I Hate Stupid Jerks

Canada Geese

This will not be the post I wanted to bring to you today. Yesterday's warm day has finally brought out the animals to my favorite nature park. The geese and the ducks have both finally come back to the park. In fact, the whole place was alive with animal activity of every kind. There was one very dark note to my day however, and that's what this post will be about.

Before I begin, I would like to tell you that dogs are my favorite kind of animal; no other animal can come close to my love for dogs. I like other pets such as cats, and I like all of the wildlife I meet along my hikes, but dogs are still, and always will be my favorite animals. Now onto something I'm very very angry about!

I was getting toward the end of a very productive day with my camera. I have more pictures of animals for you from today than I've been able to get for most of the winter combined. I was really happy about it. I decided to go back to the fishing platform because I saw from a distance that there were a couple of geese wandering around out there on the ice. I had to get pictures of that!

This is a video where I attempted to bring to you a couple of geese on a frozen lake, but I was rudely interrupted by two idiots with their vicious dogs.

I started out by taking a few pictures of them walking around out there. Then I remembered to try to bring you a good video of the geese as they walked by. They weren't making much noise, but they were giving me some intermittent honks. The sound is really good here, and not only can you hear the geese, but you can also clearly hear other birds chirping in the background. It was an all around good setting for a video. That's when all hell broke loose!

From behind me I all of a sudden heard very loud barking dogs, and a man yelling at them. The geese flew away as soon as they heard this, and the whole thing interrupted my video! I turned off the video, and turned to see what was going on. There were about four or five good sized dogs running down the hill towards me in a very aggressive manner! Their idiot of an owner stood at the top of the hill yelling at them to come back. You can hear all of this in the video, including the footfalls of the dogs as they ran towards me.

The hill to the left

I was standing on the fishing platform, and the dogs couldn't figure out how to get up there; but they also quickly surrounded me while trying aggressively to get up there to me. I could tell these dogs didn't just want to greet a new friend. There was a very good possibility that I was in a great deal of danger at that moment.

I want to tell you, and I'm not trying to make this sound like bragging, but I know very well how to defend myself against any human or animal. I've done both many times before. I could have hurt those dogs worse than they could hurt me, but I knew I'd suffer a few injuries along the way. I was more angry than I was afraid. But what if I was another person who was not prepared for a situation like this? This was not good at all!

I held my ground, fully expecting to have to do battle with at least a couple of these dogs. I didn't want to do it, but I fully realized that I might have to kill one of them. I'd feel horrible about hurting a dog even a little bit, but I also have to protect myself first. The dogs were gnawing at the metal slats that made up the sides of the railings, in their attempt to get at me. In the end they finally decided it was too much effort, so they finally heeded their master's call and went back up the hill.

It wasn't even worth saying anything to these idiots, so I went back to taking a few last pictures. The two guys with the dogs quickly put them back on their leashes and moved as swiftly as they could away from my location. These jerks should have kept their mean dogs on their leashes in the first place!!! It is clearly written on the sign at the front of the park to do just that.

I completely understand wanting to let your dog run free sometimes, but anyone with any sense should know better than to do this where they know there will be other people, especially if their dog might tend to bite. I cannot count the number of times now when I've had dogs come running up to me barking. I usually just stand still. Most dogs are just curious. The dogs in my story were not! I know dogs very well. I understand them.

On my way out of the park, I met a nice woman who was going in. She had two very nice, polite dogs. One was a very small dog. We talked for a few minutes about the wildlife. Before I let her go, I made sure to warn her about the two morons with their pack of vicious dogs. I couldn't bear to think of her nice dogs or her getting hurt. After we parted ways, I made my way to my truck, and home. I was angry, but still encouraged by the new spring. Next time something like that happens, I'll be sure to keep the video running!

I meant to give you the beginning of some great new photos of the beginnings of the return of the wildlife to this park today. It will have to wait 'til tomorrow. I have some excellent stuff for you then. You really won't want to miss it. Talk to you then!