“but if he’d continued I was going to kill him with my bare hands. If dogs can sense fear, the opposite holds true.”
“kill him with my bare hands”. Both you and I thought that and both dogs sensed we were going to do that. I think I would have exploded in some way when I got to him. I could see myself picking him up and throwing him but don’t know what I would have actually done. However, I think my adrenalin rush would have given me the power to pick him up. At that time, I weighed about 115 lbs. if that much.
My drive was to get to the dog as fast as possible. I ran past my son and son kept running to the house.
Well, you and I are both killers if our family is in danger. :o)
I knew what I was going to do. I was going to smack him upside the head and then grab him by the throat and squeeze until he quit moving. I was ready to get scratched up a bit but I was going to be the one to walk away, and my wife was going to be untouched.
I have no doubt you would have done something similar, but the point is we didn’t have to. It’s the “pack instinct” all dogs have. They submit to power.