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- From: stave@apollo.hp.com (Joel H. Stave)
- Newsgroups: rec.martial-arts
- Subject: Re: Fighting against animals?
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- Date: 26 Jan 93 15:56:40 GMT
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- In article <C1FLD2.EoJ@usenet.ucs.indiana.edu>,
- shulick@cineret.ucs.indiana.edu (Sam Hulick) writes:
- |> Basically, the only animal that we (humans) would most likely be
- |> attacked by is a large dog. And from experience, they sometimes like to
- |> run and then leap at you. Umm, how should I phrase this? Are there any
- |> books, or any info... or even an ART that teach how to defend against
- |> animals? I remember a long time ago, our neighbors had dobermans, and I
-
- One mo' time...
-
- The art is called "Veterinarian's Assistant Do" I practiced it for
- about two years.
-
- If the dog is running at you *DON'T RUN AWAY* you can't outdistance
- the dog, even a little one. Stare at it. Walk towards it. Most
- times (actually every time that I have done this) the dog will stop
- advancing and may or may not continue barking. Usually they are
- just trying to make a point ("this is *my* property) and not trying
- to hurt anyone. About half the time after we reach this point I'm
- able to get the dog to come over to be petted and we make friends
- (much to the dismay of 2 or 3 of the owners who seemingly let the
- dogs out to frighten me).
-
- If the dog does attack the following always worked for me:
- Arms up, forearms crossed in front of you, push out as the dog
- jumps, bouncing the dog back from you, usually they will fall on
- their back, which kind of startles them. If they get up and jump
- again, bounce 'em again. After a few times they'll get tired and
- stop. For smaller dogs one knee up will do the same thing. Don't
- knee the dog in the head, there's no need to hurt it and get it
- pissed off. Just bounce its chest off your knee.
-
- This worked for all dogs from a miniature schnauser to a mastiff
- that outweighted me by 10 or 20 pounds.
-
- CAVEATS: These dogs were not attack trained. They were in a strange
- place and scared, so they were only defending themselves. If a dog
- thinks that its master needs to be defended, many times it will *not*
- give up until it sees that its master is not in danger. The thing to
- do in that case is to put distance between yourself and the person
- that the dog is defending.
-
- Joel Stave
- Stave@apollo.hp.com
-