How To Break up a Dog Fight Without getting hurt! Read some questions and answers on dogfights This past week I had an incident at my kennel that reminds me how important it is for everyone that works with dogs, or owns dogs to know how to break up a dogfight without getting hurt. I will start with a warning. Unless you have a lot of experience do not try and break up a dogfight by yourself. Never step in the anti barking devices puppy obedience training middle of two loving pets and try and grab them by the collar to stop a dogfight. If you try this, the chances of you being badly bitten are extremely high. People don't understand that 2 animals in the middle of a fight are in survival drive. If they see you at all, they don't look at you as their loving owner. When you charge in and grab them they either react out of a fight reflex and bite, or training dog puppy obedience training they see you as another aggressor. When they are in fight or flight they will bite you. You can take that to the bank. Here is what happened at my kennel this week. A wife of a friend came to the kennel with her daughter. She told my secretaries that I had said it was OK to go in my whelping rooms to show her little girl our puppies. I had never told her this. Anyway, that does not matter. When puppy obedience training puppy obedience training she was finished and left, she did not latch one of the kennel gates properly. Later, one of my kennel staff let another bitch outside. The first bitch jumped against her poorly latched kennel gate, and it came open. She ran outside and started a terrible dogfight. I had not told this young kennel person how to break up a dogfight in progress. He ran in and tried to grab both dog collars. He was very badly bitten in the dog food recipes puppy obedience training forearm and hand before