[mou] Sax Zim Dogs

[Christopher Grecian]

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
>
>
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> 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
>
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