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

[left field]

Those CAOs are next level!

Yeah. Power, speed, and a strong defensive drive. Need to be trained to bite well though.

This is another thing to consider. The vast majority of dogs will bite with the front teeth and pull back. If you can get them to take clothes, you could hold them off for a while.

Protection and sport dogs are trained to dig in and bite with the back of their jaws. This does a couple of things. It is the most powerful bite placement a dog has, and it ensures that the bite is hard to shake.

Consider a nutcracker. You don't use the tips of the arms to crack a nut, you put it in the fulcrum or hinge. People often talk about how powerful the bite of a molosser or bull breed it. Yes, they strong but a well bred GSD is the strongest bite I've ever felt, in part because the longer jaws allow for more leverage (effort) applied to the hinge.

Training a dog to bite deeply meant posting him up and feeding him your leg until the bite went in. Pulling back and then releasing to drive him in even more. I would come home purple from my knees to my hips.

 

[Lowg08]

I’ve had two bulldogs over an hundred pounds of my own for years. I’ve also worked for the power company for over 20 years. Encountered allot of dogs in the dark. If I can get that collar it’s not walking away. 50-100 pounds and my hand in the collar. It’s going to look like the hulk slamming Loki in the ground. I go completely black out mad when a dog bites me. I don’t know why but I lose my crap. Last dog that bit me unprovoked I broke both its front legs slamming it on the ground.

 

[Mish-pop]

My ex-roomate had a pit bull that was an absolute tank. He was the kindest dog to people but wanted to rip apart any four legged creature. My roommate stated that his pit bull once killed another dog by almost biting it in half (it was a small dog). My roommate had to grab a metal pipe nearby to pry his dogs mouth open to get it to let go of other dog and then use all his strength to hold him back. Idk if he would be able to win against a human but that dog would have snapped some bones if he got ahold of you. You wouldn't have been sitting pretty if you won against him

 

[flathead#2]

Always carry.

 

[whaack]

If a 100 pound plus dog is trained or just is flat out mean and decides it wants to kill you, can a full grown man fight it off or are you potentially going to lose?

In my 20's and 30's I was over confident and had zero concern. As I grow older and like to think wiser....I now question a dog versus man fight to the death. I think I would still come out ok, but there is a thought in the back of my mind that there is a chance that it could go south.

Anybody have real experience with an attack?

Edit - no weapons (hand to hand combat)

Unarmed? I give myself 50/50. But since I don't leave my house unarmed, I give myself 100% success odds.

 

[Beendare]

Training a dog to bite deeply meant posting him up and feeding him your leg until the bite went in. Pulling back and then releasing to drive him in even more. I would come home purple from my knees to my hips.

You sir, have an Interesting occupation or side hustle....

 

[kickemall]

So whats the consensus of what to do if you have to fight one with no weapon? Try to choke it to death? Get hold of the back legs and try to slam it to death? No good options but whats best?

 

[Lowg08]

I’ve always found if I can get the collar I stand a better chance of cutting it’s wind off than trying to strike it

 

[WV Mountaineer]

If a 100 pound plus dog is trained or just is flat out mean and decides it wants to kill you, can a full grown man fight it off or are you potentially going to lose?

In my 20's and 30's I was over confident and had zero concern. As I grow older and like to think wiser....I now question a dog versus man fight to the death. I think I would still come out ok, but there is a thought in the back of my mind that there is a chance that it could go south.

Anybody have real experience with an attack?

Edit - no weapons (hand to hand combat)

It’s like any other scuffle. Whoever trips, gets caught, or otherwise does something to give their opponent the upper hand, is going to lose.

 

[left field]

You sir, have an Interesting occupation or side hustle....

It was years ago. Fun story ...

I had just hooked up with the woman who would become my wife. I left her in my bed as I had to train a particularly hard Am Bulldog who needed a deeper bite that morning.

The handler held him back and I kept feeding him my upper leg and then the handler would release him into to me. Both legs from knee to groin for hours.

I came back to my place and as I was changing, the gal's eyes went wide. My upper legs were beyond purple and almost black from the bruising.

She looked me up and down, smiled and said, "Get back in bed!"

Married her six months later.

So whats the consensus of what to do if you have to fight one with no weapon? Try to choke it to death? Get hold of the back legs and try to slam it to death? No good options but whats best?

Not sure there is a good way. If you can straddle the body and pull back on the neck, you can control him, but then what? You would need to leash him.

Not sure it's so easy to choke a dog out. And there's no way you're slamming a big dog around by his legs like the Hulk.

I had an unknown-to-me Corso go after a smaller dog and it took two of us raining blows on her head until she released. The other guy took a bite to his hand.

The most vulnerable spot are the eyes. I'd go for them.