re: #994 b_sharp

In what context could you take a coyote?

I’ve been around Shepherds most of my life, I’m 6’, 220lbs and semi-quasi intelligent. I know I couldn’t take a coyote.

i’ve had to intervene twice with dogs, once with a friend and once for my daughter when she was younger. it takes a lot of adrenaline, for sure, and in neither case was the dog going for my throat (or larger than a small lab):

*distract and slow the animal down with a kick
*offer your arm for them to bite
*as you pull your arm away, grab their nape with your other hand and lift them off the ground
*rotate the animal in the air and use the second hand to grab a bunch of skin about halfway down the spine
*slam into the ground repeatedly with blind rage (in the case of my daughter being threatened) until the animal is making sounds you’d normally only hear on the Serengetti

it’s not a happy memory, now that i go back over it…