Life altering dog attack.

MrCoffee said:
Shotty, not to sound cruel but.....

Big dog charges you, you defend with your weak arm, draw your Izula with your strong arm and cut his throat. Not fun, not pretty, but you live thru it. I will have to look around, but I actually saw a police video on it once.
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A week ago I would have said the same thing. This is one of the reasons I carry a knife in the first place, protection from man and beast.

I think a bit differently now.....

Granted, I had a knife (Izula) in my pocket at the time, and a pocket isn't the best place for a defensive blade, but in the heat of that moment, there was no chance of getting my blade out and doing anything to that dog without putting my arm in his mouth to keep him occupied.

It all happens so fast, theres no way to say what situations are going to go down and dogs are fighting animals with sharp bits all over the place.

I did the best I could in the situation and got damn lucky not to get injured.

Thats all I can ask for.
 
Hey Mr Shotty,

I wasn't trying to be critical... :/ Was suggesting a course of action to prepare ya for the next time it happens, if it ever does again. As I mentioned, I have been attacked a number of times, it aint ever fun.

Dog charges, one of two things happen. One he/she goes for a leg to pull you down, or two they go up, toward the face or throat. As soon as you see a mutt go into "attack mode", your weak arm goes up, across in front of you, bent at the elbow, THROAT height. Instinct will drive a dog to grab that arm, to pull you down.

If I remember the video I saw correctly, it was for training guard dogs/K9 units to NOT go for the arm, because there was a rash of break ins where the robbers just wrapped an arm with a towel and wore a heavy leather to protect from a bite. Home owners came home to find they had been robbed, and a dead puppy.

Another method is a lot trickier, called a lay over. Basically the idea is to grab the dogs muzzle, pin his mouth shut with both hands and throw your body weight on top of him/her. It is how dogs in a pack (and wolves) establish alpha male. I have done it once or twice with strange dogs, and my own, and it works, but it is tricky as hell not to get bit.

Anyways, I am glad your ok. It is a scary event, but a lot less scary if in your head you have a plan to withdraw intact. :)
 
I've had troubles with a neighbor's dog before when I would walk to and fro the bus stop. It would always run up to me barking and I (knowing not to make eye contact with dogs unless they're familiar with you) would just walk past. I might add that these neighbors don't tie up their dogs nor have a fence, at least at the time. Now they tie up their dogs because one of them died running after a car. Well anyway, one day I was walking along and I didn't notice the dog at all, so I continued walking when I startled the dog and I made the mistake of looking it in the eyes. Sure enough it came charging at me and bit onto my arm holding onto my jacket sleeve. My first reaction was not to stab it or punch it, but I yelled at it to go home. Amazingly it listened, but that might've been because of my stature and it was a pretty demanding yell. I never had problems with the dog after that. But even with a good reaction time, it happens too fast to think properly. Unless you have trained in high stress situations, I doubt you'd be able to react on your feet.
 
Do you think maybe the backpack/sprayer unit you were wearing freaked-out the dog or something? Glad you're alright.
 
I'd have to say about 95 percent of the time a dog charges, you can get it to stop. I always look them right in the eyes if they're coming. At that point looking away isn't gonna help any. Looking into thier yells and yelling stops most of them about five feet out, they'll stop and bark thier fool heads off. But you've got to step forward at them, and be loud and mean. If you see it's not stopping, that's when you need to get low, block with a pack or arm. Even the meanest dogs you can usually knock away and keep balance on. Try and jam anything you can into it's mouth as it comes in to bite. Then a good knock to the head will put most down long enough to deal with. Stay calm and light on your feet. Worst thing to do is let that initial gutdrop when you hear the tags rattle take over and freeze you. And if they do get on you, put your fist down it's throat and choke it out. Anything black lab sized or so, you can force your hand in, and grab a jaw bone and pinch at the very back. It's risky, but I've done it several times.

Sorry for the wall of text. I've lost count of what's come after me, and of all things, a stupid yorkie got me the worst. Sidenote: the hangtime on a yorkie punt is impressive
 
yikes man...:eek: what an experience.. i'm glad you managed to walk away form that okay...:thumbup: i have a buddy who carries pepper spray for the dog that his landlord has...
 
Whew,

Glad there were no serious injuries. Very glad.
 
