Re: 74-Year-Old Woman Mauled to Death by Her Two d
This makes all the sense in the world to me. The aggressive lab mix was kept segregated in another room in the house because it did not get along with the other dogs. Do you realize how hard that is to do and never screw up?
So far, after Arwen and Jazzy got into it big time, two days later, half asleep, I thought I could hold one while switching them to let the other inside. It was on. I ended up with a decent bite from that because of my own stupidity.
Dubya and Rushie got into it and while I was separating them Arwen and Jenna went at it in the house. Others piled on and getting them all crated I had the two girls to deal with, I did not get bitten that time.
One day I came home and Jenna and Heidi were loose together. I must not have latched her kennel securely. They were fine, but it could have been a mess.
I did get a nice bite when Arwen and Rushie had a spat.
I paint a grusome scene of dog fights at my house. But that was about the extent of them. Still, I have a system where everyone has their own crate inside and their own kennel outside, and I know exactly how to let them out to have no squabbles and no problems. A moment's carelessness and I have a fight on my hands.
I am 39, big, and strong and find it difficult to break up a fight between two 70-80 pound dogs. I cannot imagine being that much older and trying to do this.
I know to grab the tail and pull and get a gate between them and use my feet to get them apart. This woman only knew that her dogs were being seriously injured.
Once the dogs were in the heat of battle and the woman tried to get them apart and got bitten and pulled into the fray, it does not surprise me that the dogs both attacked the weaker leader of the pack. They are dogs. Even if they are golden/lab mixes and australian shepherd mixes. They still have a pack mentality.
When the young pack member jumps the old leader, often times the other pack members will join in the fray and it is usually the weak one that gets turned on.
Poor woman. Poor family. One moment of carelessness is all it takes. Having three or more dogs IS a lot different from one or two for some reason. Three IS a pack. Breed doesn't matter. You bet the cocker was part of the problem. But it is also possible that the lab mix would have been trouble with just the AS mix, if they took and instant dislike to each other.
I am glad they mentioned the breeds of the dogs and as rotten as it sounds, I am sure glad that pitt bulls, GSDs, Rottweilers, and Dobermans were not mentioned.