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In reply to the discussion: Woman dead after being attacked by her two pit bulls in animal hospital [View all]Drahthaardogs
(6,843 posts)It's like this. Those dogs weren't mean, they were prey-driven. This is how those things happen. A dog with intense prey drive sees a squirrel. It REALLY wants that squirrel. It can't get it; it becomes frustrated.
Woman enters pen with highly aroused dog. She yells, moves too fast... whatever. The dog transfers onto her because it is essentially a coiled spring and all that potential energy has got to go somewhere.
She starts screaming when the dog bites, this sounds like prey to the dog so it intensifies its attack. The second dog now sees and hears this, it too goes into the red zone. Now the scent of blood only intensifies the attack. Woman is mauled to death.
This is what happens when you have high prey drive dogs with low thresholds. This is GENETIC. You must NEVER allow these dogs to get into that frame of mind. Most people are not up to the task it takes to own such an animal.