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California woman suffers more than 150 injuries after being attacked by wild dogs on walking trail
(www.independent.co.uk)
this post was submitted on 02 May 2026
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My ex got a "rescue dog" from a humane society. She got him and it was rough but she said she was making progress. The first time I met the dog, I knew something was off. That dog was not meant to be a family dog. It was clearly either pure bred or close to it chocolate lab. But that dog didn't have a lab personality. I told her to ask more about the dogs background and it turned out that they didn't know, other than it was found by the river in the city and it wasn't tagged. That raised a bunch of red flags, especially for a lab that wasn't underweight. We broke up and I later found out she gave up and the dog went to a farm. This was in college lol so it didn't "go to the farm". I'm also leaving a lot out of that story but that dog was a nightmare.
TL;DR scary stray dogs absolutely exist in the US. Even in the middle of the country, and even in dogs that you wouldn't expect based on breed.
I'm not saying they don't exist, just that in all my travels across the US, rural metro and suburban, I've never see multiple stray dogs. It's rare I see a singular stray dog, at that. Not like other countries where I see them right outside the airport. All to say this story sounds crazy to me, coming out of regular California. But maybe I've just never been there to see it
it’s common in the country but you are right in that they ate not truly stray/feral
it’s multiple owners letting their dogs roam without a fence
Or people who can't properly care for a dog anymore and think the dog has a better survival chance roaming then taking it to the shelter.
I was in a remote part of Florida once and I would hear wild packs of dogs in the night. Kinda scary.
Those were just swamp people.
Wrong part of florida
A pack of Florida men.