Poke 'em in the eyeballs. There is no animal in the world that will not recoil in excrutiating pain if you burst the eyeball itself, and it is a very delicate organ, so one good poke is enough for painful and permanent damage. That’s why we have ‘no eye gouging’ rules everywhere.
Jas, don’t say “eyegouge” around the MMA’s. It gets 'em all riled up.
I’ve been attacked by a dog before, and when its coming at you full force you don’t have a lot of time to think about the maneuver you are going to do. This one was a huge Chinese Fighting Pit Bull, about the size of a german sheppard. It jumped at me, and I put my right arm in front of and it snapped onto my arm around me wrist. I then rolled backwards and kicked it on the underside of its head, snapping its jaw and head upwards and causing it to release. As I rolled backwards I completed the roll so I landed on my feet, and the dog was stunned for a moment whereas I took off over this hill between the dog and the road. It was a tight spot.
As for how to deal with the dog if you have time, break its legs. As someone already said, dogs have week legs, you can grab them on the front and twist them inward and they will break or you can pull them fast and quickly outward.
Just don’t run, dogs are fast and will take out your ankles/legs.
The same Dog that bit me ended up attacking a kid in the street nearby my house a few months after my attack and tore up his legs, ripped off his nose, and bit apart the top of his head.
The kid ended up with over 1,000 stitches before the dog was put down.
“Chinese Fighting Pit Bull”
Do you mean a Tosa???
They are the fighting dogs used in Japan, they mostly go against uphill gamebred pits, and are being bread with some gamebreds themselves to produce a tougher dog.
The Tosa though as massive, 150lbs plus dogs, freakin huge, this was either a young toso, or something else.
Just a little insight about dog attacks.
I don’t know if this will be helpful to anyone, but someone mentioned problems with dogs when riding bikes and I have had problem in the past when riding my motorcycle. What is taught in the motorcycle training classes is that dogs attack along a straight line. That is they judge your speed and pick an intercept point. So when you see a potential threat, slow and then when you get close speed up. I have had to use this and it worked, at least on a motorcycle. So the next time you are approached by a suspicious dog watch the line it takes to approach. Unless you are completely stopped, it will be a line to an intercept point. Have you noticed that if you just stop the dog will stop briefly. It has to readjust it’s line.
Like I said, I don’t know if this will help anyone on foot, but I thought I’d throw it out there and it may spark some ideas from other people.
Or you could just poke 'em in the eyes.
There was a story in Taiji magazine not to long ago about Chen Fake’s altercation with a dog. Apparently, a rabid dog attacked him. At the last minute before the dog reached him he put is hand up redirecting the dogs attention upward. In that instant that the dog lift it’s head he kicked it under the jaw, sending it flying 20 ft in the air and killing it.
Don’t know if that would work if you weren’t Chen Fake…
Anyways, I think that pound for pound animals are much stronger than humans…