a collection of holes the dog put in me, not all of them the worst I wasn't looking for a camera, a lot of stitches but hey, the price of an education.



https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=duZwjvpMrPU&list=UUJzlbxvvCyyxmA--2OSWIyg&index=18

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9uYw-NQgcPY&list=UUJzlbxvvCyyxmA--2OSWIyg&index=22

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tYk-GptUWpU&list=UUJzlbxvvCyyxmA--2OSWIyg&index=3

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=px15X4CF3UU&index=30&list=UUJzlbxvvCyyxmA--2OSWIyg

hey pete , get some gloves and donate that blood lol

Just a bit of advice here.

If your getting bit breaking up a fight then your grabbing the wrong end.

Ed has a good article on here somewhere about breaking up dog fights.

When you got bit with the dog going for the stick or whatever you were holding I would suggest you don't take the dog in a full frontal. Hold the object to the side or step to the side without moving the object when the dog is going for it.

The full frontal bite not only can get you bit the way you did it but the dog's enthusiasm can also cause it to crash hard into you and injure it's neck or back. We don't care about what happens to you though though.

Getting bit on the hand when the dog goes for the object is a targeting issue often created buy the handler's inconsistency in the presentation.

good words, I mainly posted this to bring up discussion to mebbe stop others from going thru same ouch.


you were supposed to say, congratulations, earned yr stripes etc, jk.


targeting I take blame for, having cigarette or beer in one hand and a tug/ball in the other with a drivey dog is a half assed way to train and I deserved to get bit.

all those except the dog fight were my newb errors for sure, for reasons you mentioned, glad you bought them up and hope my flesh and blood puts an exclamation mark on your words for others.

Ed's article is a great article - I will say tho things happen so quick and the brain does not always approach the problem objectively. that bite stemmed from a straay dog getting on my property and all four of mine got hold of it, what a mess, I nearly succumbed to fatigue beating mine off and trying to throw the other across fence to save it's life.

Ed's article does not cover 5 dogs going at it in an open space 4 on one with 1 person bare handed, no article could.

there was no rope/leashes/collars and taking one dog off just created a space for the other 3. I doubt any handler could have done a whole lot better, very scarey and best to avoid.

incidentally it was the stranger dog that bit the shit out of me not mine, I don't blame it as it was in survival mode.

anyhoo hope the discussion stops others getting holes put in them.

That merle pup sure seems to be enjoying the rabbit (and the music was so appropriate)

I've been lucky in that the only thing so far that's really bitten the sh!te out of me has been a squirrel. and that hurt. I'm sure I'll get worse before I'm dead, probably from making the wrong split second decision.

When I taught OB classes there was always a big tupperware container near by.

Inside there was a large beach towel that was damp, NOT saturated, with a water/ammonia mix.

It wasn't real strong but the one time I had to use it to break up a fight it worked quite well.

A Collie and a Great Dane got in to it and the owners were screaming and yanking on the two dogs.

I simply tossed the beach towel over their heads and they immediately separated.

Obviously not something everyone has on hand but it does work.

interesting solution Bob, like tear gas at a riot, hmmmm.

Fire extinguishers are supposed to work well too. Don't have any first hand experience with that though. My parents have shoved battling dogs into a pool before. Very effective.

an old lady once told me to throw cold water over her two dogs that were tied, she thought it was the right thing to do to get them unstuck.

something deep inside me said, nah just let em be.

Way before I got involved in terrier racing the "old timers" would keep a barrel of water in the catch area and wear heavy leather glove for when the dog came through the hay bails.

Naturally the "quarry" (lure) was gone when they got there so what else are the crazy little bassids going to do but have a 6 way brawl.

The dogs would be grabbed by the catchers and tosses in the water barrel.

Now days the racing terriers are muzzled.