Posted on 12/11/2009 1:26:08 AM PST by Chet 99
What is the best thing to do if a pit bull — or several pit bulls — comes charging at you?
"Look at it as a dynamic event," advises Daniel Estep of the National Animal Control Association's training academy. "If the dog is 50 yards away and starts after you, if you can escape somewhere — inside a building, or on top of your car, or jump a fence — then that's probably the best thing to do. If the dog is closer than that, then that's not a good idea. In a footrace, you're going to lose.
"If the attack is imminent, try to shove something in his mouth, hopefully a nonbody part. If you've got a briefcase or a clipboard or even a coat, shove that at the dog. Most of the time, dogs are going to bite the first thing they get their teeth around. And then you can try to walk your way out of the situation.
"If that's not possible, feed him your nondominant arm. Arm, not hand. And let him grab onto that and try to get yourself out of the situation. The last thing you want to have happen is to be taken off your feet, because then it's much more difficult to protect yourself from serious injuries.
"If you get brought down, the best advice is to curl up into a ball and try to protect your belly and chest area. Cover your neck with your hands and loop your arm around so that it covers your face. When people roll up into this ball and don't move, oftentimes the dogs lose interest."
Women, too.
Well, since I always have twenty rounds of .45 ACP hollow points on me, the answer to the title question is kinda obvious.
prisoner6
I once had a pitbull charge me. He quickly lost interest in continuing his charge once he realized I might fight back.
Chet?
Dogbites.com is getting boring....maybe a switch to Burmese python menace is south Florida?
btw....Esquire is published, edited and written by leftist queers..
you can do better...
Pit Bull saves 2 women from deadly cobra,
dies wagging his tail
http://dogsinthenews.com/stories/070301a.php
Bicylists usually carry a stick in my neighborhood.
I usually carry a 38Spl on my ankle—even while mowing the lawn! Problems are shot placement and the dearth of the opportunity to practice such shots. Maybe make sure the perp/owner is in line with your shot(s).
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LMAO !
In my presence (while looking at me), my 16½-year-old mini-Dachshund died of natural causes while wagging its tail. (But had only charged other dogs—and never in an attack on a person).
Similar "heroic" stories are everywhere about Dachshunds—including placing themselves in harm's way with regard to snakes!
The kid's dad made it outside when I did, and kept the dog at bay with rake, but it seemed to me that it was playing more than anything else (bouncing back and forth, tail wagging, - puppy stuff). Conversation with one of my kids said the boy had been nipped through the trampoline - no blood.
The dog's owner came running up and grabbed the dog by the collar and apologizing, etc. The hysterical kid sure added to the anxiety level, but the dog was just playing. Of course a dog with a jaw that can crush through bones - “just playing” can be dangerous. (I did have my hand on my pistol throughout and unbeknownst to any others. Well, except my kids.)
“died of natural causes while wagging its tail.”
We have to remember animals dont know they’re going to die.
Actually, professionally speaking, protection dog trainers use the “gag” technique to break a bite if something “goes wrong”.
When the dog charges you, mouth open to bite, you simply stand still, brace yourself and then ram your fist DOWN the dog’s throat as hard and far as you can.
[since most bites occur at an upward 45 degree angle, it’s simple to just meet the open mouth halfway with a downstroke punch]
Trainers do it with precision and control, not wanting to actually harm the dog they’re trying to train.
For an attack, you’d want to punch as hard as possible.
It will shock and surprise the dog *at least*, since it is not expecting its victim to actually “help” get an arm in its mouth and potentially break the dog’s windpipe, *at worst*.
You will also be cutting off ALL of its air supply, in the process.
It’s also psychologically effective since the dog instinctively expects to bite an “unwilling, weaker, passive body part”, *not* have said body part actively rammed down his own unwilling throat.
99% of the time, the dog will try to get away from the offending obstruction rather than attempt to close on a bite.
The people who fight dogs use the so-called “bite stick” to break the dog’s hold *not* by prying its jaws apart.
They are carefully shoving the stick down its throat [much like a fist] and pressing on the back of the dog’s tongue, in a “gentler” version of the above method.
Yes, it’s hard to imagine actually doing that but 35 years of working with rescue Dobermans with unknown issues tends to give you nerves of steel.
Whoever said to offer it your “non-dominant arm to chew on” is an idiot.
To a dog, body language is *everything*.
You psyched him out by NOT appearing helpless, afraid and panicky.
Good job.
“Bicylists usually carry a stick in my neighborhood.’
I had a lot of dogs on my paper route when I was 12, which I delivered on bicycle. I bought a good quality squirt gun and filled it with ammonia. Dogs avoided me.
True story:
Alice Cooper, of “snakes on a stage!” fame was asked by a premier NY designer to pose for a new line of men’s clothing, wrapped in a snake.
Alice only uses [relatively speaking] gentle boas in his act.
The designer, not knowing any better, rented a freaking giant Anaconda for the shoot.
They are very aggressive and poor Alice sat there for hours with the snake slowly and gently tightening its grip on him.
I don’t think he’ll be doing any more fashion photo requests .....:)
You are armed aren't you?
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