Posted on 05/22/2011 6:05:50 PM PDT by george76
A leisurely Saturday afternoon in the park quickly mutated into a real-life horror scene when three pit bulls attacked a man and his German shepherd without warning, police said.
During the unprovoked attack, the man pulled out his concealed weapon and opened fire, hitting one of the pit bulls and scaring off the others.
"If I didn't have my gun - I'd be dead right now," he later told KOMO News.
"It was an instant decision. It's not something I wanted to do. I love animals."
Kirkland police Sgt. Rob Saloum said the violent drama unfolded Saturday as a local man was playing catch with his 3-year-old German shepherd across from Juanita Bay Park, in the 9700 block of NE Juanita Drive.
At the same time, another man was there with his three unleashed pit bulls.
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>>How about wasp spray? You could fill up their eyes mouth and nose when they were still 20 feet away.<<
That would be my choice after a .38.
I forgot to mention.. Trust your dogs instincts as well.. I would have given up after 3 attempts, too.. Maltipoos are generally brave.. Something must have been up for him/her to react that way.
There is a small dog area at the park I take my 10 month old Border Collie/Sheltie mix.. He usually tries to play with every dog there.. Except for two dogs he won’t go near..
Shooting a dog with a pistol, especially a small, concealable pistol, is a lot harder than most people think.
The dog is not a stationary target, it is moving all the time. Especially after you shoot the first one.
I have a pitbull.
You want to come shoot me?
When my husband was little, his babysitter was a chow named Buttons. Pit bulls with hair, he calls them. Buttons killed two prize Dobermans one morning, after their owner let them loose on her.
I love Great Pyrenees! Wish I could have one. I saw a dog out in Nevada, it was a Pyrenees, Yellow Lab cross. As big as a Pyrenees but it looked just like a Yellow Lab. I really though my eyes were playing tricks on me. The owner lived in a trailer, which made the dog look even bigger because of the small space.
Somewhere out there on the web, a man posted a video about ‘how to kill a pit bull that’s attacking you’. He noted, for example that common defensive moves - kicking at it etc. allow the dog to bleed you down pretty quickly (weaken you considerably with blood loss and flesh wounds) and those dog sparing measures generally do not work against the breed. He said one approach was to flip the dog and then ‘bounce on his chest’ to collapse his ribcage and everything else in the vicinity. That’s assuming the dog is on his hind legs biting you (suggests you may have to ‘allow it’ to grab you LEFT arm because you ARE going to get bitten unless armed) and you reach under and grab the dog’s right front leg (with your right hand) and pull down-across-up to roll the dog over onto his back - at which point you go knees down on his chest and...if you have to...bounce your weight.
Protties against the Catholics, Baptists vs the Calvinistas, Applejobs vs the Microsofties, chihuahasofties contra the pitbullies. Your FR on dopamine!
Three unleashed pit bulls in a park - what could possibly go wrong?
My kids play with it all the time. ************************************ Well I couldn't find the video of 'how to kill an attacking pit bull' but I found a text version that is similar. I was taken aback by the picture at the top of the web page (linked above) along with the text. Then I realized the blogger was comparing those who let their children play with pit bulls to those who let children play with grenades.
Try http://www.sportmansguide.com and the ID# is WX2-54475, Guard Alaska @$29.97 per can. If bear spray is supposed to stop bears, I suppose it`ll stop vicious dogs.
Well, if the “usual band of suspects” show up on this thread and start talking about antifreeze-poisoned meatballs and other clever methods of killing dogs, you’ll know if this is a “retread” or not.
I’m not one for wasting perfectly good meat.
Can I just have Odin come down and eat you, instead?
It never ends, does it?
And in other unreported news, hundreds of millions of dogs all over the world harmed no one.
FWIW, I would *never* take my dogs to a “dog park”.
Even if the dogs are all basically “good”, the odds are better that a lot of their owners are idiots.
I wouldn’t want to be responsible for what happens after somebody’s out of control dog jumped on Odin.
It works quite well on dogs.
The easiest and most effective way to stop -any- attacking dog is one that is counter-intuitive to most people’s instincts.
When it charges you, instead of pulling back or shielding yourself with your arms, aggressively ram your fist down its throat when it opens its mouth to bite.
A dog that is suffocating -will- stop the attack, *plus* you have just psyched it out.
A predator expects the prey to flee, struggle and submit, -not- move forward into the attack and dominate.
Totally rewires their brain into retreat mode.
If you ever trained protection dogs, you’d know that the _first_ thing you learn is how to save yourself if “something goes horribly wrong”.
“Flipping” a dog is a technique that is beyond the strength of many people.
-Anybody- can make a fist and straighten their arm.
Work smarter, not harder.
Fine, as long as he remembers that he shouldn’t play cards with the Pomeranian.
No problem.
He’s not a gambling Dober-man....:)
[are you eating a lot of beef? he really likes his meat on the bloody, iron-rich side. he won’t eat clowns though...says they taste funny]
I like yer attitude gal. Yeah, I have a dog, but she is scared of me so it ain’t much of a measure of my bravery to stare her down. And I never laid a hand on her, she’s just a fraidy.
I’m not all that smart or strong, but I haven’t been bit yet. My policy is I don’t back down to any dog. The times I’ve been chased down on my bike, to the point escape was pointless, I jump off and put the bike between me and the dog and act as aggressive as I can. I bark right back at the beast. If I don’t have a firearm I will swing the bike at the little barker.
I haven’t been bit, yet. But I don’t show them fear and weakness and that has always been a good tactic so far.
Up next, me getting a leg bit off by some monster country dog. But I’ll cut that sumbitch, as deep as I can. He may run but ain’t going far.
Stay safe freeper.
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