[Salamander]

Smaller ones, you just punt.

:)

Seriously though, you can still fit a couple fingers in there.

The effect is the same.

Even the most enraged dog has a strong gag reflex and is extremely averse to strangling on a foreign object.

There’s a psychological component to that, as well.

The dog does not expect its victim to counter attack.

If you don’t freak out and flinch or retreat, it totally screws up their mind.

[how sad is it that we must even speak of such brutal things?]

[HiTech RedNeck]

The dog does not expect its victim to counter attack.

Unless you are a dog too

[HiTech RedNeck]

[how sad is it that we must even speak of such brutal things?]

It's a fallen universe. Nobody worried about this in Eden.

[SCalGal]

Even the most enraged dog has a strong gag reflex and is extremely averse to strangling on a foreign object.

Vastly underutilized technique. And funny as anything to watch them gagging and trying to figure out what just happened.