October, 2018: When my neighbor’s loose Belgian Shepherd ambush sicced itself me, I used a hand-held powder actuated tool to keep the dog from injuring me.
October, 2019: When my neighbor's loose Queensland Heeler ambush sicced itself me, I used a hand-held powder actuated tool to keep the dog from injuring me.
12,500 pedestrian miles in five years, seven miles per day, 70 pounds off of my body and I never got bit once by seventy loose dogs that I encountered alone on the street. I wear a GoPro camera, and criminal loose dog offenders are getting tickets.
I forcibly refuse to make a perfect victim sacrificial offering of my flesh and blood to the Almighty Dog that this evil society worships and serves.
Any flashlight would not have saved this child: (scroll up to view the main content) https://blog.dogsbite.org/2021/04/child-killed-mother-hospitalized-while-caring-for-neighbors-pit-bulls.html#comment-36016
Flashlights are not for stopping things. Force is not for seeing things.
Pepper spray is mostly utterly useless. "Police were forced to discharge their firearms when pepper spray proved to be ineffective." This happens many, many, many times per day. Police in the USA shoot about 100 dogs per day. The dog is charging at 30 feet per second. The pepper spray has a few feet range and takes two seconds to have any effect, which is utterly useless if it is a determined attack.
Six million times per year in the USA, new singers of the same old song: "He was always so friendly. I don't know what could have gotten into him."
Any flashlight is utterly useless to prevent dog attack. Utterly. Useless.