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10-18-2018, 02:15 AM
This is interesting reading.
My pony and I have been attacked by dogs while carriage driving and it was more luck than anything that I didn't end up in a serious wreck. I had a long driving whip that I could thwack the attackers with, but admittedly it was a bit hard to do when your pony is plunging about the place trying to bolt.
I am skeptical of the dazers, as a similar idea is the 'roo shoo' an ultrasonic device to deter kangaroos...which simply doesn't work. Have forum users had dogs stop in their tracks with dazers, or just carry them as back up? I do carry some questionably legal spray (in Australia anyway) that I *may* have obtained from another country. I carry it on all walks I do solo, as a 'human deterrent', but suppose it could be used on dogs in an emergency as others have mentioned in responses above?
My pony and I have been attacked by dogs while carriage driving and it was more luck than anything that I didn't end up in a serious wreck. I had a long driving whip that I could thwack the attackers with, but admittedly it was a bit hard to do when your pony is plunging about the place trying to bolt.
I am skeptical of the dazers, as a similar idea is the 'roo shoo' an ultrasonic device to deter kangaroos...which simply doesn't work. Have forum users had dogs stop in their tracks with dazers, or just carry them as back up? I do carry some questionably legal spray (in Australia anyway) that I *may* have obtained from another country. I carry it on all walks I do solo, as a 'human deterrent', but suppose it could be used on dogs in an emergency as others have mentioned in responses above?