Texas woman found dead in yard was mauled
by her own dogs: cops
New York Post,
by
Emily Crane
Original Article
Posted By: Hazymac,
11/25/2021 10:12:32 AM
A Texas woman found dead in her backyard may have been mauled by her own dogs, police said.
Tiffany L. Frangione, 48, was found with fatal puncture wounds to her neck in her Houston yard last Friday morning. Frangione had let her two pups out into her backyard when they started fighting with the neighbor’s dog through the fence, according to detectives.
They believe Frangione was trying to intervene when her own dogs – a 5-year-old female Alaskan husky mix and male Cane Corso mix — turned on her.
She was dead when cops arrived on the scene. Frangione’s husband turned the two dogs over to the BARC Animal Shelter
Reply 1 - Posted by:
bamapreacher 11/25/2021 10:23:51 AM (No. 988561)
A Cane Corso would kill Dwayne"The Rock" Johnson and Chuck Norris and pick his teeth with their bones.
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Reply 2 - Posted by:
Hazymac 11/25/2021 10:27:59 AM (No. 988567)
Keeping potentially dangerous animals around as pets is not necessarily optimal for one's own safety. A few years ago the police, unable to reach a man locked in his home, broke in and found his in his recliner, dead, with an 11-foot long python wrapped around his neck. He was a snake collector who failed to secure his python display case, and the snake got loose.
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Reply 3 - Posted by:
Hazymac 11/25/2021 10:41:02 AM (No. 988592)
And some folks get licenses to collect venomous snakes. A king cobra got free from its owner's house in suburban Orlando and was a fugitive for a day or two until it was recaptured. I wouldn't especially want to live next to a snake enthusiast with resident mambas, cobras, puff adders, kraits, and taipans.
There is a place for such deadly creatures. Bill Haast (1910-2010) founder of the Miami Serpentarium, kept and extracted venom from literally tens of thousands of venomous serpents, and a whole new medical industry was born. Mr. Haast also began injecting himself with snake venom in 1948 to develop immunity to snakebite. He gave himself boosters throughout his life. Largely, he succeeded in making himself immune. (A bite from a blue krait put him in an iron lung, but he recovered. His transfused blood saved dozens of snakebite victims during his active years.) Fellow herpetologists were horrified when he began injecting venom in '48. He outlived them all. What a man.
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Reply 4 - Posted by:
coldoc 11/25/2021 10:41:20 AM (No. 988594)
I had had a mutt that was the sweetest dog on the planet- until another picked a fight. It became absolutely ferocious and single minded. Scary.
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Reply 5 - Posted by:
chance_232 11/25/2021 10:56:43 AM (No. 988631)
Getting between two or more fighting dogs is always a dicey proposition. They have a singled minded determination to get at the other dog/s. No matter how sweet their disposition, they will forget who their owner is and see them as nothing more than an obstacle.
I had the sweetest chiweenie. When she went after much, much larger dogs, she was fearless and as vicious as any animal that I've ever seen. Unfortunately for her, she had no real bite strength and was in almost every instance outclassed. I would have to pick her up and hold her tight until she calmed down.
I've broken up large dog fights, and in almost every instance I ended up leaking coolant. A small person with a 100lb dog is going to get hurt.
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Reply 6 - Posted by:
DVC 11/25/2021 11:36:04 AM (No. 988681)
Sad that she's dead, but large, dangerous breeds require a strong, and generally physically big person to dominate them.
Huge dogs must be dominated by the owner. I wonder how many dog owners ever even grasp the basic concepts of pack mentality that is hard wired into all dogs? YOU must be the Alpha dog, the pack leader. This is pretty easy with a toy poodle or a beagle....or any of the small, calm and extremely good natured breeds. Even labs, while large, are generally very even tempered. The larger dogs, especially the ones bred for either fighting or for herd guard roles require a conscious effort to dominate, and that may require some force at times. And some individual dogs, of some certain breeds.....are just flat out dangerous, a grenade with the pin halfway out.
One online site says, of the Cane Corso breed, " a Corso can be like a fully-loaded .44 magnum with the safety off.".
