Arayan
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Or an Airzooka... Dogs hate those things![]()
But maybe it's a bit awkward to carry it on a bike

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Or an Airzooka... Dogs hate those things![]()
Divert their attention. How about some treat.
Lol, like maybe one of the older more annoying riders who's always complaining:evil:
lol funny as hell but so wrong
survival of the fittest
If you went the laser route, it would be helpful to know what nanometer range a dogs eyes would be most sensitive to. Even defocused you probably would want to keep it under 20mW, this is just a guess though...
I'm gonna play devil's advocate here...
Use a 1W+ laser. I mean if a rabid pack of dogs is coming after me, I do not in the least care about their continued good health, I want them stopped.
IMHO it is justifiable to meet lethal intent, whether from a human being or an animal, with lethal force. Or in this case blinding light.
Thanks all for the comments! On the lethal intent - lethal force thing, we were concerned about the ethics of blinding the animals but not killing them and wondering whether that would be worse - as Guyfromhe says, they're not exactly healthy in the first place but is it right to cripple them?
We discussed paintball guns; as someone on the previous page pointed out, they're not easy to aim from a moving bike but an automatic-reloading one (sorry, you can tell how much I know about guns...!) would at least mean we could get more than one shot in.
I think I'm going to try a 5-20mW 532nm pointer, strobing and de-focussed. If it doesn't work, at least I can re-focus it and I'll have a new toy! Although I'm not sure I want to get seriously into laser pointers, you guys have some scary devices on here and I have enough expensive hobbies already!
...which, of course, brings me on to a really n00bish question, sorry - where do I buy one? Will I have to build my own, if I want its first switch-on function to be a fast strobe? Sorry, I know I should really go and hunt through all the technical data for this, but if anyone has any tips I'd appreciate them.