Originally Posted by
Witterings
Did you even bother reading the part I wrote
So there's some bad dogs with a highly aggressive attitude that will just start an unprovoked attack in a viscous way when it's totally unnecessary and that people generally have complete disdain for .... funnily enough there are some humans that are exactly the same .. some of which that are know to frequent cycling forums
That's one unclear sentence in a diatribe that just assumes that people being attacked are doing something to attract is because of their "lack of confidence".
I know you fancy yourself some sort of dog expert, but you just aren't, and you should stop this armchair analysis of how people are reacting to a situation you've never faced.
You otherwise seen to be a fairly reasonable person, but it just amazes me that you don't understand how off-base and annoying you are on this subject. From what I've seen, some dogs are not relating to riders as people because they are on bikes which makes us move in a way that resembles prey. Some of these dogs might actually be feral. Some of these dogs may actually be trained to attack strangers. They, for all you know, may have rabies. Someone second-guessing you when they didn't face a very uncertain dangerous situation is truly obnoxious. You have no special knowledge that entitles you to do this. "Owns a bunch of dogs" has nothing to do with how to cope with a fast attack in real time.