[at-l] Rabies & hiking

[infinity1plus1 at yahoo.com (Robert)]

another tactic... if the animal latches on... fall on it... the weight of the human body is enough to knock the wind out of anything approximately the same size or smaller... in many cases its enough to crush a rib cage... this works with human assailants as well as animals... for example... if you have a bobcat latched to your arm and you cant quite manage the broken neck trick simply fall on it... it will either die, be knocked out, or run off in a daze... the best part after saving you is that most likely it will also break your fall...

Jim Bullard <jbullar1@twcny.rr.com> wrote:
At 11:36 AM 6/8/2005 -0500, Shane Steinkamp wrote:
>Now, having said all of that, let's assume that a largish bobcat manages to
>get hold of you anyway. It's just a bobcat, but they'll tear you up some.
>The best thing to do is actually seize the critter and thwack it against a
>rock, a tree, or the ground. If you pound 'em pretty good, they'll usually
>leave you alone - or suffer enough injury that they'll stop.

Present it with your forearm and let it grab it. Put your other arm around 
the back of it's neck and pull the animal to your chest, then quickly roll 
the arm it has in its mouth back over the arm that is behind its neck. Yes, 
you'll have some torn flesh from its teeth but the animal will have a 
broken neck. This will work with anything up through a large dog. Do not 
try this with bears.

>Things NOT to do are run or curl up in a ball. You have to fight back hard
>and fast.

Very true. The spray is the best tactic because it avoids contact. It you 
can't avoid contact there is only one rule, win by whatever means necessary.

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