Several dogs kill owner

Yes, very sad.  I'm not real sure that I buy the pack mentality, but I will agree that when ONE of my acts out, the others tend to all fall into line also acting out.  So perhaps there is some truth to that.

What a price those men paid for doing rescue.

On tonights news they said a lot of the dogs were his since puppies.... a few picked up at the Humane Society....all were well taken care of.  They had to shoot two of them when the cops got there because they could not be controlled.... and they ended up euthanizing most of the others right there also.   The vet that was called said everyone was so sad over it all,,,for the people and the dogs.

 I find it interesting that people who were commenting on the article were really enmeshed in their own stereotypes about dogs and dog breeds.  Pits are killers, blah blah blah. Mastiffs are gentle, blah blah blah.  The truth is that there are some crap Pits, some great Pits, some gentle Mastiffs and some Mastiffs that are man stoppers.  Too bad that the people didn't seem to know their dogs as well as they thought, and that the dogs that didn't appear to participate in the mauling couldn't be saved.  Sad all around, but it's more evidence of how little people generally know about dogs.

spiritdogs

Too bad that the people didn't seem to know their dogs as well as they thought, and that the dogs that didn't appear to participate in the mauling couldn't be saved.  Sad all around, but it's more evidence of how little people generally know about dogs.

They made it a point to say they had no idea which dogs were involved in the mauling so they put them down.  It sounded like all of the guys dogs were put down...but just maybe there were some inside or so.... I don't know.

The vets last words were they will probably never know why the dogs did this to their owner.

My sister lives not far from there, and she sent me an article on it this morning as well.

It looks like they were all Pits, Rotweillers, Mastiffs, Boxers, and mixes of those breeds.  Now...I am big on my pitbulls...but I honestly don't think I'd want to have 12 bully breeds that were loose around my property...it said the son was killed in the driveway by at least 4-5 dogs I think.  I really do believe in the pack mentality, and I train my dogs to be big loveable marshmallows...but if one of my dogs attacked something, I would have to believe another one would too.  It's just safer to assume that.

It's so sad that he was trying to do something nice..but I'm just not sure 12 dogs should be loose running together.

http://www.morningjournal.com/articles/2010/06/17/news/mj2899433.txt

You know...I have been thinking a lot about this today.   I heard on the radio that the vet mentioned WEAKENSS and possible siezure,,,and it really got me thinking. Then reading this article... “Any dog is a bomb that could go off ... any dog,” he said.

I think sometimes we take our dogs for granted...forgetting what they really are. Have a giant dog that I do and have had for a lot of years....I think about it a lot because I always have my face by their face...always kissing them...most likely on their nose. I often think " if he was going to bite me.... I would be in major trouble because he has a very very big mouth and very big teeth!"   One day not long after I got my other Dane Bubblegum..I was sitting on the floor and playing with her...but she was standing.  All of a sudden she looked at me really weird...and I knew to GET UP right away.  And you better believe I did.  Somehow I felt that she was ready to over power me...she was much bigger than me while I was sitting and she was standing.  So I believe there could be something to that "weakness" idea.  If a dog will kill one of its own in a pack for weakness...why not a human?   Although that was an interesting theory that the father was the alpha and the son the secondary. VERY scary.

dyan

They feel somehow the dogs formed a pack attitude.  I have read once that if your own sweet dog runs away and joins a pack.. inside of a couple of hours that dog will never come to you...never be the same...it will become that pack.

 Very sad story :( 

 Not sure about that but for sure dogs who are loose on their own for some time, in a pack or not are generally behaviorally changed for it.