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4 Ways to Protect Yourself from Dog Attacks

Thursday, May 20th, 2010

It seems that no matter where you live as long as you have neighbors, you will have a neighbor that has at least one vicious out of control dog. You know the ones that always get loose and either come after you while you are in your own yard or when you try to walk by yourself or with your dog on a leash.

It can get so bad that you have to drive to a different area just to be able to walk your dog or yourself without fear of attack from some crazed dog that should be secured so it can not get out. As such, you may find yourself in need of some way to protect yourself from dog attacks.

Thankfully there are some inexpensive products that you can purchase that will help to protect you from dog attacks. Here are just a few of these products:

• Mace Muzzle Canine Repellent – In simple terms, this is pepper spray that is specifically designed to be the most effective on canine breeds of all types. Much like pepper sprays for people, Canine Pepper Spray is meant to cause a lot of pain and disable the aggressive animal from being able to attack you. It shoots up to 10 feet away so you can spray before the dog gets close enough to bite you.
• Telescopic Stun baton – This option also uses pain to persuade an aggressive dog to go away but it also has the added effects of sight and sound. When you discharge the Telescopic Stun Baton, even just in the air, it is very loud and disturbing. Dogs can sense trouble and they know to run from electricity which is why most dogs go nuts during electrical storms.
• Expandable Steel Baton – Obviously with this you just want to start swinging and aim for the nose or mouth area of the dog. This should be a last ditch option as you can either cause serious damage to the dog if not outright kill it. This option should only be exercised when a human life is truly in mortal danger.
• Ultrasonic Dog Repellent – This is by far the most humane option of all the items on this list and would be the one I would recommend the most. It is a hand-held device about the size of a cell phone that emits a 130 decibel ultrasonic frequency that hurts the dog’s ears. It also uses bright flashing LED lights to help drive off an aggressive dog. It works up to 40 feet away so you can have plenty of time to act. The Ultrasonic Dog Repellent does not do any permanent damage but will convince a dog to head the other way. If you are a dog lover than this will definitely be your best option for protection from dog attacks.

No normal person wants to hurt a dog but there are situations where there is no other choice than to defend your own life from an attack by using some type of force. All of the options on this list with the exception of the Steel Baton are meant to simply scare off the animal without permanent damage.

Stay safe!

The Judge
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It’s dog gone crazy

Wednesday, September 5th, 2007

I moved to Texas over 10 years ago and when I first arrived here I lived in an apartment. One day I came home from work and as I opened my truck door to get out a dog running loose tried to attack me. Now I don’t believe in animal cruelty but to protect myself or someone else I will lay an animal out without hesitation or remorse.

This dog must have realized he picked the wrong human because I started heading right at him swinging and yelling and he kept backing away. Guess he sensed I know my place on the food chain and wasn’t the least bit afraid and in fact I was quite angry.

After running him off I turned to head back to my truck just as a young mother and her child pulled into their parking spot. When the mother got out and started to get her baby out of the car seat that same dog came back and started going after them. The poor woman was already deathly afraid of dogs and basically she froze. I saw this and ran over and kicked the dog with everything I had, it yelped loudly and took off running.

I stayed with the mother so she could get her baby out of the car and then I walked her to her apartment. A few days later the SAME DOG comes at me again until he realized it was me and took off running.

Now I’m not gonna lie, I was beyond angry at this point so I called the office and told them they had 10 minutes to get someone down here to deal with the dog or they would find it dead in the parking lot. I wasn’t kidding either! Luckily for the dog they came and found the owner to get control of the dog.

This happens all too often, this weekend at a labor day parade in Des Moines Iowa a dog bit 2 people at the parade after getting into a fight with another dog. WTH are people bringing dogs to a parade for anyway? And pitbulls to boot.

Also on labor day an 11 year old girl was walking home from a neighbors house when 4 dogs attacked her severely injuring her legs and she is listed as being in serious condition. They found the 4 dogs but have been unable to get anyone to fess up to being the dogs’ owner.

I could go on and on with terrible stories about current dog attacks on the innocent and it isn’t the dogs fault! I blame the owners of the dogs. Years ago I had a rescued pit bull who was the Houdini of the dog world and no matter what I did I couldn’t keep her in the yard. She was skiddish around kids especially, and with a bus stop a few doors down from me I had to make sure she never had the chance to attack a kid.

She didn’t like it but she got placed in her kennel inside the house until I got home. When I got home she could go outside in the yard but I stayed out there to be sure she didn’t get loose. Why? It was my dog and my responsibility! I couldn’t imagine being so ignorant as to risk the lives of little children just so save me some trouble or because the dog didn’t like being kenneled. Too bad for the dog!

We sell tons and tons of Electronic Dog chasers which emit a high frequency pitch that drives dogs nutz and makes them run away. We also sell tons of dog pepper spray and most of these people mention the fact that they can’t walk, run, jog or bike ride in their neighborhood without the threat of a loose dog attack.

Many are even dog owners themselves who have found that when they walk their dog on a leash, loose dogs try to attack their leashed pet. As a dog owner I fully support any laws that require leashes and hold the dog owner criminally responsible for their dog’s actions.

If you have a vicious dog story you want to share please send it to me at thejudge@getselfprotection.com.

