Big Cholla
Member
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. ..............
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. ..............
