Luka
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I have been reading 2 different reports (on FB and instagram) about (an) agressive dog(s) just after Oseira. I'll post them here:
In the group of @geraldkelly on FB (4 days ago):
Hello lovely Via de la Plata group!
I had a very unpleasant experience with 3 aggressive dogs just after the beautiful monastery Oseira this morning. I was just passing the village Vilarello, when 3 dogs (2 German shepherds and a third big one) came running from the village I was bypassing on the road. They were barking and growling at me, I had my stick and kept on walking. I thought they would leave me alone after a while, but they were running after me, growling and barking all the time and one finally scratched or slightly bit me (can not say, it’s superficial and I got it checked out at a Medical Centre in LalĂn). Just when the camino left the road towards a path, they left me alone. The hospitalera in A Laxe (where I am now) said I should mention this to the Ayuntamiento of Cea and also at the Pilgrims office in Santiago. Any more suggestions? Be careful peregrin@s
In a blog of another pilgrim on instagram (today):
There's also an unfortunate encounter with a dog today. It's not just barking at me (as seems par for the course here) but also following at an uncomfortably close distance (less than 30cm way). I know a fellow pilgrim got bitten by a dog here only a few days ago, and when turning around, yelling, pretending to pick up a rock and gesturing at it doesn't work I finally resort to hitting it with my trekking poles. I don't like hurting an animal but I'm genuinely scared and don't see any other options (for anyone currently walking, this is in the first hamlet after Oseira, only a couple of km out).
It is likely of course that the second pilgrim is talking about the same incident the first pilgrim reported. But these are at least two incidents in only a couple of days.
In the group of @geraldkelly on FB (4 days ago):
Hello lovely Via de la Plata group!
I had a very unpleasant experience with 3 aggressive dogs just after the beautiful monastery Oseira this morning. I was just passing the village Vilarello, when 3 dogs (2 German shepherds and a third big one) came running from the village I was bypassing on the road. They were barking and growling at me, I had my stick and kept on walking. I thought they would leave me alone after a while, but they were running after me, growling and barking all the time and one finally scratched or slightly bit me (can not say, it’s superficial and I got it checked out at a Medical Centre in LalĂn). Just when the camino left the road towards a path, they left me alone. The hospitalera in A Laxe (where I am now) said I should mention this to the Ayuntamiento of Cea and also at the Pilgrims office in Santiago. Any more suggestions? Be careful peregrin@s
In a blog of another pilgrim on instagram (today):
There's also an unfortunate encounter with a dog today. It's not just barking at me (as seems par for the course here) but also following at an uncomfortably close distance (less than 30cm way). I know a fellow pilgrim got bitten by a dog here only a few days ago, and when turning around, yelling, pretending to pick up a rock and gesturing at it doesn't work I finally resort to hitting it with my trekking poles. I don't like hurting an animal but I'm genuinely scared and don't see any other options (for anyone currently walking, this is in the first hamlet after Oseira, only a couple of km out).
It is likely of course that the second pilgrim is talking about the same incident the first pilgrim reported. But these are at least two incidents in only a couple of days.