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.
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.
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.
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