[yorkietalkjilly]

Girl, that looks painful! It's a price we pay when we have two terriers or two dogs trying to work out who's going to be alpha. I usually just walk in between two fighting dogs but I only usually interrupt this struggles for hierarchy if one is yelping, being injured by a biting into the underside of the exposed throat, eye, nose, ear or face or being constantly bossed by the other and is really troubled by it by showing symptoms of avoidance, cowing about or growling in fear. It's quite normal for dogs to have this struggle when one of them is a maturing puppy or really any dog trying a coup and they are settling the alpha issue so I usually just let them go. Fights sound loud and awful but usually are not and no serious biting is done unless one goes postal or a person sticks in an uncovered body part into all that intensity. Even the best behaved dog in the world may bite someone under those circumstances as they are usually in a red zone at the time and are not thinking at all.

I just walk in between as I usually have on jeans and I usually walk toward and into the one who seems to be the most intense dog - the one who is jerking about the most, often the one on top, repeatedly biting aggressively, growling loudly or has wrapped his paws around the other one. In big, powerful dogs, such as pitbulls or GSD/Rotties, lifting up on the collar or neck skin and pulling/twisting it and holding on until the breath is cut off is a good way to take the fight out of him for long enough to get him back and away from the other dog. Others grab the more intense dog by the back of the neck and lift up a bit or pull back(have to use much caution on tiny dogs with iffy tracheas) or use one of the tools such as a book or magazine lying about to stick into the face of the toughest dog.

If the skin is broken on that wound, watch for signs of infection and get seen by a doc. Hope you aren't hurting too badly tonight!