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In reply to the discussion: Dog owners please enter . Am I wrong about what happened today?? [View all]That WAS of one of my pet peeves as a paperboy. There is probably NO dog alive who is not gonna chase a boy on a bike who comes up to their house. Do NOT expect your dog to be an exception.
Then again, one Sunday morning I met a huge unleashed dog, and we became buddies. His name was on his collar, and he followed me around for most of the rest of the route. At one point I slipped on some ice and was lying there on my back and the dog comes up and is nervous and barks and I sit up and say "hey aqualung, it's only me" (okay I cannot remember the dog's real name) and he comes up wagging his tail.
Thinking about that now I should have tried to bring him home so I could call the owner. I sorta figured that he would find his way home.
When I was much younger there was a dog named Penny who used to run the neighborhood, lived half a block away, and sometimes I would play fetch with him/her. My neighbor's dog Cinder was the same way, except she would not play fetch. A few times though when she was out in a thunderstorm she got scared and ran off and was lost for days. She also got hit by a car twice (and survived). So there is that too.