All choices have some positives and negatives. I like to use as few vaccinations as possible so as a consequence of not vaccinating with risky and unpredictable vaccines such for lepto, lymes and rabies (I do the first vaccine and then titer tests from then on to see if they are still immune), I must be extra vigilant in keeping my dogs out of situations that would put them at increased risk for those diseases. Over time, my dogs will live longer and have healthier immune systems than the dogs that are vaccinated more often. I could be judgmental and say it makes me sad that you put your dogs at higher risk for dying sooner, but it's your dog and your choice and I actually don't really care how you choose to raise your dogs. You should adopt the same type of attitude with people who make different choices than you. My dogs go everywhere with me, to work, to pool tournaments, to stores and shopping, etc. They have great lives and are extremely happy and wonderful with people.
I wonder how many dogs get bitten by snakes and/or scorpions every year...
As usual, you can't back up anything you say. Just continually acting like an expert on things with minimal experience and your only defense to anything I've said is that I'm lying. Good job little boy. Now go run home. How old are you? What happened to all these pit bulls you've adopted? You started this crap be discrediting me as a dog owner and telling me that I don't know how to raise an animal and that I'm the type of owner that puts other people at risk. I take much offense to that, and when it's delivered from some moron on the internet with a sliver of the experience and knowledge I've accumulated, I will defend myself. Too bad you don't have the credentials to back up your own formulated opinions that are seemingly based on the one Akita you've met and your experience with the easiest breeds of dogs to train in the pit bull and labrador. I've love to see a picture of the "akita" your best friend has so I could see what other breeds are in the mix. Having met 100's, if not more than 1,000 Akitas through rescue work and at dog shows, I can tell you that you're a complete moron in challenging me on how an Akita is supposed to act. In their earliest development as a breed they were used in pairs to hunt bears. They were always a male and a female because, as a breed, in the history of their breed, they have never gotten along well with dogs of the same sex. I know you said you're the bigger man, and you keep saying how I'm not worth your time and how you're not going to respond to me again. Can you have the self-discipline to do that, or do you want to unveil some more of your retardation for the public to witness? I figure you might actually follow through this time, because your lack of defending your position with your "experience" in your last post just means you have no defense without grossly exaggerating some of your own personal experiences so you're left with the decision to start lying about yourself or shutting the hell up....
I'm with you 100% on this, but from a legal perspective you might lose everything in court to the bad owner when he gets injured. Being injured by a dog, that'll give you the legal win every time.
These were not multi use trails to begin with. 2nd, neg rep points are for idiots as yourself that actually have time to give negative rep points to anyone to begin with lol
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If you are riding technical trails then it is an issue. Like i said in my above post, For me it happened on a slope where if anything is in your way you have nowhere to go but down the side and end up really screwed. I chose on that slop to hit a bike one time and a dog another so i dont go down that side. Both times ruined my front wheel and one time my front brake callipers. Trust me, unless you are riding strictly fire roads or close to it all that is possible.hey, you can keep giving me neg. rep....
I don't ride with my dogs (so quit saying that), but I have no problem watching out for my own safety, as well as others, by riding appropriately in tight conditions with unpredictable users. I don't understand, how it's a big deal to slow down and avoid a dog? a child? a runner?
Please enlighten me how someone, who is in control of their bike, and in control of their actions, is going to be wrecked by a dog that they see coming?
If you're just mad that someone is breaking the leash law, or you just hate being inconvenienced, then whatever
neg. rep away.:thumbsup:
See that part in red? thats what im talking about. In my particular area (basically the tropics), we are often riding on single track with palm branches smacking our helmets as we ride down the trail. Tree's sometimes so close we have a 1/2" to spare on each side. If I saw a dog coming, id reluctantly slow down because I wouldnt want to hurt myself. But what about the dog that pounces into the thick brush to chase an armadillo or squirrel? then quickly bounces back out onto the trail as im approaching? You cant teach a dog to reason why its important for it to look both ways prior to stepping back onto the trail....hey, you can keep giving me neg. rep....
I don't ride with my dogs (so quit saying that), but I have no problem watching out for my own safety, as well as others, by riding appropriately in tight conditions with unpredictable users. I don't understand, how it's a big deal to slow down and avoid a dog? a child? a runner?
Please enlighten me how someone, who is in control of their bike, and in control of their actions, is going to be wrecked by a dog that they see coming?
If you're just mad that someone is breaking the leash law, or you just hate being inconvenienced, then whatever
neg. rep away.:thumbsup:
The trail where this happened there should not be anything in the way. Simple as that. If a child is in the middle of the trail where that happened he will get trashed just the same. There is no where to go if there is. Everyone elses BS rambling about not being able to handle a bike blah blah blah is just ignorant. If you ride any kind of descent technical trails i am sure you guys have passed a section that makes you think "****" i hope anyone or anything isn't there. What kind of trails are you guys riding? lol i sure as hell would like to know.
Would you say that you're in control in that situation, and riding responsibly? I would not. Riding on a known, blind section, with no bail out, and going so fast, that you can't stop without hitting something that could be there. That's not riding responsibly on your part. What if the kid was there to go with his bike?
In this part of the trail i am talking about If i dont get speed i am screwed. I need to go as fast as i can muster up to get above the coming slope where this happened to me twice. If i slow down i am screwed with nowhere to go. FLMike if you are from Florida then i imagine you have been on the technical trails at Markham, Santos, Boyette and Alafia. Those aren't local for me but close by. This happened at a local trail for me. But i have been to those parks and have seen many similar parts in those parks where it crossed my mind and thought damn there is nowhere to go if someone or something is on the trail at that moment.
Jumping up out of a bush in front of you, and just being ahead of you on the trail, are two completely different scenarios.
But obeying leash laws would lower the number of "sh*t happens" instances and that's the point here. To minimize unpredictable happening on the trails. When sh*t happens because of nature, that's one thing, when it happens when a person is breaking the law, well, that sucks and could be avoided entirely.
You've got me wrong there. I'm not against leash laws or riding fast on a trail, I'm just fed up with people not taking responsibility for driving too reckless for their own good.
