When to intervene in a dog fight?
Holly Wiegand
2025-05-27 20:42:44
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Do: Have a plan, think about how to break up a fight and what tools, methods and techniques you may use to do it - before it happens. Don’t: Wait until a fight to think about how to break it up. Do: If a fight happens you must stay calm, you have to stay as calm as you possibly can. Don’t: Panic or yell, panic will do to a fight what gasoline does to fire - intensify it quickly. Do: If the dogs are not locked together you should take something from the environment like a couch cushion, bar stool, chair, trash can, etc. and use that to separate the dogs like a battering ram. Don't: I don’t suggest grabbing the back of the collar or reaching in with your hands but I have done it, this is how most people get bit during a dog fight. If its a pack fight, I use my feet. Do: If one of the dogs is “locked” on there is an appropriate way to apply a choke hold to that dog to get them to release.
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