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2008-08-27 Africa Subsaharan

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Posted by john frum 2008-08-27 12:05|| || Front Page|| [11133 views ] Top

#1 Use your weight to pin the dog. Use water on the dog's nose to force it to release it's grip.

Sad story but good for the Rottweiler. They have a bad reputation because they often have bad owners, not because the breed is bad.

Posted by rjschwarz 2008-08-27 13:46|| 2008-08-27 13:46|| Front Page Top

#2 water?

Posted by john frum 2008-08-27 13:54|| 2008-08-27 13:54|| Front Page Top

#3
Water will work on most breeds but the pit bulls have a VERY strong instinct to grip and hold. Their wide jaws (at the hinge) combined with the shape of the skull and musculature attachments give them great force in the bite and they can lock that bite when they choose to the point that it persists when they've died (i.e. need a crow bar to release the victim).

Rotties are great animals apart from the perversion of the breed that drug dealers have created. They originally were used to pull carts and move cattle along roads. I've known some awfully sweet, sensible Rotties.

Posted by lotp 2008-08-27 14:59|| 2008-08-27 14:59|| Front Page Top

#4 Use water on the dog's nose

Like waterboarding?

Posted by Grenter, Protector of the Geats 2008-08-27 16:06|| 2008-08-27 16:06|| Front Page Top

#5 Yup.

Posted by lotp 2008-08-27 16:19|| 2008-08-27 16:19|| Front Page Top

#6 While gripped the dog is breathing through its nose. Water gives the dog a choice of drowning or letting go.

Even covering the nose is going to be more successful than trying to force the jaws apart. The point is to make the dog choose to release the jaws if you can.

Of course you then have an angry dog with nothing occupying its mouth but that's another problem and you did pin it first, right?

Posted by rjschwarz 2008-08-27 16:20|| 2008-08-27 16:20|| Front Page Top

#7 Rootweilers were not created as attack dogs. It was just a bullherder dog. (Guarding cows and bulls not fighting them as bulldogs and buull terriers). Of course a dog this size ended attracting the attnntion of security firms and drug dealers.

Posted by JFM">JFM 2008-08-27 17:10|| 2008-08-27 17:10|| Front Page Top

#8 As dog breeds go, Pit Bulls have a pronounced and primitive attack drive. It's not their fault, it's how they were bred. Often children, with their small stature and unpredictable movements trigger that drive.

Posted by ex-lib 2008-08-27 17:26|| 2008-08-27 17:26|| Front Page Top

#9 OTOH, RIAN > Russ Pert claims normal Household care = feeding of CATS/FELINES IS CONTRIBUTING TO GLOBAL OVERFISHING.

IOW, GARFIELD IS WIPING OUT FLIPPER, NEMO, + CHARLEY THE TUNA, and prob MAKING DISNEY'S THE LITTLE MERMAID CRY + MAKING POLAR BEARS HOMELESS!

GENTLE BEN + RIN TIN TIN NOT IMPRESSED.

Posted by JosephMendiola 2008-08-27 20:32|| 2008-08-27 20:32|| Front Page Top

#10 Rin Tin Tin? Now you're just being silly, JosephM!

Posted by trailing wife ">trailing wife 2008-08-27 22:33|| 2008-08-27 22:33|| Front Page Top

#11 My pup's part Rottie. A sweetheart, but I wouldn't want to get on her bad side.

Good on ya, Blade!

Posted by Swamp Blondie in the Cornfields 2008-08-27 23:20|| 2008-08-27 23:20|| Front Page Top

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