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| iUnknown16. 12. 2016 10:21:56 |
I'd just note that if some dog jumps on me again, it'll get the ice axe on its snout. I've got a quality ice axe.
It doesn't bother me if it's calm and not interfering.
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| explorer16. 12. 2016 11:41:04 |
You just comment, bumblebee. But know that the ice axe can stop elsewhere too!
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| ZeK16. 12. 2016 12:22:57 |
Once on a winter descent a dog attacked me.
I got a strong bite in the leg. I had to go to the health center to clean the wound and get a vaccine dose.
The owner, who rushed to the scene a few minutes late, in his "apology" told me that he regularly unleashes his dog here, that it goes mad. Supposedly he attacked me because, in his opinion, he mistook me for game.
He even scolded me a bit, saying there are usually no people here anyway and what am I doing there.
I must say that I noticed the dog charging violently towards me at a distance of about 500 meters.
Since I had a thermos of tea in the outer pocket of my backpack, I grabbed it and hit the dog on the head after the bite. He only let go of my leg when the owner arrived and called him to him.
Because of the blow to the dog's head, the owner even threatened me with a lawsuit, although it was obviously self-defense.
Dogs don't bother me, but after this incident I have a special fear of them.
I ask owners to keep them on a leash, as prescribed by the legislation.
I also ask them to stop telling me how "ours isn't like that".
The law is clear. It's not some formalism, the dog simply mustn't be off-leash.
I ask dog owners to understand that some of us have bad experiences and it's unpleasant for us if their dog sniffs us, jumps on us... and owners even "recommend" that I pet it because it's super friendly.
Is it so hard to understand that I don't want to engage in any interaction with the dog?
I like animals, which doesn't mean I want to touch them or possess them in domesticated form. I leave them alone and try not to disturb them as much as possible.
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| sla16. 12. 2016 12:41:15 |
Addition to ZeK:
Dog mustn't attack game at all (or chase it)!!!!!
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| lino16. 12. 2016 14:15:24 |
Sla, this advice probably didn't comfort ZeK much. Even if you quoted it to the dog, it probably wouldn't convince him. (A little joke - no hard feelings.)
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| sla16. 12. 2016 14:22:16 |
No hard feelings
This is for irresponsible dog owners who don't realize their dog has teeth and furry ears.
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| pikica116. 12. 2016 18:42:14 |
Come on @ZeK, you're making up "when dog runs" 500 meters away you saw how the dog runs towards you  Are you at Brnik airport flying or what? Where will you see 500 meters in the woods or mountains along the path ahead or back? You have such good eyes that from the yard you see into the kitchen on the table what is for lunch. You write whatever comes to mind, just to talk and write nonsense up there. Some of you are really so bored up in the mountains, if in the huts nothing bothers you, then damn, you meet a dog.
It doesn't surprise me at all that dogs bother you, since the pictured spotted bitch up here got more likes than any free-living animal pictured in nature.
I never put my little dogs on a leash, neither in the home woods nor in the mountains. It has never chased any animal. Do you think I could take a picture of a fox, chamois, rock ptarmigan, if it walked around with a frenzied dog.
Just as people differ from each other, say as drivers, dog owners differ from each other too.
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| VanSims16. 12. 2016 19:20:34 |
@pikica1: then you know you shouldn't judge everyone by yourself and your dog. There are just different 'dog hikers' and different dogs.
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| ZeK17. 12. 2016 00:07:13 |
"when dog runs" 500 meters away you already see how dog runs towards you
YEAH
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| VanSims17. 12. 2016 21:17:29 |
Yeah, right, in Slovenian! Spit on, fart on, kick, trample!
Because he shared his experience, quoted the law and nicely asked dog owners to be a bit careful and understanding.
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| dragica.gnjezda@gmail.com19. 12. 2016 15:44:45 |
what experience anyway. personally don't believe it. 500m is 5 times 100m!!! let someone else paint it. and if he jokes, others can too.
no one spat on him, kicked him, farted on him, trampled him... so don't panic.
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| VanSims21. 12. 2016 20:02:22 |
Yeah, well a few hundred meters.  And yeah, something running towards you that's not human, you see from half a kilometer!
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| sirt122. 12. 2016 09:02:50 |
Those mocking 500m have obviously never been in hills in winter! Go to Krvavec, stand by upper gondola station, someone else release chihuahua from top of Rora. You'll see it, more than 500m. From nest really can't see speck. Pikica, at Brnik you see ornk dog at 4km.
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| dragica.gnjezda@gmail.com22. 12. 2016 10:33:54 |
We're talking about dogs, not people. It's really very unlikely that a dog would react at all to a person half a km away, if it saw them of course (uneven terrain). It's different if the owner gave such a command.
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| grega_z_brega22. 12. 2016 10:41:14 |
If you're afraid of a dog at 500m, it's best to lock yourself in the shack.
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| piotr22. 12. 2016 10:59:24 |
And then there will only be dog lovers in the mountains.
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| grega_z_brega22. 12. 2016 11:37:40 |
I'm not saying that. Just with so many dogs it's hard to find a 1km wide strip for undisturbed movement.
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| ZeK22. 12. 2016 11:45:06 |
I wrote 500 meters and I think I wasn't much wrong.
As I wrote, it was winter (and snow). Clearing.
The dog rushed into a sprint, the owner's remark that he mistook me for game seemed completely real to me at that moment.
Otherwise this is not the essence of the described experience.
Whoever wanted to hear, heard. I won't speak up in this topic anymore, because it's the same here as on other forums, that the description of a story instead of reflection on the content triggers a bunch of trolls who look for a hair in the egg or mock the one who described their experience in some other way.
In my story I didn't go after dogs, nor their owners, but merely asked them to stick to what's prescribed.
I should be able to ask/demand this even without such an experience, which merely wanted on a personal level to say why some of us have the wish that dog owners act more responsibly. Not because of the regulation, but because of fellow people.
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