Dogs Behaving Badly: Stopping Fights & Attacks

 

There's something I've used to break up dog fights, a guy told me about it in the 90's and it works. You really need two people though, if it's a fight between two dogs. If you just need to get a dog off of someone, you can do it yourself. You pick up their hind legs like a wheelbarrow and they'll let go - it's like magic.

And spraying an attacking dog in the face with a fire extinguisher works if you have one handy. A school bus driver got a pair of pits off a lady and her small dog she was holding doing that. That's what he had, so that's what he used and it worked.

 

https://winknews.com/2022/03/08/collier-county-school-bus-driver-saves-woman-during-dog-attack/ 

 

Everybody has pits these days and a lot of idiots let them run at large, so I have to be ready. I have Shelties. A couple of shakes and it would be over for them. I don't care what the pitmommies say about "pibble nannydog cuddlebugs" - they might be fine at home but once they start, they don't want to stop. It's the "gameness" that's bred into them, they'll keep fighting with their guts hanging out. Look at this carriage horse attack - the dog only stopped when the horse stomped it to near-death. It died soon after. One well-meaning soul tried to help by hitting the dog with a spatula. (Didn't work, lol.)

And sometimes they go after people. Statistically, it's rare (if they were as psycho as some people would have you think, we'd all be dead) and yes, other breeds can be aggressive too sometimes. In the interest of fairness, here's a non-pit and a crazy no-good owner. Dog parks are stupid - would you get on a subway and start trying to interact with everybody? Your dog isn't much different. 

 

But it's mostly the pits and the pit mixes. I don't think the breed is inherently human-aggressive (animal aggression is another story) but there's so MANY of them. No-good owners get them cheap or free and let them run at large.

People need to know what to do instead of standing around being ineffective.

 

ETA: The guy at the end of this video uses the Wheelbarrow Method. The dog doesn't redirect on him, it's safe. It worked beautifully when nothing else was working at all. 

Dystopia & Wellness

 

The image above might be a best case scenario. There's still wildlife, and the people don't look ravaged. If enough people wise up, maybe we can have that. Otherwise, things might look more like this:

Something I saw at a forum set off this whole train of thought:

"I've been reading longer than most of them have been alive."

It was in response to an article somebody linked to. Another of those "tArOt dOeSn'T pReDiCt tHe fUtUrE iT's a tOoL fOr SeLf rEfLeCtIon! " dribble pieces. (NPR, you really should know better.)

https://www.npr.org/2022/02/01/1077397838/how-to-get-into-reading-tarot-cards-with-michelle-tea

There's a lot of garbage like that going around. I posted about it here:
https://fatekeepson.blogspot.com/2021/12/media-misrepresentation.html

And yes, that's one of the things that's maddening about these wellness readers. We had already been reading professionally for years when these little snotnoses were still shitting yellow, and they have the unmitigated gall and stupidity to tell us we're doing it all wrong.

It makes me wonder if it's a generational thing. And I loathe the whole "Gen X vs. Millennials vs. Boomers etc." thing. It's stupid. No generation is a monolith. But it might have some relevance here. I know the younger people don't have much of a future to look forward to. Of course ours was no great shakes either, but at that age we didn't KNOW. We thought the pollution was going to get cleaned up, race relations were improving, grievances would be addressed, etc. They're probably expecting a Max Max dystopia with gangs roving through the ruins killing people for potable water. And I can agree that's a very distinct possibility.

But they need to blame corporations, oligarchs, political lobbying, fascism, "replacement theory", etc. and stop attempting to use fortunetellers as punching bags to get their frustrations out. And even with what's coming down the pike, they can still ask the cards the same things people have always asked: "Will he ask me out?" "Will I get the job?" etc.

Not wanting to ponder the future is no reason to gut cartomancy or insult us.