yourself into oblivion.

You called?

I mean, you say "drinking yourself into oblivion" like it's a bad thing.

Not my gaff

I don't do oblivion. Have to take a leap of faith with the who claim not to remember the night before. Can't empathise with it.

My parents had two female pitbulls that hated each other so they were kept in separate parts of the house and the rule was that whichever dog was allowed in the main part of the house had access to the backyard. So I'm staying there one night and wake up early and see a dog in the main house area so I let her outside only to find my mom's dog out there and she immediately tries to attack the other dog.

I jumped between them, gave one dog my arm to bite on and ended up with stitches and a permanent scar.

The only other times I've been bit (people will laugh) were by off leash dogs in Colombia but both times were nothing incidents where they didn't break through my clothes and I wasn't hurt any in way. The first time I was hiking and approaching a group of Colombian hikers and I did see that the dog was behaving weird, crouched down and looking like he wanted to attack, and I took my eyes off him and onto the owners and next second it was at my pants trying to bite me on the thigh. I think it recognized me as a foreigner and I was carrying my camera and some dogs don't like cameras.

The other time was just a little ankle biter that I apparently did pay enough attention to.

I had a layover of a couple hours in Istanbul and been there before so instead of doing the big touristy places opted to walking the Theodosian Walls from the Golden Horn to the Sea of Marmara

Only the major sections of it are well maintained for tourists, the rest are quite empty and it's the only place I ever encountered homeless people in Turkey.

So as I got further away from the famous gate pictured above, it got more remote feeling despite being in a city of 17 million and they would begin running through farmland and empty fields

it was in this clearing here where traversing the wall itself was difficult so I went through this spot alongside them

there was a gypsy camp there and they had a good 20-30 german shepherds running around

as i approached the entire camp just stood in a standstill silently watching me pass, the dogs somewhat gathered around me but were not acting threateningly, merely curious - but definitely not friendly

as i walked further away from the camp, the pack of dogs began getting more threatening, began actively circling me, growling, baring their teeth etc

i take off my backpack to use as a makeshift club and slowly continue walking away from the camp but periodically stopping and pivoting to make sure no dog feels like it has an unguarded backside to attack - much like when you see a pack of hyenas or wolves facing off against a lion or bear

meanwhile the camp is just standing there doing nothing but silently observing their dogs circle me - i even yell out to them to help me by calling their dogs off or coming over and they just ignore it - even if they don't understand english, they clearly saw what was happening and chose to do nothing but watch - there were at least a dozen of them

the dogs started getting more aggressive, they began lunging towards me and nipping, a few times made soft contact with my calves - which was somewhat reassuring because that meant they were just trying to herd me away or grossly incompetent with so many close calls

it took about half an hour to walk maybe 50 yards and they finally dispersed as i got to the end of the clearing and hit a road and civilization again

and of course the dogs went back to the camp and began wagging their tails and playing with the gypsies again

i thought for sure i would end up getting hospitalized

f gypsies, f them so hard

They come in handy with dogs. I pretty much am always carrying one in Colombia for that purpose....it was a part of learning how to deal with dogs there. Mostly it's just to provide some separation...you can hold them out in front of you and it functions like a shield.

Why didn't you take some pics of your own? Would have been interesting to see them.

This shouldn't be complicated, folks:

KEEP YOUR SWEET DARLING LOVELY DOGS ON A LEASH WHEN WILDLIFE AND PEOPLE ARE NEARBY!!!

For reals, how is this even a conversation?

Man you're a horrible poster.

Just don't be such a little bitch about dogs. If a dog gives me trouble I don't complain I deal with it, like a normal human being. Since we're talking about dogs here not sure why it should be super surprising that not all of my dog stories are positive.

Because obviously circumstances differ. Not everyone here lives in Manhattan or in Orange county or Beijing or in super populated areas.

You still don't get it. When I'm out running, that's what I want to do. I don't want to fukk with dogs and dumb owners fukking up my shiit and slowing me down, and I especially don't want to have to find a lost dog's owner because they're too stupid and/or uncaring enough to keep tabs on their pets.

If I'm hanging out at a park or whatever, then I don't give a shiit. If I'm running in an area where dogs are allowed off leash, then that's on me because it's expected that less than trained dogs will be in the area so I don't give a shiit.

Again-- I have ran plenty and had to deal with dogs while running.

I have never had to stop one single time for them.

TURN AROUND AND FACE THEM WHILE RUNNING BACKWARDS. EVENTUALLY THEY WILL STOP CHASING YOU.

It's not hard.

Why do you think nature was created just for you?

Speaking of not hard:

If dog owners keep their dogs on a leash, then the dog owner gets to walk his dog without any problems and the runners can do their workout without "facing them while running backwards."

Seems like a clear win-win scenario to me.

When I'm out running I wish it were always 60 degrees and overcast and when I go to the beach I wish it wasn't covered in kelp.

It's like 15 seconds of running backwards then the dog goes back to its property line and you continue on with your run and don't give it a second thought.

If that was a response to what I posted above, I don't get the connection.

No I'm just making fun of Land of Lakes who is clearly insanely self-centered and doesn't want there be to any sort of inconveniences when he's outdoors.

Heartbreaking: the worst person you know just made a great point

To run backwards, I have to slowdown to Lunchbox pace and it's annoying as shiit. If I'm doing a cooldown run or walk, then it's whatever.

As for stopping completely, I have to do that when:

- a dog chases me for 50+ yards and the owner is screaming his or hers dog's name

- if a big dog bolts towards me from the front

- if a dog rolls up on me and there is no owner, and I have to be the the responsible one in the dog's life and reunite it with its useless owner.

You seem ******ed. As mentioned earlier, most of my running is trail running and I encounter more intimidating creatures than dogs. I'm on their territory - it's expected. However, in an area where dogs are required to be on leash and they're fukking up my shiit, then yeah, I find it annoying.

I also find it annoying when I'm taking a legal right turn on red and the perpendicular car at the intersection decides to take a u-turn, and I have to break quickly to avoid hitting them when they have a no u-turn sign posted.

Does that make you think that I think driving on roads was created just for me, or perhaps it's the azzhole doing an illegal turn while others are in traffic who is being the inconsiderate fukk?

Only when I'm running. If I'm vagrantly walking the streets of Columbia, then it wouldn't bother me if dogs roll up on me (providing they're not aggressive). If I'm going from the car to the store, then it doesn't bother me. But it's not just shitty dog owners who annoy me, so don't feel singled out.

One time two dudes in suits on bicycles (obvious Mormons) were coming in the opposite direction and one of them moved 90 degrees to block me in and I almost collided with him.

I figured only a reetard or a person in need of help would have done that so I asked them if anything was wrong. Dude is like, "Sorry to stop you, sir, but have you heard of the Book of Mormon?" and I said, "Are you fukking serious, man??" and took off.

So yeah, man, maybe people should be considerate of others when they're in public.

This is hilarious and made me lol ty.

We have a couple of hundred rabbits in the neighborhood. Helps with the walks

We are right by a natural area with muskrat and many types of birds. We’ve seen a couple of owl including one that flew a few feet over our heads