Dog pack likely killed Georgia couple

:cry: I have never heard of anything like this happening before, though I'm sure it probably has.

Remains of college professor and wife discovered mutilated on a rural road

"ATLANTA - A former college professor and his wife were apparently attacked and killed by nearly a dozen dogs along a rural northeast Georgia road where their bodies were found mutilated, authorities said Monday.

Preliminary autopsy results from the Georgia Bureau of Investigation showed Sherry Schweder, 65, likely died of injuries suffered in a dog attack, Oglethorpe County Sheriff Mike Smith said. Autopsy results for her husband, Lothar Karl Schweder, 77, were not yet available, but Smith said it's likely he was also attacked by dogs because the scene was so grisly.

Smith said officials were going to round up at least 11 dogs seen in the area where the couple's mutilated bodies were found Saturday morning by five passers-by.

It wasn't immediately clear whether the mixed-breed dogs, which are to be captured by animal control officers from neighboring Madison County, were feral or someone's pets. There had been no recent complaints about vicious dogs in the area, Smith said..."

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/32451471/ns/us_news-life/

I had a EMT class were we learned of a dog that ate the face off of a person who committed suicide by drug overdose, they vomited on their face, the dog, who after being in the house long enough became starved and proceeded to eat the person. Not pretty but it is something that happens.

Those dogs were into people's yards killing cat, chickens. Got into my old bosses place and got rabbits, goat, chickens.

Jackass owner wrote a letter to local newspaper saying people should take better care of THEIR animals.

One of those huskies was then summarily found shot dead. Guy moved out of town.

Some people are clueless about animal ownership, including dogs. And it may not have been these dogs "ate" the couple. Just attacked.

:scared:

DU could have collectively gone orgasmic over the whole thing.

Yeah, notice the media didn't mention any breed...just "mixed breed" dogs. If any of them even remotely resembled a bully, it would have been all pitbull lunacy and dragging out Merritt Clifton's bullshit.

This is a tragedy, and I feel not only for the family and loved ones of the departed but also the dogs who are likely feral, dumped by their owners yet found a way to form a pack like this.

And right on, no other dog breeds EVER bite people. Nothing so vicious as a pit bull. :sarcasm:



Owner of a rescued lab mix. Oh yeah, the vet said he might be lab and some sort of terrier (the new code for pit bull mix).

That there is no proof that it was domestic dogs that did this anyway - just speculation. Now I'll bet a pack of stray dogs are going to be hunted down and shot when it could just have easily been coyotes or another type of wild animal responsible for this.

And yeah, the pit bull hysteria. What bollocks. I'm all for banning stupid people and leaving the dogs well alone.

There is still time for some reporter to write a new headline that will strum your magic twanger. Keep watching. And seething.

Its one of the reasons I open carry a pistol with mixed loads when I am out on my property (I live in the absolute twigs). Snakes, feral animals, rabid animals, or ATV riders, it will come in handy.

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I back on to state/federal land. My property is the only effective way to access it easily in the area (there are others, but its a ways down the road). There are no easements. I have no desire to have ATVs on my land, parking on what amounts to my front lawn, riders peeing on my buildings, etc. So I chained my driveway and put out no trespassing signs. It did not work. I would come home to find the chain cut and pickups, trailers, and sometimes toy haulers in my yard. Some had no interest in leaving. I am 30 minutes from the nearest cop shop and was always outnumbered. You see how this could go.

I started putting up private property tow away signs etc and started enforcing it. Hell hath no fury like a group of ATV riders coming back to find their vehicles gone. I usually told them I was just the caretaker and that they needed to contact the owner. A few actually tried. It got ugly more than once. The head of the local cop shop finally told me he did not want me towing anymore since he was sure that someone was going to get hurt over it. I then bit the bullet and put in serious driveway gates. Solar powered with security wiring and a camera. Damned expensive. Even today ATV enthusiasts seem to think they have a right to force the gate but its getting less often after the local motorsports shops stopped telling people to come here.

I am not against ATVs, just not on my property.

The sheriff helped me get it straightened out this time.

The time before that the neighbors dogs were coming after the livestock. Another neighbor killed one of them. Nasty business dogs running loose.

They did it multiple times. They showed no remorse.

(and aggressive individual dogs) over the years; and sometimes it gets fairly serious.

But I carry a stout walking stick -- and make a point of picking up 8-10 choice throwing stones before I start walking.

Now, in my experience, usually a show of force will suffice, but not always; there are some tough, mean dogs running around out there. And the bastids can be cunning.

One time when I was coming back from a hike, six or eight big dogs (german shepherd size) were lounging across the (dirt) road in front of me. And as I kept walking towards them (don't show fear; the brush was too thick to detour), one of them jumped up and headed into the brush.

Fortunately, I knew what he was up to, so I backed up a few paces -- and was waiting for him when he popped out of the brush in a spot that would've been behind me if I hadn't backed up. (You should have seen the look on his face.) Now, having lost surprise (and with my stick dangling in front of his nose), he chose discretion and high-tailed it.

The remainder of pack, which was stirring in anticipation of some fun (at least), was similarly befuddled -- and a few stones sent skittering along the ground into their midst encouraged them to hastily depart.

In the event, no harm was done (except to some "egos"), but who knows what would have happened if I hadn't been prepared. (A few years later, in similar circumstances (edges of civilization, roughly the same area), a dog pack killed somebody.)

Sheep herds are particularly vulnerable. Dogs will chase and kill them just for fun, not necessarily to eat.

They also run down and kill deer, especially in the winter.

Sherrif's deputies used to regularly shoot them.

Nature is what it is. It is not good, it is not bad.

Out here in the country we are well familiar with what happens to nice family dogs when they join a pack.

Several years ago my wife and I were coming home late one evening and got stuck in a snow drift. We were way out in the country, a couple of miles from the closest home and not much farther from our own, but we had plenty of gas in the vehicle (4x4, but stuck deep) so we hunkered down for the night intending to go for help in the morning. We had blankets in the vehicle (Chevy Blazer) so we were OK. My wife climbed in the back where she could stretch out, I slept as I could in the front seat and now and then restarted the engine to heat the vehicle back up.

At some time late in the night I woke from the cold to restart the engine and was startled to see that the vehicle was surrounded by dogs - probably between a dozen to a dozen and a half of them. They did not bark, they didn't do much of anything other than encircle the vehicle. When I started the engine they disappeared back into the woods. Never saw them again but a couple of hours later when I had to get out and walk to a neighbor's house for help I was sure concerned about them. I've never seen them again.