pldoolittle said:
I'll take $20 of that action and spot you 30yrds head start....
Our citizens police academy covered K9's last night, and I got to see an 80# belgian malinois in action. He hit the target officer so hard that from where we stood (about 20 yds away) it sounded like you broke a broomstick over his back. Shortly after that, one of the detectives hand fought with him (muzzle, no padded suit) and was knocked to the ground in about 5 seconds.
Once you've seen dog vs. human up close and personal, your whole picture changes.
BULLSHlT!! I am not afraid of ANY dog. As long as i can keep him off my throat, he is going to LOSE. I would throw my entire body on top of him, in true Jerry Blackwell "Splash" form and let him gnaw on my arm all he likes, while I continue to get up and throw the entire weight of my body on his rib cage again and again unti he is MUSH. That is of course if I cannot get my pocket knife out and slit his throat while he gnaws on my arm. Or as a seconday, I am happy to grab his windpipe and choke him until he goes unconscious.
Only two ways to lose a fight with a dog:
Let him get your throat
Panic and run and scream like a sissy.
And yes I am speaking fron firsthand experience. I was attacked by a German Sheppard nearly 20 years ago. He was nearly 100 lbs and not a happy chappy. It was winter in Minnesota, and he attacked me from 1/2 a block away...running full speed and jumpng from about 8 feet away.
I don't know if he went for my throat or not, but he ended up with his jaws around my left arm, just below the wrist. He was moving so fast that when he grabbed my arm, he spun me to the left and I went down like a bag of rocks. If he had let go and tried again for my throat, I don't know what would have happned, but he kept a death grip on my left arm. I tried to get up, but he had all 4 paws on the ground and kept pulling, so I couldn't even get up on my knees without getting pulled back down in the snow.
Enter RAGE!!!!
I pulled him close to me, laid my left arm across his throat, put all of my weight on it and startedd to punch him in the head as hard as I could with my right hand. My dad came out of the house and started yelling, and I got even madder. The dog could not get up as he had 250lbs on his throat and he finally let go. I must have punched him 50 times in the head when he finally started choking and let go. As soon as he let go, he squirmed away and took off running.
If I had a chance to get my pocketknife out, or if I had been near any sort of blunt instrument or rock, he would have been a DEAD dog. I ended up with a very sore arm that was very bruised. If it had been summer, I am sure it would have been bloody and ripped up, but the result would have been the same.
Bring on your dog, Pit Bull or not, and let me near a hammer, pipe, knife or rock and I'll hand you back the corpse...then go to work on you
Unless of course he gets me by the throat, but that ain't gonna happen since before it gets near me, my left arm immediately goes in front of my throat.