I think the "punch it" is a bit of keyboard hero but I can certainly agree that a non lethal option should have been used. Ideally Mace.
I have no problem fighting shit, I had a tomcat attack one of my cats a couple years ago and grabbed the damn thing off my cat ( it was under my truck so I couldn't shoot it) the cat bit through the fatty part of my hand which pushed the feces my cat had released during the fight into the wound in my hand. Yes, i punched the **** out of it to get it to stop, should have slammed it on the ground, but in a flight or fight spun it and threw it like the hammer throw, after 16k in the emergency room, rabies ect, I waited for the Tom cat to come back and shot the bastard. ( pictures in other thread)
Long story short, grabbing a fighting animal sounds great until you realize you just brought it's teeth closer to you.
Found it:
https://iowa.forums.rivals.com/threads/of-all-the-animals-i-have-killed.389067/#post-10056489