How To Break up a Dog Fight Without getting hurt! Read some questions and answers on dogfights This past week I had an incident at my kennel that reminds me how important it is for everyone that works with dogs, or owns dogs to know how to break up a dogfight without getting hurt. I will start with a warning. Unless you have a lot of experience do not try and break up a dogfight by yourself. Never step in the middle of two loving pets and try and grab them by the collar to stop a dogfight. If you try this, the dog house plans dog house plans chances of you being badly bitten are extremely high. People don't understand that 2 animals in the middle of a fight are in survival drive. If they see you at all, they don't look at you as their loving owner. When you charge in and grab them they either react out of a fight reflex and bite, or they see you as another aggressor. When they are in fight or flight they will bite you. You can take that to the bank. Here is what happened at my kennel this week. A wife of a friend came to the kennel with her syracuse obedience training club dog house plans daughter. She told my secretaries that I had said it was OK to go in my whelping rooms to show her little girl our puppies. I had never told her this. Anyway, that does not matter. When she was finished and left, she did not latch one of the kennel gates properly. Later, one of my kennel staff let another bitch outside. The first bitch jumped against her poorly latched kennel gate, and it came open. She ran outside and started a terrible dogfight. I had not told this young kennel person how to break up a dogfight in progress. He dogs barking dog house plans ran in and tried to grab both dog collars. He was very badly bitten in the forearm and hand before I could get on scene and brake up the fight the correct way. For your information. The safest way to break up a dogfight requires 2 people. Each person grabs the back feet of one of the dogs. The dog is picked up like a wheelbarrow. With the legs up, both dogs are then pulled apart. Once they break apart, it is critical that the people do not release the dogs or the fight will begin again. They need to start to portuguese water dog dog house plans turning in a circle,
