Chased by a coyote

If it was a young one it was probably thinking... "WTF !?!?! thats the weirdest deer I have ever seen"...

 I had a dog that looks just about like yours come across the road looking at me all funny and was just about to head for the rear wheel when I shot him in the face with a stream from my water bottle...you should have seen the look on his face...his two buddies were on the other side of the road and you know they were laughing at him...

Nice.

Another plus of living in Ohio.  Crummy winters, but nothing in the way of scary animals. 

Not to worry.

In case you haven't noticed, the Coyote never actually catches the Road Runner

Yup, no scary critters in metro DC. THough we do have mad amounts of deer - who love to hang out on/by the multi-use trail. So I do watch out for deer.

I had the chance to have an unexpected encounter with a Florida Panther at the Everglades National Park many years ago during a bike ride....and...Everybody told me that I was lucky to see one cuz You can count them with your hand's fingers...LOL

Well, if you don't count the Ohio State offensive line... 

I take that back--I have had to break up a few packs of very angry Canadian geese while biking on the multi-use path.   For a country full of nice, laid-back people, their geese sure do get whizzed off easily.

For those of you in cities (or Ohio), that don't think you have coyotes around, they've been spotted in every state and their range has been steadily increasing over time:

 (Yes, the below is from wikipedia, but give me a break)

Coyotes also thrive in suburban settings and even some urban ones. A study by wildlife ecologists at Ohio State University yielded some surprising findings in this regard. Researchers studied coyote populations in Chicago over a seven-year period (2000–2007), proposing that coyotes have adapted well to living in densely populated urban environments while avoiding contact with humans. They found, among other things, that urban coyotes tend to live longer than their rural counterparts, kill rodents and small pets, and live anywhere from parks to industrial areas. The researchers estimate that there are up to 2,000 coyotes living in "the greater Chicago area" and that this circumstance may well apply to many other urban landscapes in North America.^[32] In Washington DC's Rock Creek Park, coyotes den and raise their young, scavenge roadkill, and hunt rodents. "I don't see it as a bad thing for a park," the assigned National Park Service biologist told a reporter for Smithsonian Magazine (March 2006). "I see it as good for keeping animal populations in control, like the squirrels and the mice." As a testament to the coyote's habitat adaptability, a coyote (known as "Hal the Central Park Coyote" was even captured in Manhattan's Central Park in March 2006 after being chased by city wildlife officials for two days.

Tell me about it.  I moved to NJ thinking it would pretty much be devoid of wildlife.  After 10 years here I can tell you it's got a thriving diversity of wildlife.  In my yard I've seen a town of deer (multiple families), two groundhogs reside in it, I've had foxes and skunks lope across my backyard, and multiple coyote sightings in the town, with the occasional black bear spotting.  20 miles north of me, black bear sightings don't even cause a stir, they are so common-place.  I've sent photos of the deer in my yard to my friends back in Georgia, just to make them jealous (they are hunters).

Strange, cuz somebody on a bike squirted my dog with a water bottle a while back, and I've been looking for the SOB ever since.  LOL, honestly, that's not my dog.  I don't gots no stinkin' dog.  Just a random dog picture from the internet.

If only it had followed me another 15 miles, I could have set a great PR on the route.

Yep.  Here in western PA, they've been known to eat a housecat or two that wandered too far afield...

Maybe I should carry my shotgun on tomorrow's ride.  I wonder if anyone would notice?

It would depend where you're carrying the shotgun... LOL