[Does so]

Well, since I always have twenty rounds of .45 ACP hollow points on me, the answer to the title question is kinda obvious.

Bicylists usually carry a stick in my neighborhood.

I usually carry a 38Spl on my ankle—even while mowing the lawn! Problems are shot placement and the dearth of the opportunity to practice such shots. Maybe make sure the perp/owner is in line with your shot(s).

:-\

[21twelve]

I heard the neighbor kid crying “Dad!!!” in a more-serious sounding voice than usual. Ran outside and all the kids were on their trampoline with a neighbor's young pit bull chasing around below. The kid crying and saying “it bit me”.

The kid's dad made it outside when I did, and kept the dog at bay with rake, but it seemed to me that it was playing more than anything else (bouncing back and forth, tail wagging, - puppy stuff). Conversation with one of my kids said the boy had been nipped through the trampoline - no blood.

The dog's owner came running up and grabbed the dog by the collar and apologizing, etc. The hysterical kid sure added to the anxiety level, but the dog was just playing. Of course a dog with a jaw that can crush through bones - “just playing” can be dangerous. (I did have my hand on my pistol throughout and unbeknownst to any others. Well, except my kids.)

[Rennes Templar]

“Bicylists usually carry a stick in my neighborhood.’

I had a lot of dogs on my paper route when I was 12, which I delivered on bicycle. I bought a good quality squirt gun and filled it with ammonia. Dogs avoided me.