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How do you guys handle aggressive dogs?

Does it use 9v or a pair of AA ?
I would imagine it’s omnidirectional and is at the high end of the hearing scale, so is making noise in a mostly un-occupied frequency range.
( I have a vivid imagination some times )

If it doesn’t run 5 or 12 volts you would need to put a little transformer in the circuit to put it parallel to the horn...
I've had two different ones over the years, both ran on 9 volts.
Oh, one possible situation could turn ugly: encountering an angry, deaf dog
 
I've had two different ones over the years, both ran on 9 volts.
Oh, one possible situation could turn ugly: encountering an angry, deaf dog
My neighbour has one of those. He's a nasty little fu#%&@. 15 years old and won't be nasty much longer. If he was bigger it would be scary.
 
I've had two different ones over the years, both ran on 9 volts.
Oh, one possible situation could turn ugly: encountering an angry, deaf dog

If he’s Really Deaf how would he hear you coming, ( vibrations from the Awsome GTech exhaust , ) that ones trying to play the sympathy card with the owner...
 
If my memory serves me ( and it seldom does anymore , but) high frequencies are more directional
than lower frequencies . Think tweeters in speakers . Peter
 
One of the reasons I "always" wear armored riding boots, that cover my shins. I good solid kick has worked for me a time or two.
I also have a pair of arm bracers (Greaves) mounted to my riding jacket arms. Like these. That way it either gets a hard kick, or grabs my arm and then gets a good hard shot to the head. I do not like harming animals (I have a dog and two cats) but neither am I going to be harmed by them.
 
One of the reasons I "always" wear armored riding boots, that cover my shins. I good solid kick has worked for me a time or two.
I also have a pair of arm bracers (Greaves) mounted to my riding jacket arms. Like these. That way it either gets a hard kick, or grabs my arm and then gets a good hard shot to the head. I do not like harming animals (I have a dog and two cats) but neither am I going to be harmed by them.

Literally was my thought. I am never riding without my gear, be it easy when it's around 5°C or when its hard at 30°C. I am very disturbed by the fact that OP mentioned considering shooting the dog as one of the first options... I hate the idea of hurting any animal, but if one came up to me while riding I would know that I had protection if it did reach me. Evasive action should be #1, you're on a machine that is nimble enough to swerve, slow, and accelerate out of that situation. I'm glad that you've decided to take some riding classes OP, consider getting some riding gear as well. Violence in my opinion is only ever an option when everything else that you could possibly do has failed.
 
Speaking to the thread title "How do you guys handle aggressive dogs?". The technique I was advised to use, long ago, and have since had opportunities to try is to slow down, then speed up as you notice a dog coming out at you. They are straight line attacks and slowing down, then speeding up dramatically throws off there targeting. In the time they need to take to readjust, you are most likely out of range.

Another approach I have used, but can't recommend it due to the possibility of it not working, is to turn things around and become the pursuer instead of the pursued. I have experience in behavior training with dogs and most (but not all) will run away when they are being pursued. If you try this with the one dog that won't run it could be vary bad.
 
I have always done the slow down and then accelerate hard procedure as described by others. Even smaller bikes can accelerate quickly enough to disrupt the dog’s pursuit.
 
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