Posted on 06/28/2008 8:30:43 PM PDT by Darnright
The woman, identified by police as Loraine May, was found by her son Thursday evening inside her home on Elliot Avenue (see map). He called 911 and officers responded around 5:00pm.
The two dogs suspected by police in the attack, a golden lab mix and an Australian Shepherd mix, were taken into custody by Brevard County Animal Control. Police said they don't believe her third dog, a cocker spaniel, was involved.
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FYI, ping.
My first thought is that I wonder if the dogs may have gotten overzealous in trying to alert their possibly unconscious/unresponsive owner to something and ended up clawing her severely and because of her frailty it was fatal. I guess we’ll all have to wait and see.
There’s a theory at the link that one or both big dogs attacked the cocker and the woman tried to break up the fight.
Yes, I saw that. I was offering my own theory.
What do the cops mean “the three dogs manipulated the scene before they arrived”? Are they suggesting the dogs pulled out all the drawers and threw stuff around to make it look like a burglary gone bad?
RIP. Reminds me why I prefer cats as pets.
Of course not. No way was the cocker involved.
“the Brevard County Medical Examiner’s Office led them to believe her death was caused by multiple, blunt trauma, inflicted by two of her three dogs”
They were obviously hiding the baseball bats and bricks they killed her with.
[this sounds more like some *person* killed her...or did the dogs head-butt her death?]
Noooooo way! a golden Lab??!
Noooo way!
That sounded very odd to me also. I wonder if they knocked her down, killing her by fracturing her skull? Then the business about the dogs “manipulating the scene”, did they tear her body apart (shudder)?
Oh, I don’t know. She could have probably lived out her life easily with one cocker spaniel. But, a pack of dogs can be quite unpredictable.
Ban Goldens and Australian shepherds.
She could have had a heart attack or stroke. Autopsy should tell.
It’ll be weeks before anyone knows what really happened to her, according to the article but nonetheless, the family has already decided to kill the dogs.
For whatever reason, to me, the whole story sounds very “wrong” and very suspicious.
I’m wondering about the son who “found her”.
Something just doesn’t “smell right”.
I have 30 years experience as a dog groomer. I’d suspect the Cocker FIRST!!!! LOL!!! Some of my worst bites have come from cockers.
How in the sam hill does a dog inflict “multiple blunt trauma”?
The one thing a dog can’t do to you is haul off and punch you.
And I’ve never heard of dogs attacking people by butting them with their bonehaids.
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