[albatross79]

That's just what the owners tend to say after the dog has ripped some child apart. It's the "I didn't know it was loaded" defense.

[hinkley]

The dumbest thing I’ve done in the last ten years was stick my hands in the mouth of a “docile and friendly” pitty to extract a screaming puppy.

Only afterward did I realized I almost destroyed my livelihood.

My partner Google stalked the owner and discovered that he’d been force to surrender another pit bull two years earlier.

[grantith]

The lucky ones learn about the finger in the butt and hind leg wheel barrow maneuvers before they have to use them.

[markdown]

I've seen the video where all these methods were tried to no avail, so I don't have much faith in them. The safest solution is to put the animal down, but of course you have to have something on hand to do that. A 4x2 to the temple should do it. That'll end the aggressor and save the victim.

[Rendello]

"Should", maybe, but I've seen a pretty disturbing video where a pit bull took a lot more than one hit... it was multiple minutes of hits. And it only let go after it died, I've never seen anything like it.

[markdown]

Damn, I was hoping the shock of a hard knock to the head might cause it to release. There goes that theory.

[EricBetts]

Do you know where I can find that video?

[markdown]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lFDLY_Tl6wQ

It's really really hard to watch.

[ludicrousdispla]

Robert Cabral has a video on the proper technique

https://www.youtube.com/live/rHVyMHTb6l4?si=ZPkPtNP8_zcb_MIf

[thatcat]

You might need something like rebar to stick in the back of the mouth and pull back when that doesn't work

[anal_reactor]

> finger in the butt

What

[IAmBroom]

Username checks out.

[aucisson_masque]

It doesn't work when a dog really doesn't want to let go. I think it would even make it bite stronger.

By the way, good luck sticking your finger in a dog but when he is fighting... I think you didn't try it much before giving advices.

[BoorishBears]

Harder to pull off after naming it 'Forty-Cal' though, no?