Re: [at-l] Rotties in TN

["David F. Addleton" <dfa@wimlaw.com>]

Another good reason to carry at least one walking stick!
The best way to get torn by a dog is to turn and run.
The best way to get the dog to turn and run is to use your stick on it,
up-side the hayed.
Any unleashed dog that threatens me will learn a quick lesson.

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> From: Sam Teel <steel@sfwmd.gov>
> To: at-l@backcountry.net
> Subject: [at-l] Rotties in TN
> Date: Friday, June 25, 1999 11:43 AM
> 
> I keep hearing about these damn dogs.  I'm tempted to section hike JUST
> this section to teach these dogs and their owners a lesson.  The last
> list I was a member of was APBT-L, the American Pit Bull Terrier list.
> I have a Pit now and have had two others before him and train two others
> besides those.  I'm not afraid of ANY dog that walks on this earth.
> That dog needs to have his ass kicked, in front of his owners, and then
> have charges pressed against them for assualt.
> 
> Ok, Ok, I'm cool now.  No more temper tantrums.
> 
> Sam
> 
> > although the rottweiler family along the road was there in force. A
> fellow hiker merely hours behind us got nipped >at and a hole torn in
> his goretex rainpants from the middle-sized rott.
> 
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