Posted on 01/06/2015 2:50:58 AM PST by Kartographer
A Native American man found dead in a New Mexico field last week near the Navajo Nation reservation may have been mauled by a pack of as many as 10 dogs, police said on Monday.
Gallup Police Department spokesman Rick White said the man, who did not have identification on him but appeared to be in his mid-40s, was found by a passer-by.
“We do not have a definitive cause of death yet but it appears he was attacked by dogs,” White said, although he could not give a precise cause of death. “There definitely were defense wounds from dog bites.”
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Given the location, it’s more likely the man was an intoxicated Native-American who was on the ground to start with and attacked by the pack of dogs or coyotes. His intoxication was severe enough that he couldn’t defend himself from the pack and/or cold and he died.
A pack of dogs is MUCH more dangerous than even a horde of coyotes.
I have been through Gallap many times and have stayed in Window Rock, AZ which is just across the NM AZ state line. I have seen many many dog packs, enough to scare me when I took my small dogs for walks.
In addition to dogs running wild, so do cattle and horses. About the only livestock that are inside of fences are sheep.
Here in Las Cruces, there are coyote packs that come into town for water and food. Water is found at a pond at a golf course and food is found in back yards. Usually pet dogs or cats!
I love my dogs.
All of them.
You are nuts.
coyote waits
Still can’t resist insults, can you?
I am sensible.
I respect The Dog. As an animal.
I love my own dogs - the ones that were good, which were most for me personally, if not my family’s as a whole.
I am no fool that thinks every dog is wonderful. As if they are machines that are all the same. They most definitely are not. That is respect - understanding they can be very different even if there are tendencies, and treating them that way, understanding how they should be approached, treating them as adults than children, if you will.
Same applies to any pet. But the truth is dogs are capable of killing, meant for it for their sustenance. So are much-maligned cats, but then find me a cat which has mauled a person to death (I personally had 1 cat from Hell, but she was just incapable of killing adults). Either way, you have to respect the Animal (with a capital A) more than love them. For any true love to exist, there must be Respect, anyway.
Horse people have alot more sense when it comes to horses than dog people have with dogs. Amazing.
I have a pack of seven dogs; love them to death and they love me. But I also respect the hell of their power to kill.
We live in a very remote area and I have seen them take down full grown, well antlered buck deer as a pack.
When hunting they have no fear, and their attacks are well coordinated on every thing up to and including bear.
Like I said I love them and I think they love me, but if it came to starvation I also think they would probably eat me.
Show us a dog, the size of a house cat, that has mauled a person to death.
Then look at the cats the size of larger dogs and the dangers associated with them.
I hate to answer when ancient threads are dredged up, but your statement is too ridiculous.
Just what “larger dog” size are these cats? And are there any maulings they have committed? Deaths? Please list the statistics.
The point is that is what dogs will do when they are bad (and there are many); they really like using their teeth. It’s only lucky when a dog is small - but you can still get ripped up pretty darn well.
Take it from a German Shepherd lover. I have no illusions. If I did, like the kootchie-kootchie fools, there could’ve been danger in my house or to my neighbors. And yes, I love cats, too, and have had a truly evil one.
I thought this type of thing only happened in Australia.
If a cat was the size of my greyhound, he would consider me food, not my companion. Like a cougar for example.
I was responding to one trying to use statistics of no cats mauling owners to death. It hardly makes the case that dogs are less trustworthy than cats.
Your quote that he would consider you food simply because of his size is nonsense.
The point is whether they show aggression and how they pursue it. Many dogs will “doggedly” attack tenaciously, as in, not letting it go. That includes little dogs, who show the same propensity as large dogs for the same aggression and “doggedness”. They do not seem to be dissuaded by size.
If cats were so inclined they would also regularly be caught charging and hanging onto humans, not letting the issue drop. I have never heard of such a thing, although the evil cat I did have could come close. I was fearing she was one day so got rid of her, to the pound (would not have good conscience passing her off to anyone). But other than she, I’ve never experienced it nor even heard of it.
Meanwhile, headlines for dogs abound, and I’ve seen it plenty in little dogs, too.
Wow. Curious about where you live.
We don’t agree, but have a great day.
Cheers
Thank you for your restraint. Too often we get into arguments on FR.
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