What not to do in a dog fight?
Margaretta Lynch
2025-05-19 12:22:45
Count answers: 5
Never get between fighting dogs.
Never reach in with your hands to separate fighting dogs.
Never put your face close to a dog fight.
Never grab a dog by the tail and attempt to pull him away from a fight.
According to internationally acclaimed dog behaviorist, the late Dr. Sophia Yin, it's important to avoid actions that may cause the dogs to transfer their aggression towards you.
Moses Ankunding
2025-05-19 11:21:52
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Panic.
Although a potentially scary situation, it’s important to try to remain calm and act in a controlled manner.
Put yourself between the dogs.
Fighting dogs are very likely to cause injury to any person that gets in the way, even if they don’t mean it.
Dog bites can be severe, even fatal.
Put your hands near their mouths.
For the same reasons as above and especially as hands are particularly vulnerable.
Although it can be tempting to physically try to break them apart, the risk of injury is just too great.
Pull the collar.
The collar is too close to the head for it to be deemed safe to pull on.
If the dogs are moving quickly, it can also be difficult to grab without risking personal injury.
Pull the tail.
Not only is pulling on the dog’s tail likely to be ineffective, but you could also cause real damage to the vertebrae, nerves or muscles.
It will also be painful for the dog, and they could easily whip round and instigate an attack on you.
Harmon Robel
2025-05-19 10:25:59
Count answers: 3
Don't wait until a fight to think about how to break it up. Panic or yell, as panic will do to a fight what gasoline does to fire - intensify it quickly. Don't grab 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. Don't hit, punch, or yell, it usually makes it worse. Isolate the dogs from one another, if you don't get the dogs back together after a fight a bit of scar tissue develops in their mind, and in your emotions. Wait, if there are injuries - you need to get them help.
Brycen Gusikowski
2025-05-19 09:42:46
Count answers: 2
DO NOT grab the dogs’ muzzles or attempt to pry their jaws loose from the other dog. DO NOT try to get between the two dogs. Do not yell or scream at the dogs – this will only increase their level of excitement or anxiety. Do not beat on the dogs with sticks, boards, tire irons, etc – this will also increase excitement and will add additional pain to an already agitated dog’s overloaded sensory system. Whatever you do – DO NOT try to get between the dogs or shield one of the dogs with your own body. If you stick your hand or other part of your anatomy between him and the other dog, you are at best an obstacle to be moved or at worst another adversary.
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