Do you worry about dog bites much?

Got to thinking about this when I read this post over the weekend:

http://www.macon.com/2013/07/10/2551577/roofer-bitten-by-dog-at-macon.html

You guys really do deserve hazard pay!

I had one bite my knee a few years back. Ticked me off to no end.

I have so many dog stories. In none of the stories, did I hurt the dogs.

Hah, great visuals.

We had an employee once that was a dog magnet. His eyes would just go wide when he seen a dog. Nice dogs were mean to him sometimes. We all felt safer...

I still enjoy remembering that look.

I was doing an addition on a big house and the addition enclosed a courtyard. On the second day working there, I was just getting ready to put up the ladder and a Border Collie (that had been friendly the day before)came running towards me. I crouched down to greet it but it ran behind me and bit my boot. I stood up and it kept nipping at my calf.

I picked up the ladder and held it horizontally close to the ground between me and the dog. The dog tried to run around the end of the ladder, so I kept spinning around with the dog trying to get around the ladder. The owner opened a door and asked me "are you going to do the roof or play with the dog?" Yeah, right buddy, we'll see who's playing when the lawsuit comes, but I wasn't hurt so no harm no foul.

These days, I meet with each and every home owner so it's not a problem anymore, however in the past I have had some close calls.

Before going inside a fence, I would always whistle and kick on the fence first. A FEW TIMES.

But, I had to go measure a roof out in the country once upon a time that had no fence and the house was isolated in the woods. I got out of my truck and whistled several times with no response so I got out and proceeded to the door. Just before I reached the porch a big Chow woke up from underneath it and came at me like he was ready to kill. I just ran as fast as I could go back toward the truck and narrowly slipped inside before the dog caught up. Scared the holy crap out of me.

They did not receive an estimate that day. lol