If you are ever involved in this situation, here is what you do. Take a belt, and use it as a noose. Slip it around the dogs neck and lift. The dog will let go when it chokes. Odds are it will try to attack the victim again once it catches it breath, so the owner then needs to take is dog away from the victim the moment it lets go of the victim.
“Take a belt, and use it as a noose. Slip it around the dogs neck and lift:.......
I use something slightly different for trapping coyotes, its called a “snare”. Nice thing about snares, once they tighten around the neck it results in a permanent “fix” as the critter would bit no more.
Good luck.
First off, you have to be tall enough to really lift up the dog, esp. if it’s a tall PBT (they are not supposed to be huge at all). 2nd, do you have the arm/shoulder strength to keep holding it?
3rd, a belt is wide and thus spreads the force over a large area. Will take a long time to “choke” the dog. Better to have a thin snare like the other poster stated. This is partly why regular old-fashioned dog collars don’t do well for restraining/correcting a dog, compared to a “choke” chain. The dog can tolerate the spread pressure on its neck (and that harness as with this dog spreads it even more - they are meant for the DOG pulling, as in draft dogs).
Not bad to try if you have nothing else, but still fraught with risks.
You dont see that $h!t happening where people carry guns to defend themselves.
I always carry a folding knife. It is very sharp. In such a circumstance, I fully intend to cut through the musculature of each side of the mouth.