Can you realistically fight off a 100+lb dog or are you going to lose?

[Beendare]

Interesting question.

One gal I was dating had a huge 120# German Shepard that was one of the most out of control dogs I've ever seen. He came at me once and if he didn't have a choke chain collar on him, it could have been really bad. As it was my arm was tore up pretty bad with puncture wounds and stitches and a bite on my thigh.

I got ahold of his choke collar and wrapped him under the belly near his back legs and was able to choke him out. Without the choke chain....I dunno what would have happened, He was long and easy to get leverage on. [She put him down the next day.]

I ran hog dogs for years, from 90# pit bulls to avg size healer dogs. We would pick up ranch dogs from the shelter and try them with our other dogs. Most didn't work. One 55# Healer mix fought a huge doberman in the Shelter and had him on his back. We took him and tried him. He was fine until I grabbed him off a hog by the scruff of the neck and he turned on me tearing up my arm real bad and one embarrassingly sore bite on my butt cheek. A mid size dog isn't going to kill you.

We had a 90# pit bull - Butch....that was given to us by a guy that lived near a school and the dog hated kids. Butch was good around adults...but I was always a little skeptical of him. He was a head hunter- as pits are- and we ended up giving him to another hog hunter that liked pit bulls. The thing about those big thick Pitt bulls is they grab you and don't let go- plus they are hard to restrain I've never seen one choked out like other breeds. You have to knock them out to get them to release with something like a 4 cell Mag light- it works.

I think that two 55# pit bulls would be worse than one 100# dog.....

 

[TaperPin]

A client had an old deaf half blind retired K9. He’s detached a few calf muscles and cracked a few arm bones back in his day. Some police dogs are somewhat fit and trim, but this guy had a massive head and body and had a reputation for sending perps to the ER. Lol

The military films of dogs attacking solders in WW2 gave me the impression if the person didn’t have at least a striking tool of some kind, the dog was going to win.

 

[MuleyFever]

How do you think you would do against a 100lb cat?

 

[pacoalcracker]

Thats why you carry a sidearm every time you are in the outdoors. You never know what you will run into. I had a rotty come running at me on a dirt back road a few years ago....just as he was about 10 yards from me and I had my glock 19 on him ready to drop him in the next few yards when the owner walked over the rise 75 yards in front of me and called him off. Told me the dog wasn't dangerous....no need to shoot him. Yeah, right buddy. I'm not waiting until he is on me to find out.

 

[pacoalcracker]

My uncle had an actual German Shephard police dog from Germany..named Baron....he was the largest and meanest GS I ever seen. Not sure of the actual blood line of that dog but he was a lot larger than any I have ever seen, before or since. His head was massive. He lived in a rough neighborhood....nobody ever came to rob his house since you had to get past that dog first. You wouldn't live to tell your buddies about it.

 

[huntnful]

How do you think you would do against a 100lb cat?

I’d ABSOLUTELY rather take a 100lb dog than 100 pound cat hahaha.

 

[justin davis]

I carry a knife all the time. If a dog is attacking me my knife will be going into the dog

 

[Geewhiz]

How do you think you would do against a 100lb cat?

No chance

 

[Felix40]

How many times do bad guys fight off dogs that are trained for bite work? Without a weapon, almost never.

I’ve watched a video of two big ranch dogs taking down a bull elk. Nobody on here is tougher than a bull elk.

 

[MuleyFever]

I would really like to see the guys that think they can beat some of these animals prove it.

 

[DisplacedHusky]

You could always hit the release button.

 

[Laramie]

I like my chances much better today vs 20 years ago... against anything on the planet.

 

[atmat]

How do you think you would do against a 100lb cat?

Do I have a laser pointer?

 

[Bugger]

I would really like to see the guys that think they can beat some of these animals prove it.

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28% assume they’d lose to a rat!?

 

[AK Troutbum]

A million... I'm going to fold the first one like a lawn chair and they're going to scatter hahahaha

At first this sounded like a good idea, then I started thinking about the difficulty some lawn chairs have caused me when I’ve tried to fold them.


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[displacedtexan]

How many times do bad guys fight off dogs that are trained for bite work? Without a weapon, almost never.

I’ve watched a video of two big ranch dogs taking down a bull elk. Nobody on here is tougher than a bull elk.

Exactly my thought... If you don't have a gun, the trained dog will be winning.

I've done some bite work. It's amazing how hard a 55# dog hits you. I don't want tangle with a trained 100# dog.

 

[ODB]

How do you think you would do against a 100lb cat?

A 10lb cat can be fury. A leopard is the most terrifying animal in anger in my opinion.

 

[ezwy]

What were they shredding?

How is your personal pain tolerance?

I had a couple of Pyrenees/lab crosses. They were pretty docile. One time they tore into a porcupine and those quills to the face ignited a blood rage I had never seen before. They didn’t stop til they tore it in half. That changed my opinion of them and made me look at them a little differently. It would take everything you had to survive one of them.

 

[HighUintas]

I've wondered the same thing. I used to run country roads all the time that had random loose large angry dogs patrolling the edges of properties. I'd always pick up a large softball size rock to bash with in case one would come after me. I had a few fairly close run ins where I ended up barking and yelling like a nutter to scare them off. Only time I've been bit was in town by a little shit Chihuahua on the calf.

Anyway, yes I think about it a little more now. My wife is terrified of dogs while running so I'm always in between and don't feel as confident as I used to. I avoid GP sheep dogs at all costs

 

[Maverick1]

Gosh. It's easy to tell when it is the off-season, isn't it??? Between waiting for draw results and starting threads like these.....