Glad you made it through okay!I had a St.Bernard rip me off my bike when I was 8,tore me a new one.I still don't trust St.Bernards,irrational or not.
 
shotgunner11 said:
...he bit at my back and got a mouthful of my backpack sprayer and damn near pulled me back down.
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Would it stop a dog if you sprayed him with your chemicals? You might have a problem with the owner, but I'd rather have that than be on the ground with the dog.
 
I have the same fear of pitbulls (as most people probably do) after I had a run-in a few years back.

I was hunting squirrels on a 20 acre plot of private land when I saw a pitbull and a beagle chasing a nice 8-point whitetail through the woods. In Michigan it is legal to shoot a wild dog which is a chasing deer. Their barking faded off after a minute or so and I thought they were long gone. I went back to still hunting and saw the two dogs trotting through the forest about 15 minutes later. They saw me and I saw the beagle run off but lost track of the pitbull. About 10 seconds later I heard something and saw the pitbull creeping towards me from about 10 yards away. He was barring his teeth and slowly advancing, I leveled my .22 magnum on his chest and fired once. He yelped and ran off. I never found him when I went out with a few other guys to look later that day. Found lots of blood though. Ever since then I have been very wary of pitbulls and will not go near them or into a house if they are uncaged.
 
Thanks for all the well wishes guys, I'm pretty much over it at this point.

I am more cautious though.

I went back to the house and talked with the owner. She said that the dog is trained as a protection dog (she's single, lives alone and is fairly attractive. Good idea for her to have some protection), she said thay the dog shouldn't have gone after me in accordance with its training. She said that the dog must have been afraid of my backpack.

I went and confronted my demons and played with the dog for a few minutes with the owner there. Went fine.

I then proceeded to kick the dog in the junk, put it in a headlock, and forced it to lick it's own white, fuzzy poop.

Made me feel much better.
 
I had my aunts chow almost take my nose off when I was around 14 years old,
I was only about 80lbs. soaking wet and that dog was shaking we like a dog toy.

30 stitches and a horrible school picture.
She wrote it off and said I was playing with the dog and set it off
but one week later it jumped the fence into the yard next door and chase some kids playing in their yard and a 7 year old kid down and bite his leg REALLY bad in the leg...needless to say the dog had to be put down.

Sometimes once a big dog gets aggressive it won't stop unless the proper steps are taken to make sure it won't happen again, I would follow up with her to make sure that they take care just in case.
 
Glad to hear you're ok. I was attacked by a dog a year or so ago (not nearly as seriously as you) but having a pet dog at home really helped me get over it. You owning three dogs will probably help qualm the dog fear pretty quickly. Again, really glad you're ok.
 
I grew up with two giant dogs and have no fear of them. That said, I've never been attacked, so things might change if I get torn up by one.

Wearing that sprayer might have set the dog off, I'll agree with that. Sometimes even if I put a hood on, or have on boots I don't wear often that make a different sound on the floor my dog will flip out until I get close to him.
 
Shotgunner,
Sorry to hear about your truly crappy Friday.
I was bit by 5 different dogs, all before I was 10 years old. But it had the opposite effect on me, I'm totally unafraid of any dog now.

I worked as a AT&T repairman for 10 years and had hundreds of canine contacts with no bites. Yes, lots of dogs "approached" me but always ended up backing away. Having heavy lineman boots and lots of tools helps. I always kept a 16" long screwdriver in my tools and poking it in a dogs very tender nose will keep them at bay. And yes I did bloody a couple of pitbulls noses with my boots, but no bites on me.

Best of luck in the future.

To me an aggressive dog is like a gun that goes off by itself without any control, but you're still responsible for it. My dogs are for NOISE/warning only and I've carried a gun for 30+ years.

BTW - that state's CCW law sucks. Here in WA state (must issue), it's background/fingerprints and pay like $35 for FIVE years. No required classes.
 
Interesting thread here. Glad you're ok shotgunner. About a week ago I had a dog snap at my leg while I was mountain biking. Of course, the dog was off its leash when it shouldn't have been. Not a bad bite, but I have a puncture on the back of my leg that still needs to be bandaged after almost two weeks. It wasn't large enough for the doctor to do more than clean it, but there's still a bigger hole on my leg than I've ever had from any injury. More annoying than anything else.
 
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