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That was in England and you can't have a gun so he used knives. If a dog like that attacked my little Yorkie (5 pounds), I'd have enough adrenalin going to kill that dog with my hands.

True story: When my son was small, maybe 5, I was in the yard and saw him running down the street toward home and there was a big dog after him. I started running toward the dog and I really was going to kill it with my hands - there was no question I was going to do that. The dog saw me running toward him, turned around and took off. HE knew I was going to kill him.

I know that is what happened with this owner whose dog was going to die unless he did something fast. Something clicks in your head and you turn into a killer in an instant. I've been there and I was an instant killer with that dog after my child.

Ah England, yep no guns there.

The thing about killing a dog with your bare hands is...they are so fast, in a fight they can move and bite faster than you can see them. You will not know that you’ve been bitten until a couple seconds after it happens.

Their teeth cut flesh better than razors, and they are hot. I learned this the hard way.

What I further learned when I captured two loose pit bulls in my neighborhood is that those particular dogs, despite being small, are so ridiculously strong that I was just plain frightened. Even though I did capture them both and leash them into my yard, I was an idiot for doing so.

After I leasehed them, the male, which was a little bowling ball of a dog, bumped my right leg from behind which took me clean off my feet in an instant. Had those dogs attacked me then, that would have been all she wrote. Luckily, I had befriended the pregnant female prior to that, so neither dog took advantage of my fall.

I then turned them in to animal control where the owner later retreived them both.

My point though in relaying this to you is do not mistakenly underestimate a dog as an easy opponent in a fight, they are physically superior to humans, especially if they become vicious, and a pitbull is like wound steel with razors in its mouth.

Adrenalin is a wonderful thing and I think dogs can smell it and know when to leave. When hubby brought home a dog, at about 3 weeks in the house he and I tangled...he leaped at me with teeth showing and growling....I remember to this day I quietly said to that dog...I'm going to kill you you son of a bitch and he took off running down the hall to the back bedroom, the pot I threw at him bounced off the wall and hit him in the butt....the scary part was I knew I had to go under the bed to drag that dog out, he was shaking like a leaf and didn't attach from under the bed. I threw him out in the back yard holding his tail and collar. He missed the patio and landed on the grass and took off running to behind the garage.....Yep, when you get an Adrenalin rush you could kill a dog with your bare hands. But a gun is needed if they are over 90pounds....