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Certainly it would be able to make my arm bleed and it would hurt - but its not like it has the strength to actually bite my arm of.
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That's then point we're making: YES IT DOES. Your arm is composed of muscle, tendons, and bone. Muscle and tendon can be cut/disrupted with as little as 5 (five) pounds per square inch of bite force. Bone crushes at 9 (nine) pounds per square inch. Dogs bite with HUNDREDS OF POUNDS PER SQUARE INCH. Notice the difference: at less than TEN pounds per square inch the animal can break bone. What do you think FIVE HUNDRED POUNDS PER SQUARE INCH is going to do?
So yes, the wrong dog can take your arm off. The wrong dog can take your -leg- off at the hip.
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I would have a free hand to strike it in the eye or throat or ribs, to choke it, to hoist it up and drive it repeatedly into the floor or a wall, etc etc
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While it's trying to remove your other arm. Right.
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A dog can only hurt you with its teeth,
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Which are very sharp, very strong, and driven by a bite force of several HUNDRED pounds per square inch.
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a human has multiple striking options
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None of which work very well against a pissed-off large dog.
HAH! You're funny.
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unless it can get at my throat or face, or I just lie there and let it eat me... it is not going to be able to strike a killing blow.
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You -do- realise, don't you, that you can exanguinate (bleed to death) in less than 90 seconds from a cut/punctured femoral artery, right? That's the big one in your thigh. The main pipes on your arms might let you last as long as three minutes. Ask one of our combat vets here (got plenty) how long it takes somebody to bleed out with a shredded wrist.
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human intelligence to strike right into the throat, or throttle it
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Intelligence, maybe. You do not have the strength to strangle a pissed-off Pitbull. Nevermind the fact that, as you're strangling it, it's still chewing on you.
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Dogs dont have the courage to attack adult humans unless it is a cowardly bite in the arse or back
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Good thing all the Police Departments went to Siamese Attack Cats, then, isn't it?
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They dont have the strength to kill adults in any normal circumstances
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Pure, unmitigated, unmistakable nonsense. Dogs kill adults all the time, several dozen times per year in the US.
Have you ever had a large dog, SF? Have you ever even playfully wrestled with one? Because you're showing about as much knowledge about dogs as you've shown in the past about guns, bears, and women.