When I read Sharon's original post I had to go find my wife and read it to her. We had a very similar experience in the same spot last February. But in our case there was no woman who came to attempt to round up the dogs. It was a very unnerving experience. There were about 20 dogs in our encounter and they were jumping all over the car and darting in front of it. I slowly made my way down the road and some of the smaller ones dropped off the chase. Some of the dogs chased the car for a good half mile before they gave up.
I suspect there are many more stories like this, Chris Grecian On Sun, Mar 2, 2008 at 9:48 PM, Jason Caddy <j.caddy at hotmail.com> wrote: > This story is all too familiar to me. The exact same scenerio happened to > me about 2 winters ago. The only difference is that the woman > was nowhere near as friendly as this description. There were around 25 > dogs surrounding my car and the woman came out with a pole > with a hook on the end and started threatening to hit the dogs with it. > The dogs were biting my bumper and jumping up on the windows, > it was frightening. I don't even know how I got out of there without > hitting one of the crazy dogs. The woman was basically yelling at > me to get lost as the dogs clawed and bit my car. I drove about 2 miles > down the road and then pulled over to calm down. As I was > standing beside my car I noticed a few of the dogs running towards me and > I had to jump back in the car. They don't give up very > easily. This may sound like a verse out of a Steven King novel but it is > very real and should be avoided at all costs. > Good birding to all, > > Jason Caddy > > > ------------------------------ > From: birdchick at gmail.com > Date: Sun, 2 Mar 2008 19:00:18 -0600 > To: mnbird at lists.mnbird.net > CC: mou-net at moumn.org > Subject: [mou] Sax Zim Dogs > > > Amber Burnette and I went up for the day to Sax Zim Bog and had an > unnerving dog encounter. We went up Blue Spruce Rd and followed it past the > Morse feeders to where it turns into Poplar and then Aspen and then Birch > and goes back out onto 133. When we got to the end of Aspen we could see > about six large dogs shoulder to shoulder in the road. I've seen a couple > of dogs on this road before but not this many and they didn't move. I > figured if we went slowly through, the dogs would part and we could pass. > Oh no. They charged and surrounded the car. A few jumped up nipping at > the windows and the others stayed in front of the car. We tried honking and > that didn't work. I didn't know how we could get forward without hitting > one of the dogs. > > Eventually, a woman came out and tried to call them in, but it did no > good. She came over to the car and it explained that the dogs get dumped > here and at one point had 50 some odd huskies dumped there. As she was > talking to us, the dogs were jumping and bouncing off my car--to the top of > the window and we could see more dogs coming out of the woods. I told her > that I didn't know how to get through without hitting one and she said if I > went fast, they would part ways, they just want to chase the car and if I > hit one, it was no big deal. No big deal to her, but a big deal to me. > > We pulled ahead and the pack followed us. Some kept running and stopping > in front of the car and others continued to jump up to the side--one jumped > up, I heard a bump and then a yelp. They followed us around the corner for > about a quarter of mile running in front of the car as soon as we would try > to speed up. We eventually made it through, but it was incredibly > unnerving, the dogs seem to sense that you don't want to hit them and just > run in front of you. > > You might want to avoid the area of Aspen and Birch. > > > Sharon Stiteler > www.birdchick.com > Minneapolis, MN > > > > > ------------------------------ > Shed those extra pounds with MSN and The Biggest Loser! Learn > more.<http://biggestloser.msn.com/> > > > --- > This mailing list is sponsored by the Minnesota Ornithologists' Union. > Mailing list membership available on-line at > http://moumn.org/subscribe.html. > ----- > To unsubscribe send a blank email to mou-net-request at moumn.org with a > subject of unsubscribe. > > -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://moumn.org/pipermail/mou-net_moumn.org/attachments/20080303/db8ae8b0/attachment.html
