MaliA wrote:
Captain Caveman wrote:
MaliA wrote:
Dogs are easily neutralised by a fire extinguisher.
Good luck putting that to the test with mine. He'd rip your bollocks off.
I'm 90% sure i've told this story before:
When my cousin was in the Met, working robbery and vice, he'd often pop along on drug/prostitute/this-person-doesn't-look-white raids. It seems the standard MO was to blast any angry dogs with a fire extinguisher, at which point they probably think they are fighting a dragon or something, (I dunno, I'm not a dog, nor do I have much knowledge of canine mythological lore) then everything can carry on without the interruption of Rover. Of course, this approach does have its drawbacks: when they told the new recruit to use the extinguisher on the dog, he twatted it over the head with the base. Which got the desired result, in one way, but not another.
Having had a brief google and internet search, fire extinguishers are routinely used against dogs and stuff, so I'm happy enough that it's a semi decent method.
This might be true of the "average" dog like a Labrador, Retriever or whatever, but not
specific dogs such as those among the so-called Guardian Breeds - Alsatian, Dobermann and, king among these, the Rottweiler. These have been specifically bred - over thousands of years in the case of the Rottweiler - to fearlessly protect their owners and their property and with enormous pain and courage thresholds to match. Unlike many other breeds (Dobermann chief among them), the Rottweiler remains almost entirely unchanged from its forebears, it being a very rustic "unshowy" working dog of very specific purpose. Rottweilers were used to defend priceless cattle and their owners' money bags tied to their necks, when returning from market; it is an intelligent, independent-thinking, aloof and fearless creature. Some twat turning up with a noisy fire extinguisher in the middle of the night isn't going to cut it against an enraged 50kg male Rott, I can assure you.
You talk about the police controlling dogs or whatever; check this out - 5 armoured police officers ripped to pieces by one pitbull terrier weighing perhaps 25kg, as against the much larger Rottweiler's 50kg:
http://www.metro.co.uk/news/893998-pier ... ast-londonDoesn't look like fire extinguishers were much cop in that situation (pardon the pun).
Understand this: there are dogs and there are dogs. My dog would die before allowing me - and most especially his beloved Mrs Caveman - to come to any harm whatsoever and nothing short of a bullet to his head would stop him.
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