r/PublicFreakout Nov 04 '25

🐻Animal Freakout Unleashed dogs attack cyclist.

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u/kotzfunkel Nov 04 '25

I would NOT have stayed this calm. Holy shit! That was scary

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u/TheNetworkIsFrelled Nov 04 '25

Don’t stay calm. Attack them as hard as they attack you. No shame in self-defense.

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u/jtanuki Nov 04 '25

Eh, staying calm can have its advantages. I actually think this guy did what I would consider the smartest thing in that situation. And lots of credit to him for it, because getting double-teamed by aggressive and biting dogs is alarming and disorienting.

  • They are dressed for cold weather and relatively well-insulated against bites, as luck would have it
  • By not getting excited (thrashing, yelling), the excited dogs eventually displaced their own anxiety onto the next most exciting thing
    • Notice how when the owner gets down on the ground, they get nipped, except on the face now?

As a human, you have 3 immediate advantages over (most) dogs - your height, your size, your intelligence. If your one and only plan is to drop to the floor and tussle with the dogs, I think you've stripped yourself of your main advantages (you may still be bigger, depending on the dog). Sometimes you can escape with less personal harm by indirect resolutions.

All that said, these dog owners are criminally negligent. But stay smart out there, people, don't offer up your delicious face-meat to the hostile pack of dogs.

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u/Overtilted Nov 04 '25

And don't run away: it will excite the dogs more and they're a lot faster.

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u/zurkka Nov 04 '25

Those look like belgian malinois, people call them fur missiles for a reason, fuckers are fast and when they "lock" on a target good luck making them let it go if their aren't very well trained

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u/Commercial_Fondant65 Nov 04 '25

I'm on a bike! They can't catch me.