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**OnerePeepsy** · 06-09-2012, 05:06 AM

Honestly, I think the safest option for the dogs is to take control of their head and neck and keep them from shaking. It's the shaking that tears the skin and causes more damage than punctures. If you can stabilize the head and neck, eventually the dogs will release and you can separate them. Meanwhile, assuming you have at least two people, someone should be finding something that looks like a break stick and attempt to use it. And before someone says 'that's dangerous to the person' or 'that won't stop them from shaking', this is what we did when we separated a newfoundland from a bull mastiff. As two people stabilized the dogs, others attempted to use the water hose and beat the dogs off. Eventually, someone shoved a broom stick in the bull mastiff's mouth and broke him off, allowing us to separate the dogs. If the dogs had been allowed to shake, the newfoundland would've lost his ear.

BTW, this was the big man in question:

The large shaved area on his right shoulder is from his injuries in the fight.

06-09-2012, 05:06 AM	#23
OnerePeepsy Join Date Oct 2005 Posts 474 Senior Member	Honestly, I think the safest option for the dogs is to take control of their head and neck and keep them from shaking. It's the shaking that tears the skin and causes more damage than punctures. If you can stabilize the head and neck, eventually the dogs will release and you can separate them. Meanwhile, assuming you have at least two people, someone should be finding something that looks like a break stick and attempt to use it. And before someone says 'that's dangerous to the person' or 'that won't stop them from shaking', this is what we did when we separated a newfoundland from a bull mastiff. As two people stabilized the dogs, others attempted to use the water hose and beat the dogs off. Eventually, someone shoved a broom stick in the bull mastiff's mouth and broke him off, allowing us to separate the dogs. If the dogs had been allowed to shake, the newfoundland would've lost his ear. BTW, this was the big man in question: The large shaved area on his right shoulder is from his injuries in the fight.
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