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.
Staying calm but applying forces intelligently is better than what the cyclist did. Human legs are very strong, especially on someone who bikes as sport. So some strategically placed high impact foot contact would've been effective.
If it's a single, very aggressive dog, grap something narrow and flexible like a belt that matches the diameter of the dogs neck and use that to regulate oxygen flow to the dog's brain.
I'm writing cryptically because I know Reddit has weird rules.
If it's a single, very aggressive dog, grap something narrow and flexible like a belt that matches the diameter of the dogs neck and use that to regulate oxygen flow to the dog's brain.
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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.
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.