Why didn't you have control of your animal?
Good idea! Then the Pits could have jumped the fence to attack both her and her dog./sarc
Are you actually implying that her immediate presence would have stopped 2 Pits that jumped a fence to attack?
Or are you implying that no one should be in the neighbors drive where the Pits could be tempted to attack?
I've been asking myself that a lot lately. I would leave my dog outdoors in the mornings while I went to work, then bring her in at noontime. Usually after a good brisk walk in the morning. She never roamed more than couple doors in either direction of her yard and all my neighbors knew her and loved her. She's very outgoing, clever and friendly. I live in a small town where it is common for neighborhood dogs to be loose.
A couple of weeks ago we had a community yard sale in our town. I was making short trips back and forth in my car to a house two blocks down to help set-up for the sale. On my fourth trip I parked in the neighbors driveway, went to the rear of my car to open the trunk and there was my dog sitting in the driveway waiting for me. I guess she figured out that I wasn't going far and followed me. She'd never done anything like that before.
It seems she got it in her head that the yard sale house was an OK place to go. She went there to visit again about a week later. I came home midday to put her inside and she wasn't home. There was a message on my answering machine from the yard sale people saying they had her in their yard and were keeping her until I could come to get her. She had a great time playing with their grandchildren that morning. I didn't know this, but the pitbulls lived at the house next door inside a fenced yard.
I asked the yard sale people that if she ever came to their house again to tell her firmly, "Go home." She knows what that means.
Sure enough five days laters she wandered to their house and they told her to "Go home." I guess she wasn't done with her adventure, because instead of going back down the sidewalk and directly home, she entered the driveway of the next door neighbor's house. That's when they got her.
The thing that's so hard to comprehend is the viciousness of the attack. These dogs didn't growl and bark and chase her off the driveway the way another dog would. They simply jumped the fence, pounced on her, put her to the ground, and tore her to shreds with the pure intent to kill. The pitbull's owner was actually home, but it happened so fast no one could do a thing.