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California woman suffers more than 150 injuries after being attacked by wild dogs on walking trail (www.independent.co.uk)

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A California mother is recovering from more than 150 lacerations and puncture wounds across her body after being attacked by a pack of stray dogs while out for a walk. Dorrie Reyes was walking along a levee in Stockton on April 23 when she was surrounded by seven to nine stray dogs, including German shepherds and mixed breeds, according to a GoFundMe organized by her family. Just moments before the scene turned violent, Reyes filmed the dogs on her phone while shouting for help. As the animals mauled her, a nearby couple heard her cries and rushed in, managing to drive the dogs away, her son Ronnie said. “The good Samaritan was, as far as I know, afraid of dogs, but he still came out to help my mom,” Ronnie Reyes told 9News, wiping away tears, adding his family is thankful to the couple because his mother’s injuries “could’ve been much worse.” Dorrie Reyes was rushed to the hospital with 150 to 200 lacerations and puncture wounds across her arms, legs, face, head and neck. She spent six hours in the operating theater and lost a significant amount of blood, according to the GoFundMe.

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[–] Tinks@lemmy.world 9 points 1 day ago

I go hiking a lot and I always carry pepper spray and a knife, specifically for dogs. My dog is usually with me and I have no qualms with pepper spraying an aggressive dog, or even hitting mine in the mix, to save his or my life. I hadn't even considered strays, I'm mainly worried about the assholes who let their dogs off leash. That number of strays is a whole other nightmare scenario.

[–] Formfiller@lemmy.world -1 points 15 hours ago

Stockton CA is known for tweekers. These must be tweeker dogs

[–] numlok@lemmy.world 49 points 2 days ago (1 children)

I feel like it should be a requirement that articles like this include a map of where the incident occurred as assistance to others in the area. "Stockton levee" is super broad.

[–] YiddishMcSquidish@lemmy.world 11 points 1 day ago (1 children)

"The incident happened somewhere between the states of Missouri and Louisiana on the banks of a river"

[–] NatakuNox@lemmy.world 1 points 13 hours ago (1 children)

Reading this I knew it wasn't in any Blue state. If you haven't had the chance to live in some of our poorest counties in America, roaming dog packs sounds outlandish. The poorest people in third world countries have it better than the poorest in Louisiana. Not a Joke.

[–] Furbag@pawb.social 2 points 11 hours ago

Stockton is in California. The person above was making a joke.

[–] adespoton@lemmy.ca 57 points 2 days ago (2 children)

I’m amazed at how rarely we hear of instances like this; I’m glad it didn’t turn deadly. I hope the gofundme covers the medical bills; the alternative is suing the city for not preemptively taking care of the problem dogs.

[–] XeroxCool@lemmy.world 31 points 2 days ago (6 children)

I've never seen truly stray dogs (not just lost) in the US. It's so foreign to me when I see them in every other country I visit

[–] NannerBanner@literature.cafe 4 points 1 day ago (1 children)

It's rare, but you just have to hit the right area. I see them a few times a week in certain areas of my large metroplex. What's unnerving is how quickly they can come up on you... It's less than five seconds for a pack to come around the corner of a house and surround you, and if you scare them off they're gone just as quickly. They also tend to be active just after sundown, so unless you're making a point of walking around after dark, you'd miss them.

[–] CultLeader4Hire@lemmy.world 3 points 13 hours ago* (last edited 13 hours ago)

Idk where you live and I don’t mean this to be rude but it probably is. Once you have packs of vicious roaming dogs that’s a failed state. Like keeping animals from attacking your citizenry is something stone age people worried about and we are failing at it in 2026? Wild

[–] Sylvartas@lemmy.dbzer0.com 4 points 1 day ago (3 children)

Don't they have "village dogs" in the US ? Basically in very rural areas here (France) they will sometimes have stray dogs that roam around a village and that the inhabitants tolerate, usually at least providing water for them. I've never heard of any serious attack from them here but I'm sure they can happen.

[–] CultLeader4Hire@lemmy.world 2 points 13 hours ago

We don’t have villages and we do have animal control so generally no.

[–] MIDItheKID@lemmy.world 5 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Never seen that in the USwith dogs, but I have seen it with cats. Sometimes an area will just have a cat that will bop around the neighborhood begging for food. A bar I frequented in my 20s had an outdoor seating area and I always enjoyed when the neighborhood cat swung by for a visit.

[–] Sylvartas@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Yeah it's even more common with cats over here. Even happens in big cities sometimes.

