Unless you live in Parker, I will likely never know your dog, light side or dark side.

You miss the point about reasonable precautions a bicycle rider needs to make to properly protect him/her self from the unknown beharvior of unfamiliar dogs.

I don't hate dogs. I like dogs. But as a bicyle rider I never know what the reaction of a dog will be to me ahead of time. I have to make certain assumptions until proven otherwise.

I wonder how many folks have been bitten, just after being reassured that "He will never harm anyone, he is so friendly?"

As to my coined term "dogger," someone put a derogatory context to it. It was not meant that way. I used it simply to describe a walker and a dog combined in one uint - ergo "dogger." Not pejorative at all, simply descriptive.