Ohio woman dies of suspected dog attack [not pitbull again]

CLEVELAND HEIGHTS, Ohio, Feb. 8 (UPI) -- A 63-year-old woman in Cleveland Heights, Ohio, appears to have died as a result of an attack by her own dog, police say.

Police said Carolyn Baker's husband, Ricardo, found the woman in their driveway early Sunday morning with numerous bite wounds to her body, The (Cleveland) Plain Dealer reported.

After being transported to an area hospital with the bite marks and severe right arm and shoulder injuries, Baker was pronounced dead within hours.

Police said it appears Baker went into her home's backyard early Sunday morning to bring her Rottweiler-mix dog inside.

This story was previously posted with more detail and a significantly different twist:

Family members noted that the lady had medical issues, was not dressed for being outdoors in the cold, and had (in their opinion) probably had a stroke before falling unconscious outside.
Usually, another family member brought the dog in from the cold every night and (they believed that) the dog had tried to drag her to the back porch & safety.
The "dog bites" were reported as being on her shoulder and an arm, consistent with an effort to drag her in the only manner in which a dog can move an unresponsive person or another dog.
Any Rott is apt to be large enough to drag a relatively small person a good distance.

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I have a Nephew who owns several Rottweilers. He is pretty arrogant about how to handle dogs but recently learned a valuable lesson.

One of them put him in the hospital.

Thanks for posting this. Unfortunately, if it isn’t a pit bull story, it won’t get a lot of attention, even here. How sad that people can’t see that their overwhelming interest in pit bull stories here and disinterest in any other dog attack story explains what the media already knows: Pit bulls sell more. If this had been a scientific experiment to prove that, I would say it was successful, since it can obviously be repeated elsewhere with the same results.

“Even if pitbulls are no more likely to attack than say a beagle, the difference is an average person can fight of a beagle, but almost no one can fight a pit bull or rottweiler.”

Most true pit bulls are not large dogs like rottweilers are. They should max out at about 60 pounds, despite the fact that almost every 100+ pound dog involved in an attack is somehow reported as a pit bull. The size of the dog has a little bit to do with it, but even very small dogs have taken lives. The biggest impact is the owner’s, not the breed of dog. This is hard to believe considering how many stories you see on the news, but in places that have banned pit bulls (Denver, Colorado and the UK for example) have either seen no reduction in serious attacks, or even an increase. Places that have passed responsible ownership laws have seen huge declines in serious attacks. You could have the biggest dog in the world, but if it’s bred right, socialized, trained, and kept safely within the home (and fixed), the chances of that dog attacking someone go way down. In fact, the vast majority of dog bite fatalities involve irresponsibly owned dogs, and this is a pattern that surpasses breed.

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