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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]The point - sorry, I guess you were too slow to get it - is that a dog merely being off leash does not give you the right to "defend yourself" against it by pepper spraying or kicking the dog. The dog has to DO something other than just be off leash for you to turn violent. Just the same as you cannot simply hit a jaywalker with your car, just because the person is a jaywalker. 
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Right - I'm not running around pepper spraying dogs. But if it comes up to me (as opposed to me going up to them), that is a perceived safety concern. Dogs are animals. They bite. They lunge. I am not responsible for them - their owner is. I am not responsible for predicting their behavior. I am not responsible for giving animals the benefit of the doubt. I am only responsible for predicting myself. [/quote]

What, do you think PP is going to run after an unleashed dog and spray it?

If an illegally unleashed dog approaches you, that is legal reason enough to defend yourself. It is not the job of the human being who is legally in the right to be in the public space to judge whether an unleashed dog that approaches them may be a threat or not. They have every right to defend themselves without having to be attacked first.[/quote]

Yes, that's what all the morons on this thread have been threatening to do. They've all said that any dog who approaches them - not bites, not even growls, but just approaches them - is going to get kicked and pepper sprayed. One total psycho said she harbored fantasies about dogs coming near her so that she COULD kick and pepper spray them. So yes, that's who I am talking to. The insane lunatics who are looking for a reason to get violent. In the name of safety and law and order.
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Why is a strange, unrestrained dog coming up to someone, somehow less dangerous than another strange, unrestrained animal coming up to someone? Be it a dog or a raccoon, I won't go running around chasing them and pepper spraying them. But if I'm out for a jog and a dog, raccoon, or other strange animal comes up up to me, I will pepper spray it. Because I deserve to jog in peace without concern of being chased by animals, or wait until they jump/bite. I know the law, and I know I have the law on my side.

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