21/04/2022
I’ve just seen a post on another group about a dog fight and some of the comments on that post on how to break up a dog fight were appalling. They ranged from grabbing the dog by the windpipe, to twisting the collar and choking them, to sticking your finger up their bum etc. All of these are extremely bad ideas for reasons listed below. Here is a safer and more correct way to break up a dog fight :
Why NOT to do these things:
1. Grab a dog by the windpipe - you could cause irreparable damage to the dog by doing this.
2. Twist the collar and choke them - there are numerous nerves etc in and around the neck area. You could cause so much damage to a dogs spinal cord by doing this.
3. Stick your finger up the attacking dogs bum - it doesn’t work most of the time. Some dogs are so focused on the fight that they ignore this. Same applies to throwing water over them.
Never mind that with any of the above, you seriously risk the attacking dog redirecting their aggression onto you and losing some fingers or worse !!!!
Correct way to break up a dog fight :
Grab the dog doing the attacking by picking up their hind legs.
Very important to grab the dog doing the attacking and not the one being attacked when doing this.
If you grab the wrong dog, you risk the attacker coming back to attack again. If there are two people available to grab the dogs then you each grab one.
Take a step or two back and then to the side in an L shape. This breaks the hold on the other dog and you avoid getting bitten because you are out of reach of the attacking dogs mouth.
It’s as simple as that.
Hope this information helps you 🙏