Dog attacks
And how to deal with them. Also, the dog is going to bite whatever it gets to first. So, if you put your arm in its way, it will get bit. This is handy to know.
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August 6th, 2012 at 8:50 pm
My wife and I where set upon by two pitbulls about two weeks ago when out for a walk. We were both carrying but they where on us fast. I was able to pull my gun but couldn’t get myself to shoot them both in the middle of town because I couldn’t track them both and see what was going to be my backstop. It caused me to freeze and by then they where both at our feet. My wife commanded them to stop and, oddly, the dogs seemed to recognize that we had become more dangerous and they both backed off. One went up on a porch and caused the home owners to come out with a bat and threaten us until they realized the dogs didn’t belong to us. They then told us that those two dogs ran the neighborhood freely and often. We don’t walk there anymore.
That video is spot on. Dog attacks ARE faster than people attacks.
August 6th, 2012 at 8:53 pm
Had a nasty dog next door, cross between a doberman and a rottweiler, owned by a renter, a few years ago. Thought about taking a .38 to the mailbox with me. What if some kids from the development down the road had happened along, going to get ice cream, and gotten badly bitten? I had to stand up to the dog, and back it down a couple times. There was a visit from a state trooper to the fellow next door that I saw. End of story. Never did have to shoot that dog.
August 6th, 2012 at 10:19 pm
I had been dealing with my %$@# neighbor for 3 years about his cocker spaniel digging under my fence and getting into my yard; in 3 years it cost them $770 ($110 in fines for each event for “dog at large”). One Saturday morning about a year and a half ago he did it again, followed this time by his other dog, 110 lbs of German Shepherd. I discovered both when I carried out a basket of wet laundry to put on the clothes line. I turned around to go back inside and call animal control. I had taken about 4 steps when the shepherd bit me on the back of the right leg.
I carry a gun everywhere, but until that moment I didn’t think I needed to carry a gun in my well fenced back yard.
I was wrong.
Since then I’ve moved, but unlike British cops I never, repeat never, open a door to the outside without a gun on and an assisted folder clipped to my pocket, and never without my right hand free. If an unrestrained dog larger than a Yorkie advances toward me inside 30 feet I’ll interpret that as aggressive behavior and Rover ain’t gonna be happy with what comes next. I got lucky once with only minor injuries and most of the medical bills were covered by insurance. I have no intention of trusting my luck again.
You want it alive, keep it inside your fence or on a leash – I don’t have to wait for the sergeant to retrieve a gun from the armory.
August 7th, 2012 at 1:00 am
Grew up with dogs. Never was scared of them. (We did have a horse who got rabies.)
August 7th, 2012 at 1:37 am
Had to kill an attacking mongrel once.
Had me by the calf and almost pulled me down.
I got a thousand to one shot with a folder in his eye.
No rabies but a lot of stitches.
August 7th, 2012 at 11:26 am
A couple of suggestions passed on from a friend who had to deal with viscous dogs for a living.
Don’t run from them.
If they have an arm, push it as far back in their jaws as possible.
Use your wieght as an advantage. Take them to the ground and use your knees to crush thier throat, ribs or diaghram.
If you have a folder it should open with one hand, Place it behind the shoulder, press and turn the blade. Don’t start stabing, you may just cut yourself.
If the dog is charging, wave your arm high and to one side. Most dogs go for the movement. Pull it away when the dog goes for it and press your attack. I did this to some big mutt and he dragged his ass off and was never seen again
Pepper spray works wonders on dogs. I can state Fox OC knocks them on their ass.
Piss poor responce by the other officers.
August 7th, 2012 at 2:15 pm
I’ve never been able to figure out the terror associated with a single dog attack. You are going to get bit most likely, but a bite is seldom disabling. Pits are unique, in that they bite and hold. That’s actually a bred for behavior. If they bite and hold, you want them to be biting something non-vital. Then you have the advantage.
A single dog attack is not terribly dangerous for an adult male. Accept that you will be bitten and plan your exit strategy. Cops should have no problems with a single dog, grab your cuffs, one in each hand, loop the head, and get behind with your hands and pull together, incredibly effective garrote, and immobilizes dogs up to about 100 pounds, (which is the vast majority of dogs). I watched an Argentine cop take out 3 attacking Dogo Argentinos singlehandely in a very short time using this technique in a crowded street where there was no option of gunfire.
I agree on the other cops in the video. I would be totally pissed at them if I was the first cop! Where are the “goes towards gunfire” cops?
August 7th, 2012 at 2:52 pm
Its not like chows rip out throats or anything.
August 7th, 2012 at 3:20 pm
I remember a chow whose primary talent was fetching beer bottles.
August 7th, 2012 at 4:54 pm
“If an unrestrained dog larger than a Yorkie advances toward me inside 30 feet I’ll interpret that as aggressive behavior and Rover ain’t gonna be happy with what comes next.”
Uh oh! Looks like we got us a badass over here!
Sweet fluffy Jesus. I’m sorry you were attacked by a GSD once, but that 25 pound beagle or fat old Black Lab trotting up inside 10 yards of you probably just wants you to scratch him behind the ears. Have a little perspective and common sense. Or is that asking too much?
August 7th, 2012 at 8:42 pm
Back in the olden days when I used to ride a ten speed (do they still call them that?) almost everywhere I developed a technique for the occasional dog that thought it would be fun to go after my ankle. Seeing the inbound canus chompus I’d unclip the tire pump from the frame of my bike and hold it threateningly in the immediate vicinity of the target ankle. With only one exception in all my years of riding the dog’s reaction was always “Oh crap! He’s got a pipe!” and they’d break off the chase. I only had to tap a pooch on the snout once. My next door neighbor’s black lab wasn’t the brightest bulb in the local puppy parade. I didn’t hit him hard. I just wanted to take his attention away from my leg. The look of WTFwasTHAT? all over his face afterward was priceless.
August 8th, 2012 at 6:48 am
Just fyi, if you shoot a dog and it goes to jury trial, you will be convicted. If your state lets the jury decide the punishment, you’ll get the max.
If you shoot at a dog and miss, and it goes to jury trial, you’ll be convicted.
If you live somewhere where the police won’t jail you and the DA won’t prosecute, then you’re lucky. If it goes to a jury though, plead out.
August 8th, 2012 at 1:56 pm
dustydog: What kind of libtard hellhole do you live in?
Here in Cheyenne, if you shoot the dog, animal control hauls the carcase off, and if you were injured, lawyers line up to help you sue the retard owner’s insurance company, if he is solvent.
August 8th, 2012 at 1:57 pm
And you can always ask for a judge to hear the case sans jury, as you have a constitutional right to a swift decision.
Sometimes a jury is a bad idea for the defendant.