Mac Cool wrote:

John Keeney:


Later in life I took to taking a step towards them, leaning
in, putting my arms out to the side like a muscle man
pose and growling back; damned funny watching a
German Shepherd swap ends as it's digging for traction
to run the other way.


As goofy as it sounds, this will usually work with untrained, healthy
dogs. Most grown men are at least twice as large an adult male dog and in
the animal world, size and confidence are great deterrents. I have also
been attacked twice by dogs that were not deterred by my confidence and
those I punched or kicked in the throat as hard as possible; in both
cases, the attack ended immediately. I don't imagine trained animals would
have given up so quickly. Jamming your hand into their throat would
probably work if you keep it there long enough to suffocate them.



It's all about buying time. I've never had to do it myself and I don't
know anyone who has, but I saw a disturbing video produced by the
Russian military successfully demonstrating the same technique with a
large and aggressive dog. The idea is to trigger the dog's gag reflex,
which will cause him to temporarily lose focus of his attack. If you
have ever seen a dog try to dislodge something from his throat, you can
probably form a good idea of the mechanics at work. To survive an attack
from a dog trained to kill or injure people, you must disable the
animal's ability to mount an attack, and to do that, you need time to
smash a foot or dislocate one of his legs. If you try to kick the dog,
you could lose your balance and fall, placing you at an even greater
disadvantage. When I was a kid, I learned that most (pet) dogs would
break off an attack if I threw a rock at them. Sometimes the act of
bending over to pick up a rock was enough of a deterrent.

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