As that great American philosopher, Harry Callahan, said...."A man has got to know his limitations"....and same for a woman. I've never been around this particular breed, but both it and husky are dangerous, very large dogs....who knows what the mix would be like? I guess now we know. I have been around several large male doberman pinschers that I wouldn't trust as far as I could throw them. Some dogs are just flat out dangerous by breed, size and personality.
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Reply 7 - Posted by:
Toby Ten Bears 11/25/2021 11:53:01 AM (No. 988717)
Usually dogs won't eat Mexican...
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Reply 8 - Posted by:
3XALADY 11/25/2021 11:57:46 AM (No. 988720)
Friends had a big Rottie, best pet ever who went to their office with them every day. Then one day something happened to someone who came into the office. I didn't hear exactly what it was, but can guess, and the dog didn't come to the office any more. You couldn't give me a Pit with $$ to boot. Every time you see a dog needing a home in the local paper, it has Pit blood in it and looks like one.
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Reply 9 - Posted by:
franq 11/25/2021 12:01:41 PM (No. 988726)
Kudos to #3 for his typical insightful and educational posts. Always a pleasure.
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Reply 10 - Posted by:
Gordon Mills 11/25/2021 12:11:12 PM (No. 988743)
Cane Corso's are more likely to make you dead than Pit Bulls. Either way, you're dead.
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Reply 11 - Posted by:
Connor 11/25/2021 12:28:05 PM (No. 988754)
That's okay. My sweet natured mini goldendoodle is more my style. She is an angel with fur.
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Reply 12 - Posted by:
Hazymac 11/25/2021 12:57:35 PM (No. 988796)
Correction to Reply #3: Bill Haast, born in 2010, lived until 2011, when he was a hundred and a half years old. I admired him to the depths of my soul. He was truly a human treasure, a unique man. Today snake venom--he freeze-dried most of his product--is used in increasing numbers of medicines. It's powerful stuff.
Florida has its own elapid: the Eastern coral snake. There is no more antivenin (that I have heard of recently) for coral snake bite. It's not produced anymore. Coral snakes are shy, retiring snakes most commonly found beneath palm fronds and the like, unlikely to bite unless stepped on or handled roughly. However, if one manages to get bitten by a coral snake, that's a problem I wouldn't want to have. Bill Haast flew to several cities with snake exhibits at zoological parks after the handlers had inadvertently been snagged by the placid coral snake. That's big trouble.
The blue krait that "nearly put me in a crate" (Haast's own words spoken to me and a few dozen other visitors to the Serpentarium in 1979) is a native of Southeast Asia. The blue (or common) krait, along with its relatives, the red-headed krait and the many banded krait, were the dreaded "two step" snakes our combat veterans in Vietnam had to avoid when they were out in the field. A krait bite kills most victims within a few hours. They just stop breathing. Below is a link to some snakes out Vietnam veterans tried to avoid.
https://www.jtgtravel.com/asia/vietnam/venomous-snakes-in-vietnam/
That's just FYI.
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Reply 13 - Posted by:
earlybird 11/25/2021 2:31:32 PM (No. 988863)
What #1 said. There was a similar doggie homicide - in either SF or LA - some years back. Vicious dogs.
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Reply 14 - Posted by:
Catherine 11/25/2021 4:40:34 PM (No. 988922)
Most understand the nature of large dogs and take necessary precautions with them. But pit lovers have zero common sense where their dog is concerned. You never, ever have complete control of them. An owner who has one and believes this is scarier than the dog. The 'sweetest' pit ever attacked my son when he was 7 years old. Owner just couldn't believe it. This is really sad about the lady. I'm sure she thought she could handle these dogs. So sad.
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Reply 15 - Posted by:
Corndoggies 11/25/2021 6:23:40 PM (No. 988954)
So there was a fence between the fighting dogs? Not sure that requires intervention. Or am I missing something? I have a skinny paddle I use when the dogs get over excited. Nip that stuff in the bud. Usually just getting if off the coat hanger is enough to settle them down but they’ve all felt the sting at one time or another.
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Reply 16 - Posted by:
Faithfully 11/26/2021 11:21:33 PM (No. 989971)
NEVER EVER TRUST PITTIES.
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