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I have seen the shield and light weight bomb blanket both attempted with poor results abeit in training and only against shepards. Big problem is that you have to move down to their level to secure them - that means your face, neck, hands, arms and of course legs, & crotch are now all within range of the dogs teeth. Trying to anticipate the movement of 100 lbs of moving energy attached to teeth with a shield or blanket in your hands usually has resulted in a dropped shield and blanket and the sacrifice of your left forearm while your team mates giggle and the handler sloooowly moves to withdraw.
The other thing I've noticed about these animals is they just refuse to feel sorry for themselves. Hit them with anything other than a shot that takes them out and they will come at you until they die.
Breaching is becoming less and less of an option for some of the bigger metro Departments because even with small hinge, strip charges or IV bags the big problem is doing a shot on a point wherein the dynamics change inside so fast. We have hit crack houses that were "empty" except for the shift working (1 or 2 toads) and 1 hour later there were 5 adults and 8 kids inside. Unless those signing for the warrant have full 360 eyes on the target for the duration of warrant approval, take down/planning meeting & move to target usually they will not sign off on an OK to breach.
Again, this is just my limited experience.
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