Another thread reminded me of this. I was hiking up a trail in the dark, VERY dark. There were a number of hiking trails in the area and I was less than a mile from the trail head. I spotted a light running through the woods. It only lasted a second but then I saw another, and another. They'd come and go. What the hay??? They were moving much faster than a man can run...and they were getting closer. Every so often, I'd get a glimpse of a larger light and it was getting closer, too.
Pretty soon, one of the small lights came right up to me at high speed. It was a Great Pyrenees dog with a GPS harness and a light on a whip. Then there were 2 of them...and 5 of them. They about knocked me down. It was a guy out for a predawn run with his dogs. He said they were all retired sheep guard dogs that he'd got from a sheep rancher. What they really were was a huge grocery bill.
