One of the few ways you can sometimes break up a dog fight where one or both of the dogs is locked onto the other and will not release, such as a pitbull fight, is to lift up straight up on the collar or get a stick under the neck of the dog on top and cut off his breathing by lifting up until he gets hypoxic. He will then release. Even a fighting dog's throat is vulnerable. Some unscrupulous dog handlers will fit a collar up under the throat and jaw and lift up on the lead if the dog is acting up and when the dog senses his wind could be cut off, he stops misbehaving. Some will keep the lead pulled up and quit tense to keep the dog in line.
__________________  Jeanie and Tibbe One must do the best one can. You may get some marks for a very imperfect answer: you will certainly get none for leaving the question alone. C. S. Lewis |