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the best way to stay safe is to avoid conflict. if i can walk/run away and stay safe i would choose that option every time. but as the famous charlie daniels once said "i don't want to have to fight you, but i damn sure will."
I'm just glad that..
Pits can be real sweet dogs... but my Chihuahua was nasty to everyone but me, sometimes real nasty. She could do real damage, I still have significant scars on my hands, wrists, and my hip from getting in between her and another dog, the other dog needed some sewing up.
Training and Discipline makes all the difference. The owner/handler was standing inches behind the photographer... I am sure that a simple gesture would set him off like in Hiroshima; but with focus.
Chihuahuas ATTACK DOGS!
Here is a pic of my Daughter holding her portable security attack dog. She (the dog, not my Daughter) barks like crazy until one yells SHUT UP! The “attack” dog then pee’s and retreats to safety, like under the bed. On the right, SWMBO is holding our brand new Grandson.
Y’all have a happy Holiday Season!
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Who or what are you polling about relative to a range? A four-burner or a wide-open type of range?
I personally use my cat like nija reflexes. While yes I do carry an american made machete that can't cut through hot butter, but I normally a variety of twist and turns coupled with a few turnbacks. If that doesn't work After the intial contact with the dog, I then turn to the ole trusty 360° spin exit to the nearest gate.... I make big circles while walking backwards and talking to the animal.
if the animal isnt a dog, I normally just tap it with a pole or handle and step towards it and yell while I do so...This has turns a curious bull around....
I once had a barking and growling dog charge me while I was operating as a prism man on a residential survey. Trying to bluff him, I also charged, fully intending to spike him to the ground if he did not back down. He did not, and I went in for the spike, only to slightly miss. The prism pole went through his collar and I had him pinned to the ground. There we were - both of us had the ol' deer-in-the-headlights look. I knew if I let him go, I was going to be hamburger. He knew if I let him go, he was going to make hamburger out of me. In a flash decision, I knew what I had to do - I kicked that mutt in a circle a few times and then booted him back to where he came from. He then barked at me from under the house for the rest of the survey. My Red Wing Number 12's worked like a charm. My 21-inch Blackie Collins machete works as a pretty good intimidator along with my brick mason's hammer. The only other pointy thing I have is my 16-ounce plumb bob, which I still use occasionally for lining up sights and pulling a distance with a metal roll-up tape with one end secured by a screwdriver, which I could also use. However, in my 30 years as a surveyor, I have only had to use the sheriff's deputy a couple of times to keep the peace while doing a survey. The worst problems that I have ever had are small, demonic dogs who fear nothing. Big dogs are usually not much of a problem. Most irate landowners can be talked to if permission is asked, whether it is required or not. "Wit" was a good answer above. I have never carried a gun on a survey. For the most part, Northeast Mississippi is a safe place to work.
> I once had a barking and growling dog charge me while I was operating as a prism man on a residential survey. Trying to bluff him, I also charged, fully intending to spike him to the ground if he did not back down. He did not, and I went in for the spike, only to slightly miss. The prism pole went through his collar and I had him pinned to the ground. There we were - both of us had the ol' deer-in-the-headlights look. I knew if I let him go, I was going to be hamburger. He knew if I let him go, he was going to make hamburger out of me. In a flash decision, I knew what I had to do - I kicked that mutt in a circle a few times and then booted him back to where he came from. He then barked at me from under the house for the rest of the survey. My Red Wing Number 12's worked like a charm. My 21-inch Blackie Collins machete works as a pretty good intimidator along with my brick mason's hammer. The only other pointy thing I have is my 16-ounce plumb bob, which I still use occasionally for lining up sights and pulling a distance with a metal roll-up tape with one end secured by a screwdriver, which I could also use. However, in my 30 years as a surveyor, I have only had to use the sheriff's deputy a couple of times to keep the peace while doing a survey. The worst problems that I have ever had are small, demonic dogs who fear nothing. Big dogs are usually not much of a problem. Most irate landowners can be talked to if permission is asked, whether it is required or not. "Wit" was a good answer above. I have never carried a gun on a survey. For the most part, Northeast Mississippi is a safe place to work.
No place is "Safe" in a true sense. Case in Point.
Rural Oklahoma Several years ago:
A man in his thirties, honest, hardworking, etc., had some vehicle trouble while returning home from a job he had just completed. Walked to the nearest house, mounted the porch and knocked on the door. The "homeowner" shot through the door and killed him using a shotgun. No reason other than his irresponsible brother, his guardian, had not removed the firearms from this mentally unstable person who had already been adjudicated as mentally incompetent.
No place is "SAFE".
The only "GOOD" thing out of this is that Charlie's widow and children now own most of the property these brothers owned and one got some jail time and the other is in an appropriate place to protect him from the public and the public from him.
