----- Original Message ----- From: "Brendan MacRae" Subject: Re: Another couple for William
> > I got in between a female bull terrier and a lab mix > at the dog park once. I grabbed both by their collars > to drag them apart and the bull got me once on the > thumb. Let's just say that didn't feel good. Not a > smart thing to do but the lab was just a pup and was > in real danger of getting torn up. > A good way to break up a dog fight, especially if one is being especially aggressive is to pick their hind legs off the ground and pull them back like as if they are a wheel barrow. If you can get one person per dog, so much the better, otherwise, take the aggressor (which is not necessarily the one who started the fight, unfortunately) and pull him out. This comes from a guy who teaches Shutzhund, so i trust it to be reliable info. Any time I've broken one up, I've done it by running repeatedly between the dogs, knocking them apart until they tire of the game and settle down, or until the owners get their shit together and figure out that they need to control their animals. Dog fights are never pretty, but rarely do the dogs get badly hurt. The exception is if a couple of bitches decide to take each other on. Often, that becomes a fight to the death. This is why we had to let Chyna (the gray Belgian we had for a couple of weeks) go. She and Bella would have killed each other, given the opportunity. William Robb -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
