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Originally Posted by gemy  I am so sorry this happened, and glad that neither dog suffered life threatening injuries.
And yes lifting the dog up by its collar, high up around the neck is called hanging. It is usually maintained until the dog "submits". Muscles relax, dog goes limp/easy against the restraint.
To put the strength required into perspective, if you have a 130lb dog, and women of average size and strength, each woman would have to lift up off the ground 65 lbs of dog, who also might be struggling and resisting; and hold this dog up for more than 30 seconds even going into a minute or more of time. Sobering thought! |
My sister saw a show handler do that to a poodle one day on the sidelines during an early junior show my young niece was showing their poodle at and chewed that handler out then and there. Said learn how to handle your dog, lady, without choking it, or get out of the business! The small crowd applauded. If you mention it to her to this day, she still goes ballistic about a show handler "hanging" her dog for just misbehaving, not attacking another dog or anything. She called it "hanging" then and nobody ever "hung" a dog when she was around after that at any dog function she attended. I know Danny would never have done that if a sustained attack hadn't been under way. He hates hurting or possibly endangering a dog in any way & was almost apologetic to me for using that tactic. He keeps checking on the Pit to be sure its windpipe is okay!
He's magic with dogs and he can manage even the most problematic of them so well under normal circumstances. And he's taught Tex to remain calm, not to attack dogs even when they approach at a level of high aggression in order to help defuse them, so he feels guilty for that. He thinks Tex, rather than defend himself, had turned toward him for direction when he saw the Pit approaching, looking to his leader for direction and Danny was looking down at his iPhone. But once attacked, Tex was going back for more, training be darned! I told him if Tex is going to be a behavior therapy dog, it is part of the price to be paid for doing what he does to help dogs & normally works so well. They have helped so many problem dogs to go back home or to new homes rather than get euthanized or live for years at rescue. And I also told him if he hadn't "hung" that dog, they would have eventually had to use more Draconian measures on it and Tex could have had torn neck muscles, lost a lot of blood.
But objectional as it is normally, I thought I'd share how it was used to stop a sustained, likely to escalate, dog attack.