Don’t break up dog fights!!!

[DrewJD82]

Man, within the blink of an eye this morning I thought I fucked up, bad.

Echo’s girlfriend was at my feet playing with a tennis ball, she’s a huge sweetheart and just a happy dog in general. Then I see Lola come running in, she’s a known fighter and has been getting into it with a lot of dogs lately. Lola immediately starts attacking Blue right at my feet and after a couple seconds of realizing they weren’t going to stop I reached down to grab a collar and BOOM, I just see white and feel IMMENSE pain in my arm, it felt like it got hit by a fucking baseball bat.

While my bones likely spared me from getting my wrist torn open, the dog bit down on my wrist bone itself. I snapped this pic right when I started getting my vision back, but I was still out of it for a minute after, I can’t think of many times I’ve felt pain like that before. I’ve definitely broken bones that hurt less!! You can see my arm starting to swell just below the wrist.

And that’ll be the last time I ever stick my hands near fighting dogs! Little fuckers don’t know their own strength and man, a dog’s physical size means SHIT when it comes to estimating how strong they are! The dog that bit me couldn’t be anymore than 40lbs, but my lord did it have a fucking bite! It’s still swollen up a bit and REALLY fucking tender depending on which way I move it.

DON’T BREAK UP DOG FIGHTS!!!!

 

[Dogboy]

I’ve always just waded in and started stomping heads yelling GOD@MNIT! as loud as I can. Also, grabbing one by the tail and doing a tether ball throw with it worked for me once. NEVER get your hands in there, I guess you already know that one.

 

[JiveTurkey]

Good lord! Hope everyone is ok and your wrist isn't too screwed!

 

[Stratzrus]

The same goes for domestic squabbles.

I saw a couple fighting in the concourse to the subway in Philadelphia and stepped in to break it up.

They both turned on me and the woman shouted at me yelling "Don't touch him!!!"

Never again.

 

[DrewJD82]

I’ve always just waded in and started stomping heads yelling GOD@MNIT! as loud as I can. Also, grabbing one by the tail and doing a tether ball throw with it worked for me once. NEVER get your hands in there, I guess you already know that one.

Username checks out.

We did the tether tail one a couple weeks ago, the same dog that bit me today was going after a little guy that probably shouldn't be in the large dog park and little guy caught some air because it was easier to 'gently chuck him by the tail' to safety.

 

[Holden Afart]

Sorry to hear man, get well soon.

I always just kicked the aggressor in the ass, hard!

 

[Rock Chalk]

Sounds like Lola needs to learn some manners! Glad you didn't get too torn up.

 

[Stone]

Wow Drew thats horrible hope your arm heals up well

 

[ᛗᛜᛜᚺDᛜᎶ Ꮤᛨᚳᚴ]

No good deed goes unpunished! I am guessing you have learned your lesson ;~)) Best wishes on a quick bounce back!!

 

[Alonious_Monk]

Hope it heals ok Drew.

Our black lab is friends with most dogs in the village, but I often wonder how I'd deal with defending him from aggressive dogs.

I guess the answer is, not with my hands.

 

[DrewJD82]

Wrist is still swollen and in sunlight you can see a nice bruise around the area, but it's nothing holding me back from playing or anything. Dog had to have hit the bone just right to cause that much pain without actually breaking anything.

The part about this that's a bit 'WTF?' is that Lola's owner regularly sits at the park with two remote controls that control his dog's collars, this dude will 'drive the dogs' around the park like they're RC cars using those damn controls, but when this was going down yesterday dude just stood on the other side of the park and ignored it.

 

[Dave Lewis]

What breed of dog was it ?

 

[fetishfrog]

Carry mace with you. Next time a fight breaks out, mace the owner.

 

[DrewJD82]

What breed of dog was it ?

Some kinda mutt, I'm pretty bad with dog breeds in general and with mutts, unless someone tells me what it is I'll have no clue.

Whatever it is, there's like 5 pitbulls there that behave SO much better and have never had an issue fighting other dogs and that includes 2 of them who were rescued from dog fighting.

 

[Holden Afart]

Is your tetanus shot up to date?

 

[Ozamataz]

I’ve heard it’s best to grab a dog by the rear legs in these circumstances, and pull them up and back a bit.

 

[DrewJD82]

Is your tetanus shot up to date?

I honestly can't remember. I keep a first aid kit in my car though, as soon as it happened I had it all cleaned up immediately. It wasn't even enough for a scab to form, it's actually kinda cool how the tooth managed to scrape a few layers of skin off without actually drawing blood. Looks like a tiny chisel dragged across my wrist!

 

[ᛗᛜᛜᚺDᛜᎶ Ꮤᛨᚳᚴ]

Dog had to have hit the bone just right to cause that much pain without actually breaking anything.

My guess is the dog hit a nerve that caused that much pain.

 

[Holden Afart]

Considering the minor inconvenience of a tetanus shot compared to what the tetanus virus can do I personally would get the shot.

 

[fetishfrog]

Tetanus is an anaerobic bacterium, not a virus.

But yeah get the shot. No downsides to it.