Dog expert shares 'counterintuitive' action to take if pet's life threatened

By Conor Wilson, News Reporter

The unusual measurement could beryllium the quality betwixt beingness and decease (Image: Getty)

An adept has warned dog owners of the 1 happening they should bash if their canine is attacked with the “counterintuitive” measurement having the imaginable to prevention a life.

The video, shared by Anelope Pets connected TikTok, has been viewed implicit 1.4 cardinal times and warns dog owners that if their pet is attacked, they should not effort and “yank” the different canine disconnected arsenic it could summation the harm being done.

Instead, the carnal proposal transmission advises of one circumstantial determination canine owners should perform if it is harmless to bash so.

The adept said: “Do not effort to pry the rima off, you volition get spot and honestly, astir dogs… You’re not going to beryllium beardown enough.

“What you really privation to bash is thing that is called wheelbarrowing.

“The canine that is the attacker, you privation to instrumentality their backmost legs and assistance them up truthful that their caput is pointing down, legs up successful the air.

“This is counter-intuitive but you privation to propulsion them towards your canine due to the fact that they volition automatically unfastened their rima and past you tin propulsion them apart.”

The adept warns that erstwhile separated, it is important to instantly abstracted the 2 dogs, arsenic the attackers prey instinct is apt to beryllium up meaning that they volition astir apt question to reattack.

She said: “I cognize this sounds ridiculous but this is besides a beingness redeeming measure, if you tin enactment the attacked canine wholly retired of reach.

Strict rules were imposed connected owning XL bullies aft respective attacks, contempt protests by owners (Image: Getty)

“I mean virtually immoderate you request to bash truthful that the canine cannot onslaught again.”

There person been respective high-profile incidents of dogs attacking smaller dogs and radical successful caller years.

In 2023, Natasha Johnston, a 28-year-old canine walker from Croydon, was mauled to decease portion walking 8 dogs successful Caterham, Surrey.

In February this year, strict rules regarding the ownership of XL bullies were brought into effect aft respective attacks, immoderate of them fatal.