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by Akshay Agarwal on March 7th, 2005

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If a strange dog is running toward you, should you run or stand your ground?

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  • by Roger Kovaciny on October 22nd, 2005

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    A friend who keeps Dobermans told me that in addition to all this other advice, most of it good, remember that dogs will attack you from the back if you turn your back, so don't. (I once thought I could make friends with a strange dog by giving him a sausage. I turned my back and only the fact that I used to carry a pocketknife in my hip pocket saved me from a deep bite.) I think the Reader's Digest once said to turn to the side so as not to look them in the eye, dangle your keys at arm's length to keep distracting its attention from one place to another. My colleague said that if all else fails with a big one and you have to choose between three days in the hospital and three days in the funeral parlor, shove your fist down its throat and keep it there till it chokes the dog to death.

    A lot of people get hurt because they don't remember the saying "Small dogs bite. Large dogs kill." Until you know better, treat any strange dog with the caution you would show around an armed man. I heard one speaker who was dumb enough to bark back at a strange bulldog; he was just fortunate that there was a climbable tree nearby. What were bulldogs bred for, buddy? To attack and kill bulls, right? You going to argue with a beast like that? If someone was angrily shouting at me in a foreign language, I sure wouldn't shout the same thing back until I knew what it meant. Same thing goes for strange dogs.

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