Deeds Posted December 3, 2022 Share Posted December 3, 2022 https://www.news.com.au/technology/science/animals/man-fighting-for-life-after-mauling-by-multiple-dogs-at-queensland-home/news-story/3e54514dab730fc25c15d5bbf5739dfd Yet another attack. Sadly it seems to be a never ending story. The reports just keep coming. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Deeds Posted December 3, 2022 Author Share Posted December 3, 2022 Sorry. The man has died. 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Little Gifts Posted December 3, 2022 Share Posted December 3, 2022 I wonder if they got loose while he was working? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
persephone Posted December 3, 2022 Share Posted December 3, 2022 Oh Lord- what an awful way to die ....... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Diva Posted December 3, 2022 Share Posted December 3, 2022 A contract meter reader. So awful. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Loving my Oldies Posted December 3, 2022 Share Posted December 3, 2022 1 hour ago, persephone said: Oh Lord- what an awful way to die ....... That's is what is uppermost in my mind. The pain and terror would be immeasurable. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Little Gifts Posted December 3, 2022 Share Posted December 3, 2022 (edited) Looks like 3 large breed mixes. Horrible. https://www.abc.net.au/news/2022-12-03/man-mauled-to-death-by-dogs-logan/101730890?utm_medium=social&utm_content=sf262475098&utm_campaign=fb_abc_news&utm_source=m.facebook.com&sf262475098=1&fbclid=IwAR1D6bCdae1GcEXPKyyqCp2T3B32g0MbEONs0-XYyKdIjdeh3HHKMETt3DU Edited because I made a big boo boo. Edited December 4, 2022 by Little Gifts 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mairead Posted December 4, 2022 Share Posted December 4, 2022 Little Gifts, the ABC article says twice that the owners were not home. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Deeds Posted December 4, 2022 Author Share Posted December 4, 2022 Different reports/newspapers say different things. Some reports say owners were home others say owners were not home. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Deeds Posted December 4, 2022 Author Share Posted December 4, 2022 Latest update states 1 dog was a Rhodesian Ridgeback X and another was a Band Dog Bull Mastiff. https://www.news.com.au/technology/science/animals/energex-contractor-kane-minion-identified-as-meter-reader-mauled-to-death/news-story/ac29e819146c4f97f4673f03cb7bc2e7 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Little Gifts Posted December 4, 2022 Share Posted December 4, 2022 51 minutes ago, Mairead said: Little Gifts, the ABC article says twice that the owners were not home. Apologies- I actually read it totally differently - obviously not reading it properly. Sorry! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mairead Posted December 4, 2022 Share Posted December 4, 2022 I found a couple of references to Bandog Bullmastiffs being Bullmastiff X American Pitbull. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Amazetl Posted December 4, 2022 Share Posted December 4, 2022 Have you seen the huge sign on the fence and all padlocked up looking? This is a terrible terrible tragedy and apparently the dogs usually were behind a second fence in the past when meter readers would go in but so brave or wild that someone would ever trust and go in there when the gate and the sign looked like that. The owners weren’t home at the time. I don’t know if the article was wrong to begin with because so many are saying why didn’t the owners go and help. In a way I’m surprised that there haven’t been worst attacks on delivery people etc in the past as so many houses do have front fences with dogs in them and you’re going into their territory. This should have been preventable and so so horrible it’s happened. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mairead Posted December 4, 2022 Share Posted December 4, 2022 It could take two years before the coroner investigates, that is about the waiting time in NSW. In NSW people with security gates can get their meters read remotely. Still, dogs loose that were capable of what Ian Dunbar calls Level 6 bites (highest level) - anything above Level 3 causes severe injuries and is poor prognosis for dog's rehab. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mairead Posted December 4, 2022 Share Posted December 4, 2022 Should have written anything above a Level 2 bite sounds like it is beyond the capabilities of most people to manage. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Amazetl Posted December 4, 2022 Share Posted December 4, 2022 My understanding of a lot of dog behaviour is that they will bail the person up, bark them off the property or hold them down but not bite. What guard dogs are meant to do apparently. Why did these dogs go so much further? Were they known to display aggression? If so, why weren’t they required to be contained appropriately? Why do some dogs make contact and not just nip or a few bites pushing you off the property but actually go into a frenzy? Why??? Is it something with the particular dog’s brain? All dogs of size are capable of holding a person where they want without ripping into them. This was a grown man too. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Deeds Posted December 4, 2022 Author Share Posted December 4, 2022 Most dogs are worse when they are in a pack. 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Little Gifts Posted December 4, 2022 Share Posted December 4, 2022 3 hours ago, Amazetl said: Have you seen the huge sign on the fence and all padlocked up looking? This is a terrible terrible tragedy and apparently the dogs usually were behind a second fence in the past when meter readers would go in but so brave or wild that someone would ever trust and go in there when the gate and the sign looked like that. The owners weren’t home at the time. I don’t know if the article was wrong to begin with because so many are saying why didn’t the owners go and help. In a way I’m surprised that there haven’t been worst attacks on delivery people etc in the past as so many houses do have front fences with dogs in them and you’re going into their territory. This should have been preventable and so so horrible it’s happened. I could have sworn it said owners were home when I first read it so you may be correct - an error they rectified. Not saying the owners should've done more either if they were home as they could have been seriously injured too trying to intervene. In either scenario it is a traumatic event. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
persephone Posted December 4, 2022 Share Posted December 4, 2022 Trying to wrest back control of 3 hefty dogs in full attack /pack mode would have been an impossible task. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Amazetl Posted December 4, 2022 Share Posted December 4, 2022 Very true that is can be worse in a pack and the dogs can make one another go to a next level, but I just still wonder why people have those sort of guard dogs to begin with as if someone does get hurt you’re liable. It’d be much better to have traditional types that chase off, bail up or hold down. They are reporting one is a Rhodesian Ridgeback cross (cross with what though?!), the other something called a bandog Bullmastiff, not a breed but a cross between a Pitbull, American Bulldog or Neapolitan Mastiff, or Mastiff. The third I’ve read wasn’t involved, another story it says it was seized but they aren’t identifying that one or talking any further about the third one so not sure. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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