Theory Becomes Reality

Big Cholla

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I had an interesting experience this afternoon at the local 'Dog Park'. I was there with my three dogs in the 'Small Dogs/Puppy Enclosure'. I was watching my dogs play with others and i was visiting with other owners. I became aware that a man had entered the other enclosure (For Large Dogs Only) with two Pit Bulls. I watched them on occasion with mild interest. I then watched another man approach that enclosure with two Pit Bulls that were tandem yoked together. I heard the first man start yelling at the new man to "Wait a Minute, Wait a Minute". The newcomer man didn't wait. The first man's white Pit Bull male met the two new dogs at the gate the second the second man open it. A fight started immediately in the gate opening. The white Pit grabbed the entering male Pit by the side of the head from the ear downward. The first man ran up and fastened a lead to a choke collar and was trying desperately to lever a short flashlight into the jaws of his dog to make him release. The second man was pulling back on his lead, but it was to a harness not a choke collar. Blood was starting to flow.

Now, I had been trained by others when I was raising and training Dobermans that a sure-fire way to get dogs locked in combat to release was to run something into their anus. The problem is to control them after the release. In all my years raising and training Dobermans and showing them in the ring, I never got a chance to try this theory out. As a LEO we discussed this technique with the Dog Handlers who all swore it worked.

So, I ran over and told both owner to be ready to control their dogs because I was going to make them release. Both said they were ready. I grabbed the white Pit by the left hind leg and lifted his rear off the ground. I then ran my right thumb into his anus as far as I could and grabbed a hunk of his right hip. Viol La! It worked. The white Pit released immediately and the owners drug them apart. As the fight was taking place right in the gate area someone else swung the gate closed and locked completing the separation. The entering Pit was badly torn up in the bite area. The owner left with lots of cursing, headed for the Vet's Office. The first man, owner of the white Pit Bull asked me what I did to make his dog release. I told him and he was amazed.

Theory becomes fact!! I went over to the doggy drinking fountain and washed off my thumb and hand. I was pretty proud of myself. .....

Now, to complete the story. The LEO Dog Handlers told us Patrolmen that if we felt we had to perform this maneuver in actuality to get a dog to release from a human victim to make sure that there was a hard surface close by that we could swing the dog into with everything we had to stun the dog long enough for control to be established of the dog. We were of course thinking that control was going to be established by a couple of well placed shots.

I had my ever present BUG in my front pocket, but didn't think it was going to be necessary because in this situation the owner's both had leads attached to their respective dogs and both were good sized fellows.

All's well that ends well. ..............
 
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While I think you have to be a real idiot to take a dog to such a place, taking pit bulls requires insanity. Taking your pit bulls into an area with other pit bulls is criminal insanity.

I will not even discuss what ramming your finger or thumb in the anus of a pit bull requires! I am certain that is sexual abuse of an animal in most states. LOL, But at the very least it is creative insanity.

Glad it worked for you. Did you and the dog have a smoke afterward?

Great post by the way, true or not!

Not since a similar incidence in the TV series Blue Mountain State have I laughed this hard. Only in the series it was a line backer not a pit bull.

I'll have to give you a big thumbs up for that one.
 
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Wow! I don't know if I would/could have done that.
I guess ' being all thumbs' isn't such a bad thing after all.
I imagine that would inspire some colorful nick-names for you at the station, also.
 
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I never heard of doing that and I guess it would be a sudden distraction for the dog. At least it didn't require a kiss.
 
Poor Cesar

Wow, amazing story. Cesar Millan would be proud of you! When
are the nuptials? :D

If Cesar had been there in my place and this had occurred in California, He would have a second law suit to contend with. Some effeminate nutjob would be yelling animal cruelty and claiming the same affect could have been obtained by blowing in the poor misunderstood Pit Bull's ear. ....... :-)

I have a HS/College friend that volunteers at a Pit Bull rescue facility that Cesar shows up at frequently. I will have to pass my story on to him for him to tell Cesar. .............
 
Too bad you couldn't have stuck the muzzle of your BUG where you
stuck your thumb instead. After the BUG application the pit would
have let go as all of his muscles relaxed and you wouldn't have had
to worry about being bitten yourself.
 
Not the Required Situation

Too bad you couldn't have stuck the muzzle of your BUG where you
stuck your thumb instead. After the BUG application the pit would
have let go as all of his muscles relaxed and you wouldn't have had
to worry about being bitten yourself.

It just wasn't a situation that was calling for a solution quite that drastic. I have been associated with dogs all of my life as my Dad was a top flight bird dog trainer. I like all Dogs including Pit Bulls. I interjected myself into that situation thinking that my training could help the Pit Bull being injured from being more injured than necessary. Believe me if a dog had clamped onto a child in that situation, I would not hesitate in using a firearm. When I was an active LEO, I thought about the Child vs. Pit Bull situation and thought a swift and safe resolution would be to stand over the child and shoot the dog in the hips thereby making it release. Then a quick followup shot to the head.

I walked into the scene thinking that both owners had a good hold of their dogs, so at the time of release I wasn't likely to be bit. Maybe one of the owners, but not me. That is why I asked them quite loudly, "Are you ready for Release?" Only when they both answered positively, I acted.
 

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