Now I really have seen it all. We’ve been running a special on dogfights at work this week, so nobody was surprised when we got a call from a lady whose Great Dane had been attacked by her other two dogs. We were, however, surprised when she said that he seemed to have lost his testicles. You know, assuming that by “lost” you mean “had ripped off by a Jack Russel Terrier.”
It wasn’t just a case of Jack Russel sneak attack, either. Evidently the female Dane got tired of chewing on his head and front legs and held him down so the terrier could tear up the back half, including a do-it-yourself neuter.
I’ll tell you, it gives new meaning to the term “castrating bitch.”
This happens more often than you would think. A friend of mine had 2 Dobermans who got along fine. He then added a third one and several days later this one had his hackeysack removed in a fight. :o Strangely enough after this the Doberman never fought again.
Testy, I figured someone with your username would have abandoned this thread after reading the OP, for fear of Bubbadog or someone chewing off your signature.
I always figured a Great Dane’s nuts were bigger than a Jack Russell. He must have looked like an ant stealing a couple of grapes from a picnic when he was hauling those babys off.
Yeah, she takes quite good care of them. The only thing I would fault her for is not getting the Danes sterilized, but in all fairness she was originally planning to breed them. The guy she brought in last night was in excellent health, as was the female when she bloated a couple of months ago. Dogs just pack up on each other sometimes, even dogs from the same household. Sometimes you can figure out why they turned on each other, but a lot of the time you can’t. It’s like they just suddenly get a big ol’ pinchbug up their butts.
If you’re talking about why she didn’t bust up the fight sooner, well, I can’t fault the woman for not wading in the middle of that mess without some tools and some backup. Trying to seperate fighting dogs is a damn good way to get chewed up, especially when two of them weigh 150 pounds each. Either one of them could snap your radius/ulna in one crunch, not to mention the amount of soft tissue damage they could do.
Lieu, he didn’t try to carry them off; he just spit 'em out and kept right on biting. The owner’s husband put them on ice and tried to send them along with the dog, in hopes we could reattach them. (No, we don’t do that sort of thing, and even if we did, they weren’t so much chewed off as chewed through which would have made reattachment damn near impossible.) I would’ve loved to have been a fly on that wall–to hear the woman tell it, she practically slapped the baggie out of his hand.
Yeah, that would make a hilarious sigline. But the thing is, if I had dogs that got into that serious of a fight, I would step in and break it up. Because I’m the alpha in this pack. Either that, or I wouldn’t have those sorts of dogs.
That woman in SF that got killed, got killed because the irresponsible old lady was keeping fighting dogs she had no control over. She shouldn’t have had them. Stick with chihuahuas.
I’m not second guessing the OP. The OP sounds like someone who is a veterinarian, or works with them, or in animal control or something. So of course I’ll defer to her judgment in this case. But it sounded to me, however healthy the dogs might be, this woman had no control over them, and thus isn’t a responsible pet owner. It might not have just been another dog’s balls that got chewed off. Had these dogs gone after a small child, would you still say, “I ain’t gettin’ in the middle of that!”
