Crump: How Not To Break Up Dogfights

About 10 o’clock Monday night, I decided to give our 7-year-old soft-coated wheaten terrier, Annie, a bath. I took off her collar, scooped her up and headed for the bathroom. But she escaped my grip, bounded off in the direction of my oldest stepdaughter’s room and there encountered Carmen, our 10-year-old heeler. All hell broke loose. The dogs are territorial - Annie likes my wife and my bedroom; Carmen hangs out with Geneva - and they take a jaundiced view of incursions by the other. So we had ourselves a dogfight - not just a noisy dogfight, but an encounter that, in the immortal words of Jim Croce, left both animals looking like jigsaw puzzles with a couple of pieces gone. Geneva and I both tried to intervene; she ended up in the emergency room, my hands and arms look like chew toys/ Steve Crump , Twin Falls Times-News. More here .

Question: Have you ever tried to break up a dogfight? What happened?