Just be careful with your sack if you do that.
I once got it in the eyelid from a cat claw, eyelids are very testicle-like skin, it tore a hole pretty good. Luckily he missed the eyeball itself.
Alpha rolling can be dangerous with some dogs, and with a cat I'd be even more wary of its success. They don't seem to quite submit as visibly as dogs, maybe I just don't see it or it happens fast. My two cats sometimes squabble but they never really get into combat.
Also, while I trained a lot of dogs by having the clients 'establish dominance', most modern research shows that dogs aren't as strictly hierarchy-based as we've traditionally thought of them as. We humanize them somewhat when we do that.
I hear a lot of the most modern effective dog training systems are a bit more carrot than stick. The system I taught was similar to Caesar Milan's, which while generally effective, some of the tactics you'd have to use with such a system would be downright dangerous.
I was frequently hired by people whose dogs had two out of three strikes, third strike they get executed. I would not even attempt to alpha roll a 200 pound violent mastiff, and the vast majority of human beings probably shouldn't or wouldn't either.
When training, if two dogs got to the point where they actively fought, I have already failed and lost control of the situation. Blankets, buckets of water can work, so can brute force. Hucking a dog into a pool is a great way to do it too.
Also, don't shit on your clothes. Pee on them. Pee is better, easier to work with. Pee on your clothes. Pee on your clothes for animal behavior influence.
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