I’ll start: I tried to move a bookshelf while drunk about 6 years ago and tore a tendon in my shoulder pretty damn good. It still bothers me sometimes if I move it wrong or sleep on it wrong.

  • Landless2029@lemmy.world
    5·
    10 months ago

    Wow that sucks.

    I wonder what the correct procedure would be to pry open a dog’s mouth.

    With a croc you can pry it open and hold with less effort than your account. I would hope since a dog is less armored one can strike at the head/throat to knock it out or cause it to go slack…

    Edit: that rabbit hole got dark

    https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2012/1/31/1060335/-

    If that happened with me and a pet/child think wrestle the dog down and elbow the throat is best course of action.

    • GONADS125@feddit.de
      7·
      10 months ago

      Well this dog’s head was bigger than mine, and I remember from Mythbusters that a medium-sized trained attack dog they used as an analog had around a 500-600 pound bite-force. So this German Shepherd/Great Pyrenees mix definitely had a greater bite-force than 600 pounds.

      I later learned the ‘proper’ way to separate fighting dogs is to pull them apart by their hind legs. You’re less likely to be bit that way.

      I love my dogs as much as my human family members, and I just went caveman and charged in like an idiot…

      • Landless2029@lemmy.world
        3·
        10 months ago

        100% I’d have gone for the jaws myself. Hands be damned. I’m just wondering what’s the best way to deal with it.

        Looking into it all articles are about preventing conflict or what you should do if YOU get bit.

        Not how to get a dog off a child/pet…

        • Hrothgar59@lemmy.world
          2·
          10 months ago

          Walking my dog one day and met a random stranger also walking his dog, he bent down to pat my dog and his dog attacked mine, the stranger used his hands to pry open his dogs mouth and got bit. I took my dog to the vet to get stitches, and explained what happened. The vet informed me the best way to stop a dog biting down on something is to insert your finger in its arse, I have never had reason to use this knowledge so far.