Really BAD - GA couple killed by dog pack

[bargain]

What a tragedy and horrible way to die.

I had a friend with 40 stiches from 7 dogs attacking her walking early one morning here in our small town...It was a pack but 2 of them had tags and belonged to neighbors...we have a leash law. She said her blessing was that she didn't bruing the children out for a walk.

Now a COUGAR has been sited only 1 mile from our house on 3 occasions.

I pray to the Lord to keep this cougar away from our animals. It is illegal to capture or kill a cougar. I have never seen one and don't want to.

It is very frightening, especially now that goat kidding season is upon us again.

We too have animal dumps regularly. Since we live full time, they are coming at night....Latest one a very small cat with ears bigger than his head. We'll probably keep him as a mouser but I'll need to get him fixed!

I pray for their families. How tragic..

 

[speckledhen]

There are just no words for how tragic this is. It's also avoidable, sadly. Even beloved pet dogs will change their behavior when they run with a pack and have no boundaries.
I keep trying to tell folks this when they cry out against someone shooting a dog who is killing their chickens. By removing the dog permanently, a dog who is probably allowed to roam constantly, they are preventing that dog from adding himself to a pack and possibly killing a human being at some point in time. This is proof it can happen. Horrifying, this story.

 

[horsejody]

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Wolves can and do attack humans.
Wolf attacks on humans:

http://mainehuntingtoday.com/bbb/2008/12/18/myths-of-wolf-behavior/

http://mainehuntingtoday.com/bbb/2007/11/20/kenton-carnegie-killed-by-wolves/


The following article states:

Attacks by wild, healthy wolves on humans are unusual but not unprecedented, according to McNay, who spent two years researching wolf attacks in North America and came up with 13 such attacks in the past 30 years through the year 2000. Eleven of those attacks involved "habituated" or "food-conditioned" wolves that had lost their fear of people while only two were by non-habituated wolves, he said.

"They're rare, but they're not unheard of," McNay said of wolf attacks on humans.
http://www.wolfsongnews.org/news/Alaska_current_events_1753.html

http://www.wolf.org/wolves/learn/intermed/inter_mgmt/usda_2002.asp

http://www.pinedaleonline.com/wolf/pdf/mcnay.pdf


http://wolfcrossing.org/2009/02/25/wolf-attack-kills-boy-jan-18-2009-russia/

http://blog.kingsoutdoorworld.com/2006/09/13/six-people-injured-by-wolf-attack/

http://www.gilawilderness.com/local/wolfboyattacked.htm

http://www.wolfpark.org/Articles/Wyman.html
http://www.mtmultipleuse.org/endangered/wolf_pics.htm

 

[tackyrama]

Quote:
Wolves can and do attack humans.
Wolf attacks on humans:

http://mainehuntingtoday.com/bbb/2008/12/18/myths-of-wolf-behavior/

http://mainehuntingtoday.com/bbb/2007/11/20/kenton-carnegie-killed-by-wolves/


The following article states:

Attacks by wild, healthy wolves on humans are unusual but not unprecedented, according to McNay, who spent two years researching wolf attacks in North America and came up with 13 such attacks in the past 30 years through the year 2000. Eleven of those attacks involved "habituated" or "food-conditioned" wolves that had lost their fear of people while only two were by non-habituated wolves, he said.

"They're rare, but they're not unheard of," McNay said of wolf attacks on humans.
http://www.wolfsongnews.org/news/Alaska_current_events_1753.html

http://www.wolf.org/wolves/learn/intermed/inter_mgmt/usda_2002.asp

http://www.pinedaleonline.com/wolf/pdf/mcnay.pdf


http://wolfcrossing.org/2009/02/25/wolf-attack-kills-boy-jan-18-2009-russia/

http://blog.kingsoutdoorworld.com/2006/09/13/six-people-injured-by-wolf-attack/

http://www.gilawilderness.com/local/wolfboyattacked.htm

http://www.wolfpark.org/Articles/Wyman.html
http://www.mtmultipleuse.org/endangered/wolf_pics.htm

Well then I guess we have to kill 'em all then.

 

[horsejody]

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That's a bit of overkill. I was just stating that wolves do attack humans even though it's rare.

 

[beak]

Good reason for a CCP. Of coursea shotgun would probably be more effective. Couldn't imagine getting killed by an animal. Such a brutal way to go.

 

[spectrumranch]

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Very unlikely it was a wolf. There are very few states that have wolves and I've not heard of any in NY. Wolves are instinctively deathly afraid of humans and will avoid us at all costs. If you do happen to see one in the wild consider yourself very fortunate as very few people have and it will likely never happen again in your lifetime. There is no substantiated act of a wolf attacking a human in living memory. Our fear of wolves is left over from the middle ages when the common reaction to things we didn't understand was hysteria and fear.

I live in Minnesota where we have a thriving wolf population in the northern part of the state. There are occassional wolf sitings but wolf encounters are almost unheard of. Rarely you hear of farmers losing a cow or two to wolves but they are very rare occurances and the owners are compensated. They have been exterminated almost the entire world over and I am ashamed for the human race.

When I lived in northern WI, where wolves are plentiful, if you spend any time outdoors you will see them. Several areas you can't keep a dog outside on a chain, it has to be in a kennel (which I prefer anyway) because otherwise the wolves kill and eat your dog. Friends have photos on their trail cameras of the wolves only seconds behind them when they are leaving there tree stands from hunting. The bear hunters have alot of dogs killed by wolves, when the wolves attack the dogs, all you do then is go pick up the radio collars off eaten carcasses.

About five years ago, the feds and the state game and fish re introduced the Mexican wolf to eastern Arizona. Then they went around telling people that they had better not kill one. You had better let them kill and eat your wife and kids before you dare kill one.

Going after the kids - it would be dead, going after the ex.....priceless!​

 

[19hhbelgian]

My inlaws had moved to GA for a few years.... They said the dogs would run in packs, and that was normal for there (they lived in Ellijay, in the mountains). One day a dog came in and attacked the 2 horses they had tied in the barn. Luckily the horses had their cart harness collars on, so when the dog went for the neck, all it got was a mouth full of leather. He did injure the horses, lots of stitches were needed. My in-laws were just lucky he didn't go for one of them - they are nothing compared to 2 clydesdales!

It is the pack mentality that is so dangerous. Whether the dogs are typically friendly or not, makes no difference when they go into their natural behavioral instincts

 

[speckledhen]

I agree that folks let the dogs roam all over, they dump them when they're sick of them, etc. I live about 30 miles from Ellijay in the mtns. This area is bad for that so roaming dogs get no second chances here. I have a perimeter fence, but they could dig under or climb/jump over if motivated to get my chickens. The locals are really bad about that stuff.