Wow....and Dogs

Well - I did another 10.4 ks. I was really busy all day doing 'techie' stuff in my studio and didn't get around to my running until about 6:30 pm. The first lap was awful, the 2nd, pure hell, the 3rd eased up and the 4th was a breeze...

I wasn't until I ate at 8:00 pm that I realized, that was the first meal I had had all day...no wonder my first two laps were so hard.

My goal now is to increase my run to 6 laps by the end of next week (or the equivalent - I will be in Manitoba and Utah next weekend) and to 8 before I leave for Europe on the 4th. If I get really ambitious, I may try to do 16 laps one day, which would be that 'Virtual Marathon' I talked about earlier.

Dogs:

Interesting thing they are. Some people treat them as other people (guess what..? they aren't!)
Some people seem to have the biggest nastiest dogs they can.
It's not for protection - it's for the ego trip of being the 'master' of a potential 'killing machine'...like owning a Tiger without a special permit.
Don't give me the gears that you need it for protection. A nice big wonderful Golden Retriever will bark loud and nasty enough behind a closed door to keep intruders away - you don't need a Rottweiller or a Pitt bull.
You need a Rottweiller or a Pit Bull for two reasons:
1) The aforementioned 'ego trip' and
2) You have a 'shady business' (you don't need a dog - Karma will get you either way)

I believe these dogs should be registered and the owners screened like you would with a deadly weapon. They are seriously a potentially deadly weapon.
I witnessed a woman walking her 'docile' Rottweiller down a street in Ottawa last summer. My niece was walking her dog (poodle and chow cross - looks like the dog from 'Never Ending Story and extremely laid back as dogs like that can be) and they arrived at the corner (this is a busy city street - both dogs on leashes)

All of a sudden the Rottweiller attacked my niece's dog totally unprovoked. They struggled to pull the Rottweiller away with their leashes...the dog almost killed my niece's dog. The woman was crying that 'her dog had never reacted like that before'...same story you hear on the news from owners when their 'lovable little Pit Bull' rips the face off of a child...

Like I said, it should be against the law to have potentially deadly animals without a special permit.

What brought this up? You guessed it...I'm sick of having big dogs (and even those yappy little bastard dogs) chase me when I'm running or on my bike. It's not funny and, if I could, I would sue the asses off of the owners who have these dogs off leash...

My rant...

Have a great day...I'm going for another run...