Comments on: How To Break Up A Dog Fight – Tricks of the Trade

By: Jackie

Jackie — Mon, 20 Mar 2023 23:40:17 +0000

I feel like you never broke up a fight between two female German shepherds. You pull one, you tear the other one to shreds because their grip is deadly. I generally try to get some kind of door between them but even that is iffy…stuff kept falling in the melee and getting in the way of the door closing. Yes I got bitten and yes I ended up in the hospital with sepsis, but I don’t know how to just stand there and watch a pair of angry ladies destroy each other. I have now ordered a break stick (which of course is dangerous because it gets my hands a little too close again), a boat horn, and some pepper spray. Nope, not going to have anybody euthanized.

By: Carlotta Cooper

Carlotta Cooper — Tue, 24 Dec 2019 20:53:09 +0000

I know what you’re saying about the ethics of passing the dog along to someone else. If no shelter or vet in your area will euthanize her and they won’t take her, I don’t know what else you can do.

By: Carlotta Cooper

Carlotta Cooper — Tue, 24 Dec 2019 20:50:24 +0000

I don’t know about other products to break up a really bad fight. Dog breeders occasionally have a situation where two dogs just detest each other, like a mother and daughter. And female dogs can be the worst. In those cases they sometimes have to re-home one of the dogs. In a new home without other dogs or with a male, the dog might be fine. But I don’t know a way to stop that kind of fighting once they decide they hate each other in your house.

By: Heather Miller

Heather Miller — Sat, 21 Dec 2019 16:54:05 +0000

OK – sounds good but I am a small old very dog-experienced and dog trainer woman and no one will take the aggressor dog to put down and I can’t ethically give the aggessor dog to someone else if she repeats the fighting. Isn’t there any product (lime juice, chili powder?) or something that has been tried. I have a fight between these two every 5 or 6 months and can’t afford the emotional toll NOR THE 700.00 vet bill every time. Yesterday, the hose directed into her mouth did absolutely no use except maybe to wash away blood. I tried lifting the legs like the wheelbarrow and the dog just kept locked on and I was literally swinging 90 pounds of dogs. Finally I beat her over the head with a cement bird bath top – could have killed her. I have read everything on line and have tried all of them. I can’t get the bite stick in the dogs’ mouths without injury to me – tried that too and still have the scars. What about going for the eyes – using chili powder to burn and temporarly blind her so I can pull her away? Help! Our newly no-kill Marion County Animal Services in Florida will not euthanize her nor will any of my 3 vets because she is healthy – arrghh. If you doubt me, contact me and I will give you names and details. I have been working with dogs since 1972 and have never had this problem until now. Now that the agencies won’t or can’t help, is there a way to legally euthanize a dog? In the 40s and 50s you could buy chloroform but what do I do? India is a 48 pound chow mix at 14 years of age and Nyla is a JRT hound mix at 35 pounds and 7 years old. Do you have any ideas?