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Pa. Woman Mauled to Death While Breaking up Fight Between Dogs She Was Watching
People ^ | August 6, 2021 | Harriet Sokmensuer

Posted on 08/06/2021 10:48:23 AM PDT by Governor Dinwiddie

A Pennsylvania woman who was watching her roommate's dogs was mauled to death while trying to beak up a fight between the animals.

On July 28, Rhoda Wagner was found dead in her front yard with three dogs running loose around her, PennLive reports. Responding authorities took the dogs, all pit bulls, into custody and through an investigation determined Wagner had been mauled to death. All three dogs were since euthanized with the consent of the owner, authorities said.

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TOPICS: Health/Medicine; Local News; Pets/Animals
KEYWORDS: bulls; chet99; doggieping; dogs; maul; mauling; pennsylvania; pit; pitbull; pitbulls
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To: Governor Dinwiddie

In 1960, Miami it was a senior Female who died, coming between her two Dobies, fighting for food. Dogs should be fed separately, even small ones!


21 posted on 08/06/2021 11:20:25 AM PDT by GOYAKLA
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To: alternatives?

I’d wager most aren’t properly socialized...kept with the litter for seven weeks, minimum....and will be discipline problems. Socialization isn’t about dogs getting along with people. It’s about them learning that they’re dogs.


22 posted on 08/06/2021 11:24:37 AM PDT by gundog (It was a bright cold day in April, and the clocks were striking thirteen. )
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To: CharlesOConnell

Fire extinguisher might work, too.


23 posted on 08/06/2021 11:25:56 AM PDT by gundog (It was a bright cold day in April, and the clocks were striking thirteen. )
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To: Governor Dinwiddie

“The 60 year old was an advocate for pit bulls.”

(from the article)


24 posted on 08/06/2021 11:26:57 AM PDT by americas.best.days... ( Donald John Trump has pulled the sword from the stone.)
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To: Governor Dinwiddie
through an investigation determined Wagner had been mauled to death

Sharp police work there, Colombo.

25 posted on 08/06/2021 11:31:48 AM PDT by ClearCase_guy (We have two Democrat parties. 50% of the US population has no political representation.)
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To: Governor Dinwiddie

Dogs of Pieces.


26 posted on 08/06/2021 11:36:15 AM PDT by Fresh Wind (Fake news, fake election, fake president.)
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To: Governor Dinwiddie

Three Pits being walked together was always going to lead to a disaster. Everybody has seen how most Pits react when passing another dog on a leash. The average 60 /o may not be prepared to commandeer a trio of those devils if the mood to bite hits them as a pack.


27 posted on 08/06/2021 11:42:43 AM PDT by lee martell
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To: alternatives?

Animal Shelters around here have many, many Pit Bull to adopt out...


28 posted on 08/06/2021 11:48:06 AM PDT by JBW1949 (I'm really PC.....Patriotically Correct)
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To: Governor Dinwiddie

The dog’s owner(s) should have been euthanized as well...


29 posted on 08/06/2021 11:51:26 AM PDT by SuperLuminal (Where is another Sam Adams now that we desperately need him?)
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To: x
Not everything is about race.

One wouldn't know that there is anything but race, queers, COVID and climate change by watching or listening to the news.

30 posted on 08/06/2021 11:53:47 AM PDT by KevinB (''... and to the Banana Republic for which it stands ...")
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To: kanawa

Owner no longer has a future dog sitting problem and didn’t have vet bills to euthanize the dogs.


31 posted on 08/06/2021 11:56:29 AM PDT by cnsmom
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To: Governor Dinwiddie

Stupid people do stupid things. Trying to break up a dog fight of medium or large dogs without a gun or other lethal weapon is just plain stupid.


32 posted on 08/06/2021 12:04:05 PM PDT by Jonny7797
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To: Governor Dinwiddie
It's never a good idea to try to break up animals physically; it doesn't matter the breed either or species for that matter. Grab a hose, bucket of water etc... That will stop it.

I had a Collie years ago. He was one of the larger collies (one of the best breeds) and he was very protective of us and of his 'territory. My neighbor had a Doberman who would occasionally run over. Well he and my collie went at it one day; both on their hind legs. I grabbed the garden hose and drenched them and they immediately broke up.

Cats are the same way. Water will break them up.

33 posted on 08/06/2021 12:33:27 PM PDT by LibertyWoman (Woe to those who call evil good, and good evil... Isaiah 5:20)
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To: JBW1949
Animal Shelters around here have many, many Pit Bull to adopt out...

Ours simple quarantine them and then put them down. They are to dangerous and unpredictable to let the public interact with them.

Big time liability for the shelters.

34 posted on 08/06/2021 12:35:50 PM PDT by usurper ( version )
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To: alternatives?

A family close to me just adopted a pit bull. They have four small children, but I don’t dare speak my dreadful thoughts.

They’d already lost one small dog to their own prior-adopted female pit bull. And they’re NOT Democrats!


35 posted on 08/06/2021 12:58:16 PM PDT by Does so (The Media is the enemy of the people...Trial lawyers close behind...)
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To: Does so

I can’t imagine why.


36 posted on 08/06/2021 1:06:46 PM PDT by alternatives?
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To: Does so

Early this summer I was walking my GSD and coming around a corner tracing a wooded area with a bike trail.About to turn direction, I spotted a couple on bikes with a Pit tracking with them but NOT TETHERED.
I saw the pit through the trees and calmly got my shep on a retractable leash u-turned quickly the way we had come.

That gave me serious high blood pressure


37 posted on 08/06/2021 1:08:09 PM PDT by magna carta
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To: gundog

They fold at any gunshot. They fight like hell, right through fists, stabs, bites, etc. But they reliably fold even for a 22.


38 posted on 08/06/2021 1:14:11 PM PDT by DesertRhino (A coup government may not claim the protection of the same constitution it overthrew. )
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To: Governor Dinwiddie

Those Shih Tzus are at it again. 😒


39 posted on 08/06/2021 1:35:16 PM PDT by NWFree (Somebody has to say it)
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To: Governor Dinwiddie

A mostly peaceful dog fight. 😐


40 posted on 08/06/2021 1:48:01 PM PDT by Georgia Girl 2 (The only purpose of a pistol is to fight your way back to the rifle you should never have dropped)
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