• fartographer@lemmy.world
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    3 days ago

    This is why I get so upset about people who keep their pets off-leash in public. “BuT it’S DanGeroUs tO ride a biKe With A doG on Its LeAD.” Yeah, but what about when your off-leash dog encounters someone’s off-leash bear and it outpaces you on a mountain bike. Now you’re gonna go home and question if you’re a shitty bicyclist, and those are the scars that’ll never heal.

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      2 days ago

      You train recall? It’s like the first thing you want to train, and arguably the only mandatory thing you need to teach a dog. Notice how the collie in the video came back as soon as it was called?

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        2 days ago

        I seriously thought that my part about an “off-leash bear” would be indicator enough that my comment was sarcasm, but obviously not. I think I buried it too deep in too long of a joke.

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      2 days ago

      Is this sarcasm? That’s a black bear, generally safe, you can tell it’s not protecting it’s babies because it ran away from the dog. Also I live in a very rural area and I’ve only ever seen a black bear once on trails. Meanwhile I’ve almost run over a dog not on a leash several times, I can’t imagine how difficult riding with a leashed dog would be.

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        2 days ago

        Yeah, it’s sarcasm. Hence the “off-leash bear” and that a bear outpacing you would cause emotional damage. But it seems I did a pretty shitty job of making a joke.