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Dogs are hardwired to chase something that runs away, especially something unfamiliar...ie, prey. I always slow down around dogs so that we don't trigger this response. It also helps my horses to aim a good kick better. Facing the dog and, in fact, chasing it at a walk or trot is also a good break in the hard-wired routine and makes the dogs stop and think things over. Having ten well-wired terriers littering up a farm has given me a lot of experience there. 

Funny thing is that they will go into the paddock to try to get the horses to run so that they can chase them, and the horses on the whole just look and pin ears. Every so often one of the young ones will take up the game and the dogs are delighted....while I stand on the fenceline yelling at the horses "Kick the buggers, why don't you!"

Maryanne

On 3/2/07, Mary Ann Spencer <maryann.spencer@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

People who have to deal with dogs while doing their jobs have used some sort
of 'squirt' device' and put water and sudsy ammonia in it and used that to
spray at the dog. (Now all those animal rights folks don't need to all out
of whack.  This is only an irritant but sure makes the point.)   It may take
a few times for the dog to get the message.   IT COULD TAKE MONTHS TO GET
YOUR HORSE REPAIRED!!!  Got chased by a &*() pit bull one time and the &*()
animal chased up for way over a mile.... we had to GALLOP to get out of
reach.  The &*() dog lunged, UNPROVOKED, at my horses chest.  I KICKED her
and off we went.  We out ran the *() dog and NEVER rode down that road
again.  That was in NC.

I have not had any other experience like that.  I will slow down my horse
and slowly walk by the area.  I have also turned the horse around to face
the dog and/or chase the dog back to his house.  gotta be careful not to
enter the dogs yard.

If I have to ride past a dog that I think is dangerous, I will report the
animal.   Almost all places have laws about dangerous animals.

Perhaps some dog psychologists could elaborate about the fact that the dog
thinks it is chasing away a  huge bad thing????????????????



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