For those who follow the law but find your neighbors don’t try the Electronic dog chaser found here: http://www.getselfprotection.com/dogchaser.htm

or our Muzzle dog pepper spray found here: http://www.getselfprotection.com/dogrepellent.htm

Don’t feel bad if you have to use either device on a loose vicious dog, you have the right to defend yourself and your pet!

Until next time, stay safe and keep your eyes open and dogs leashed!

The Judge

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Bear attack in a Cleveland Suburb

Friday, April 6th, 2007

This story was relayed to me by a friend who saw it on TV, so I researched it. This story is so crazy it doesn’t seem possible that it could be true but it is and I will include links to the news stories about this if you didn’t hear about it when it happened.

Imagine this, you (a woman) and your 15 yr old daughter are in your quiet suburban home and opening the garage door to let the dog out.

Right then a 500 POUND BEAR busts through the inside garage door knocking your daughter down behind the door and then it pounces on you in your own living room!

I know this sounds crazy but it actually happened to a woman named Rachel Supplee and her daughter Daphne in May of 2006. See here for actual news story in a new window

The poor 15 yr old tried to fight the bear off her mom and she said something in an interview that she grabbed a stun gun but the batteries were dead which made me think that people treat their stun guns like their smoke detectors. :) The other first thing that popped into my mind was dang you were someplace you could get a stun gun but didn’t get a pepper spray; it would have helped if shot directly into the bear’s eye, it isn’t meant for a bear unless you get bear repellent but in a pinch it would be good enough.

The daughter then called 911, who at first had to have thought it was a joke, “my mom is being attacked in the living room by a bear”, IN CLEVELAND! I can only imagine, but thankfully the daughter kept her wits and went to the refrigerator and got some meat to lure the bear off the mom who ran outside.

The daughter kept the bear at bay with food (keeping the refrig door between her and the bear) until help eventually arrived and killed the bear.

Both Rachel the mom and Daphne the daughter, survived this attack thankfully but the mom had an ear ripped off, a chunk of the back of her head eaten off (bears seem to like to chomp down on the back of the head of their victims to kill them) , her lungs were punctured, ribs broken and had a hole in her back she said a fist or two could have fit into.

Now by now you have to be saying wow but we haven’t even got to that part yet. Now Ohio is not known for its’ bears and has less than 25 in the entire State by my research (check here for info http://www.bear.org/Black/Black_Bear_Populations.html).

Some yahoo, a “business owner” had two of the bears, a male and female and the bears had “pushed past him” while he was fixing the cage. Now this guy doesn’t have a high electrical fence protecting his neighbors from his predatory wild animals, no that would make too much sense; instead he has some little fence.

Instead of going for the male which a year earlier he tried to get rid of for “being aggressive” he goes for the female when they get loose and the male goes down to Rachel’s house and attacks them in their home.

Now what really is the wow of this story is this that as of the latest info I could find, which was from 12/06, the owner has NOT BEEN CHARGED! See here for the story.

My god, I just talked about dog owners being responsible for dog attacks who the hell ever thinks about these morons around the country with Lions, tigers and bears oh my!

The question comes to this, when does your right to personal freedom begin to intrude upon my right to live? As soon as you friggin get a predatory animal on your property!

What is wrong with people today? I am all about freedoms BUT when your freedoms risk my life, your freedoms need to go bye bye. My right to live outweighs your right to own “personal property” like large cats, snakes, bears and reptiles.

When I see an owner get killed by one of these “pets” I say to myself, you got what you deserve and better the owner than some innocent victim! Buy a goldfish loser!

Say what you want but once again, I am right! :p

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Dog attacks – is the owner criminally responsible?

Friday, April 6th, 2007

Here in the state of Texas we are in the middle of a legal debate about the question; is the dog owner responsible?

This all was prompted from the unreal attack by 5 (pit bull/Rottweilier mix) dogs on 76 year old Lillian Stiles. These dogs got loose from a tiny fence, go figure, and went down the street to where Lillian was working on her front lawn.

These 5 dogs attacked, killed and mutilated this poor old woman beyond recognition right there in her front yard. A sad thing.

This is starting to happen more and more and dog owners are pissed they want to start charging owners with felonies..well guess what, as a dog owner I agree with them totally and feel the owner SHOULD be responsible.

Owning a dog is a responsibility and if you know your dog is an aggressive breed you are accepting that responsibility. People want to own pit bulls and Rottweiliers and other aggressive breeds so they can make them mean “to protect their homes”. Well guess what einstein, those dogs have a whole different idea of where their protection limits end and if they get out they can and will kill as you have trained them.

The guy who owned the 5 dogs went through court but I think they found him not guilty but now they intend change the laws to make sure it is a felony.

Now even as a dog owner, think about this as a family person. Imagine your mom, sister, brother, child or anyone you truly love being tore to shreds by a pack of dogs. Imagine the pain and agony as they tear and rip and then ask yourself again if you would hold the owner responsible.

You can damn well bet I would and I hate to say it but would take matters into my own hands if the law didn’t handle it. I know vigilantism and revenge are bad but I would be beyond distraught and as far as I am concerned the owner is responsible.

Think about it and post a comment if ya want- bash me if you wish but I am right ;p

I forgot to add the link to read more on the story of the attack: http://www.txfadd.org/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=12&Itemid=7

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