Separate all the dogs, every one in crates. Have your drink. You are so pissed off, you will get up early. Take the dog to reg. vet. The neck wound looks like a couple stitches... Make sure they give you an antibiotic to ease the swelling for a few days until it meshes. The Doberman is lovely. The things he did were what he was bred to do. They are a slasher type dog, not bred for stayingness in a fight, nor bred for the ability to discern the disposition of the object of their attack. They make for good light body guard dogs. They are my favorite dog, and he is my favorite color. In a bad situation, the dog did his job as he sees it. He may be smart enough to notice your displeasure, but I would not count on it. That breed is bred to be a perfect guard dog, he is unscathed because of that breeding. Protect the perfection that we have created, and forgive it it's faults. I think it is insane that people think that all doggies must play nice together. We are generations away from that, as breeders, but we can do that... if we try real hard...
Oh, by the way...I think like a dog, so, if your(I mean you in general, not you specifically Pits, meaning you who reads this) fanciful, romantic, versions of a dog fight are not in synch w/me... sorry...Bow-Wow. There are many stimulus available for fights. Some are quite enigmatic... We never could figure out why our dogs fought when I was a kid. We were told not to pet one and not the other, then there was going in season, etc...Eventually, there just seemed no reason at all to it. I remember once seeing the two of them asleep, then awake they just eye contacted, and started going towards each other. It was like there was telepathy of some kind going on between them. Once they get that adrenal rush, just like barking, aggression will be hard to break them from. I gave a dog to a friend that both her sisters used to pull around here like a rag tug. She got into it with one of her dogs, when 15 dogs were running loose together. My friend had a hell of a time getting that straightened out. That girl got along with all her other dogs, but could never be put out with the one that she fought with again. They seemed to just hate each other.
This is just horrible. Pits called me crying last night about this right after it happened. I had some MAJOR dental work done yesterday and was on some serious pain killers - no way I could drive anywhere. I was so worried that I decided to walk to her house, but I walked right into the door frame and fell. Realized that would be a bad idea. My mother gets hysterical in situations like that, plus she and my son said I would be no good to anyone in the condition I was in. I feel so bad about not being able to help, since friends like Pits are few and far between.
I'm still medicated, but I am bit more together so I'll be going over there to check later on.
A couple years back, I had two big Labs get tangled together, one's choke chain wrapped around the other's jaw. As my dinner burned both on the stove, and the bbq, with smoke alarm going off, and my neighbors waking up at 1am to find me finally pummeling them into a submissive state where I could get them apart...I was scratched, bit and bruised, crying, and we were bleeding. It was pretty tramatic and although the dogs were fine, by the grace of god, I was one sore pup the next day, not to mention a bit hungry as my dinner was incinerated most thoroughly. Maybe buy a pizza, or some cake and ice cream and take it over to her. When she gets back from the vet, she could probably use a shoulder to lean on.