Really BAD - GA couple killed by dog pack

[StupidBird]

It's just so awful, but I can't stop thinking about it (really graphic if you think about the details)
http://www.ajc.com/news/dogs-that-killed-uga-118158.html
So, these starving dumped dogs kill and eat people. I'm just so very disturbed by this. Maybe because I just can't stop thinking about when a dog pack went after me when I was a very little girl. I knocked the one that went for me away from my throat but it tore me up bad. Didn't think it still bothered me after forty years but guess so.
I'm thinking I really oughta get a carry permit if I start walking in the woods again - but I'm such a klutz. what do people think happens when they dump their animals? Not to mention all the two-legged beasties. Don't want to dwell on it, but I can't seem to stop. Argh! I'm just thinking in circles; help.

 

[catfish/okie]

This is why people should not dump unwanted animals!

 

[HorseFeathers]

Oh god. What a terrible way to go.

catfish I totally agree.

 

[debilorrah]

How horrid for them!! My prayers are with their families.

 

[PeepsInc]

I live 2 hours north of NYC. In the 80's it was really bad here. People would drop dogs off or tie them to guard rails along the park way, expecting them to fend for themselves. We had several packs that ran in our district, until they were exterminated by locals. They were dangerous. I remember as a kid walking threw the woods with my uncle & cousins. A large red dog confronted us in the woods, with the intent of eating one of us. My uncle sent us up a big dead leaning tree as he fought it off with a rotted log. I remember feeling bad for that dog as I sat up that tree trying not to watch. It wasn't evil, I could see it in it's eyes.(It hesitated but couldn't fight starvation any longer) It was just trying to survive.

Last deer season my son & I had just reached our hunting blind,& a deer ran at us from the way we just walked in. It was panting & stopped just a few yards from us. It almost looked relieved to see us. I stood in aww watching it while standing outside the blind we just reached. Next came 2 large dogs that appeared to be black wolves hot on that deer.(to large for coyote) I felt bad for the deer & hollard at the canine which were about 80 feet away from us. They just stared us down. Then started advancing toward us. My son was now very scared. I sent him in the blind, & told him to cover me. I dropped the closest one in it's tracks. The second ran off over the hill. I questioned my actions wondering if I did the rite thing. It gave me flash backs of being up that tree as a kid wondering if that dog realy wanted to eat me. This year the second one was trapped by a professional trapper who is also a good friend of mine, that was hired to rid this animal from my neighbors horse pasture. Where it was frequently seen. Neither of us reported it. It's against the law to kill a wolf, & DEC wouldn't of admitted it even if it was a wolf...Hearing of the second kill, my son will now play outside by himself again..... PS at 12 years old my son is a licensed hunter & can shoot the center out of a penny @ 20 yards.

 

[b.hromada]

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When will they learn?

 

[Sissy]

how awful, its no wonder everyone is carrying.
We have all our cats n dogs from dump offs.

but the last few we took to the shelter.

 

[beefy]

wow i used to go down that road sometimes when i was in college. i wonder if she found her dog, or if they had killed it too (and maybe she got attacked b/c of that somehow?)

 

[horsejody]

The article has a link to another article about the story. It doesn't look like they were dumped. The neighbor that owned them left for "medical" reasons. It states that a friend was driving the owner back and forth to feed them. It also stated that the dogs seemed well nourished, so they weren't starving. There is no leash law in the county. It appears that it is more of a case of free ranging pet dogs roaming unsupervised and "packing up" than a case of abandonment and starvation.

ETA: Just another good argument for keeping dogs contained on your own property and not running loose. Pack mentality is an ugly thing when the dogs are in charge and prey drive kicks in.

 

[Wolf-Kim]

b.hromada :

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When will they learn?

They won't.

Why? Because most people look at their own animals as precious little angels, they do not realize that their pampered pets have it in them to attack people or other animals. Dumb people are dumb. They expect to drop animals off in the country and they would survive some how without causing trouble with the locals. Expect their unwanted pets to eat grass or something, who knows.

Pets don't have to be abandoned to act aggressive. Many times it is just pack mentality. They get so wound up in each other that it's just one big ball of energy and no thought. Think "mob mentality" for humans, think riots and looting, and you'll get the picture. I have three dogs who live in the house with 2 cats. These dogs grew up and took very little interest in the cats. One day the youngest went to play tackle the cat and the other two dogs were wound up and they moved furniture in their attempt to ALL "get" the cat. The cat was fine because the dogs ended up running into eachother, but still a remote instance is all it takes.​