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The man that allowed the dog to run loose and unattended should be charged with negligence and endangering the life of others. I get tired of irresponsible hand wringing bed wetters getting their panties in a wad and blaming everyone else when they are the ones at fault.

Fifty years ago most dogs ran loose without serious incident. Then bed wetters came along demanding lease laws. Now you want to make criminals out of those who don't conform perfectly to your phobia. The real amazing fact is that those "evil" Russians actually tolerate about 26,000 feral dogs roaming Moscow. S trip to Moscow should send you into an apocalyptic fit.

About 35 years back USPS and the postal unions agreed that when a carrier or other USPS worker was bit by a dog the USPS would sue the owner for the replacement costs while the worker was convalescing.

The usual load of postal dog bites had been about 60,000 per year ~ and that dropped to nearly 0 in a short time as folks learned that "little Foo Foo" could be one of the world's costliest dogs.

The leash law thing has come along behind that action ~ since the data shows that people can control their animals if the stakes are made high enough.

Now, does that mean bicyclists should be shooting dogs? Probably not ~ after all, a little bite could mean a trip to the courthouse and that'd make sure that dog never came back, nor would the replacement dog ~ although in this case the dog owner probably didn't have much worth suing him for.

The real amazing fact is that those "evil" Russians actually tolerate about 26,000 feral dogs roaming Moscow. S trip to Moscow should send you into an apocalyptic fit.

I've been to Moscow. I never saw anything remotely resembling 26,000 feral dogs. I did hear the moon was made of green cheese, though.

The real amazing fact is that those "evil" Russians actually tolerate about 26,000 feral dogs roaming Moscow.

I'm not sure what you mean by "tolerate..." It certainly comes with a stiff price:

Federal State Health-care Facility "MOSCOW CENTER OF HYGIENE AND EPIDEMIOLOGY" - June 4, 2006

Over the last five years, Moscow has displayed a high rate of humans bitten by animals running a high potential risk of being rabies-infected. From year to year, indices of medical aid appealability in connection with bites of humans by animals are above the Russian average. In 2005, 29243 people applied to Moscow treatment-and-prophylactic facilities, which is 6.4% more compared with 2004.
Since 2001, there has been an adverse trend of the growing number of humans bitten by homeless animals from 44.8% in 2001 to 54.8% in 2005, which has been due to the poor performance of organizations designed to control the population of such animals. The number of severe injuries and mutilations resulting from the bites by animals increased from 3801 in 2001 to 6288 in 2005.