[–] MML@sh.itjust.works 3 points 23 hours ago

Some even get full vet care

[–] XeroxCool@lemmy.world 2 points 1 day ago

Not in my experience. I think it's a bit of an American TV trope from the 1950s, but I don't know if those were really feral dogs or just free-roam farm dogs and such. I've always had neighborhood feral cats around though. Feral dogs are often captured in cities and suburbs and given to shelters. Or euthanized. I guess we're afraid of getting attacked. Cats, on the other hand, aren't such a risk to humans and are tolerated, despite being atrocious for local ecosystems.

Meanwhile, I just had an encounter with an escaped husky and I was genuinely afraid. I'm not afraid of dogs, but I had to knock on its owner's door and it started darting around, getting between me and the door, and staying quiet - not actually showing any signs of aggression in face/tail/voice. Eerie.

[–] Lucidlethargy@sh.itjust.works 6 points 1 day ago

Yeah same here... Lived here my whole life and I've never seen a single stray dog.

What he fuck is going on in Stockton right now?

[–] P00ptart@lemmy.world 18 points 2 days ago (1 children)

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.

[–] XeroxCool@lemmy.world 16 points 2 days ago (2 children)

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

[–] baines@lemmy.cafe 4 points 1 day ago (1 children)

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

[–] Maeve@kbin.earth 1 points 12 hours ago

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.

[–] sem@piefed.blahaj.zone 3 points 2 days ago (1 children)

I was in a remote part of Florida once and I would hear wild packs of dogs in the night. Kinda scary.

[–] crank0271@lemmy.world 5 points 1 day ago (2 children)

Those were just swamp people.

[–] sem@piefed.blahaj.zone 1 points 1 day ago

Wrong part of florida

[–] Lucidlethargy@sh.itjust.works 1 points 1 day ago

A pack of Florida men.

[–] Tollana1234567@lemmy.today 6 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago)

feral dogs are kind uncommon compared to cats. we encountered them once going through our trash, they were aggressive but not bitey, i doubt they had owners, since it was a mix of different dog breeds.

[–] prole@lemmy.blahaj.zone 3 points 1 day ago

California has a lot of coyotes

[–] Elextra@literature.cafe 16 points 2 days ago (1 children)

I didn't even know that area had packs of stray dogs!!

Very sad. There are way too many dogs and cats out there :(

[–] Tollana1234567@lemmy.today 3 points 2 days ago

we were almost mobbed by a pack of stray dogs once rummaging through our garbage bins. they get pretty aggressive.

[–] Jerb322@lemmy.world 8 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Someone is going out there to put them all down so this doesn't happen again with a worse outcome?

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[+] Master@sh.itjust.works -7 points 1 day ago (4 children)

let the dog bit you on the forearm. put your other arm behind its neck. lift with your bit arm and press down with your other arm on the back of their neck.

The dog will stop biting you momentarily.

if you have a bag or purse you can let them bit it and do the same.

[–] stardreamer@lemmy.blahaj.zone 4 points 21 hours ago

Try doing that while a dog is actively biting you and tearing your arm in random directions.

A lot of people here have zero experience or idea of how a dog attack actually works, or how there are long lasting consequences from said attack. In my relatively "lucky" case, I almost lost two fingers, lost wrist movement for approx 1 yr, and to this day 10+ years later, I still have scars on my face/wrist + strange nerve tingles on my fingers.

[–] NannerBanner@literature.cafe 7 points 1 day ago

One dog, good. Two dogs, eh... Three dogs? Less than 20 kilos? Maaaaybe.

7+ with german shepherds? Good luck with that.

[–] Joelk111@lemmy.world 6 points 1 day ago (2 children)

I do not have 7-9 arms

[–] cashsky@sh.itjust.works 3 points 1 day ago

Well you need two arms to pull off that little maneuver on one dog so you really need 14-18 arms.

[–] Tiral@lemmy.world 3 points 1 day ago

Sounds like a you problem. Get with it jeez /s

[–] anon_8675309@lemmy.world 1 points 1 day ago (2 children)

Does that work when there are 7-10 dogs like TFA says?

[–] Tiral@lemmy.world 3 points 1 day ago

It works about as good as the governments advise about saving money. Just stop eating one meal a day and eat less at the other two.

[–] Master@sh.itjust.works 1 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

It kills the dog. Assuming the jaw doesnt lock you then use that dogs corpse to beat the other dogs to death.

In all seriousness. Killing one dog at a time is your best bet until you escape or they run off.

is it a perfect solution? Nope and you will get bit. But its like getting into a knife fight... you will get stabbed no matter what. Accept it and use it to your advantage.

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