Dangerous Dogs Owners

And how many Rhodesian Ridgebacks are there in the US in comparison with Labs? 20%?

Because any less than 20%, ie 1 RR for every 5 Labs you meet, means that Ridgebacks are statistically more aggressive than Labs.

And I'm going to go out on a limb here and guess that there are a fraction of the number of Ridgebacks compared to Labs, even in the US. Way less than 20%. Possibly less than 2%.

ETA: It's about 4%: Although Rhodesian Ridgebacks are still a relatively rare breed (about 2,000 AKC registrations per year, compared to more than 50,000 for breeds such as Rottweiler, Doberman, and Labrador Retriever)

To make it clearer (though I know with such tiny numbers this is not literally accurate, but will still give an idea of the relative risk) - if there were as many Ridgebacks in the US as Labs, one could expect about 25 times as many fatal maulings from Ridgebacks.

Labrador retrievers are not a aggressive dog

Fair enough, just find it odd.

The dogs clearly knew her as their owner. Possibly she even raised the pup.

Her ex boyfriend alerted the guards from cctv footage that he may or may not have watching.
Then sent it to her family.

She has just broken up with him a few days before & went out for her birthday.

The dogs attacked as soon as she came in.

The most dangerous time for a woman is when she leaves a relationship.

RIP Nicole.

The biggest kunts of dogs for postmen, speaking from personal experience, are those bichon types (small white haired dogs that are so territorial its ridiculous). Would often go biting at your ankles with your back turned. Often wake up half the neighbourhood with their incessant yapping too.

Collies/sheep dogs are great. Its almost like they wait to hear the van coming, and love chasing it out. Makes their morning. Never had any hassle with those breeds at all.

One breed that I wouldn't trust are those husky types (excuse my ignorance on not knowing the exact breed). One lunged at me last week when I was throwing a parcel inside the open front door, not knowing it was there having not being forewarned beforehand. Only I managed to close the door in time, might have been nasty, and not a peep from the owner either. Another one is literally screaming about a foot from your face from the other side of the fence to the post-box, some day it'll manage to find a foothold and break free.....

I was thinking of that too - I don't know if it's the scent or whether it's because the person's whole demeanour changes when they're a little drunk. Like the way they say there can be something that triggers a dog in the way toddlers walk/run, and that you need to be particularly careful with babies of that age around dogs.

Or I was thinking like we saw clips of her dancing with the dogs, and maybe arriving in a little bit tipsy she might have been overly affectionate to them, grabbing them and kissing them - the way people sometimes are with their (human) friends when they're happy-drunk. That's "human" behaviour that dogs just don't "get" IMO. Like the comments above about "mollycoddling" - it's people doing things they think dogs should like because humans like it. But dogs don't. Apparently they even show signs of stress when their owners hug them:

But yeah, those are all just complete guesses. They do seem possible to me though.

Apparently Sky were reporting that they attacked as soon as she put the key in the door.

Yes, key in, turn, push door.

Yeah I wasn’t sure, I would have thought police dogs, protection dogs (shepherds etc) can be trained to attack on command but as you say VERY high level of expertise and bond between trainer & dog.

Yeah I’ve thought about that but most dogs will relax as soon as they recognise their owner, voice, sounds of walking, and definitely scent which remember dogs can smell from great distances. Whether she was wearing perfume or had a drink, I imagine rightly or wrongly that they would still recognise her. But maybe not, maybe she didn’t go out much at night, maybe it was a special event for her birthday, God knows it’s expensive to go out for a drink but when you have multiple dogs that sell for thousands I guess you can afford a drink. I read she was literally on the phone to her sister minutes before it happened so the dogs would have heard her talking.

Maybe she sneezed and that was all an animal bred to kill needed.

There's no excuses for a killing machine.

Nobody is making excuses.

I really hope I’m way off the mark.

I just don’t like the sound of the ex (allegedly on coke) at the time alerting the guards because of the doorbell cctv or whatever footage he received. And then that got sent to her family. Her/their dogs (monsters or not) bloody well knew her as their owner.

That sounds … odd, alright. Jesus.

I thought you meant could there have been some mad coincidence by which a dog had heard a trigger word just when she arrived in. Not at all the same thing.

(Still hard to imagine, TBF, but - who knows? Way beyond my knowledge of dog training anway!)

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