defence against a dog attack

[sanjiyan99]

Best way, depending on where you live, is to use a gun. When I lived in Texas and Arizona, I had a concealed-carry weapons permit. I was more afraid of the dogs roaming around near my apartment (especially in Arizona) than the local burglar. It never failed that each and every time I went out to check my mailbox, I would meet somebody's dog. People who don't know how to even leash their animals ought not to have one. I had been hounded by dogs enough times to where I was comfortable with killing one if need be. Thank goodness, I never had to. The dog has his teeth, and I have MINE. BANG.

[Garland]

WHO the HELL would want to live with a cougar?
One almost ate my pal last May, dumbass was bouldering up the canyon at night without a partner and it tore his gear bag and mat to pieces, lucky he had his cell phone on him to call me and my boys up there to scare the damn thing away.
(In retrospect...we were pretty dumb not to bring a real weapon, all we had were a broomstick, some empty bottles, and a butterfly knife.)

[Garland]

I'm sure my friend tried that. When me and my friends got there, we found him hanging onto the ledge screaming and shouting at the top of his lungs to try to scare it away. We walked around afterwards and found all of his stuff tossed and chewed up, slobber all over his mat, he was FREAKED out. Kind of funny in retrospect. Man...I was so drunk, I probably thought we could pull a Mas Oyama on the thing if we found it (damn good thing we didn't!). HIYYYYAAAAAA.

[Garland]

Solo. Now that's starting to get pretty intense...

[Garland]

Of course you'd belay down...I sure as hell wouldn't want to climb back down... maybe jump if your over water...there's this cool place like 45 minutes away from my house where you can jump cliffs into a lake, pretty intense... some are only about 45 feet, the tallest one is about 90...but the water level's kinda low now...and I like the use of my legs too much. I'll take the 75 ft. one...me and my friends have a video.
You have to run across two lanes of highway, run down a steep slope and jump two fences to get to them. Very illegal, but very fun. Guys below us in boats start screaming "don't do it" somedays, the assholes are like "go ahead, thin out the herd." agh, good times.

[Garland]

good advice, man, thanks. (I'll admit, I don't know shit.)
Some of my good friends are some of the best climbers around here in UT, but I never go with them because the blow me completely out of the water.
I think I'll stick to bouldering, walls, and some small cliffs for now so my goofy, awkward ass doesn't fall to my death.

[JCRD]

wouldnt anyone just throw kicks at its front legs and break them
theyre pretty thin and easy to break
and theres not much a dog can do without any front legs
i think anyone with a half decent ammount of speed will be able to do it before the dog gets out of the way

[HtTKar]

Not if a dog is attacking you. Dogs are way faster, and much more agile than humans. Maybe if the dog is just posturing, but if the dog is really attacking you, you're going to have a hard time hitting the dog at all. Better to pick him up and break his back over your knee. Dogs are a lot harder to hurt than most can imagine.

[JCRD]

i know they have VERY hard heads
a german shepherd was about to bite my dad and he punched it in the head, the dog flew back about 1 meter from the force but was unhurt and jumped straight at him again
also my gf has a pitbull and if he smells a cat walking past he tries to break down the fence with his head

[xionix]

Killing Dogs

there are a few ways to kill a dog, but depends on size
the most effective way if a large dog attacks you and you are pushed to the floor and it is on top of you; grab its front legs and pull them hard away from each other. dogs cant move their legs this way, like us humans can with our chest. and their ribcage is ripped, and their heart is detached partially.
i know it sounds untrue but its just anatomy

if it is a small dog i have heard that if it bites your hand, you should lift you hand over its body, put it on its back and basically just slam its head on the floor, hard

[barefoot02]

I learned so much with this thread. Thanks!

[hdrusty]

my practical experience.

I am fifty-six and not a practitioner of the of the ancient arts. Twice in my life, that I can remember, I have had to defend myself against large dog attacks. Once was prior to being handicapped and once after. I think it is foolish to think that anybody, no matter what the extent of there training, could defend against large dog attack and escape without injury, except in a perfect timing situation. In my case I was successful in not becoming a victim but rather in becoming a co-combatant. Most large dogs, unless trained in specific attack postures, will go for the throat or another part of the anatomy above the waist. Smaller dogs tend to attack below the waist, very hard to defend against. But if you keep your wits about you and accept that the fact that you probably will sustain some injury, you can keep the injuries to a minimum. When the dog jumps up at you and you are sure he is attacking grab the upper and lower jaws with one hand on each jaw. By doing so you can control the head, and if you control the head of any animal or human the body must follow. And if controlling the jaws is not enough spread the jaws and use your body weight to pin the animal to the ground until help arrives. Do not let go of the jaws, maintain control of the head at all times. If there is no one around to help subdue the dog deadly force can be applied by spreading and twisting the jaws until they jaw breaks, as long as your body weight has the dog pinned to the ground for leverage. It worked for me twice although deadly force was not necessary.

[chillaplata]

Years ago my father was attacked by a large dog, a German shepherd I think. As he happened to be wearing a heavy coat at the time, he was able to protect himself from being bitten by jamming his elbow into the dog's jaws and holding the dog until the owner got the dog under control. This approach would be more painful if you didn't have padding on your elbow, but it might still be effective.

[chillaplata]

I miss sherwinc...

kungfu's iron palm is best against all types of dogs

but......

Aikido is useless against dogs.....

And....

Brazillian jui jitsu and judo and submission wrestling are all useless against big dogs....

Kungfu iron palm is the best and effective to stop all kinds of dogs.

convinced?!

[fire cobra]

Just found this thread and learnt loads everyone thanks,I havent much to add but I wonder whay the lion kill choke from BJJ is called by that name? I mean did anyone actually choke a lion with it! Dogs Lions same difference eh!