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[QUOTE="Robo, post: 1136787, member: 31043"] Passed that way a couple of weeks,ago. Had a few instances of threatening looking dogs. The usual advice seemed to work. Hold poles at side. No eye contact. Keep walking. Most of the dogs just wanted to make sure you did not cross their boundary. They were all bark and no bite. Wagging tails are a giveaway! Though one instance was a bit more scary. En route to Granja I think. Three of us were strung out along the path. The lead Pilgrim maybe 200-300 metres ahead. Across a field to my left came running three large dogs. Barking. Heading for the lead Pilgrim. We yelled to him to 'watch left'. His reaction was highly entertaining and effective. Being a fluent Spanish speaker too. He fronted up to the dogs, now closing fast and about 100 metres away. Pointing his poles at the dogs. He let lose a torrent of abuse in Spanish that scared the hell out of the dogs and stopped them in their tracks! we moved on past as the dogs watched us, to make sure we were leaving their patch. It appeared there was a pen with sheep in the middle of a very large field, about 400- 500 metres from the Camino. They were guarding the sheep... A bit scary but we laughed about it later, imagining what the dogs might be saying. "Good job Jose. We saw off those Pilgrims in fine style". a few days later I tried the same technique. It worked. Even though the abuse was in English, I think they understood the intent and my obvious displeasure! [/QUOTE]
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